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Published: Thu, 15 January 2009, 15:04, also tagged: business, technology, internet, microsoft, google, yahoo, ceo, yhoo, jerry yang, sue decker, chief executive officer, carol bartz
Yahoo! Inc. has announced the appointment of Carol Bartz as the new Chief Executive Officer whilst president Sue Decker is to resign. Sue Decker was a potential CEO candidate but her lack of influence on progressing Yahoo!’s business as president opened the way for Bartz; Jerry Yang will be reverting back to his founder’s role.
Carol Bartz is the former Autodesk CEO a company that she was at the helm of for 14 years. Being 60 and along with her previous experience in software I’m not convinced that she can turn Yahoo! around to become competitive with Microsoft and Google.
YHOO went down sharply upon hearing the reports showing little confidence in the Yahoo! board’s decision to appoint Carol Bartz.
Published: Tue, 13 January 2009, 13:13, also tagged: energy, technology, internet, google, goog, carbon emissions, green technology
A recent article by The Times of London reported that each search performed on the Google search engine equated to 7 grams of CO2. Most technology related websites clamored to report the statements conjured up by the Times based loosely on a physicist named Alex Wissner-Gross, who asserted that performing two Google searches resulted in the same energy consumption as boiling a kettle to make a cup of tea.
Unfortunately for The Times Alex Wissner-Gross has said he didn't make the statement regarding the boiling of a kettle and that his research was on the topic of energy usage of generalized computing processes such as browsing a web page.
Google themselves debunked the assertion by stating:
Published: Mon, 24 November 2008, 09:43, also tagged: business, technology, msft, internet, microsoft, microsoft live, windows live, google, yahoo, live search, search engines, rumour, hook, bing, live search cashback, kumo
Rumours across technology blogs are speculating that Microsoft may re-brand Microsoft Live Search to Microsoft Kumo, or Kumo Search or just simply “Kumo”. Alternatives considered include “Bing” and “Hook” but “Kumo” is favoured. The word Kumo in Japanese roughly translates to “cloud” or “spider”, both having some relationship with search; “the cloud” often referenced as being a high throughput and high performance architecture suited well to heavy computational tasks such searching billions of web pages and crawling & indexing documents, which is a process performed by software sometimes referred to aptly as a “spider”.
The basis of the rumour comes from Microsoft's acquisition of the kumo.com domain name. Some outlets are reporting that the change is very likely and will happen early 2009 according to a source which is said to be a Microsoft employee.
The rumour begs the question; should Microsoft really be using resources to once again re-brand its search division? I'm not at all convinced that another re-branding attempt will help them gain ground on the current and consistently growing market share Google has amassed. But maybe it's not for Microsoft's search division specifically. This is an highly unlikely scenario; but just maybe “Kumo” will be a re-brand of Yahoo! (upon being acquired) plus Microsoft's existing Live services combined into a single entity.
Published: Mon, 22 September 2008, 09:39, also tagged: business, technology, development, internet, microsoft, programming, wine, windows, software, google, linux, open source, goog, computers and software, operating systems, web browser, google gears, google android, google chrome, gacl
There’s a article on Linux Journal promoting the (bogus) “browser operating system” concept with the acronym GACL – Google Chrome web browser, Google Android development framework, Google Gears offline web browsing toolkit and Linux. Strange isn’t it that Linux, a true operating system is required to run the “browser operating system”. That’s a logical rebuttal against labelling web applications within a browser an OS. The terminology and trend to define web based applications within a browser an operating system is totally flawed. Pseudo programmers and techies make the claim for the simple fact web based applications can adequately emulate the standard features of applications available on real operating systems: word processing, email, presentations, spreadsheets etc.
But anyway, forget that rant. My real issue with this article is the way a Linux publication is so positive about Google’s Linux software.
“You can't play with Chrome on Linux yet, but when Google promises a product on multiple platforms, it generally delivers soon enough. Android phones haven't hit the beach in waves yet either, but count on that too.” – Emphasis mine
Published: Mon, 28 July 2008, 15:04, also tagged: technology, news, development, internet, statistics, graphs, speeple, speeple news, historical data
A graph is now displayed for certain searches which are grouped by day or month. The graphs display the activity over a time period of 100 days or 100 months.
The Speeple News graphs help outline when keywords were popular in the index, normally by showing a spike. This is most visible during sporting and seasonal events along with major world issues.