Google’s Second $600M Data Center

The spring of 2009 will see the grand opening of a new $600 million data center for Google in Council Bluffs Iowa. News was announced yesterday by Gov. Chet Culver and Google in Council Bluffs. This announcement comes just 6 weeks after an announcement for a $600...

Google Reader and Offline News Reading

In the first week of June Google launched a program called “Google Gears” that expands the already impressive capabilities of Google Reader (Google’s free news reader) to allow offline viewing. Here is a quote from Google’s related blog...

Google Buys Some Extra Computing Power

The details have yet to be released but on June 5th Google reportedly acquired PeakStream Inc.; a firm that appears to specialize in leveraging the power of software on next generation computers. Google is tight-lipped about the actual size of its monolithic computer...

Google Image Features Discovered

Google image searches can be further refined thanks to a hidden feature few knew about – until this week. A blog post by Ionut Alex Chitu has shown that by adding a simple piece of code to the end of your Google image search, can be used to refine the results....

Surface Computing – The Next Big Thing?

In a press release issued by Microsoft Tuesday, the announcement of the first commercially available surface computer was made. Expected to be released late this year, Surface will first appear in places like Casinos and hotels. “With Surface, we are creating more...