Print from any web-enabled device including your smartphone.
As promised, Google (GOOG) is starting to roll out its Cloud Print services to its Gmail clients who want to print an email, document or PDF file to their printers through the internet. The process is pretty straight forward on the client side, (which incidentally includes any device that can read Gmail). It gets much more complicated on the printer side.
First, you'll need to have a PC running Windows (oh the irony!). You'll need to install a special beta version of the Chrome Browser for Windows, which includes some printing proxy software. That may not please your IT guy if you are at work.
Macs and Linux will be supported in the future but at the moment, it works on PCs only. More
Apple, Google, RIM, Microsoft, Nokia, Palm, Linux -- who's in it for the long haul?
Source: Horace Dediu from Canalys data
Two news events -- the imminent arrival of Research in Motion's (RIMM) newest entry and Apple (AAPL) falling behind Google (GOOG) in U.S. market share -- has triggered some interesting long-term thinking about where we are in the battle for smartphone supremacy.
Here's who we've been reading (while we are supposed MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 3, 2010 8:01 AM ET
One chipmaker rules the mobile device arena; the other dominates personal computers. Both have ambitious goals for expansion, and that means butting heads is inevitable
By Seth Weintraub and JP Mangalindan
As Intel's power-hungry chips grow more efficient and ARM CPU designs make strides in performance, the two chipmakers find themselves facing off for market share in a familial safe ground that's become a veritable hot zone brimming with untapped potential and MORE
Jun 8, 2010 2:07 PM ET
Google is phasing out its use of Microsoft's Windows on desktops, citing security concerns stemming from the recent Chinese hacking incident
It must be nice to be a Google employee. You get to work with the smartest engineers out there. You get gourmet cafeteria food and all kinds of amenities. But best of all, you aren't given some generic, locked-down PC that you aren't familiar with. You get to pick what platform you MORE
Seth Weintraub - May 31, 2010 10:30 PM ET
For this to work, HP must fix its tangled approach to mobile software
On its own, Palm failed to mount a real challenge to the iPhone. But if HP acts boldly with Palm's webOS, it has a real chance. Photo: Jon Fortt.
This is either the end of Palm, or the restart it always needed. Either way, it's probably the iconic brand's last chance for survival – and Hewlett-Packard's best chance MORE
Jon Fortt - Apr 28, 2010 8:53 PM ET
Nokia, Microsoft and Linux continue to lose ground in the shift to smarter phones
Source: Gartner, Inc.
A report from Gartner issued Tuesday confirmed the trends reported three weeks earlier by IDC. Both tracking firms are registering a massive shift as users around the world trade in devices designed to make phone calls and send text messages for what are essentially pocket-sized computers.
Gartner recorded a 0.9% drop in cellphone sales for MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 23, 2010 10:44 AM ET
In a special Presidents' Day episode of Techmate, Jon and Michael discuss Intel (INTC) and Nokia's (NOK) strange alliance to develop mobile software and compete with Apple (AAPL) plus the on-going mess at MySpace (NWS)
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Four ways Microsoft will make it increasingly difficult to stick with Windows XP
Enterprise installed base. Source: Forrester
When Microsoft (MSFT) launches Windows 7 next week, its biggest competitor -- especially in the multi-user enterprises that are its target market -- will not be Linux or Apple's (AAPL) Mac OS X, but Windows XP.
Eight years after its launch, and nearly three years after Microsoft began shipping Windows Vista (its putative successor), MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 16, 2009 7:05 AM ET
Fasten your seat belts. There could be some bumpy nights ahead in the IT department.
When the information technology guys discover how painful it can be to upgrade their current PC hardware to Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows 7 -- the successor to the much-maligned Windows Vista -- they may be tempted to switch to Linux or Apple's (AAPL) Mac OS X.
That's the conclusion of the product specialists at CRN's Channel Web -- MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 25, 2009 12:01 PM ET
Microsoft (MSFT) Windows continued its downward drift and Apple's (AAPL) Mac OS X inched up to a record 7.95% in the market share survey issued Tuesday by Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based Net Applications.
The biggest gain, however, was recorded by the open-source operating system Linux, which jumped more than 16% in June -- albeit from a small base -- to hit 0.79%.
The iPhone held steady at 0.16%, reflecting a leveling off of MORE
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