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Out with the old, in with the new. One of the “old” ways of thinking that finally kicked the bucket in 2011? That users could get a free ride on

What's 338 days late between friends? Last year Hexxeh promised ChromiumOS Lime builds "within the next two weeks." Unfortunately, the schedule slipped just a little, and Lime builds didn't come

Puppet Labs announced today that it is receiving $8.5 million in Series C financing from Google Ventures, Cisco and VMware. The new round of financing brings Puppet Labs up to

Google is turning up the heat with its cloud services for the enterprise. Today the company bundled up several announcements ranging from the Cloud SQL service in limited preview to

Google did not make developers happy with its pricing changes to Google App Engine GAE. Google announced the pricing changes in May, but it only implemented a side-by-side comparison with

It's easy being green, if you go with Gmail. So says Google, anyway. The company has published a short report that demonstrates the amount of energy required to serve up

Google has been working on Native Client (aka NaCl), an SDK that brings C/C++ functionality to browsers since at least last year, and now the latest Google Chrome beta

Google has announced that its Google Apps, App Engine, Postini and Google Storage for Developers products have passed the SSAE-16 Type II and ISAE 3402 Type II certifications. Sounds great,

When I got my first smartphone, the original black and white Danger Sidekick, the data plan cost me something like $40 a month for unlimited data plus something like 200

Greg Borenstein takes on what he sees as the dominant view among the elite geeks at FooCamp in a recent blog post. According to Borenstein, the theme embraced at

Today Google announced a new tool for Apps Script, the scripting language for Google Apps: Apps Script GUI Builder. Apps Script lets admins automate tasks and extend the functionality

There were a few updates to Google Docs last week. Discussions, a new feature we covered previously, received some improvements - most notably, the ability to see how many

Yesterday former Google Wave engineer Dhanji R. Prasanna wrote on his blog about why he is leaving the company. It's an interesting look at Google's company culture, but there's

The question is coming up a lot. Google Chromebooks are priced at $20 per month for students and $28 for business. Is that a good deal? It's considered a

The desktop issue is one of the biggest challenges to face the enterprise. Tablets, smartphones, laptops, netbooks and personal computers are all part of the mix. Google's Chromebook for

Google is making a significant investment in the Internet of Things, with everything ranging from toy robots to programmable light bulbs. The news came at Google I/O today. Among

Google App Engine now supports Go, the programming language developed by Google for scaling applications and multi-processor systems. This is one of a number of features in Google App

Google introduced a new way this week for developers to use geospatial data through its Chrome Experiments initiative. The new project is called Web GL Globe, an open visualization platform

Google and Facebook are now some of Intel's biggest customers for server technology, which is significant in a few ways. It shows the fast adoption of Web-based technologies that

We try to tell you everything you need to know about the cloud here every week, but sometimes there's just too much news and analysis for us to give

The number of patent lawsuits related to the Android operating system is unprecedented. Never has an operating system had so many challenges to its intellectual property in such a

This week at SXSW and in the weeks prior to the event, we've seen how APis are becoming ways for providers to wield a level of control that causes

Starting now, Google is rolling out a new commenting system to all Google Docs users except those Google Apps customers who opt-out through the new system we told you

Beer and WordPress go together very well. Beer tastes good and, when enjoyed in a pint glass, it gives a new sense of ways to think about all the

Earlier this week Google released its Google Apps Shell Interface (GASI), an a new way for Google Apps admins to work with the Google Apps APIs without writing code.