Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Recently, News Corp. has been making a lot of noise about removing their web properties from Google's search index. This appears to be a desperate move being made by a company that has not adequately embraced the culture or technology of the Internet. The important aspect of a total removal ...
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Recently, it was announced that Microsoft is suing GPS device manufacturer, TomTom over GPS patent violations. TomTom runs on the open source Linux operating system and a lot of people believe this is an attempt by Microsoft to assert their perceived intellectual property rights over Linux.
Normally, this news would not ...
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
If you examine the pressure on the content distribution industry by top tier ISPs, it's clear this industry is changing. ISPs are now competing against their transit and hosting customers for content distribution business. This is a fairly bold move for ISPs, but it's clear that they're starting to question ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
We have to preface this post by stating that we love Google Apps. We've been using Google Apps at Deft Labs for almost two years and have had a fantastic experience. It's an excellent product for the price. Everyone pays $50 per user per year for a slew of business ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Recently, we've been researching cloud computing so we decided to take a look at Google's App Engine. We had hoped to write this earlier, but it was some time before we received access from Google to use App Engine :-) We're excited to see cloud computing move forward but, as ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
photo credit: Lodewijk van den Broek
Cloud computing is garnering a lot of attention lately. There are wild rumors and announcements about Google, Microsoft, IBM and others entering the space. Additionally, startups like 10gen and Heroku also appear to be working on the same problem.
Cloud computing will be a fast ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
After our post yesterday on Google and The Sushi Chefs we were shocked to discover that we didn't have any RSS subscribers. According to our analytics data, the article was incredibly popular.
According to FeedBurner, everyone has unsubscribed (including everyone at Deft Labs)! We're sure this is simply a glitch but ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Earlier this month, Kevin P. Ryan and Henry Blodget from AlleyCorp discussed Google's recent market decline and what this means for the company. It is Ryan's opinion that Google will be forced to reduce their workforce. This will be the real test of Google's conviction to give back to their ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
Over the holidays we researched Google's Android. We assembled a lot of information but never finished documenting our analysis. Here are our notes.
In case you've been hiding under a rock for the last month, Android is Google's new mobile operating system. In August of 2005, Google acquired Android from a ...
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Yesterday, Google released their OpenSocial API. As a social application service provider we're excited about the concept of write once run anywhere. What's the problem? It's all hype right now. Google should have spent more time polishing OpenSocial before they released the product. The only live site that supports applications ...
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