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Noop – a new Google’s baby?

Posted by: altabel on: May 26, 2012

Google is pregnant again? Perhaps you have heard this statement. Also you could hear that the “baby” has been created to substitute Java… and number of similar statements… But What is NOOP?! Some people are reporting it to be Google new language, which is not quite technically correct. Noop is being developed by a group [...]

Google’s new privacy policy: what’s changed?

Posted by: altabel on: January 31, 2012

There are many opinions about Google’s new privacy policy among bloggers, journalists and friends. After studying all of them I have some questions left: Is Google’s new strategy of replacing separate policies for each application with one shorter policy — one which allows them to share our data across all those applications with no way [...]

Android – real winner in 2011, isn’t it?

Posted by: altabel on: December 16, 2011

Microsoft might have sold hundreds of millions of Windows 7 licenses, and Apple might be managing to persuade tens of millions of people to buy iOS-powered devices every quarter, but the real winner when it comes to operating systems in 2011 as been Android, Google’s mobile operating system. Based on the Linux kernel, Android is [...]

Microsoft, Google Suffer Outages: Can You Trust the Cloud?

Posted by: altabel on: October 4, 2011

Definitely, there are certain benefits of using cloud services, but the cost of these benefits may be too high if you can’t rely on the cloud. So do you trust the cloud? It’s not so much to the cloud itself – you really have to consider the number of dependencies between you and the cloud [...]

Google’s purchase of Motorola Mobility was all about the patents. Just as shopping at Prada is all about the necessity to own something that is black If Google suddenly wants to be like Apple, what does that mean? Does it mean that its Motorola will produce beautiful Android phones for which people will pay an [...]