Steve Bryant

I have never seen a more beautiful phone than Apple’s iPhone. I mean, wow. And I’m not the kind of person to get all teary-eyed over gadgets. The good news for Google fans is that Google Maps and Search will be available on the iPhone. Google doesn’t have an exclusive relationship with Apple, however, even […]

Another day, another lawsuit. This one comes from Fenner Investments, a Texas-based corporation, which on Friday Jan. 5 sued Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, alleging the companies were infringing on a patent for a low-voltage joystick port interface. Fenner claims (download the lawsuit here) that each company is infringing on patent 6,297,751, which describes a low-voltage […]

Update: Looks like this rumor was off the mark. Google released a new version of SketchUp today, and that version is compatible with Macs, which in turn makes it compatible with the new iPhone that Apple released, but that’s about it. This one is totally out of left field, but I’ve heard through the grapevine […]

After seeing the nifty little trends tool for Google Reader, I decided (again) to export all my Bloglines subs and make the switch. And while I know that the oft-maligned Reader has been the subject of numerous critiques and suggestions, I thought I’d add my two cents on things I’d like to see improved. Overall, […]

MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab recently provided 10 laptops equipped to Fiji elementary schools. The funds for the project were provided by a grant from Google. The laptops, which were provided to every elementary school in Fiji’s rural Taveuni district, are Lenovo Thinkpad R52s running Edubuntu, a Debian GNU/Linux-derived OS made especially for […]

Google announced today that the Google Search Appliance now gives customers the ability to customize SERPs for their unique corporate environments. New features: Results hit clustering — Basically sounds like a disambiguation tool that functions like drop-down boxes on specific Google searches. Google: “if an employee searches for “customer” on the company network, a set […]

Wow, this is cool, and it’s going to finally get me to change over to Google Reader for good. The Google Reader team has just implemented a Reader “trends” page that tracks, as Steve Rubel says, personal attention metadata. Googler Matt Cutts shared his stats, as did Scoble. Seeing all those stats is cool, and […]

LeeAnn Prescott at Hitwise reports that traffic to Google Calendar recently surpassed MSN Calendar and is set to surpass Yahoo Calendar in the next few weeks or months. Google Calendar’s traffic has grown 333 percent since April 2006. But what’s most interesting about Prescott’s numbers is the fact that most MSN and Yahoo Calendar users […]

I didn’t have a chance yesterday to find the Intertainer v. Google, Apple and Napster lawsuit, but I ran across it this morning and thought you might be want to take a look at the original complaint. The news article about the lawsuit is here. Some of the salient points that may have been glossed […]

I don’t usually post about this stuff. But, since I’m just getting back into the swing of things in 2007, and since I just happened to be on the Google jobs page, I noticed that the deadline for the Anita Borg scholarship is January 15, 2007. According to Google, candidates must: be entering their senior […]

I’ve been out of the loop all this week and last, so please forgive me if this post reiterates what has been said around the Web in the last few days. I’m just trying to organize my thoughts about several events: Google places ads for its products beneath search results Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales will launch […]

Well it’s a happy new year, and I’ve got two reasons to thank Mr. Matt Cutts: The name check on his traffic stats roundup. Pointing me to this post on the technology and marketing law blog, which says Bradley v. Google has been terminated. I wrote a bit about Theresa Bradley’s lawsuit against Google last […]