Google Voice means Google is technically, literally and actually a telephone company. Google owns and maintains the servers, switches and other equipment necessary to connect phone calls. They're regulated just like any other telephone company. And they're connected into, and are part of, the national telephone network.
The equivalent of a Swiss Army Knife for consumer online services, Wave is possibly one of the riskiest and most ambitious endeavors Google has embarked upon in years.
Google will add scripting capabilities to Google Docs, allowing organizations to customize its online applications and automate tasks, the company said Wednesday.
Preaching the Web as the new programming model, Google officials lauded several technologies, including 3D browser capabilities and an ability to easily add Google applications to Web pages, at the Google I/O conference on Wednesday.
Google may be ready to remove the "beta" tag from some of its online applications in a move to widen their appeal among paying business customers, company officials suggested Wednesday.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
Surviving Windows is easier than you think… MKS offers the power of an integrated all-in-one environment and provides you with the Power of UNIX on Windows Learn More
Brought to you by:
contests & free stuff
We have 5 copies of these two new books to give to some lucky readers. The deadline for entries is November 30, 2009.
AISO founders envisioned a Web hosting company that was environmentally friendly. While the company employed energy-efficient innovations like solar panels, its infrastructure produced unacceptable power and cooling requirements. Find out how AISO leveraged AMD technology to overcome their challenge in this case study white paper.
In this whitepaper, Scalar explores the opportunity to change the landscape with respect to mission critical databases
built around Oracle. Leveraging technologies such as Linux, high-end commodity processing power and Oracle RAC
technology to architect, design, build and maintain database infrastructure that delivers maximum availability, reliability
and performance at a fraction of traditional cost.
On a typical day, weather.com, the Web site for The Weather Channel in Atlanta, serves up between 15 million and 20 million page views. But in September 2004, when back-to-back hurricanes ransacked Florida, the peak traffic on one day more than tripled: over 70 million page views by more than 7 million unique visitors. Read the full success story now.
Esther Schindler
claird
pasmith
Sandra Henry-Stocker
jfruh
mikelgan
Quick, practical advice for IT pros. Made fresh daily.
Why Android's 'kill switch' is a good thing
Google lauds the Web as programming model
Google's Wave consolidates core online features in one tool
Elgan: Why Google Voice is free
Nine Gmail features that I'd like to see
Former FCC staffers, Google.org chief to help Obama
The 11 stupidest moments in tech for 2008
Gmail Labs' 5 Best and 5 Worst Features
Developers, analysts, have high expectations for Google I/O
Google may strip 'beta' tag from some apps