As predictable as the sun rising in the east – and without making too much hoopla about it – Google’s gone into the migration business trying to decouple folks from Microsoft Exchange and move them to Google Apps. Its newfangled Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange tool works with Google Apps Premier or Education Edition [...]
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Larry Ellison’s not the only software maven bitten by the hardware bug badly enough to risk losing focus. Besides that Google-designed HTC-manufactured Android Phone reportedly dubbed the Nexus One that Google itself is getting ready to sell directly through its web site come January, Tech Crunch says to look out for a Google-branded Google-peddled Chrome [...]
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Neon Sues IBM for Trying To Destroy It Google Catches Hardware Bug FTC Means To Clap Intel in Irons & Rip Out Its Claws Oracle Claims Victory over EC; Says Sun Will Sell Clouds Canonical’s Executive Suite To Change Verari Close to Death Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud Floats into Beta EC Lets Microsoft Out on [...]
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Ken Thompson and Rob Pike, a couple of the revered old soldiers who wrote Unix, Plan 9 and Inferno at Bell Labs – and programming languages like Limbo and B, without which C probably wouldn’t exist – have come up with an experimental new programming language called Go that Google, their current refuge, open sourced [...]
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IBM Goes after Gmail In a fit of Google-envy, IBM Monday went into competition with Gmail, pitching businesses big and small on LotusLive iNotes, a new cloud-based hybrid e-mail service that starts at three buck a head a month. It claims its cloud-mail is secure and reliable – Gmail has had some problems lately staying [...]
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The shoe that Google’s been itching to drop – the one everybody knew was dangling – has finally dropped. With Pearl Harbor-like timing of a declaration of war, Google VP of product management Sundar Pichai and engineering director Linus Upson said in a midnight blog post Wednesday morning that Google’s going to develop a fast, [...]
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If the mountain won’t come to Mohammed, then, by George, Mohammed’s gonna go to the mountain, which is exactly what Google’s doing. Rather than try to get the throngs of immovable Outlook and Office users to switch to Gmail and Google Apps, it’s going after Exchange with a new Apps Sync for Outlook plug-in that [...]
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Google went down Thursday morning. It’s better now but people couldn’t get or could barely get search Gmail, Google Apps, Google News, Google Reader, Google Maps, Google Analytics, heck, even google.com and YouTube. It also impacted sites that depend on Google. It’s unclear how widespread the failure was. CNet thought it was worldwide but one [...]
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Google’s now year-old App Engine infrastructure, previously limited to running only programs written in a particular species of Python, a less-than-mainstream tongue but an internal Google favorite, is learning to accept programs written in Java. With the move, Google is reaching out to a broader base and interfacing with what it acknowledges are “businesses’ existing [...]
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Oh, look. Google’s found another way to annoy the…to annoy Microsoft. This one’s called Native Client, a shiny new open source R&D project aimed at running fast x86 native code in web applications. According to a Google blog, it’s supposed to let web developers “access the full power of the client’s CPU while maintaining the [...]
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