Online Computer Blog

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  Touchdown! Google’s Top Super Bowl Searches
  What were we looking for online while we watched the game (and the ads)? You may be surprised.




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  Google’s ‘Social’ Gmail: Could It Really Work?
  Google is preparing to unveil a new social networking component for Gmail, according to reports published Monday. Could such a feature succeed?




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  Apple to Remain ‘Nimble’ on iPad Pricing
  Apple indicates that it’s not against cutting prices for the iPad if initial sales are less than stellar.




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  iPad Interest Evaporates, But Math is Fuzzy
  Apple’s iPad has piqued public interest — but not convinced many folks to buy one, according to a new study. But do the study’s numbers really add up?

quaith writes “Quinn Dombrowski, a member of the University of Chicago’s central IT staff, has been recording the graffiti left in the Joseph Regenstein Library Since September 2007. To date she has photographed and transcribed over 620 pieces of graffiti; over 410 of them are datable to within a week of their creation. She has now published in Inkling Magazine a statistical analysis of the entire graffiti collection covering such subjects as love, hate, despair, sex, anatomy, and temporal fluctuations of each of these. After November, both love and despair graffiti drop off significantly until spring, while sex graffiti reaches its one and only peak in December before declining for the rest of the school year. The story includes links to all of the original graffiti photos, which the researcher has made freely available to use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.”

While Windows Mobile users were always been able to watch live TV over AT&T’s 3G network, accessing their Slingbox by using Sling Media’s SlingPlayer Mobile , iPhone users weren’t able to do the same because AT&T said that such a bandwidth-intensive video service would overwhelm the 3G network.

Less than one week on from the Apple iPad launch, and a set of intriguing photos of a similar device running Google’s Chrome OS has surfaced on the influential technology blog TechCrunch.

These appear to be very realistic mockups of a device that may be under development by Google, or by a third party, since Google’s Chrome operating system will be available to one and all.

The big question, of course, is will it be an iPad killer?

One of the charges most frequently levelled at the as yet unreleased Apple tablet is that it offers a closed system, and will not run third-party applications that don’t come in the form of apps from the App Store.

The Google machine in these pictures runs the iPad close for looks, and if Google keeps the OS open, it could, in the words of one commentator, “stomp all over Apple”.

Is this more like the machine we’ve been waiting for?