Thanks to the marvels of the connected world, I was able to attend the Google Chrome Special Announcement today streamed live through the Google Chrome YouTube channel. Initially introduced by Gabriel Stricker, Director of Global Communications & Public Affairs at Google Inc., today's stream ran at about an hour and a half with an additional Q&A session. Sundar … [Read more...]
Busy Day In Google Land: Announces Nexus S/Android 2.3 and eBooks
Google made two announcements this morning with pretty big product announcements. The first is relevant to any Android fans and the second has to do with Google entering the eBookstore industry. Both of these announcements were made via the Official Google Blog. Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and Nexus S The latest version of the Android platform was introduced today, codenamed … [Read more...]
Amazon Announces New DNS Service Through their Amazon Simple Storage Service
Just last week, Amazon kicked WikiLeaks off of its Amazon S3 service for violating its Terms of Service. Shortly after that, WikiLeaks lost DNS services from EveryDNS and more recently, Paypal stopped processing donations made to the WikiLeaks account. With an announcement today, Amazon is now providing two out of those three things that WikiLeaks needs but isn't allowed to … [Read more...]
Rapportive – Add Social Networking Integration To Your Gmail
Functioning in much the same way Xobni does for Microsoft Outlook, Rapportive serves as an add-on for Firefox, Safari, Mailplane, and Chrome browsers to enhance Gmail. Rapportive adds social networking aspects to your Gmail pane by kicking out the Google text ads and making the space more functional. When you're looking at a message, it will display a brief bio of the person … [Read more...]
Tech and Legal Intersecting: Game Console Modding, Wikileaks as DDoS Victim, Level 3 and Comcast Toll
There are a couple of worthwhile reads around the Interwebs today discussing various ways technology is changing the law and politics. The first example is an article covering the first trial to challenge game console mod chips as a violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Next, Wikileaks is getting a lot of coverage for releasing another batch of US documents; this … [Read more...]