I write a great deal about Google mostly because it is always trying new things and putting them out there for free for the world to try. The tools are easy to access and use from wherever you are--any device with a browser and an internet connection--and you can't beat the single-sign on across... (Read More)

Will January be a big month for stocks? Maybe so. Stocks have already grown by 20% since November, as measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Index. A new survey from CNBC suggests more of that is to come, with stocks expected to score double-digit gains in 2009. The CNBC report also said the economy... (Read More)

The new year is here and while I wonder what apple, microsoft, google, Rim(research in motion), have in store for us in 2009 I am looking back at what they gave us in 2008 and all the bugs and glitches they also gave us. Apple Apple brought us quite a... (Read More)

With an incredible stroke of luck and happenstance, this is my hundredth post and my last post of the year. It seemed to me the perfect time to step back and assess my first year writing the DaniWeb TechTreasures by Ron Miller blog. A Look at the Numbers Just today I passed 186,000 hits on 99... (Read More)

After a year featuring tectonic shifts in the stock market and the economy, 2008 is set to go out with barely a tremor. A quiet Monday in the technology market, with the big news that palm looks like it’s going to get its own version of a bailout. That after Elevation Partners agrees to infuse... (Read More)

There’s a light trading load on Wall Street this week, with trader’s thoughts turning to visions of sugarplum martinis dancing in their heads. Anything to help forget 2008, right? Although 2009 looks like it won’t be any better. This, from Subir Gokarn, chief economist at Standard &... (Read More)

Too much information running through my brain Too much information driving me insane ~Police, Too Much Information. Yesterday, Seth Godin wrote a post in his blog called, Warning: The Internet is almost full. It's not of course, and he had is his tongue planted firmly in his cheek, but he brought... (Read More)

The Android Open Source Project continues to go from strength to strength as the Open Handset Alliance announces a batch of new members. Amongst the 14 new companies to sign up and demonstrate support for Android as an open mobile platform, are Sony Ericsson and Vodafone. The importance of which... (Read More)

With much fanfare Sun announced its new JavaFX platform yesterday, but curiously in a video introducing the platform, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, made the browser the enemy of content owners, and set up JavaFX as the platform to give developers and content owners direct access to users. I'm not sure... (Read More)

The market’s four-day rally, where it has recouped 14% of its losses – the biggest pickup in decades – is about to get a legitimate curveball this week with a new report out from the UK-based Telegraph that Microsoft is in serious discussions to buy Yahoo. The proposed $20 billion deal... (Read More)

According to a recent TechCrunch article, Microsoft is planning to rename its Live Search product, Kumar, which means cloud or spider in Japanese. What Microsoft needs to learn, and what the Get a Mac ads have captured so well, is that it's not about PR or branding or the name of the products, it's... (Read More)

It has been a long time coming, but Google has at last approached the Wiki concept for search. With the announcement of the SearchWiki tool, Google now has something that lets users have a fair degree of control over results and adds sharing into the search mix. Control such as the customisation... (Read More)

Was anyone else really looking forward to being able to use the much hyped Google Voice Search feature for the iPhone? I mean, you could not move for news about the thing in the blogosphere last week, even the New York Times ran with a story about it and there was a tempting video demo doing the... (Read More)

Google announced on Friday that it was adding on-demand indexing to its hosted Google Site Search product, giving customers the ability to instantly re-index a site after adding new content. This gives web site owners running Google Site Search much greater control over the indexing process than... (Read More)

Monday through Wednesday of this week saw some of the worst damage to investors in stock market history - over $1 trillion lost in shareholder value. Buyers inched, and then flooded in after the S&P 500 bounced back from a trough that veteran traders hadn't seen in years. That triggered a buyers... (Read More)

The Google Press office today brought to my attention an unusual and totally unexpected bit of Google trivia: the modelling of real-world phenomena using patterns in search to map the spread of influenza across the US. Google is proving to be far more than just a search engine these days. In fact,... (Read More)

Android's Java front-end gives Google's mobile platform an instant community of app developers and Java-specific tools. But beginning today, there's also a static code scanner that's aware of Android's APIs. Klocwork, which makes automated source code analysis solutions, today began shipping a... (Read More)

What a difference a year makes. Was it really only in August 2007 that Google added the Sun developed StarOffice suite to the Google Pack software collection? Yes, it was. Back then Google was happy to have a $70 value package available for free to Google Pack downloaders. Things, apparently, have... (Read More)

I was watching a video of a panel from the Web 2.0 Summit on ReadWriteWeb. I've had a growing fascination with Cloud Computing in recent months, and this particular panel included key players from Google, Salesforce.com, Adobe and VMware (with Tim O'Reilly acting as panel moderator). As each man... (Read More)

Who couldn't use some extra cash these days? Thousands of dollars in prize money is up for grabs as testers face off in Battle of the Browsers, a seven-day contest that starts today. Applications in the contest's arena are Google's Chrome, Firefox 3.1 alpha 2 and IE 8. To qualify, bugs must be... (Read More)

Everyone has heard of 2nd life, the infamous site where you can do basically anything and no one cares. you no longer are just stuck with one option Google has just unveiled “lively” a 3d Google game where you can create your own avatar, edit your room, make your room available on MySpace or... (Read More)

If you like the Google Earth mapping application, there's now an application that works with it and provides information on "Marine Protected Areas" on the Earth. Installing the application shows all the various marine protected areas (MPAs); clicking on them provides some information, including a... (Read More)

Google has been backing up the United States Election for the fast few days very strongly; today they released a new application for volunteers trying to get people to vote; frankly volunteers could have used an application like this to get voters months ago not days before people go to vote! ... (Read More)

Richard Garriot; a famous Game developer has just returned from his tour in space on the Soyuz TMA-12 a tourist cruise line in space called “space adventures”. Garriots father Owen Garriot is a former NASA Astronaut; which may have been why Richard Garriot Paid $35 million dollars for his 12... (Read More)

I have a ton of Google news for you like the Google GEM. Okay I am getting ahead of myself. Google announced a new application that will make the earth fit in your pocket. Google has released this new application available only for the iPhone. I do not own an Iphone but from what I read it would... (Read More)