Google’s announced the end of support for some of the creaky old Web browsers out there. Among them: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 (IE).
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Tags: gmail, Google, Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft
Forget those contentious TV ads where Apple and Microsoft mock each other’s operating systems. Think instead of unlikely marriages like Mary Matalin and James Carville, or Bill and Hillary Clinton. Think Microsoft and Apple.
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Tags: Apple, Google, iphone, iTouch, Microsoft, search engine
Well, it seems somewhat official: The Nexus One smartphone didn’t land much of a blow against its arch-rival from Apple, the iPhone.
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Tags: Android, Apple, fiasco, Google, iphone, Nexus One, smartphone
Google’s new smartphone, the Nexus-One, may have made some consumers happy, but it’s making the daughter of late sci-fi writer Phillip K. Dick hot under the collar.
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Tags: Blade Runner, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Google, Nexus One, Nexus six, Phillip K. Dick
Everybody wants free WiFi, but it’s getting tougher and tougher to find.
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Keeping servers from overheating means a lot to data center admins, but the folks at Google have some lessons in how cool they should be that may sound counter-intuitive to folks who manage server arrays.
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Tags: fail, Google, research, server, temperature
In what looks like an effort to compete with Google Apps, the marketing geniuses at Microsoft are slashing prices for their online offerings. The question: Are they worth the price now?
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Tags: applications, e-mail, Google, Microsoft, office productivity suites, online
