8 July, 2009 - 8:34 am
Tags: chrome, Google, Netbooks, OS
Posted in Computing, Netbooks | No comments
Well, it had to happen eventually. Google have just announced their latest project: Google Chrome OS.
You can’t download it just yet, but we can expect to see products (initially netbooks) running it next year:
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will [...]
Google have just announced the release of SketchUp 7. SketchUp is a wonderfully simple 3D modelling package, often used to populate Google Earth with 3D models of famous buildings. SketchUp Pro is the paid-for ‘grown up’ version of SketchUp, allowing, amongst a range of features, 3D export of models in a variety of formats.
The free [...]
The latest Dreamhost newsletter popped into my inbox yesterday, and amongst all the dry humour was a notice that they are giving all customers a 50GB of free space to use for personal backups. Although technically I have access to over 350GB of storage, their storage terms and conditions forbid its use for anything other [...]
Ars Technica reports that Google can now produce 30% of their peak demand power through their new installation of 9,212 solar panels. It can produce up to 1.6MW of green electricity, which is rather impressive.
Along with their other environmental efforts, it looks like they are committed to compensating for the vast amounts of electricity (and [...]
27 March, 2007 - 10:17 am
Tags: api, georss, Google, googlemaps, kml
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Google has just announced that the Google Maps API now supports GeoRSS and KML. This is going to make the creation of Google Maps applications so much easier, given that Google Earth exports KML, and GeoRSS is becoming more widely used.
They seem to have made some efficiency tweaks too, as a few examples that I’ve [...]
GigaOM reports that more evidence is turning up that Google are developing their own metaverse, i.e. a virtual 3D world like Second Life.
Google themselves have said nothing about it themselves, so this is pure rumour/wishful thinking.
What with Google’s acquisition of SketchUp and Keyhole which demonstrates their keenness in 3D, it wouldn’t surprise me if [...]
