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Smartphone Web Apps: No Network – No Productivity
Feb 21st
Even our gracefully fast cellular internet connections in Japan still present one significant roadblock to accessing data through web-based applications: No network – No productivity.
Can a web-app ever replace a native smartphone app? Not likely without significant enhancements in cellular and Wi-Fi infrastructure.
Take Google Apps for example. We all know that Google is a heavy pusher of their web-based applications. With tools like Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar and that OS-killing Chrome, Google in fact does a great job rolling out it’s web app offerings.
Unfortunately though, Google has a hard time pushing the majority of its web apps without a continuously live internet connection.
WolframAlpha – Ambitious, But Not Google
Aug 4th
Back in May 2009, Stephen Wolfram launched an ambitious effort that seemed likely to re-carve the landscape of internet search — www.WolframAlpha.com. Stephen’s project provides precise [and sometimes amusing] answers to what seems to be nearly every category under the scientific sun.
With Statistics, Physics, Geography, Medicine and Nutrition to name just a few, WolframAlpha search is unequivocally a stellar scientific tool. Using it though [for everyday search] is like walking into a physics class to find a recipe on how to make meatballs.
Does U.S. Mobile Carrier AT&T Rule All App Store Applications?
Aug 1st
Earlier this week the internet was abuzz over Apple rejecting the official Google Voice (GV) iPhone app. This story was quickly followed by Apple removing every GV-enabled app already available in the App Store. The official GV app and all previously approved GV-enabled applications appear to have been removed from all international App Stores. Based on many accounts, the culprit behind this dastardly deed is none other than AT&T. Does this mean that AT&T, the U.S. mobile carrier, has veto authority across all U.S. and international App Store applications?
Chrome OS – Google Gorilla To Eat Microsoft’s Breakfast
Jul 9th
Heads up Balmer, The boys at Google are on the hunt. Larry and Sergey are planning a strategic strike at the heart of Microsoft’s flagship product, Windows.
In a recent announcement on The Official Google Blog, Google says they are ramping up a new hopeful in the OS market — Chrome OS.
If Chrome OS runs with speeds anything like Google Chrome (the browser), then Microsoft is staring up the nose of a 300-pound gorilla.
Where is the Push Gmail for Mobile Users?
Jun 25th
Being addicted to Google and Apple products is not always the easiest fetish to fulfill. Although both companies are close business partners in some respects, their products do not always interoperate to the degree consumers desire.
Searching For Results: A Comparison of Search Engines
Jun 24th
The release of Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing on June 3 was relatively quiet compared to the hype that surrounded such events like the WWDC. Surprisingly, however, Bing’s progress has been closely monitored and commented on, and the internet inundated by tech blogs reviewing the three giants. Not to be left out, TechMiso is joining the fray with it’s very own review performed by someone whose job it is to regularly scour the internet for information that doesn’t always seem to be there. Trust me, it’s sort of like mining for gold.
Google Chromium for Mac OS X First Impressions
May 16th
Are you a Mac OS X user dying to get your dirty little hands on a working copy of Google Chrome for Mac because of all the hype surrounding the Windows version of the browser? No need to wait any longer as nightly test builds of Chromium are available to anyone interested in test driving the early developmental releases of the browser. The TechMiso Soup Chefs took Chromium for a spin and here’s what we found about this highly anticipated project.
Byline, Native iPhone RSS Reader, Reviewed and Dissected
Apr 29th
If you are like most of us Miso Soupheads then chances are you double as both a Google and Apple aficionado and are all over Google Reader on your iPhone. While the Google Reader web interface is pretty snazzy in Mobile Safari it does not compare to accessing web-based services from within a native iPhone app. This is where Byline by Phantom Fish comes in to play – it’s a native iPhone RSS reader designed to synchronize with Google Reader – and it is just what the doctor ordered!
Aggregators In The Crosshairs – Again
Apr 14th
In the land of lawless content aggregators — where it appears legal to abscond with web news and repackage it as your own — endgame may have come for these internet outlaws. They may be singing their final songs.
Associated Press decided to stand its ground and is ready to set industry precedence [again] for the second time in three years. AP Chairman Dean Singleton said in an AP news release,
We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under misguided legal theories.
Google Street View, Angry Villagers And Cheating Spouses
Apr 6th
Google Street View incidents have already hit the web from a lot of directions, but these follies are still a great subject for some opinionated TechMiso seasoning. So here it goes–
…angry residents in Milton Keynes blocked the driver of a Google Street View car when he started taking photographs of their homes.
A troubling response from residents of the affluent type.
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