The most important app on your phone
The last couple of days have seen a flurry of activity in mobile. Apple announced its response to Google’s acquisition of AdMob by acquiring mobile ad network, Quattro. Google announced the much awaited Google phone, the Nexus One. The bulk of the discussion has been around the mobile application battle between Apple and Google. Henry Blodgett thinks [...]
When Browsers Are Just as Bad as Your OS
As any good Cloud evangelist worth his salt will tell you, a browser beats operating system hands down for all the usual reasons, e.g. platform agnostic, reduced complexity etc. etc. However, I get the feeling sometimes that browsers have gone the way of most operating systems lately. Let me explain. Quite often in recent days, [...]
Mozilla Is Too Big To Fail
Larry Dignan at ZDNetmakes an important point about the financial future of Mozilla Foundation. In his post, he points to Mozilla’s over reliance on Google and wonders if it is good for its future. The financial for 2008 didn’t show any downward trend. Rather, they showed a consolidated revenue of $78.6 million, up 5 percent [...]
Is Google Being Evil? Ajax Search
It seems Google is testing a new AJAX powered search on US Google searches. So what? Well it seems a standard Google search returns the url http://www.google.com/search?q=cloudave when searching for CloudAve. The new search returns http://www.google.com/#q=cloudave. The difference being that standard referral tracking and analytics services don’t see anything after the “#”. The search community [...]
Does Firefox Generate Bogus Crash Reports?
Crashes are bad, reporting them is good: it helps developers fix the issues. So far so good, but lately the Mozilla Crash Reporter appears to be a bit overzelous: it keeps on reporting crashes when there are none. A few times a day it pops up after what appears to be an ordinary shutdown: i.e. [...]
