Daily Digest 09/09/2008

• Apple Is What Microsoft Was – Bigfoot

  Apple is looking like what Microsoft was 10 years ago—a Bigfoot that squeezes smaller competitors.

  tags: getanewbrowser, apple, microsoft

• New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper

  Plastic Logic will introduce publicly on Monday its version of an electronic newspaper reader: a lightweight plastic screen that mimics the look — but not the feel — of a printed newspaper.

  The device, which is unnamed, uses the same technology as the Sony eReader and Amazon.com’s Kindle, a highly legible black-and-white display developed by the E Ink Corporation. While both of those devices are intended primarily as book readers, Plastic Logic’s device, which will be shown at an emerging technology trade show in San Diego, has a screen more than twice as large. The size of a piece of copier paper, it can be continually updated via a wireless link, and can store and display hundreds of pages of newspapers, books and documents.

  tags: getanewbrowser, newspaper, media, gadgets

• Ten years of Google

  A decade ago, two graduate students from Stanford University in California sat in a Burger King, having breakfast. Larry Page and Sergey Brin were celebrating, albeit frugally: their plan to turn a novel technique for mapping the internet into a business had attracted its first $100,000 of funding. The payee’s name on the cheque – the name of the company they would formally found on September 7, 1998 – had been agreed that morning: “Google, Inc”.

  tags: getanewbrowser, google

• Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum

  Google is pondering a floating data center that could be powered and cooled by the ocean. These offshore data centers could sit 3 to 7 miles offshore and reside in about 50 to 70 meters of water.

  tags: getanewbrowser, google, datacenter

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