Huh? How so? Other than their search engine, and android, google doesn't have much of anything that's especially popular. And neither of those are monopolies, or lead to any sort of vendor lock-in.
If you want to get a in wad about a software company "taking over" should you not be more concerned about a company that was convicted of abusive monopolistic practices.
I don't see google patent trolling, or astroturfing.
Isn't is obvious by now? All of the sudden there is a flood of alarmist articles about google. And practically of it turns out to be BS. We have seen this sort of thing before, and we all know who is behind it.
According to this, Google might have started building a Skype alternative a year ago.
May 18, 2010
Google announced today that it has made a cash offer to acquire Global IP Solutions (GIPS).
A leader in the real-time VoIP processing space for both voice and video, GIPS doesn’t have any consumer-facing products; instead, it provides services that work on the backend for products like Yahoo! Messenger, Citrix and WebEx.
This is an interesting acquisition for Google, who already has a number of consumer products that could benefit from GIPS technologies. Not only does GIPS provide voice processing for VoIP calls that could potentially improve gTalk and Google Voice, GIPS also has a large focus on real-time video transmissions, both on the client and mobile side.
Our first thought when looking at this announcement was that Google could provide some really formidable competition to Skype.
The US IT career field is getting offshored, and inshored, to death. The few jobs that cannot be offshored, and being given to visa workers, as US workers train their H1B replacements.
Please see the hdnet, Dan Rather report: "No Thanks for Everything." I think they took it off youtube, but you can still get it from iTunes.
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has put the wheels in motion for federal IT reform, throwing his weight behind open government, cloud computing, data center consolidation, rigorous project management, and improved customer service. Now that Kundra has announced plans to leave his position in August, the trick will be to keep the momentum behind what he started.
As I remember, Kundra was considered a complete fraud. He had no worthwhile credentials. He never did anything worthwhile. He was even caught shop-lifting. He was only appointed because Obama was obeying India.
But that does not stop Informationweek from sucking up to Kundra: "Oh how will live without such an extraordinary talent! How can he leave when we so desperately need the best and brightest in DC!? How awful to such amazing "progress" stall."
Slashdot has categories for everything else. As I write this, there are, at least, two articles that are career related. And why not? Careers are an important of "news for nerds, stuff that matters."
Major companies do this, securely, all the time. As another poster pointed out, take a look at salesforce customers.
Are local admins still needed? I could show you several brokerage houses that do not have an on-site IT staff. They just contract with Dell or HP for their desktop support.
Yes, I think it's fair to say that this is changing IT. Not that long ago, the accounting, payroll, etc. were on a machine within the facility, and everybody who worked on the system worked at that facility. Now the company is California, the servers are in Nevada, and the developers are in India.
A "private cloud" is an internet site that is not open to the general public. For example, I work for the DoD. When Airman Pike, in Korea, wants to check his personnel records, he goes to - what might be called - a "private cloud." The internet servers are owned and operated by the DoD, and only open to DoD personnel. The servers are located here in the USA, in a secure facility on a military base, but they can be accessed, securely, from anywhere in the world.
It is a perfectly sensible way of doing things, and not hard to understand at all.
This reminds me of standard oil making deals with railroads, to not carry oil for companies that competed with standard oil, or to charge those other companies much more.
As I understand it, these actions by the old robber barons brought about the Clayton Act, and the Sherman Act.
So why are the new robber barons allowed to get away with such abusive, anti-competitive actions?
I bought a 24" monitor a few years back for $170, and a 23" last black frideay for $109. Why fuss about such a minor expense? If two monitors make developers 1% more producrtive, or just make developers feel "pampered" then why not?
I'll bet the public does not know about 90% of the security disasters that have already been caused by offshoring IT. Even the huge disasters that have been disclosed get very little attention in the pop-media.
Do other search engines do the same thing? Or similar things? Why is google being singled out for doing something that other search engines were doing before google existed?
If I get email for a bogus product, is the email carrier responsible? If I use paper to print out ads for a bogus product, is the paper manufacturer responsible?
Smart Americans would have to be stupid to study for a STEM career. That stuff is being offshored/inshored to death. Foreign workers are cheaper, that's all there is to it. Who wants to compete with 3rd world wages? US STEM jobs today, are going the way of US manufacturing jobs in the 1980s.
The US technology edge will go away. It's the only scenario that makes sense.
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I wouldn't write facebook's obituary just yet.
Google already has a social networking site, Orkut. Google had several other social networking attempts.
For whatever reason, facebook is the social networking site that has caught on. IMO: few facebook users will find a compelling reason to switch.
I don't get the great appeal of facebook myself, but I see no reason to write off facebook just yet.
Google is taking over the world.
Huh? How so? Other than their search engine, and android, google doesn't have much of anything that's especially popular. And neither of those are monopolies, or lead to any sort of vendor lock-in.
If you want to get a in wad about a software company "taking over" should you not be more concerned about a company that was convicted of abusive monopolistic practices.
I don't see google patent trolling, or astroturfing.
Are you accusing google of being evil in this matter? If so, why?
Isn't is obvious by now? All of the sudden there is a flood of alarmist articles about google. And practically of it turns out to be BS. We have seen this sort of thing before, and we all know who is behind it.
According to this, Google might have started building a Skype alternative a year ago.
May 18, 2010
Google announced today that it has made a cash offer to acquire Global IP Solutions (GIPS).
A leader in the real-time VoIP processing space for both voice and video, GIPS doesn’t have any consumer-facing products; instead, it provides services that work on the backend for products like Yahoo! Messenger, Citrix and WebEx.
This is an interesting acquisition for Google, who already has a number of consumer products that could benefit from GIPS technologies. Not only does GIPS provide voice processing for VoIP calls that could potentially improve gTalk and Google Voice, GIPS also has a large focus on real-time video transmissions, both on the client and mobile side.
Our first thought when looking at this announcement was that Google could provide some really formidable competition to Skype.
http://mashable.com/2010/05/18/google-acquires-global-ip-solutions/
it may be legal, but it's wrong.
Isn't that Microsoft's entire business model?
The US IT career field is getting offshored, and inshored, to death. The few jobs that cannot be offshored, and being given to visa workers, as US workers train their H1B replacements.
Please see the hdnet, Dan Rather report: "No Thanks for Everything." I think they took it off youtube, but you can still get it from iTunes.
As Fed CIO Kundra Departs, Will Progress Stall?
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has put the wheels in motion for federal IT reform, throwing his weight behind open government, cloud computing, data center consolidation, rigorous project management, and improved customer service. Now that Kundra has announced plans to leave his position in August, the trick will be to keep the momentum behind what he started.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/leadership/230800088
As I remember, Kundra was considered a complete fraud. He had no worthwhile credentials. He never did anything worthwhile. He was even caught shop-lifting. He was only appointed because Obama was obeying India.
But that does not stop Informationweek from sucking up to Kundra: "Oh how will live without such an extraordinary talent! How can he leave when we so desperately need the best and brightest in DC!? How awful to such amazing "progress" stall."
Slashdot has categories for everything else. As I write this, there are, at least, two articles that are career related. And why not? Careers are an important of "news for nerds, stuff that matters."
Vilifying the Chinese government is either corporate policy, or the individual policy of Google employees
Maybe the Chinese government deserves to be vilified? Maybe the Chinese government really is guilty of atrocities heaped upon atrocities?
I'm sure standard oil only "asked." Sort of like an extortionist only asks for protection money.
I think there is more to it than that. I think conspiring with other companies in order destroy the competion is a different matter.
Major companies do this, securely, all the time. As another poster pointed out, take a look at salesforce customers.
Are local admins still needed? I could show you several brokerage houses that do not have an on-site IT staff. They just contract with Dell or HP for their desktop support.
Yes, I think it's fair to say that this is changing IT. Not that long ago, the accounting, payroll, etc. were on a machine within the facility, and everybody who worked on the system worked at that facility. Now the company is California, the servers are in Nevada, and the developers are in India.
Can you really not figure it out? Really?
A "private cloud" is an internet site that is not open to the general public. For example, I work for the DoD. When Airman Pike, in Korea, wants to check his personnel records, he goes to - what might be called - a "private cloud." The internet servers are owned and operated by the DoD, and only open to DoD personnel. The servers are located here in the USA, in a secure facility on a military base, but they can be accessed, securely, from anywhere in the world.
It is a perfectly sensible way of doing things, and not hard to understand at all.
At least somebody here has some concept of reality.
This reminds me of standard oil making deals with railroads, to not carry oil for companies that competed with standard oil, or to charge those other companies much more.
As I understand it, these actions by the old robber barons brought about the Clayton Act, and the Sherman Act.
So why are the new robber barons allowed to get away with such abusive, anti-competitive actions?
What should a "tablet" look like? A tire iron?
I can easilly tell the difference between a galaxy, and an ipad, with my eyes closed.
A Galaxy and an iPad look nothing alike. Anybody can tell the difference with their eyes closed.
http://www.techchee.com/2010/06/04/samsung-galaxy-tab-tablet/
When organized labor goes on strike, it stops production. Sometimes actual damage is done.
Yet, those guys are considered heros for the working people.
So why is it, when a techie does something similar, the reaction is total to completely freakout and over-react?
Haters are gonna Hate. That's just what they do.
By "haters" do you mean people who hate being scammed by Microsoft?
I bought a 24" monitor a few years back for $170, and a 23" last black frideay for $109. Why fuss about such a minor expense? If two monitors make developers 1% more producrtive, or just make developers feel "pampered" then why not?
I'll bet the public does not know about 90% of the security disasters that have already been caused by offshoring IT. Even the huge disasters that have been disclosed get very little attention in the pop-media.
Not difficult to save the youtube videos into mp3s. Or just buy from gomusic.ru for $0.09 a song.
The RIAA is just an extortionist racket. They deserve to be punished.
Do other search engines do the same thing? Or similar things? Why is google being singled out for doing something that other search engines were doing before google existed?
If I get email for a bogus product, is the email carrier responsible? If I use paper to print out ads for a bogus product, is the paper manufacturer responsible?
Smart Americans would have to be stupid to study for a STEM career. That stuff is being offshored/inshored to death. Foreign workers are cheaper, that's all there is to it. Who wants to compete with 3rd world wages? US STEM jobs today, are going the way of US manufacturing jobs in the 1980s.
The US technology edge will go away. It's the only scenario that makes sense.