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Nexus One is the HTC Passion, Wind compatible, $530 unlocked, coming in January

December 30, 2009December 30, 2009 drsquid cellphone, google, HTC, Nexus One, Wind Mobile, Wireless1 Comment

Today documents and screenshots leaked out to Gizmodo and Engadget showing some Google pages, and HTC training materials, for the Nexus One Google phone. The HTC documents are also clearly labelled as for the HTC Passion, so these phones are one and the same. The HTC documents show that the Passion is HTC internal name for the Nexus One, but it is not clear whether HTC will sell it as the Passion in other markets outside North America. The leaked Nexus One images and videos showed the phone running ‘stock’…

Mozilla exec recommends Bing for search

December 11, 2009December 11, 2009 Doug Groves Aza Dotzler, bing, Eric Schmidt, google, Microsoft, Mozilla, privacy, search4 Comments

Asa Dotzler, Mozilla’s director of community development watched Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt talk about privacy concerns in a CNBC interview, and was compelled to respond with recommending Microsoft’s Bing as the search engine of choice for Mozilla’s Firefox. This is what Schmidt said… “I think judgment matters… If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines — including Google — do retain this information…

Episode 021 – Google n Games

December 3, 2009 Doug Groves ACII, Assassin's Creed II, chrome os, David Cronenberg, google, L4D2, Left 4 Dead 2, sequel, Stephen King, The Shining, YouTube4 Comments

We start off this show with a lot of Google news, from the Chrome OS announcement to Youtube’s policy regarding playback on TV. Ryan drops some news from Stephen King about a sequel to the The Shining, and we take a look at both Left 4 Dead 2 and Assassin’s Creed II.

YouTube getting all Hulu – that’s a bad thing

November 20, 2009November 20, 2009 Doug Groves google, online video, Popcorn Hour, YouTube31 Comments

Starting on December 2nd, YouTube is planning on blocking access to content based on where and how it’s being delivered. This according to Popcorn Hour’s COO Alex Limberis: On November 18, 2009 Syabas, makers of the award-winning Popcorn Hour product line, uploaded a message to their Media Service Portal that said, “As of Wednesday, December 2, 2009, YouTube will no longer be available to Popcorn Hour users.” Please understand that this is neither a technical glitch nor a decision the company has voluntarily made. To be clear, Google has changed…

Google Voice mail searchable online, amusing

October 19, 2009 Doug Groves google, Google Voice2 Comments

If you haven’t already heard about Google Voice, the service promises one number for all your needs, and includes a voice message service, which can transcribe audio message into text. An interesting, and probably unwanted side effect of this is that a small number of these can be found in a google search… site:https://www.google.com/voice/fm/* Into a standard google search. Some of the messages contain the phone number of the sender, and since Google also transcribes the voice mails to a readable form, when the caller leaves a new reply number,…

Episode 018 – Net talk

July 18, 2009July 18, 2009 Doug Groves CRTC, google, Microsoft, throttling, Zombies7 Comments

It’s an extra large dose of rgb this episode, as we discuss Google’s new OS, as well as a number of new developments from the company that will ‘do no evil’. We also talk about the new high speed initiatives from the major telecoms, Microsoft’s new branding strategies, and much more. Don’t forget that the Toronto Zombie Walk is holding a Fiendraiser tonight, Saturday July 18th.

Live Android for x86

July 15, 2009 Doug Groves Android, google2 Comments

Curious to give Android a whirl, but nobody’s ported it for your smart phone yet? That’s what Live Android is about… Want to give Google Android a try, but don’t feel like buying a T-Mobile G1? LiveAndroid lets you download a LiveCD disc image of the Google Android operating system. Just burn the image to a disc, stick it in a CD-ROM drive, and reboot your computer and you can check out Android without installing it or affecting any files on your PC. You can also use the disc image…

Google’s Chrome OS Coming In 2010

July 8, 2009July 8, 2009 Doug Groves chrome os, google1 Comment

Google is planning on launching it’s Chrome OS, an extension of it’s Chrome browser, by mid 2010, and plans on ushering in an era of “speed, simplicity and security” for netbook computers. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the…

Microsoft’s Bing Goes Live

June 2, 2009June 2, 2009 Doug Groves bing, google, Microsoft8 Comments

I’m not sure if the folks at Redmond have changed their water supply, but for the last 6 months to a year, Microsoft has been getting a lot more right than they have wrong. As evidence of this, their new search engine bing.com (formerly codenamed Kumo) has opened to the public in preview mode, much the same way Gmail has been in beta for over 5 years now. After a few random searches, I’m sold, or at least rented.

Mobile Interface Demos

February 21, 2009April 17, 2009 Doug Groves Android, google, multitouch, resistive, tat, tegra, Windows Mobile3 Comments

Beyond all the new phones at Mobile World Congress this year, there were some really interesting demos of technology that may change the way we interact with mobile devices in general in the future. We’ve already mentioned the graphics power of Nvidia’s long awaited Tegra platform that should appear on both Google’s Android and Windows Mobile in the not to distant future. Beyond processing power, there were some new interfaces demoed at Mobile World Congress in 2009 worth highlighting. Stantum demonstrated their new multi-touch technology, but what makes it different…

Google M-Lab Empowering The User

January 30, 2009April 17, 2009 Doug Groves google, MLabs, network tools1 Comment

Vince Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist for Google, has announced the introduction of a new service on the Google Blog. The Measurement Lab will give end users and researchers remote access to a number of advanced network diagnostic tools to simplify the task of network analysis. Many of the individual programs are also available as downloads to be installed (so far only on Linux).