Android is the name of the open mobile OS announced by Google last week. As expected, Android code and SDK has been released today. Lots of people have been talking about it lately and I’ve to admit, from the various screenshots I’ve seen so far, that the UI does not seem that bad for a [...]

Nobody could have missed the news. Google has just acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion. I read that Yahoo! was still negociating until the end. Congratulations you guys! That’s an impressive achivement for a company launched only one year ago! Just for information, the current traffic stats of YouTube: 100 million videos watched per days and [...]

A couple of days ago, Google released a revamped version of its Google Reader service. This version is a huge improvement compared to the previous one and start felling like a desktop application. But actually, I don’t think RSS feed readers — online or desktop — are a good way to read online material. The [...]

Google just released the Google Browser Sync. A Firefox extension to synchronize your browser settings and bookmarks across computers. A very useful piece of software. Like most people I frequently use multiple computers and being able to access and share your data is crucial for productivity. I use more and more online services to do [...]

There was a lot of excitement around the recent acquisition of Writely by Google. Writely is a web-based processing and document sharing software, a nice piece of work. Google has announced for a long time that they planned to release a web-based office suite and apparently they are building it piece by piece. They now [...]

If you looked at your Gmail account recently you’ll noticed some little changes in the sidebar — there is a “chat” entry. Any of your Google Talk conversation can be archived and searched like e-mails. But there is more, Google announced that they will provide a full integration of Instant Messaging within Gmail. According to [...]

Google just announced that they’re close to launch an on-demand video service. People will be able to buy and rent videos right from the web. They will partner with CBS and the NBA to deliver recent content. There are no much infos about the technical details. Apparently content will be encoded with Xvid and will [...]

I see myself using more and more online services. As the Internet is maturing, online services are changing into more simple and smart software. There is now a real advantage of using an online application versus a desktop one. The web announced years early is finally showing up. I’ve compiled a list of some of [...]

I missed the news but a friend of mine points me out that Google released a new service called Google Reader. Basically, it’s an online service for reading news feeds pretty much like Bloglines. As usual it’s still in beta version and not all browsers are fully supported — I got some bugs with Safari. [...]

Webmails are quite useful to access your mailbox anywhere. But when you’re working at home you generally want to use a mail application — which is more comfortable and more integrated to your system. The problem with using both systems is that you can’t access e-mails you’ve sent so far. I never found any solution… [...]