News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Google believes recent outages affecting Google Apps have received a disproportionately large amount of coverage from the technology press, resulting in a misperception about the stability of this hosted collaboration and communication suite.
Juan Carlos Perez | Nov 14, 2008
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has a message for his Microsoft counterpart Steve Ballmer: Microsoft should buy Yahoo, and Ballmer only has to say the word and Yang will be sitting at the negotiating table.
Juan Carlos Perez | Nov 7, 2008
Google has settled lawsuits brought against it by major publishers and authors that argued that Google’s wholesale scanning and indexing of in-copyright books without permission amounted to massive copyright violations.
Juan Carlos Perez | Oct 29, 2008
Google has finally solved a problem that kept recent subscribers to its Apps suite from accessing their new Gmail accounts.
Juan Carlos Perez | Oct 24, 2008
Google began running a live test last year that lets people re-rank and remove search engine results and comment on them, but remains undecided about rolling out the changes for everybody.
Juan Carlos Perez | Sep 12, 2008
Google’s famed cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have come out to support its new Chrome browser. Trying hard not to offend its partner Mozilla, maker of Firefox, the Google officials nonetheless made it clear that browser technology isn’t advancing as fast as Google would like it to be.
Juan Carlos Perez | Sep 3, 2008
Cuil, the latest search engine startup to come out swinging from its corner with the hope of knocking out Google, is instead taking a beating that could do it long-term damage as a credible contender. The company received broad media coverage on Monday, primarily because it has former Google engineers on its team and because of its claim to have the world’s largest search index, but Cuil is now facing an angry backlash. The site had performance and availability problems throughout launch day, and a growing chorus of search market observers has declared the engine’s results to its queries unimpressive.
Juan Carlos Perez | Jul 30, 2008
Like Facebook before it, MySpace is having to take corrective steps to curb spam from applications built by external developers using its new application development platform. In a posting to the official MySpace Developers blog on Tuesday, MySpace President Tom Anderson announced changes to the application guidelines intended to prevent developers from building self-promotional features into their applications that result in intrusive and deceitful behaviour, such as generating unsolicited messages to other users or tricking application users into approving such actions.
Juan Carlos Perez | May 22, 2008
Myvu has announced that its Crystal video goggles now work with the iPhone. The Crystal glasses require a new cable which costs $US24.95.
