Jose C Gomez on July 8th, 2009

On July 7 google posted the following on their official blog.
It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or [...]

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Jose C Gomez on April 6th, 2009

On April Fool’s day Google put in an over the top show with CADIE , a cute little panda that stole our hearts. But amongst the things that CADIE showed us may be the real possibility that Google Chrome Plug-ins are coming soon. CADIE in its infinite wisdom, decided that we would be better off [...]

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Jose C Gomez on March 26th, 2009

This may make me sound like I am antiquated and behind the times, and in this aspect you are probably right. Since I started messing with programming quite a few years ago, I’ve tried to make the programs I write as user friendly and as easy to maintain as possible. Recently I have adopted a few [...]

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Jose C Gomez on March 11th, 2009

Facebook has rolled out its new home to a limited number of users. It seems to be doing it in phases like every other company does these days. The changes aren’t very significant. They seem to be wanting to compete with TWITTER because the only new thing they offer is “live streaming” of posts and [...]

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Jose C Gomez on February 19th, 2009

I just finished reading Spanking Shakespeare by Jake Wizner and I must say that this is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. Smart funny and a bit sarcastic. It recounts the story of Shakespeare Shapiro’s last year in high school, a witty senior that is a very talented writer. He [...]

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Jose C Gomez on February 12th, 2009

HAVANA (Reuters) — Cuba launched its own variant of the Linux computer operating system this week in the latest front of the communist island’s battle against what it views as U.S. hegemony. The Cuban variant, called Nova, was introduced at a Havana computer conference on “technological sovereignty” and is central to the Cuban government’s [...]

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Jose C Gomez on January 27th, 2009

Apple granted patent on multi-tuoch devices

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Jose C Gomez on December 31st, 2008

It seems that the Zune 30 Player has committed mass suicide. As of midnight last night several thousands of Zune users report that their device is frozen and non responsive. Microsoft hasn’t issued any statements about it. But my friend has a Zune and he confirms it is dead. RIP Zune, this is why the [...]

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