Gizmo Ave

Borislav Agapiev has $50,000 in computer hardware, 25 engineers in his native Serbia and a firm belief that millions of people will lend him their computers and privacy for the purpose of searching the web. That’s enough to take on Google. “Not only will we be very fresh, but we’ll also be very high quality,” [...]

Tuesday saw the debut of Google Buzz, a new service for sharing status updates, links and media with your friends. It’s currently being rolled out to the public slowly — you can sign up at buzz.google.com — but we’ve had access to Buzz since shortly after it launched, and I’ve had a chance to play [...]

Google’s Chrome Web browser has hit version 3.0, albeit it in beta. The update comes with some much-wanted functionality: themes and browser skinning, more control over the home screen and its ‘speed dial’ bookmarks, and even faster performance. Speed is central to Chrome’s manifesto. As more and more sites rely on large amounts of Ajax [...]

Gesture-recognition technology, such as that seen in Project Natal, has changed the face of gaming, but Microsoft’s Craig Mundie (pictured) believes it will also transform the office. In a demo at Microsoft’s financial analyst meeting in Redmond, Washington, the company’s top research and strategy officer showed how the desktop computer of the future will use [...]

Redmond (WA) – Microsoft confirmed that it will in fact give out a few free copies of Windows 7 Ultimate, when the software becomes available. However, the offer will be limited to a certain group of beta testers.

Microsoft is on a roll with its new (and free, to boot!) security service known as Morro, where it will debut sometime in the second half of 2009. Hopefully Morro will be a much better effort compared to the failure that was Live OneCare. It will be interested to see how Symantec and McAfee will [...]

I’m not the biggest “download the source and compile” person out there, but if you are, you may have been following Google’s ongoing browser experiment as it rockets through release numbers. It’s not exactly available for macs just yet, but you can compile it and make it go as a sort of pre-Alpha program. It [...]