Paul Brislen covers Google Goggles, the new Windows Phone 7 & the law commission review in the “wild west” internet.
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Google’s Project 10^100 called for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. From more than 150,000 ideas, five organisations around the world have been selected to receive a share of US$10 million – and one of these is Shweeb, a Kiwi monorail technology company. Peter Cossey from Shweeb joined me to discuss their plans.
Google releases yet another missile to take on it’s competitors, this time the ability to make phone calls from inside Gmail. Also Microsoft have been left red faced after parading near naked models at the recent Tech Ed event in Australia.
New Zealand educational charity Hector’s World has joined with Google to create a new online resource, the Hector’s World “Tech Cave”, which empowers Kiwi children to teach themselves and their communities about technology. Liz Butterfield, Managing Director of Hector’s World and Ishtar Vij from Google Australia and New Zealand joined me to discuss.
Ben attended the Auckland Google Barcamp over the weekend and shares some of the google centric innovations exciting people at the moment.
Paul Brislen talks about the Facebook geo-location announcement ‘Places’, the Wikileaks time bomb and Vodafone going naked.
It’s wars this week with Google being criticised over it’s deal with Verizon in the states and Dell comes out with an iPad alternative.
An amazing medical tech story this week including miniature biosensor that is capable of identifying microbes in a sample within 24 hours. Also what’s Google cooking up to face off against other social networks? Is it Google Me? Finally a story from Kenya where they are planning on registering all mobile phones to cut crime.
The internet giant has announced that the code for Chrome OS will be open sourced in late 2009 and that the software will be free to download and use. Paul speculates on what form the operating system will take and how much of a threat this will be to Microsoft. Also discussed is the WeetBix controversy over at ben.geek.nz. Paul Brislen loves technology – find him at his blog
- Image by Bramus! via Flickr
It is very easy to forget with the omnipresence of the Google search engine that there are other ways to find digital media and information online. MsBehaviour from TheG33kshow.com rounds up some of the cutting edge search tools that can find just what you are looking for. All the show notes are up at theg33kshow.com.
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