Above is an image taken & shared by Google Glass payoff lover, Robert Scoble. He comments on the photo by saying… Why lead with these two girls? Because they were SO excited to be able to try out Glass in the subway. I’m sure that’s very true. I’m sure many, many people were curious about… Read more »
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Google Glass & Scoble
According to Peter Shankman… See, it’s people like Scoble who ruin it for regular people, the masses who will determine whether Glass succeeds or winds up in the land of the Apple Newton. His review was so over the top, so up Google’s ass, so “I’m taking a freaking shower while wearing them” (complete with… Read more »
Glass might be inappropriate in some places…
Eric Schmidt commented on Glass, saying “there are obviously places where Google Glasses are inappropriate.” He was referencing the obvious issue of talking to glass when in a quiet room – say an exam hall, etc. This isn’t a significant comment. But I thought it was interesting that Gruber’s reposte was to comment “Weird and… Read more »
Speaking about Blink…
Looks like Opera is going to use Blink too.
Blink: Google’s fork of WebKit
Google have decided to fork WebKit (Apple’s open-source web rendering engine) and create Blink in the Chromium project. The reason cited is that WebKit, while powerful, is not used in a multi-threaded architecture akin to Chrome in any other browser so their rate of change in terms of innovation is slowing as a result. So,… Read more »
15 things a Chromebook Pixel won’t do
A lot of reviews around the new Google laptop, which aims its market laser squarely at the MacBook Pro users (but the ones who are less inclined to care about desktop apps and want a touch screen), are dissing it because it’s a bad MacBook Pro. So instead of focusing in on the fact that… Read more »
Google Reader to be sunsetted
From the Google blog… We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite websites. While the product has a loyal following, over the years usage has declined. So, on July 1, 2013, we will retire Google Reader. Users and developers interested… Read more »
The ChromeBook Pixel
The ChromeBook Pixel has been announced by Google. A ChromeOS-powered laptop with a touch display. It’s a very well spec’d machine. Very high spec machines are useful for gaming, heavy design or development of some kind. These are things that ChromeOS doesn’t do. The price this falls into is very much in the MacBook Air… Read more »
Google Glass UI video
Fantastic. Not a whole lot of practicality just yet, though. The video is just a UI test, and doesn’t mention you need an Android phone hooked up to (so far, anyway) in order for it to work. Edit: It appears that this isn’t just a UI test, but what it’ll actually look like when it… Read more »
Oracle appeals against Google
In the case surrounding Java, Oracle have begun arguing that they are J K Rowling, and Java is Harry Potter. Realistically, Oracle is Warner, taking the Harry Potter idea and making it into a different beast. This isn’t the kind of thing Sun would have ever had happen with their product. Oracle is just a… Read more »
