Pagsira: Tech higante mag-alis ng belo matalino toaster

A smart toaster: the iToaster, Windows Toaster 8, and Google Toast image picture toast
Mansanas, Microsoft, at Google unveiling plano para sa smart toasters. Maghanda – ito ay malaking.

Sa isang lugar sa CALIFORNIA — Sa isang nakamamanghang serye ng mga revelations na naka sa tech mundo sa ulo, ng trio ng tech giants inihayag ng mga plano para sa isang smart toaster. Mansanas, Microsoft, and Google held launch parties this weekend for a series of new devices. Ang matapang na reporter na dinaluhan tatlo.

Natin tingnan.

Sundin ang mga 2012 halalan sa tracker halalan Google Pulitika

tl;Dr -check out Google’s awesome political election tracker

I’m a political junkie, so I’m following this year’s Republican primary process with the fervor with which I, also a baseball fanatic, follow baseballwhich is to say, very much. And the main things in election season to watch out for are the elections themselvesin this year’s case, each state’s primary in which the Republican candidates compete.

These elections are awesome, ngunit upang lubos na masiyahan sa kanila na kailangan kong stats. Kailangan ko resulta. Kailangan ko ng data. Kailangan ko cool na mga graph. Kailangan ko ng mahusay na pampulitika tracker. Kaya tingnan kung ano ang nakita akong:

Google Politics Colorado Primary Result
Tracker Google Pulitika halalan na nagpapakita ng mga resulta ng Colorado pulong ng partido (google.com / elections)

Chrome OS: all web, all the time

As you might have noticed, the guys at Google have released (mahusay, not released, they’ve just publicly shown it for the first time; Chromebooks are coming out on June 15) Chromebooks, which are netbooks that run the Chrome OS.

Chrome OS (official site)

More about the actual computers later; the interesting part about the computer is its operating system. Chrome OS is a completely web-based operating system; it’s nothing but Chrome, Google’s web browser. Tama iyon, the only application on the computer is Chrome.

Bing: ang maliit na engine na… ay hindi maaaring?

Kung nag-bumili ng isang elektronikong aparato sa nakaraang taon, mapapansin mo na ang Microsoft ay hawking higit pa nito Bing search engine kaysa maglako ko ang aking mga produkto. (Sa isang ganap na walang-kaugnayang tala, download Kambing, aking flashcard programa libre at open-source.)

Iyon lang ang mahusay at magandang, dahil pinapayagan ka na mag-advertise, but Microsoft really goes to the extreme:

  1. Microsoft signed a deal with Blackberry so that Bing would be the only search engine available on Blackberrys.
  2. My sister bought a new computer and was offered a free song download if she searched with Bing.

DuckDuckGothe best thing since Google

I was looking on my analytics page (tracking visitors to the site) and noticed someone came to hathix through DuckDuckGo. Being bored, I looked up DuckDuckGo and I was impressed automatically. It’s a great search engine. Here’s why.

Zero-click info

DuckDuckGo’s got this great feature that lets you see some quick background info on a subject when you search it. If I want to know who Nelson Mandela is without having to read a lengthy article about apartheid, South Africa, and that sort of stuff, I can just DDG it and look what I get: