Google being crafty to push Google Plus

You have to give the folks over at Google credit. They might have been slow out of the blocks launching their social media site Google+, but they’re doing everything they can to make sure it takes off now – and not everyone is pleased about it. On Thursday Google CEO Larry Page laid out his [...] Read more »

Google+ ‘Circles’ its killer new feature?

Aside from a cleaner interface with no games and ads, the differences between Facebook and Google+ are not all that significant. Except for Google’s ‘circles’. Google+ is set up so that when you add ‘friends’ you also assign them to one or more ‘circles’. That means you can categorize people into friends, family, colleagues, people [...] Read more »

Will Usage Based Billing kill Google’s Chrome OS in Canada?

As Google hosts it’s I/O conference this week, I can’t help but watch from Canada and wonder what the future of the Chrome OS will be here. Google appears to be loading the new operating system with innovative new features and functionality that could make it a very useful tool for many Canadians. But it [...] Read more »

Apple, net neutrality, now Starbucks. Is the internet at risk of becoming a vast wilderness where all anyone can see is the view from the highway?

I have to confess, I’ve sometimes lumped the net neutrality folks in with the tinfoil hat crowd. At first I wasn’t convinced net neutrality was really that big of a deal, and even if it was, I generally give corporations more credit than most who comment on these issues online. But now I’m not so [...] Read more »

Is app convergence the next major tech trend?

I stumbled across two, unrelated services that seem to be harbingers of one of the biggest tech trends in the next few years. The first is an app called Digsby that is a handy little tool that looks a lot like a standard instant messenger (IM) interface. What makes it unique is the fact that [...] Read more »