Asus Eee Transformer – the ideal compromise?

by Colman Carpenter | Jun 15, 2011 | Google, News, Open Source, Review

Four Lakes HQ has a new baby – the Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF101. A bit of a mouthful that, and I’m sure it’ll be shortened at some point. For now though it’s all new and shiny, and it remains to be seen if it will be the useful addition to...

IE6 RIP

by Colman Carpenter | Feb 3, 2010 | Google, Microsoft, News, Websites

If you know anything about web design, then you will know that one of the major bugbears of any web designer is coping with the multitude of browsers that proliferate on t’internet. There are 4 or 5 major players, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla...

Google Nexus One

by Colman Carpenter | Jan 6, 2010 | Google, News

On Jan 5th, Google announced it’s first piece of hardware, the Nexus One phone. This is a pretty momentous event, being Google’s first foray into producing something physical that you can hold in the palm of your hand. In essence, this positions Google as...

Google wants to know everything about you

by Colman Carpenter | Dec 6, 2009 | Google, News, Open Source, Websites

Yesterday, Google announced a new service, somewhat out of the blue. I’m referring, of course, to Google Public DNS, which for the majority of the world’s computer users will undoubtedly be met with overwhelming indifference. And yet, this is a pretty...

Next stop, Google Universe?

by Colman Carpenter | Nov 24, 2009 | Google, Social Software

So the Google Chrome OS has peeked it’s slimline visage over the parapet, at last. It’s very early days yet, and can only be described as an Alpha build given Google’s propensity for running mainline services in Beta form for, in some cases –...

Hero worship

by Colman Carpenter | Oct 20, 2009 | Google, Mobile, News, Open Source, Social Software, Telephony

So, a month ago I blogged about how an Android phone might be the best mobile email option for SME’s, and stated my intention to obtain an Android handset, specifically a HTC Hero, so that I could give you the low-down on whether or not the promise is fulfilled....