Posts Tagged ‘google’
A week ago I ordered a Push N Go Thomas for my nephew from T J Hughes (Amazon only had the Percy version). The site showed that they had it in stock (unlike some of the other sellers that I’d found on Google Shopping), and I was even willing to bear the somewhat steep P&P […]
Filed under: could_do_better, grumble | 1 Comment
Tags: cancelled, customer service, Froogle, google, online, order, product search, ranking, shopping, T J Hughes
I live in the UK, and I feel like I’ve been waiting for Google Voice for way too long. I also travel frequently to the US, so I could get some use out of the service as it stands and it’s been frustrating that I couldn’t sign up. Disclaimers Google only offers it’s Voice service […]
Filed under: howto, technology | 1 Comment
Tags: google, google voice, IPkall, sip, SIP sorcery, SIPgate, skype, SkypeIn, SkypeToGo, UK, US, Voice, voip
Shortly before digging into the copy of Cognitive Surplus I bought on Google ebooks the other day I read this piece comparing the relative merits of Google, Amazon and Apple’s offerings. One of the areas of the store/reading experience it didn’t touch on was gifting. Since getting my Kindle I don’t really want any more […]
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Tags: amazon, apple, content, DRM, ebook, geography, gift card, gifting, google, Google checkout, iBook, payments, publishing
One of the big tech news items today is the launch of the much anticipated Google eBooks. Sadly the service is only available in the US at the moment, so I thought I’d have a poke around and see what the hurdles were. US Browsing Browsing from my regular connection at home I could only see […]
Filed under: howto, technology | 4 Comments
Tags: Adobe, amazon, Amex, Calibre, convert, Digital Editions, DRM, ebook, epub, google, Google books, kindle, mobi, payments, proxy, UK, US
email like it’s 1995
The old joke There used to be a joke that people who didn’t ‘get it’ would send an email and then call the recipient up to check if it had been received. Now the joke’s on us Now, I am that joke. I think we all are. Email has reached a point where it’s just […]
Filed under: could_do_better, grumble, howto, software | 7 Comments
Tags: bacn, batch, blackberry, business edition, DNS, email, fail, false positive, GABE, GAPE, gapps, google, Google Apps, IP Lock, Postini, premier edition, quarantine, spam, SPF, support
Identity Providers – the rest
This is my fourth and final post in a series looking at how federated identity has broken into the mainstream (I previously looked at Twitter, Google and Facebook). MyOpenID (JanRain) When I first needed an OpenID identity provider (IDP) this was the service that I was pointed to (thanks @psd). From a security perspective there’s […]
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Tags: about.me, cardspace, federation, Flickr, google, Gravatar, identity, identity management, idm, information card, JanRain, Live, login, Microsoft, MyOpenID, OpenID, WordPress, WordPress.com, Yahoo!
Identity Providers – Google
This is my second post in a series looking at how federated identity has becoming a reality (I first looked at Twitter). The user experience The basic premise of federated identity is first you sign into something that you use a lot, and then the platform reuses that sign in to get you into other […]
Filed under: identity | 5 Comments
Tags: federated, federation, gapps, gmail, google, identity, OATH, oauth, OpenID, persona, single sign on, SSO, two factor
SaaS tax trouble
In the last few weeks I’ve had snags with both Skype and Google over billing. I could take this personally – thinking that my bad teclo karma (which must run in the family) is now turning into bad SaaS karma? I suspect though that the problems are much more widespread. Skype I’ve had a Skype […]
Filed under: cloud, could_do_better | Leave a Comment
Tags: billing, cloud, gapps, google, saas, skype, tax, VAT
GDrive
I’ve been a keen user of Gmail since its earliest days, and I also use Google Apps at work, so I’m not surprised by the excitement around the launch of what people are calling ‘GDrive’, which is actually just a new feature of Google Docs that allows arbitrary files to be shared. What is a […]
Filed under: cloud | 2 Comments
Tags: aws, bittorrent, cloud, gapps, gmail, google, s3, SMEstorage, storage
A little while ago I put out a plea for stronger authentication for Google Apps, and it seems that my wish has been granted with Tricipher launching their myOneLogin for Google Apps[1]. I had tried myOneLogin before, and frankly wasn’t too impressed. This time things are different though, the issues I’d seen before with Chrome compatibility and […]
Filed under: identity, security | 2 Comments
Tags: authentication, google, identity, saas, security, strong authentication, tricipher, verisign, vip
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