Google Talk – Is It Really Worth While All the Fuss ?

(Migrated weblog post from LSR) I guess that the rumours are now finally over. And just like I mentioned, not too long after the rumours were growing rather strong, we get to find out that Google releases Google Talk (or GTalk). And by the looks of it almost everybody in the Blogosphere seems to have … Continue reading Google Talk – Is It Really Worth While All the Fuss ?

Social Networking Breaks the Ice – Google Acquires Meetroduction: Not a Happy Ending … Yet

(Migrated weblog post from LSR) Earlier on this week I created a weblog post about the recent rumours of Google potentially acquiring Meetro and it seems like all of those rumours were wrong after all. At least, that is what we can read all over the place on the Internet. Indeed, those rumours may be … Continue reading Social Networking Breaks the Ice – Google Acquires Meetroduction: Not a Happy Ending … Yet

Social Networking Breaks the Ice – Google Acquires Meetroduction

(Migrated weblog post from LSR) Not long ago I wrote a weblog entry where I was sharing my experiences about one of the latest, probably somewhat most interesting IM clients out there that was bringing together IM and location-awareness. That IM client was Meetro and back then I was mentioning that I would be watching … Continue reading Social Networking Breaks the Ice – Google Acquires Meetroduction

Sometimes the World Isn’t Just the US, Is It? – Part Deux

(Migrated weblog post from LSR) I cannot believe this is happening. Again. Really. Some time ago I weblogged about how Google introduced a superb new offering that allowed people to personalise their own homepages, regardless of where they would be working or what machine they would be using, just simply launching the Personalised Home and … Continue reading Sometimes the World Isn’t Just the US, Is It? – Part Deux

IBM Research Turns 60

Earlier on this week you have probably seen an article at CNET to mark the 60th anniversary of the creation of IBM Research. It looks like it was yesterday but it is already 60 years since its creation and still going strong ! And while reading through that news article, along with the discussion over at /., … Continue reading IBM Research Turns 60