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On another day of hysterically wild swings – when the stock market – as a proxy for the global economy – badly needed a comfort blanket – Google gave it one. It came in Thursday with Q3 net earnings of $1.56 billion, or $4.92 a share (non-GAAP), up 26%, on revenue of $4.04 billion less...Oct. 20, 2008 09:39 AM EDT Reads: 1,403
On another day of wild swings – when the stock market – as a proxy for the global economy – badly needed a comfort blanket – Google gave it one. It came in Thursday with Q3 net earnings of $1.56 billion, or $4.92 a share (non-GAAP), up 26%, on revenue of $4.04 billion, up 31%, after su...
In a week of ludicrously large numbers beyond a normal human being's comprehension of what it will cost to barely survive the current economic catastrophe Google announced that - by its calculations - it will take $4.4 trillion to reduce America's dependence on fossil fuel by 88% by 20...
The Open Source Census, the catch-as-catch-can opt-in attempt to discern trends in open source adoption that OpenLogic started, has collected six months worth of data on some 300,000 installations on about 2,000 machines and from this very narrow and probably unrepresentative slice of ...
Zvents will use the proceeds to expand the reach of its local listings advertising network, which enables both local businesses and national chains to promote their locations with search-targeted events such as sales and weekly specials. Zvents will also further invest in expanding the...
Kevin Lynch, who will be keynoting on October 21, 2008, helped originally coin the term "Rich Internet Application" in 2002. He has been at the center of innovation in Flash and Adobe AIR since their inception, and currently drives Adobe’s technology platform for designers and develope...
Medmatics, LLC, a leading vendor of on-demand, anticoagulation software for private practices and hospital settings, today announced its support for the Google Chrome Browser, a new open source browser intended to make the Web faster, safer, and easier. As the first anticoagulation man...
The FBI arrested former Entellium CEO Paul Johnston and CFO Parrish Jones Tuesday night and on Wednesday the pair was hauled into district court in Seattle to face criminal charges of wire fraud. Seems they kept two sets of books: one that they allegedly used to con about $50 million f...
Reminding people of how its backing was the making of Linux, IBM, to no one's surprise, has thrown its support behind cloud computing, that delicious nexus of every chi-chi buzzword technology currently in vogue: Web 2.0, rich Internet applications, software-as-a-service, SOA, grid com...
The Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), one of those public interest media watchdogs that never cottoned to the whole Yahoogle business, has asked Senator Herb Kohl, chairman of the antitrust wing of the Senator Judiciary Committee, to tell the Justice Department to “either oppose or e...
Virtualization player 3Leaf Systems has gotten a $35 million C round from LSI with follow-on investments from Intel, Alloy Ventures, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital and Storm Ventures. The money is earmarked for accelerating the development of the company’s enterprise virtualizatio...
The American Antitrust Institute (AAI) has waded into the Yahoogle debate with a 22-page white paper that worries that the Yahoo-Google alliance will turn into “a black hole that swallows up Yahoo.” And it says that if the government can’t negotiate a consent decree that “preserves Yah...
In the absence of the regulators investigating the proposed Yahoo-Google deal saying either “aye” or “nay,” Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the press yesterday that Google will start putting search ads on Yahoo’s sites on or about October 11, the implementation date set by their agreement...
Yahoo’s board, which now includes Carl Icahn and a couple of his boys, held its first Icahn-inclusive meeting Tuesday and the Financial Times claims it set in train a new round of talks with AOL. It’s no secret that Icahn still harbors hopes of Yahoo cutting a deal with Microsoft. He s...
In the last two columns we talked about the emerging platform of the Web, and the use of Web APIs found through directories. Now I have something to show you that lives up to that hype, in essence a layer of technology, on-demand, that lives between the API provider and the API consume...
Google co-founder Sergey Brin started a personal blog Thursday, beginning with the revelation that he has a genetic predisposition to Parkinson’s, the nasty incurable disease that has crippled Michael Fox, the actor. Brin’s mother’s got it and so has her aunt but cases of familial Park...
This session will cover how to integrate various Google APIs including Google's AJAX APIs including Maps, AJAX Search and Feed into superior AJAX mashups. The session also shows how to use Google's App Engine as an AJAX Web application provider. Finally, this session will also show how...
Rich Internet Applications using AJAX technology has truly improved the end user experience. But, as a developer if you are new to it, be warned: AJAX projects can quickly degenerate into a nightmare of spaghetti script. Large JavaScript technology code bases are often hard to write, r...
Remember how Yahoo and Google carefully restricted their deal to the US and Canada so they could tiptoe past the persnickety European Commission?
Well, it turns out the slumbering giant woke up anyway and has been informally reviewing the controversial web search advertising axis s...
It's been said that Chrome could be the Google operating system that was being talked about many moons ago. Chrome is the operating system that provides access to the applications that reside in the cloud. But it's still just a browser. It's as much part of cloud computing as Firefox, ...
Chrome, the new Google browser, was released yesterday as a beta version for Windows Vista/XP and officially entered the browser war, where the primary competitors are currently Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Chrome offers many interesting features, aimed at making th...
California’s own Attorney General Jerry Brown has decided that his office ought to investigate the proposed monopoly-enhancing Yahoo-Google revenue-sharing ad deal too. Brown’s letting the Justice Department do his legwork and is reviewing documents the agency collects, according to th...
Sick of trying to justify its data retention policies to the privacy police, particularly the European privacy police, Google’s lawyers said late Monday on the company’s official blog that it was cutting the time it holds user-identifiable information from 18 months to nine. When the n...
Google opened its doors in September 1998. But, as the Google official site phrases it, "The exact date when we celebrate our birthday has moved around over the years, depending on when people feel like having cake." Maybe, now that Chrome is released, instead of waiting till the 27th ...
Is there a market for YouTube for business? We'll soon all find out, because Google is now offering a new Video tag to Premier Edition users of Google Apps - allowing for the easy embedding of videos in internal Web pages, along with functionality allowing for comment on videos, add d...
Interesting developments in the browser world lately. Between the new beta of IE8 and Google releasing the beta of their new browser (called “Chrome”), not to mention interesting work by the Mozilla team here as well, there’s as much happening as I can ever remember. Let’s start from t...
Philipp Lenssen at the “Google Blogoscoped” blog broke the story on September 1, 2008 that Google is launching an open source browser called Google Chrome. Lennsen writes: “Today there was a comic book in my mail, sent by Google and drawn by no less than Scott McCloud, creator of the c...
Last week we launched a new column called “Web API Expert,” in essence, to provide a deeper focus on the emerging number of Web APIs out there, and show how to leverage them for mashups or other applications. This is the most exciting and interesting area of the emerging Web right now,...
New England-based Egenera has opened a West Coast office in Santa Clara, California, saying it’s a growing market. Google.com, Google’s philanthropic arm, intends to put upwards of $10 million in steam-producing geothermal energy that circulates water through hot rocks to lower the cos...
This article is aimed at beginner and intermediate Web developers looking to make the leap into database support of their Web site. The article suggests a new declarative language based on HTML-forms, which is used for development of the database interface. HTML forms can manage not on...
On Monday the Federal Communications Commission approved the first Android phone, a 3G widget that High Tech Computer is making for T-Mobile called the Dream. There’s talk of pre-ordering next month with reputed pricing running anywhere from $150-$399, with availability conceivably in ...
GraphOn, the old-line Citrix wannabe, has sued Google and its little friend YouTube in the Eastern District of Texas for patent infringement. That particular district court is partial to patent holders and their complaints. This one charges Google’s Base, AdWords, Blogger, Sites and Yo...
Jim Cramer’s been doing a stint on CNBC in the middle of the trading day and, being a Google booster, managed to entice Google’s usually standoffish CEO Eric Schmidt on the air the other day. Schmidt said Google’s stock wouldn’t split and that Google wouldn’t start issuing guidance (it...
Google has waded into the encryption business with an open source cross-platform toolkit called Keyczar that’s supposed to make it easier for ISVs to put cryptography in their applications. It says Keyczar supports both encryption and authentication with both symmetric and asymmetric k...
