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[2 Jul 2008 | No Comment | ]

After Google announced that Browser Sync will no longer be updated and will stop working at the end of the year, many people looked for an alternative. The closest project to Browser Sync is Mozilla Weave, a Firefox extension that synchronizes local data from your browser with a server so you can access your data from multiple computers…
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[26 Jun 2008 | No Comment | ]

Speaking at a conference in New York, Microsoft
’s chief architect, Ray Ozzie, said open source is a bigger threat to the software juggernaut than Google is. He says open source developers are not restricted by the best interests of shareholders and potentially are, therefore, a stronger market force.
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[9 Apr 2008 | No Comment | ]

A couple of months ago I started in earnest tracking the advertising hits that Google generates for me. And what I found is not a happy picture. About 30-40% of the traffic generated – ie. the traffic that I pay for – comes from link farms, that is Web pages that have nothing more than a bunch of links that …

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[9 Apr 2008 | No Comment | ]

Google isn
’t just talking about hosting applications in the cloud any more. Tonight at 9pm PT they’re launching Google App Engine
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[28 Feb 2008 | No Comment | ]

Google has called for ISO member bodies to reject Microsoft’s Office Open XML document format during the upcoming voting period. According to Google, OOXML is unnecessary and suffers from technical flaws.
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[21 Feb 2008 | No Comment | ]

Improvements to Wine sponsored by Google have made it possible to run Adobe Photoshop and Dragon Naturally Speaking on Linux.
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