Tag Archive for 'google'

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Why I’m antisocial with Google.

I mostly trust Google, I really do — it’s the rest of you I’ve a problem with.

How to use Google Voice in Canada.

You’ll need a proxy server to sign up, but getting a working account is possible only because of some glitch in Google’s registration software that accepts numbers from the 403 area code in Alberta.

A requiem for just about every commercial mobile office suite ever.

I first caught the news via the Android Guys a couple of days ago, and it’s fairly huge. Google is now making Google Docs editable on Android devices — and for good measure the wildly-popular hobbled Apple Internet appliances as well…

Okay Android, you’re on!

I’ve given Google — and particularly Android, their mobile OS — a bit of a hard time on these pages. I think it’s justified; Google is doing some fantastic things for free software but is also guilty of its fair share of gaffes. But today an opportunity has presented itself for yours truly to trial Google’s Nexus One and one of Canada’s new mobile operators. How can I say no?

Here’s how it came to be…

What was Web 1.5, anyway?

Before we can feel any sorrow over the death of Web 1.5, I guess we need to understand exactly what it was in the first place.

It was obviously not Web 2.0 — so what was it, exactly…?