Google gets serious about App Engine, ups prices

By tim, on September 1st, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Google App Engine will be leaving preview status and becoming more expensive in the second half of September, according to an email sent to App Engine administrators:

We are updating our policies, pricing and support model to reflect its status as a fully supported Google product … almost all applications will be billed more

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HP discontinues WebOS, considers PC spin-off. Should have stuck with Microsoft

By tim, on August 18th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Oh yes, and buys Autonomy, a fast-growing specialist in enterprise knowledge management.

Here’s the news from HP’s announcement:

As part of the transformation, HP announced that its board of directors has authorized the exploration of strategic alternatives for the company’s Personal Systems Group. HP will consider a broad range of options that may include,

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Google is now a hardware company as it announces acquisition of Motorola Mobility and its patents

By tim, on August 15th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Google is to acquire Motorola Mobility, a major manufacturer of Android handsets. Why? I believe this is the key statement:

We recently explained how companies including Microsoft and Apple are banding together in anti-competitive patent attacks on Android. The U.S. Department of Justice had to intervene in the results of one recent patent auction

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Google Native Client: browser apps unleashed, or misconceived and likely to fail?

By tim, on August 15th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Last week Google integrated Native Client into the beta of Chrome 14. Native client lets you compile C/C++ code to run in the browser. It depends on a new plug-in API called Pepper. These are open source projects sponsored by Google and implemented in the Chrome browser, and therefore also likely to turn up

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Android only 23% open says report; Linux, Eclipse win praise

By tim, on August 2nd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Vision Mobile has published a report on what it calls the Open Governance Index. The theory is that if you want to measure the extent to which an open source project is really open, you should look at its governance, rather than focusing on the license under which code is released:

The governance model

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Microsoft financials: Office and server dominate as Windows falters

By tim, on July 22nd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has released its quarterly figures for January-March 2011. My at-a-glance summary is below.

Quarter ending June 30th 2011 vs quarter ending June 30th 2010, $millions

Segment Revenue Change Profit Change Client (Windows + Live) 4740 -41 2943 -123 Server and Tools 4643 +494 1774 +214 Online 662 +94 -728 -40 Business (Office) 5777

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Mozilla CEO fearful of closed mobile platforms. So what next for Mozilla and Firefox?

By tim, on July 20th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

What next for Mozilla? Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe, posts about some of the issues facing the open source browser project and Foundation. His list is not meant to be a list of problems for Mozilla exactly, but it does read a bit like that, especially the third point:

Google marketing budgets for

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Google+, Bing social search, and internet monopolies

By tim, on July 12th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

The big new thing in social media right now is Google+, the search giant’s latest attempt to grab a slice of the social internet from Facebook and Twitter. I have been trying it for a few days and like everyone else have enjoyed playing with circles, the ability to categorise contacts into groups and

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Google Plus demands your location on iPhone, iPad and mobile devices – but you still have control

By tim, on July 10th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Last week I signed up for Google + (you can find me here), and one of first things I tried was to sign in on an Apple iPad.

I was annoyed to see the following message:

Google demanded the right to use my location with Google Plus, otherwise it would not let me

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Cross-platform concerns as Adobe abandons AIR for Linux

By tim, on June 16th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe is giving up on AIR for Linux – at least, in a fully supported manner:

To support the variety of Linux-based platforms across PCs and devices, we are prioritizing a Linux porting kit for AIR (including source code), which Open Screen Project (OSP) partners can use to complete implementations of AIR for Linux-based

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