Practical Technology

A year after Google+’s  last remake, Google decided to give Google+ a radical new look and feel. Some users love it, some hate it, but no one’s indifferent to it. Love and hate: The New Google+ look. More >

[Read more →]

Earlier in May, Jimmy Kaplowitz, Google Site Reliability Engineer and Debian developer, announced that Google would not just be adding Debian 6 and 7 images to the Google’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Google Compute Engine  (GCE) it was making Debian Linux it’s default server image. Debian Linux now Google Compute Engine’s default OS. More [...]

[Read more →]

To some, Windows 8 is a marketplace failure. But its flop has been nothing compared to Microsoft’s perpetual disaster in getting anyone to use its Windows Phone operating systems. You don’t need to worry about Microsoft’s bottom line though. Thanks to its Android patent agreements, Microsoft may be making as much as $8 per Android device. [...]

[Read more →]

Android fragmentation will wreck Android for smartphones and tablets just as much as Windows fragmentation ruined Windows for the PC. Why Windows fragmentation will blow Windows to smithereens (cough) More >

[Read more →]

While some people may have been surprised that Google has finally made Blink, its own fork of the popular WebKit Web browser engine, in Web developer circles this move came as no surprise. While Apple and Google had long worked together on the open-source WebKit project for years, developers both inside and outside of Google wanted [...]

[Read more →]