If you’re of a *certain age*, the Muppets were a major part of your entertainment growing up. Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog, Fozzie Bear, Animal… I loved them all – and still do. But mostly Miss Piggy. She was blonde, fearless and didn’t take any crap from anyone. She knew what she wanted, and she wasn’t afraid to karate chop her way into getting it if she had to.
…Facebook Places became active for Irish users. Another way to stalk and be stalked by your nearest and dearest (3,000+) social network ‘friends’. As if there weren’t enough.
…Google opened a web store for its Android market. It’s still not quite there yet though, is it?
…a row broke out between Google and Microsoft over search results on Bing. If you can’t play nicely, kids, don’t play at all.
…Intel found a flaw in its new chips that could cost it up to $1 billion in missed sales and costs to put it right.
In case you missed it, Google has put the foot down on its search engine and ramped up the speed. Google Instant shows results as you type, predicting what you want to search for and displaying the results instantly.
Google and Microsoft are trampling all over each other’s territory lately. If it’s not Microsoft trying to creep up on Google with its search engine Bing, it’s Google offering word processing and other productivity software.
This week, it seems the line between the two has got a whole lot fuzzier. Google is talking about operating systems, and Chrome netbooks. Microsoft is now talking about a web-based version of Office.
Good thing? Bad thing? Competition is usually a good thing but we’ll have to wait and see how these new ventures pan out.
Of all the names it could have come up with, Microsoft has decided to name its search engine Bing. Yes, you read it correctly. As in Chandler, from Friends.
I can’t say it without echoing myself. Microsoft Bing *BING*.
But what’s in a name? I can’t remember back that far, but I’m sure “Google” probably caused a few strange looks. And now it’s part of general speech. We don’t search online, we google it. (more…)
