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Google Trike and the Street View Team

July 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Google

If you keep a sharp lookout you might catch the Google Street View team driving around a campus near you. This past Wednesday I caught up with the Street View car and the specially modified Google Trike on the campus of Kapiolani Community College. A couple of years ago, the team was here mapping the [...]

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Motorola Droid

December 13th, 2009 · 3 Comments · gadget, Google, iPhone, smartphone

For the past week or so I’ve had the pleasure of using a Motorola Droid courtesy of Verizon Wireless. It’s a loaner so I have to return it shortly. As these are my first impressions, I am going to make the obvious comparisons to the iPhone 3GS which I will admit I am in love [...]

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News Updates for Sept. 2, 2009

September 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · bytemarkscafe, Google, KIPO-FM, web2.0

People have actually stopped me at work asking about the online productivity tools talked about by Susan Jaworowski and Jonathan Wong on this edition of Bytemarks Cafe. They both did a great job of sharing their favorite collaboration and efficiency tools best suited for team activities. It was a full discussion and you can catch [...]

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Vint Cerf @ PTC 2009

January 25th, 2009 · No Comments · disruptive tech, Google, Internet

Vint Cerf, one of the true architects of the Internet during the DARPA years, spoke at the Pacific Telecommunications Conference (PTC) 2009. It’s always inspiring to hear people like Vint speak as they are influential in the development of the Internet. With trusty Xacti in hand, I was able to capture his keynote on Jan. [...]

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Google vs. IT Depts.

April 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments · disruptive tech, Google, work

Now that I work in an good size IT department, articles like these from TechRepublic catch my attention. I’ve been a longtime fan of Google and find myself using them more and more in my personal and small business computing. My Firefox home page is set to iGoogle, I am always on Gmail and get [...]

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