Google Google Introduces Better Word and PowerPoint Previews for Google Docs Mobile Just last week, Google introduced better Microsoft Word previews for the desktop version of Gmail. Today, Google also launched a similar feature for the mobile version of Google Docs, the company's online office suite. Now, Android, iPhone and iPad users can see high-fidelity previews of their Word, PowerPoint and PDF documents right in their… Mobile Frederic Lardinois View comments
Government Supreme Court: Software is Patentable... Sometimes A decision has finally been reached in the Bilski case, a pivotal patent law case that has been in the appeals process since 2008. According to TechDirt, the Supreme Court narrowly ruled that Bilski's specific patent was invalid while supporting the Federal Circuit's "machine-or-transformation" test. The key question in the Bilski case was whether… Mike Melanson View comments
Announcements White Label Cloud Servers with ElasticStack The cloud provider ElasticHosts announced today the launch of the ElasticStack, a platform that allows hosting providers and data centers to offer their own branded cloud servers. ElasticStack is a turnkey solution which enables service providers to offer cloud server capacity for scalable web hosting and on-demand burst computing. As the web… Audrey Watters View comments
News Facebook Snags the Guy Who Built Google's Chrome OS The battle between Facebook and Google just got even hotter with the news that the social network has hired Matthew Papakipos, the man who started and lead both the Google Chrome OS project and the Chrome WebGL GPU hardware project for hardware-accelerated graphics. Both projects "are in good shape," Papakipos said in a Tweet this morning, so he's… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Apple iPhone 4: Pros & Cons After a Weekend of Tinkering A lot of speculation was dished out leading up to the launch of the latest iteration of the iPhone, and plenty more has followed since it has started landing in the hands of early adopters. I was one of the lucky few that managed to secure a pre-ordered phone, but wasn't able to get it shipped to my home. Instead, I woke up and the crack of dawn… Chris Cameron View comments