Archives for the 'Google' Category
Why is a Droid on Verizon better exactly?
Posted on December 1st, 2009 by Brad
I’m trying to figure out why, after doing just a little research, anyone would pick the Motorola Droid on Verizon over an iPhone on AT&T. Recently there’s been a couple commercials that state that Verizon has a “better” network than AT&T and that you should choose your network first and then choose a phone. Well, [...]
Free Airport Wi-Fi thanks to Google
Posted on November 15th, 2009 by Brad
Google announced on Nov. 10th that they were sponsoring free Wi-Fi in a bunch of airports around the country until Jan. 15th, 2010 as a holiday gift. Basically a lot of airports offer Wi-Fi internet access through various companies such as Boingo but you usually have to pay like $5 or $10 to access it [...]
Google Chrome Version 3
Posted on September 16th, 2009 by Brad
Google has released Chrome 3. Still no Mac version. This is laughable and very disappointing. I’ve used Chrome on a Windows box before and like it and would love to give it a good review or something but I guess it’ll have to wait. The development version for Max OS X, Chromium, is just too [...]
Firefox 3.5 is out
Posted on June 30th, 2009 by Brad
So, Firefox 3.5 was just released. I’ll try it out tonight probably but I just wanted to make a few comments. First, version 3.5 supports the HTML 5 <video> and <audio> tags which just re-enforces my “no flash on the iPhone, ever” theory because it means that even more of the industry is accepting the [...]
Bing.com: better search engine or clone of Google?
Posted on June 1st, 2009 by Brad
Bing.com is Microsoft’s revised Live.com search engine and it’s supposed to be even more of a direct competitor to Google. Well yeah, it’s easy when you just copy Google almost completely! The home page of Bing is different from Google but check out a comparison of the top of a search result page:
Web, Images, Video, Shopping, [...]