One of the greatest achievements of the IT company, Google is its introduction of its brand new product 'Google Chrome'. Google unveiled its new browser to the world promising new features and limitless capabilities to explore the web in an unrestricted way. Like any browser Google Chrome will be tested on several key features: Speed, Ease of Use, Compatibility and Security. Google had many obstacles to hurdle over, especially when competing with Mozilla's Firefox, Apple's Safari, and Microsoft's Internet Explorer. When examining the interface of Google Chrome we come to understand that one of its best assets is its lack of clutter. The browser has a sleek veneer that reflects its aim of simplifying the browser and the cluster of buttons found on other web-browsers. The welcome screen displays the most frequently visited websites that you go to so you can easily navigate to the websites that you often visit.
Notice on the left hand side how Google's welcome screen is laid out for users to navigate to the 9 most frequently visited webpages. Another exciting feature in Chrome is the navigation speed and its startup speed. Google worked on a code that allows Chrome to use a small amount of computer memory and gives it the power to move from one page to another in lightning fast speed. By all means it is faster than Firefox and Safari.
Another feature that Google chrome has integrated is the Security applications that protect users from Spam, Pop-Ups, Advertisements, Phishing and other types of Hacking aimed to steal personal information from users browsing the web. If someone wants to remain anonymous on the web, Google has a security feature that can tell the computer not to store any information (cookies) so that people dont store information from the web. This sandbox feature gives users greater security and anonymity on the web freeing them from spam users and other hackers.
Google Chrome is by far the fastest and most reliable web browser on the market and I highly recommend it.
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So who is Josh Swensen? Some bold teenager armed with a keyboard and blog to educate and challange the people in his community to change the status quo? Or is he the coward that people depict him as threatening to upset society by instigating civil anarchy? Josh Swensen is of little interest to the world, he has no friends nothing to preoccupy his time and intellect but he does have a lot to say even though he isnt able to stand up and speak. Like many teenagers Josh has a computer and a blog in which he speaks about anti-consumerism a seemingly arbitrary topic to many of us. Josh creates an image through which he disperses his message of indpendence from corporate entanglement. As the topic begins to catch interest and change social order he becomes frightened of the power he has amassed and even abuses it for his own purposes. As admirable as his crusade may be he is too frightened to reveal himself and take down the fascade he created for himself. I truly admire his efforts to 'chane the world' but truth be told I think that his motives arent as genuine as he claims them to be, the point of writing a blog is to spread a message of some sort to as many people as you can. Josh writes as an outlet for his fears, lonliness, bordeom and even depression (for his mother) and claims from the get-go that he never expected nor wanted his blog to become popular. Josh claims to be a loner, he doesnt like it when too many people participate in what he does, he wouldnt be the one to join a school club or go to the mall. When his blog becomes famous he doesnt know how to handle it, he becomes consumed by it and several times he even uses the blog out of his own self interest to impress Beth. The book outlines many of the ambitions that Josh has but in the end we come to understand that his ambitions and efforts were ultimately driven by genuine initiative to make the world a better place. To anyone who thinks about reading this book understand this: I am a person who doesnt like to read, it isnt tedious or trivial but it is something that I rarely do out of pleasure. This book was truly one of the better books I have ever read, it consumes you and overwhelms you in such a manner that you feel that somehow you want Josh to succeed.
I read it, I loved it
EPIC 2014 challenges us to consider what may be the most vigorous and fervent battle between the two biggest IT companies in the world, Google and Microsoft. In the plot Google merges with Amazon and consolidates all its power into the "Google Grid" a universal platform for storing and publishing multimedia information. This plot illustrates an apocalyptic scenario in which the two superpowers of the internet wage war with one another to aggregate and deliver news on the internet in a customized, personalized, efficient way. In a way the fear factor of this video instills the notion that EPIC evolves in a cancerous way, it aggrandizes by consolidating companies and features such as Amazon's A9 search engine slowly eliminating the competition and monopolizing the internet and incorporating it into the grid. Eventually, news agencies are forced off the web because they cannot compete with Google News' unparalleled diversification and limitless options. Google uses the RSS Feed to consolidate all the articles from all the news agencies into one forum where it is sorted to your custom and personalized taste.
In the video Google slowly becomes the internet offering features such as shopping, IM, email, news, weather etc... into one format. In essence Google slowly casts its grip around the world wide web eliminating its competitors one by one, it teams up with Amazon to edge out Microsoft who fights fervently to retain some sort of technological and innovative edge over Google but loses to Google's newest products: the Grid and EPIC. EPIC is Google's doomsday device, the Atomic Bomb of its war to permanently end the slow and painful death of competing companies. Google unleashes EPIC to custom tailor all news to its audience constructing news from excerpts of information on the web, through EPIC it forces NYTimes to take down its website. At the end of the movie the narration ends ominously with "Perhaps there was another way".
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