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Mobile Trends 2020 | Project Glass – Google’s Augmented Reality Glasses

Source: Project Glass G+ page Back in January of 2010, Mobilist Rudy de Waele asked a number of us to predict the Mobile Trends for the decade of 2010-2020. The result of this was a great compendium of views on things to come…

The Atlassian 10 commandments for startups.

An excellent, must see presentation by Scott Farquhar, Co-Founder and CEO of Atlassian. I’ve been using different Atlassian tools over the years now, and it is great to see their story, their success, and their 10 commandments for startups. Start with Two (founders…

Google enters the space program

The title of this post, Google enters the space program, is a prediction… I had this realization, that Google will enter the space program in ways beyond the Google Lunar X PRIZE or similar. Google will enter the commercial space program. Google’s entrance…

Android Developer Lab’s Tour

Folks, just got an email from Google about their upcoming Android Developer Lab’s tour. Very cool and Austin is the 1st city in the tour on Feb 4, 2010. Registration deadline for currently open sessions is February 1st. The Lab will expose attendees…

Google 10 years anniversary — Happy Birthday!

I remember 10 years ago, 1998, or maybe closer to 1999, I was working at Pervasive Software working with a great group of folks, building an embedded DB for mobile, embedded devices, and smart-cards; a cool project with great people that was ahead…

Great tools for developers: Google Charts and Visualization APIs

Google continues to release very cool, functional, and more importantly, useful APIs. They have introduced a new Visualization API, and updated their Charts API. The updates to Google Chart include three new charts (Sparklines, Radar, and Map) and a more flexible usage policy:…

Former contractor sues Google for $25m

A former contractor sues Google for $25m, claiming Google stole his idea for Google Sky. The contractor claims that he got the idea and wrote about it in an internal Google Groups email discussion group back in 2006. I am sure Google is…

Google Chart API

Very, very neat AND useful… Check out the Google Chart API. See the announcement at the Google Code Blog – Embed charts in webpages with one of our simplest APIs yet. ceo [Via Jeremy Zawodny’s blog]

Explore the sky with Google Earth – Google Sky

Two years after I wrote about how cool it would be to have a Google Sky, Google has introduced that exact product, as an extension to Google Earth. Pretty neat. See Explore the sky with Google Earth.

Some impressive IT numbers (Google)

Says Martin Reynolds, VP at Gartner: “Google is building out IT infrastructure at a rate that is simply unbelievable. Last year Google spent $2 billion on IT infrastructure and plans to spend $3 billion this year… compared with about $600 million by rivals…