Archive for the ‘Google’ Category

Standardization Leads to Stagnation (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Oracle and Love Open Source All the More)

The world is constantly changing. Innovation has worked its way into the lexicon of most businesses, as well as the public consciousness. We hear about the latest innovations from companies like Intel, IBM, and Microsoft. And investors inundate these businesses with funding and investments in the hope that they will receive a return from future [...]

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Swype Beta

I just installed the swype beta, and I have to say that it’s pretty amazing. Swype is a keyboard application that allows you to type by sliding across the letters of the words that you want to type. It uses some sort of magic prediction algorithm to determine which word you really wanted out of [...]

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Google Open Source Blog: Introducing Android Scripting Environment

Now this is really cool… via Google Open Source Blog: Introducing Android Scripting Environment.

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Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularity | Video on TED.com

via Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularity | Video on TED.com.

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The Future of the Internet

I’ve had this book for over a year, but I’ve recently decided to re-read it. The information presented here is vital to understanding the future of internet policy. Below is a presentation by Jonathan Zittrain of his book The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It. I highly recommend this book. It’s not necessarily [...]

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Whoa!.. It's Been a While Hasn't It

So, it’s been a busy few weeks. If you didn’t know, I have had midterms, and I’m kind of glad that it is now the weekend. Time to chill out and relax a bit.  It’s nice to have some free-time for a change, if only two days, to do something that I want to do. [...]

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Secure Gmail

It seems as if now would be a very good time to secure your gmail account.  If you’re anything like me, security lazy, then you also probably have not secured your gmail account.  I guess the feature has been there for a while, but I had never heard of it or noticed it, although I [...]

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