Google to slip SVG into Internet Explorer • The Register
"Microsoft might be hesitating on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) in Internet Explorer 8, but Google's pressing on. The search giant's engineers are building a JavaScript library to render static and dynamic SVG in Microsoft's browser. Google promised that the library, a Javascript shim, will simply drop into IE."
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Microsoft gets out of the way of Bing | The Open Road - CNET News
"Microsoft has a great brand, but it also has a brand that carries a lot of baggage with it, baggage that its search service (or "decision engine," as it describes Bing) really doesn't need. One of the great failings of Microsoft's past search efforts is that Microsoft tried to tie them into the larger Microsoft experience which, it turned out, wasn't helpful. Microsoft's brand is tied up in the desktop. Search is all about the Web."
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Java makes Google App Engine more mainstream | Webware - CNET
"Thus far, App Engine had been limited to Web applications written in the Python programming language favored internally at Google but not as much elsewhere. But on Tuesday, the top-requested App Engine feature, support for Java programs, arrived--albeit only in a preview form initially available only to the first 10,000 developers who sign up."
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iGoogle gets video game makers in on the action | Webware - CNET
"Google unveiled on Wednesday the latest addition to its iGoogle start page service: a collection of themes designed by video game publishers."
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The Google OS is coming by year's end | InfoWorld | News | 2009-03-09 | By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Computerworld
"Android is already a desktop operating system and Asus has assigned engineers to develop an Android-based netbook by the end of the year"
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Google Adds Billing to App Engine
"Google announced Feb. 24 that the company has added billing to the Google App Engine cloud computing platform so developers can exceed the free usage quotas that have been in place. Google also said it will soon be reducing, but not eliminating, the free quotas."
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Google wants to join EU case against Microsoft | Microsoft - CNET News
"Google wants to help the European Commission prove antitrust charges against Microsoft related to the software giant's dominance of the Web browser market. The Web search giant, which recently released its Chrome Web browser, announced Tuesday that it is applying to be a "third party" in the European proceedings, which will entitle it to receive access to confidential documents in the case and the ability to voice objections."
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Google crashes the smart-grid party | Green Tech - CNET News
"The search giant on Tuesday muscled into the burgeoning smart-grid software business, showing off a prototype Web application that displays home energy consumption broken down by appliance. The software uses so-called smart meters, which can communicate home energy consumption back to utilities every few minutes."
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Google Latitude Broadcasts Your Location | Epicenter from Wired.com
"Looking for an easy way to stalk your friends? Google has the answer with its new Latitude service for mobile devices. Google Latitude broadcasts your location from your mobile phone, letting your friends know where you are and allowing you to keep tabs on them."
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Google Blames Human Error for Malware Warning Mistake
"Someone at Google is having a very bad start to their weekend. Google’s VP of Search Products Marissa Mayer has just responded to the issue today that marked all Google results with the warning “This site may harm your computer” and advised users not to visit them."
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Is Google App Engine successful? | The Wisdom of Clouds - CNET News
"So, all of this might lead you to believe I'm anti-App Engine, or at least not confident that it is important except as a PaaS example. And until yesterday, you would be right. However, I spent the day yesterday at the Cloud Connect conference, hosted at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Google was much more visible here (in part because they were a "platinum sponsor"), and perhaps more importantly, the "how to" sessions they hosted Wednesday afternoon were packed by interested developers and technologists."
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Open-Source Cloud Tools Project Spawns Cloud Foundry
"The Cloud Tools project, hosted on Google Code, is a prime example of the emerging trend of open-source application developers targeting the cloud and looking at services such as Amazon Web Services solutions and Google App Engine to host their applications. Cloud Tools is a set of tools for deploying, managing and testing Java Enterprise Edition applications on Amazon.com's Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud. And now the Cloud Tools project's founder has launched a commercial service based on Cloud Tools known as Cloud Foundry."
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Google Creates Open-Source App Engine Project for Exporting Blog Content
"Google unveils the open-source Blog Converters project for federating the exchange of data between blogging platforms, including Blogger, MoveableType, WordPress and LiveJournal. Blog Converters is just one facet of a fundamental shift from siloed Web sites, which lock users in to their services, to a more boundless Web, where users can liberally migrate their data from one Web site to the next."
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Christian Renaud's Weblog: Lively heads for the giraffe graveyard
"Google announced yesterday on their blog that they are shuttering the Lively project. This is unfortunate for multiple reasons"
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Lively - 3D Avatars and Rooms
[Via Mitch Wagner] "After careful consideration, we have decided to shut down Lively."
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Third Chrome beta due in days, Google says | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET
"Google will soon begin distributing a third beta version of its Chrome Web browser, a release that takes on bugs, performance, and security weaknesses." Still waiting on the Mac version.
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Google brings text-messaging to online chat | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET
"Google on Thursday will begin expanding the instant-messaging feature built into Gmail so people can use it to send text messages to their contacts' phones."
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Google leaps, Microsoft drops in brand value | News - Digital Media - CNET News
"Google's brand name value jumped from 20th place last year to 10th in 2008, according to the latest version of an annual study that ranks the best brands, with only four technology companies ahead of it on the list. Coca-Cola is king, but technology companies are common in the top 25 brands. Microsoft slipped from second to third place, edged down a peg by IBM, according to the study by BusinessWeek and Interbrand, which base their results on the value of the brand as judged by how much revenue it will likely earn for the company."
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Chrome's JavaScript challenge to Silverlight | Business Tech - CNET News
"The biggest rival for Microsoft's next-generation Silverlight Web technology will be JavaScript, not Adobe Systems' ubiquitous Flash, according to experts speaking at Microsoft's Tech.Ed conference here."
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Office Live, you're no Google Docs | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET
"I believe Microsoft could make an honest Google Docs competitor without killing its Microsoft Office business. Eventually, Microsoft will have to. So it might be smart for Microsoft to encourage people to start thinking about the company as an expansive supplier of productivity solutions--desktop and Web-based--rather than just a company that makes desktop office products that, by the way, also have some add-on Web support."
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