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Google Presentation Goes Live - September 18, 2007

Google’s long awaited web-based PowerPoint-like application finally went live this morning. Google Presentation, as it is called, is their latest addition to the Google Docs family. Starting today, anyone in the United States will have the ability to upload, create, share, edit and view presentations online. Google Presentation also includes collaborative tools allowing multiple users [...]

Tags: browser, free, google, office, presentations, spreadsheets, united states, word

Google Lunar X PRIZE - $30 Million - September 13, 2007

Earlier today, Google and X PRIZE announced the “Google Lunar X PRIZE,” a race to the Moon to win a $30 million prize. The same foundation, Ansari X PRIZE, offered $10 million for the first non-government manned spacecraft to enter space in 2004. That project was won in October of 2004 by Tier One using [...]

Tags: google, hd, images, moon, space, videos

New iPod Nano, Classic, & Touch! - September 5, 2007

Earlier today (September 5th) at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs introduced a bunch of new products. Some of these include a new iPod Nano, iPod Classic (aka Video), and the iPod Touch. The new lineup (picture above): iPod shuffle, nano, classic, touch, & iPhone.

iPhone Updates & Price:
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Tags: 802.11, aac, apple, battery, games, google, headphones, iphone, ipod, itunes, music, nano, touch, videos, wifi

Google Maps: Real-Time Traffic - March 1, 2007

If you were to venture over to Google Maps right now, you’d notice a new tab in the upper right-hand corner that reads “Traffic.” Thats’s right; Google now offers real-time highway traffic congestion data for 30 major cities, including San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Dallas, and Los Angeles. As of yet the system [...]

Tags: google, live, maps, microsoft, new, sfo, traffic

A Look Back At 2006 - January 1, 2007

2006 was an amazing year for Skatter Tech. I thought I’d let everyone know some interesting statistics about our site. Last year alone, we had about 1.12 Million visitors from all 193 internationally recognized countries in the world. The most popular Operating System is still Windows XP and Internet Explorer is still the most [...]

Tags: bandwidth, blog, browser, charts, firefox, google, isp, krzr, macintosh, macworld, media temple, os, phones, report, safari, search, web, windows, world

Google: Multipoint Directions - December 24, 2006

Google recently added a new feature into their mapping service, Google Maps, which now allows creating multiple destinations. Previously, the service only allowed use of “point A to point B” directions, however today users may create as many points as they want. Although this feature is new for Google Map users, services such as Yahoo! [...]

Tags: google, live, local, maps, yahoo

Google Tools For Macs - October 17, 2006

Most Google products, in the past, have often been limited to Windows users. However Google is quickly changing and is constantly releasing more Macintosh supported programs. Even heavy duty applications such as Google Earth are now available for Mac OS (still in beta). Anyways Google has created a simple download page for Mac users to [...]

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Google Docs & Spreadsheets - October 11, 2006

Only a day after acquiring YouTube, Google has now launched a new online word processing and spreadsheets services called “Google Docs & Spreadsheets”. This service is pretty much an online version of the common “Microsoft Word and Excel” except that it’s free and runs inside of any browser without any extra software. The product is [...]

Tags: google, microsoft, office, online, spreadsheets, writely

Writely: Now Open! - August 21, 2006

Writely, an online word processor, was acquired by Google in January 2006. (more info here) Since then the service has been offered to the public, but on an invite-only basis. But last week Google finally finished moving servers and opened Writely up for the public. Unlike other Google Products, which require use or creation of [...]

Tags: google, processor, spreadsheets, web, word, writely

Mountain View Gets Google WiFi - August 17, 2006

After setting up over 180 access points costing over $1 million, Google has finally unleashed free WiFi Internet Access for the residents of Mountain View, CA. Google claims that over 90% of their hometown now has coverage and that their free WiFi service will offer speeds of up to 1MB/s down/up. With the launch of [...]

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