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Google To Pull Out of China?

Craig Agranoff — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:41:09 +0000

Google may be pulling out of China as early as April 10, says Bloomberg. In January, Google responded with threats of leaving after it was learned that not only were the massive attacks on Google and others’ infrastructures and data perpetrated by people in China, but they were done by people in the Chinese government itself. An official announcement from Google is expected to come next week on March 22.

Bloomberg also reports that an ex-executive with Google in China says that the move by the search giant ...

Google TV is Coming and It Won’t Be Anything Like WebTV

Craig Agranoff — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:06:02 +0000

According to a report in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, Google is teaming up with Intel, Logitech and Sony to bring you a WebTV-like platform for Web viewing in your living room called Google TV. Everyone involved seems to have something in mind as to their own gains for doing this deal.

Funny, given their vision for this, none of them seem to have realized that the PlayStation and the XBox both already do everything that’s been said this new Google TV setup ...

Droid 2.1 Upgrade Announced

Craig Agranoff — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:08:47 +0000

A much-anticipated upgrade to the Verizon/Motorola Droid OS will be coming tomorrow, beginning at noon. Android Central broke the story with a release of the memo of release notes. Further details are on the Verizon Wireless Droid Support page as well.

These include anticipated updates to the OS which appear to be giving the Droid feature parity with the Google Nexus One (also an Android-powered phone). Pinch-to-zoom, Gallery, Google Maps, new weather and news widgets, voice-to-text entry, 3D gallery layout, and several small pattern-lock and audio enhancements ...

Twitter’s @anywhere to Integrate Tweets and Profiles Across Web Platforms

Craig Agranoff — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:25:09 +0000

Twitter announced, via their blog, that they will soon be integrating a new platform called @anywhere which will allow interaction between websites and Twitter across the Internet. Partners in this endeavor will include Amazon, the Huffington Post, Yahoo!, YouTube, and others.

Simultaneous with the announcement on the blog was the keynote by Twitter CEO Ev Williams who demonstrated how the @anywhere platform will work. The demonstration, which took place live at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Texas, included a showcase of how it would work with, say, ...

Tim Bray Takes Job in Google’s “No Evil Zone”

Craig Agranoff — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:44:46 +0000

Tim Bray is best known as the co-inventor of XML and for his blogging on his website at TBray.org. Google has hired him as a “Developer Advocate” to promote and maintain the developers who interact with Google on the Android platform. Blogging about it on his site, Bray rants against Apple and the iPhone platform:

The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet’s future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who can know what and who can say what. It’s a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded ...

It’s 5:29am PST.. You Have 1 Minute To Begin Pre-Order of Your iPad

Craig Agranoff — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:29:07 +0000

In exactly one minute, at 5:30am Pacific Standard Time, the Apple iPad will be available for pre-order on Apple.com. You still won’t see the unit until April 3rd, but you can pre-order today.

What, you’re still reading this? Click the Apple.com link already!

Alright. Are they gone? Good, that gets rid of the riff-raff and gadget freaks. I’m sure they’ll be back after Apple’s servers crash because millions like them ran to the store to refresh their screens endlessly until it finally popped up with an order ...

iPhone Will Get Mutitasking This Summer

Craig Agranoff — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:16:48 +0000

Most iPhone users are aware that the gadget is due for a software upgrade soon and that it’s likely that Apple will release another OS for the phone sometime this year. Tradition says this happens in late March, though this one may be delayed. Apple Insider says that the upgrade will be OS 4.0 for “summer release” and it will include something that has long been a thorn in the side of the iPhone vs. Android debate.. multitasking.

Over at ReadWriteWeb, Mike Melanson mentions that jailbreaking has ...

Facebook, Twitter Get Into the Geo-Location Game

Craig Agranoff — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:28:34 +0000

Beginning next month, Facebook will include location-based status updates into its makeup, allowing all 400 million-plus users to update not just with short text blurbs, but with current location as well. Twitter activated geo-location on their status as well, just in time for South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas – one of the biggest tech gatherings in the nation.

Twitter activated their geo-location through the API in November, but did not incorporate it into status updates until yesterday. Facebook, meanwhile, updated their privacy settings (to much controversy) in November, ...

HP Slate Shows Off Flash in New Video

Craig Agranoff — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:40:18 +0000

With all of the buzz about the new Apple iPad, the new HP Slate has been a little overlooked. This new device from Hewlett Packard will run Windows 7 and, of course, Adobe’s Flash. The video also captures the on-screen keyboard, showcases how the hardware-accelerated Flash speeds up performance, and also shows that AIR applications will also run on the Slate.

Little is offered from HP on the technology underneath the hood of this device, but it’s obvious ...

The unSocial Social Media and South Florida Bloggers

Craig Agranoff — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:12:15 +0000

Social media is taking the business of the Internet by storm and is the marketing wave of the now as well as the future. Yet social media is not nearly as social as people might like you to think. Recent events right here in South Florida proved that many of the so-called social media experts are, in fact, just self-serving marketing whiners. The social media bubble is about to burst.

Recently, the Sun Sentinel announced this year’s Best of Blogs Awards for South Florida in which fans of various ...