When you look at the IT industry and the energy production/distribution industry it is hard to find many things in common between the two. When you think of IT, you think of computer nerds, office jobs and Silicon Valley. When you think of the energy sector, you think of drilling/mining, hard hats and physical labor. [...]
There is an emerging and growing trend that more and more big companies are adopting. I recently read a report in the New York Times (click here to read it) about GM investing $100 million and starting a venture capital firm for start-ups in the field of renewable energy and other advanced technologies. This follows a similar [...]
Dell Inc., one of the world’s largest PC makers and technology companies will be launching a tablet product called the Dell Streak this summer. It will first be sold in the UK (next month) and then in the U.S. later in the summer. This decision to debut somewhere other than the U.S., where its headquarters are [...]
On Friday, Google decided to pay tribute to the 30th anniversary of the video game Pac Man by changing the look of their logo on their home page. They’ve done this hundreds of times in the past so that part of it is nothing special. The difference is that this time they made the logo [...]
Four well known tech companies, including two of the best known in the world, are teaming up to bring the internet to TV. Google, Sony, Intel and Logitech have plans to develop software and applications that will allow TV watchers to view YouTube videos and other things on their TV’s. The basic idea is not [...]
On Monday, reports came out that Google’s smartphone software/operating system called Android has been outselling the iPhone in the U.S. in the first quarter. Although this sounds like a big blow to Apple, especially since it was beaten by 7% it isn’t a true battle. The Android is only an operating system and is used in about [...]
Starting on Wednesday, you will begin to notice some additional features when you do searches on Google. The search engine giant has added options that let you narrow down what types of results you are looking for. For example, if you are searching for a particular news story or report, then there is a news [...]
On Thursday, Apple announced plans for a software update for the iPhone, iPod and new iPad. Earlier in the week, I posted an article containing a wish list of what I hoped this update would include (click here to read it). Some of the things I hoped would be included, have been, like multitasking (although [...]
Earlier this week, Google followed through on its threats to leave China as it redirected all searches from mainland China to Hong Kong. This is a very big deal to all parties involved and to the future of the internet in general. China has the most internet users in the world so for all of [...]
Google has said recently that it is “99.9 per cent” sure that it will end up exiting China and closing the google.cn division of the company. I first posted an article on this topic about two months ago (click here to read it). At the time, this issue had just made it to the surface [...]
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