In a blog post late tonight on the official Google Blog is details of how Google is shaking off the dust that has settled on GrandCentral, the service they acquired way back in July 2007. GrandCentral provides users with voice features traditionally associated with business IP PBXs, such as a single...

Venture Beat is reporting that Yahoo’s Zimbra has 40 Million Paid Email boxes, which is gives it more paid mailboxes than Google’s Free Gmail and it’s paying Apps (Gmail) For Your Domain customers, and puts it close behind AOL and Microsoft’s Hotmail services. While Zimbra’s...

Today Google launched their new Google Sync Product that allows you to sync your Google Calendar and Gmail Contacts to your Windows Mobile and iPhone devices. To do this they have licensed Microsoft’s Activesync protocol, just as Apple did to allow the iPhone to sync to a Microsoft Exchange server. This...

The Tech blogs are all a buzz this morning with a revelation that Microsoft may be considering adopting WebKit to use as the rendering engine in Internet Explorer. While I hate to rain on their parade, this will not happen, at least any time soon. Considering that Microsoft is in the process of preparing...

It looks like Google finally did bailout of their proposed Ad Deal with Yahoo in an effort to avoid a long legal battle with the DOJ, which was ready file suit to block the deal. I had advocated this in a recent post. This was the right thing to do on Google’s part, and they were right to delay...

It is being reported today that Google may bailout of it’s proposed partnership with Yahoo on Ad serving. The deal was announced in June as a way to provide Yahoo a lifeline and cover with it’s shareholders during the Microsoft hostile takeover fiasco. However, thanks to intense lobbying...

Yesterday Microsoft announced, among other things, that they would soon release a web-based version of their office suite, along the lines of Zoho Office and Google Docs. This announcement is a major step forward for the company and allows them to target users of other browsers and operating systems....

Yesterday Google and TMobile released the first Android-based phone, the G1, but where were the people camping out to get one, where were the people waiting in line for hours, where are the record breaking sales? All of these things were seen with both of the iPhone launches. Without getting into a battle...

Today Google launched their Second Life clone, called Lively. Honestly, I would question why they spent their time and resources on something like this. It is very un-Google-like, in that they are chasing other startups with such clones. Additionally, why do we need this, hasn’t Second Life’s 15...

It seems that Adobe has teamed with Google and Yahoo to allow for greater indexing and searching capabilities for Flash based web sites. This new endeavor will allow Yahoo and Google to “uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search engines”. This is a good move by Adobe, as many...