Google free Wifi one year on August 28, 2007
Category : Net News, Technology , comments closedGoogle celebrates one years free wifi service in Mountain view California. But it also serves to remind us of what happened with San Francisco, when vested interests and a warning on how a project can be derailed by local government.Perhaps with this is a reminder of the benefits that might arise from Google offering internet over the proposed wireless spectrum license in the US, we can only hope
Finally some good news for Yahoo August 14, 2007
Category : Net News, SEO News for Mobile, Search Engines , comments closedA new study by the University of Michigan's American Customer Satisfaction Index, Yahoo's score in the index rose 3.9 percent over the past year to 79 while Google's score fell 3.7 percent to 78
As for the other search engines/portals, Microsoft's score was up 1.4 percent, Ask's rose 5.6 percent and AOL's dropped 9.5 percent
Browser Wars update: IE7 and Firefox 2.0 at parity in some European states August 13, 2007
Category : Net News, SEO News , comments closed
Xiti, which monitors share of browser across 32 European countries, reports that IE7 and Firefox 2 have, on average, reached parity in terms of site visit share. This compares with a clear advantage to IE7 in the early part of March. There are significant disparities between nation states with 17 of the countries indicating a preference for Firefox.
More significantly for those in enterprise land is the distribution of where Firefox is faring best. Of the most divergent countries, Germany shows 32.7% in favour of Firefox compared with 21% for IE7, Austria shows 26.2/24.2 while Finland shows 38.5/23. The remaining 12 countries that prefer Firefox are all either in the Eastern European area, part of the old Soviet bloc or less developed from a technology perspective.
Google expands online storage
Category : Net News, SEO News for Mobile, Search Engines , comments closedThis new offer merges the storage of different Google products into a single storage back-end. Currently, the Picasa Web Albums as well as Gmail part of the merge. But users can expect more from Google
Google Documents (containing word processing documents, spreadsheets, etc). Premium accounts, like the one Picasa offered before, are being removed in the meantime. Now, if you need more storage for any particular application which is part of the shared storage program, you can buy some. “With a Google shared storage plan, you won’t have to worry about deleting files, pictures, or emails. After purchasing a storage plan, some of your individual Google services (e.g. email and photos) will share a single new storage space,” Google’s page reads.
The offers range from 6 gigabyte for $1 $20/ year up to 250 gigabyte for $500/ year, as the table below shows (your payment will be processed with Google Checkout; note you will not receive the upgrade instantly, and Google says it may take “up to 24 hours" for your new storage amount “to appear in all services”). This storage will be extra to the free storage you already got through different Google services. Especially for those of you for whom Gmail’s “you’ll never need to delete another message” claim was false as the inbox was overflowing, the additional 6 or 25 gigabytes may be worth it.
