Right as Android is taking one of the dominant roles in the smartphone market, Oracle (which acquired Java owner Sun recently for over $5 billion) is suing Google over the use of Java code in its Android mobile OS. Android has recently edged past the iPhone in market-share, and it has the 3rd largest share […]

This may be the answer you get when you call the travel agent that helped you book your flights and find a budget hotel in Reykjavik. Is that possible? Well, wait for a while. In a presentation of Bing’s virtues, the search engine by Microsoft, Mark Johnson, a senior Program Manager at Bing described the concept of […]

= Free?! In the last few years, Google has has taken the front-running position in the online productivity application market. Until recently, they did not have a large competitor in the area. However, Microsoft recently released their new web apps software suite. As with Google, Microsoft is giving the basic version of this software suite […]

In a previous post, I was quoting Joseph Licklider’s statement “people tend to overestimate what can be done in one year and to underestimate what can be done in five or ten years.” Let’s choose Google as an example. On the word of “Googled: The End of the World As We Know It” by Ken […]