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Raw Bytes Computer News KPBX FM 91.1 Radio National Public Radio Network Frank Delaney Producer Broadcast on Wednesday Morning 7:35 AM During Morning Edition Support Public Radio ! The Theater Of the Mind |
In computer news this week 09/10/2008 The hidden agenda behind
Google’s new Chrome web browser... Last week
Google introduced their new web browser which they named Chrome. As a browser
it has a very simplified look which you may or may not like,
and it presents its findings in little postage stamp sized windows similar to
the new Cuil search engine I reviewed
recently. Using Chrome you can
type your search words into either the traditional URL box or into the search
window box:
And it
works ok and it’s free. But the real story here is what Chrome is
intended to do, which gets into the elaborate concept of the buzzwords Web
2.0, Cloud Computing , SAAS, HAAS, and the real reason for Chrome, Google
Apps I found a
couple youtube videos which give very good overviews of these concepts which
I have links to on my Raw Bytes website, by English computer scientist Chris Barnatt: Cloud
Computing Overview Web 2.0
But the
agenda behind Google’s chrome browser is to have people stay safely and
exclusively in Google’s hands both for their web surfing –
supplied by Chrome – and in their regular daily computing –
provided by Google apps. Web 2.0
is the concept of using the internet as a better platform for business and
social operations, evidenced by all the social networks like Facebook, and
the emerging online business platforms like Google apps. Cloud
computing is a buzzword you might have heard lately – it means that all
your computing resources are “up in the clouds” or online, and
you can compute from anywhere using a minimal pc or even a Cellphone to
access your email, calendar, and business applications like word processing
and spreadsheets. Your data and application software is all online, and so is
your hardware that makes everything happen. SAAS
means Software as a service – meaning you pay for the service –
you don’t buy the software. Google apps is an example of SAAS. You
just use their software; you don’t buy it. You don’t have to buy
Application software. HAAS means
the same thing related to hardware – you don’t buy the hardware.
An example of this is Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, where you can buy
as a service the computer power your enterprise needs. And Google offers a
similar service. All your
computer resources are located on an online server – your online cloud,
not on your local pc or on your local network. You actually don’t have
to buy expensive pc’s, networks, file servers,
or technical staff. There are now cloud computing devices emerging –
such as the Everex
Cloud Book – a $ 399 notebook with internal storage running the
Rocket operating system. But wait –
we haven’t used the M word in this entire transcript, and if you notice
-this cloud concept totally eliminates Microsoft from the equation, as well
as hardware vendors such as Dell and HP. Next week
on Raw Bytes I’ll talk about the dark and stormy side of cloud
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