MaxPower April 3rd, 2009
Google feels the need… to buy this year’s Facebook. Which means of course there is an opening for a new Twitter/Facebook/Myspace starting in 2010. Right now it is just rumours but this is the source of those rumours: TechCrunch. Says them: Google is in late stage negotiations to acquire Twitter. We don’t know the price […]
Tags: Google, Twitter
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MaxPower February 4th, 2009
Today, Google introduced Latitude, a new opt-in feature that lets smartphone and laptop users share their location with friends and allows those friends to share their locations in return. Although not pinpoint accurate, Latitude can display your general location based on information from GPS satellites and cell towers. Latitude works on both mobile devices and […]
Tags: Google, privacy out the freaking window, world domination
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MaxPower November 12th, 2008
New Goog app out today is Google Flu Trends: Google Flu Trends, tallies daily flu-related search queries from Google.com to estimate how many people in a given region in the United States have an influenza-related illness. The tool will provide users with “up-to-date influenza related activity estimates for each of the 50 states in the […]
Tags: Flu, Google, Health
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MaxPower September 3rd, 2008
I said here that I was going to try the new Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, which I didn’t, ironically because the site wouldn’t let me download it – good job Microsoft. Then yesterday I read the news that Google published its new ‘web browser’ Chrome designed in a typical Google fashion. Here is an […]
Tags: Chrome, Firefox, Google, IE8, Technology
Posted in News, Rant, Review, Technology | 6 Comments »