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    0 starsTosh | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 08 2009 | google, mobile, software
    Google Unveils a PC Operating System - NYTimes.com

    Quoted: In a direct challenge to Microsoft, Google announced late Tuesday that it is developing an operating system for PCs based on its Chrome Web browser.
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    The operating system, called Chrome OS, is initially intended for use in the tiny, low-cost portable computers known as netbooks,
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    The company appears to be positioning the Chrome OS as its preferred operating system for netbooks, though it said competition between the two systems [Chrome OS and Android] would likely drive innovation.
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    “All Web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite Web technologies,” the company said.

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    0 starsTosh | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 17 2009 | google
    New in Gmail Labs: "Suggested Recipients" - ReadWriteWeb

    "Suggested Recipients" would be very useful to me in Outlook / Exchange. Good idea.

    Quoted: If you often send emails to multiple recipients, a new feature in Gmail Labs will now help you to ensure that you don't inadvertently forget a recipient you typically include in your group emails. After you activate it, this new feature, "Suggest more Recipients," kicks in after you add at least two recipients to your message.

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    0 starsTosh | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 10 2009 | google
    Google Analytics Blog: Urchin.js is going dark!? No, it isn't.

    Quoted: There has been some chatter bouncing around the blogosphere and twittersphere that we are deprecating urchin.js sometime this summer. This is not accurate. To be clear: we have no immediate plans to decommission urchin.js.

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    0 starsTosh | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 18 2009 | microsoft, google, news
    Obama's antitrust pick: Microsoft 'so last century,' Google troubling -  TechFlash: Seattle's Technology News Source

    Quoted: For me, Microsoft is so last century. They are not the problem. I think we’re going to continually to see a problem, potentially, with Google, who I think so far has acquired a monopoly in Internet online advertising lawfully.

    Obama's antitrust pick - Christine Varney

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    0 starsTosh | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 23 2009 | From Google Reader, apple, google, iphone
    Apple’s App Store: 15,000 apps. Google’s Android Marketplace: 800 apps.

    Quoted: During its forth quarter earnings call today, Google revealed that the Android Marketplace, its app store, has 800 applications now available in it. While that’s almost double the less than 500 apps available in early December, it’s still laughably behind Apple’s App Store, which now boasts over 15,000 apps.

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    0 starsTosh | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 23 2009 | From Google Reader, google
    Even in the rough economy, Google beats the street

    Quoted: Google announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2008 today, and it’s good news: The company once again beat Wall Street’s estimates. Net revenues stood at $4.22 billion, or $5.10 per share. Wall Street had been looking for something more like $4.12 billion in net revenue, or $4.96 a share.

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    0 starsTosh | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 19 2009 | From Google Reader, google
    Why Google Employees Quit

    Quoted: In 2008 Google HR set up a private Google Group to ask former employees why they left the company. We’ve been forwarded what appears to be authentic posts to the thread by a number of ex-Googlers, which we reprint below minus identifying information other than their first names. The thread shows a brutal honesty about what it’s like to work at Google ...

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    0 starsTosh | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 13 2009 | google, development

    Google gadgets spec.

    Quoted: The canonical gadget spec XSD contains the subset of attributes that must be parsed and interpreted by the server. In other words, the parser MUST NOT reject gadget specs conforming to the extended spec, yet need not interpret more than the canonical spec.

    XSD: http://opensocial-resources.googlecode.com/svn/spec/0.8/gadgets/gadgets.xsd

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    0 starsTosh | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 09 2009 | From Google Reader, google, myspace, facebook, six apart
    Google, Facebook, MySpace and More Meet to Talk Activity Streams

    Quoted: Last night at the offices of blogging software company Six Apart, engineers and social media specialists from a number of companies large and small met to discuss proposed standards for the future of "activity streams" - the system of displaying recent activities of your friends online.

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    0 starsTosh | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 31 2008 | From Google Reader, google
    Google Reader API is Coming Soon

    Quoted: Google confirms a Reader API is perhaps only a month away from a public release. Web technologist and blogger Niall Kennedy, recently posted on his site several details surrounding the previously undocumented Google Reader API. Although not official at this point, Kennedy has received confirmation from Google that his documentation about Google's online

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