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by Mike Elgan

Mike Elgan is a Silicon Valley-based columnist, writer, speaker and blogger who specializes in the most complex part of any machine: the user.

Google's open or Apple's integrated: Whose side are you on?

Posted Oct 19, 2010 - 02:47 pm

Google's open or Apple's integrated: Whose side are you on? It's war! Again. Or still. Whatever. Apple CEO Steve Jobs launched an "epic rant" during an earnings call this week blasting Google's "fragmented," er, "open" approach to apps and extolling the virtues of Apple's "closed," I mean "integrated" iOS platform.
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Analyst says Android tablets will beat iPad. Is he right?

Posted Oct 12, 2010 - 06:59 pm

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster predicted this week that the tablet market will play out much like the cell phone market has: Apple will lose its early lead to Google.
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It's like Google TV and Twitter were made for each other

Posted Oct 04, 2010 - 05:26 pm

You may have heard that Twitter announced a Google TV app. That means you'll be able to tell the Twitterverse that you're watching Google TV -- from Google TV. Nobody will care. But if you're a Twitter fan, it might be fun to tweet about TV shows using the TV rather than a second device.
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New service follows up (so you don't have to)

Posted Sep 28, 2010 - 01:00 pm

I've whined and complained in this space several times about Gmail's limited features for time-delaying e-mails. I've told you about two third-party services that help a lot: Hit Me Later and Boomerang. Now I'm going to tell you about an ingenious third service called FollowUpThen.
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Google's new data center to be cooled with sea water

Posted Sep 23, 2010 - 04:41 pm

Google representatives told the magazine Computer Sweden that its Hamina, Finland, data center (now under construction) will be cooled with water from the bottom of the Baltic Sea. This will probably be the first data center in the world cooled by sea water.
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Three strikes and you're out, Michael Arrington!

Posted Sep 13, 2010 - 12:30 pm

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington took issue yesterday with my post about recent condescending remarks by top Google executives.
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Why is Google so condescending?

Posted Sep 11, 2010 - 10:18 am

Google's Gabriel Stricker, director of Global Communications and Public Affairs, opened the Google Instant launch this week. And he was incredibly condescending to the audience.
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As Google gets smarter, are we getting dumber?

Posted Sep 09, 2010 - 06:15 pm

Google's gazillionaire co-founder Sergey Brin said yesterday "we want Google to be the third half of your brain." But at the rate Google is going they'll soon form all three halves.
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Toshiba to launch Foleo... I mean Folio!

Posted Sep 07, 2010 - 07:07 pm

Toshiba announced plans to release a new Google android-based tablet. That makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that they've decided to name the tablet the Folio 100. Isn't that pretty much the name of the ill-fated Palm netbook from three years ago?
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Will Google Wave features be built into Gmail?

Posted Aug 30, 2010 - 09:29 pm

The Google Wave blog was updated this afternoon with an announcement that Google may be building some technology in the now defunct Google Wave into other products.
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