Feb 13, 2010 Posted by Helena@ggt

10 Features Google Buzz is Missing

Since its release this week, I’ve been experimenting with Google Buzz to see how well I could use it for publishing news and infos about articles on GGT. While it is quite nice to play around with at the moment, you will realize immediately that Google Buzz is still missing many things. Right now we are in an early post-release development stage where feedback is gathered in order to refine the... read more

Feb 11, 2010 Posted by Helena@ggt

How To: Get Started with Google Buzz

Now that Google Buzz is finally available inside my Gmail account as well, I went through the process of setting up the (public!) Buzz-Profile for GGT. So here is a step by step guide that’ll help you get started yourself: 1. First, take a quick look at this privacy checklist and make sure that you understand how Google Buzz works, what the common privacy concerns surrounding it are and that there... read more

Feb 10, 2010 Posted by Helena@ggt

Google Buzz Beats Aperture 3 (Sorry!)

So, a colleague of mine asked me to write something about Aperture 3 today (Aperture is Apple’s photo editing and management software), which was released this morning on the Apple Store. BUT with Google taking an unexpected and aggressive plunge into the world of social media by announcing the release of Google Buzz, their very own social network, Aperture will just have to move aside (sorry!) ... read more

Feb 6, 2010 Posted by Helena@ggt

What’s Really Slowing Down Nexus One Sales?

In the past few months, smartphone sales really took off. In the fourth quarter of 2009 about 50 million devices were shipped by vendors; compared to 2008 that’s an increase of about 39%. If you take a look at the smartphone market, Nokia still holds the largest share with 39%, followed by RIM (Blackberry) and Apple with 14.4%. The Nexus One started selling at the beginning of this year. All in all,... read more

Jan 19, 2010 Posted by Helena@ggt

Google Chrome: 5 Must-Have Extensions

Since Google’s Beta Version launched allowing you to install 3rd-party extensions, a number of great extensions for the browser has already been developed. Here are the five best extensions every Chrome user should have with installation instructions for the beta client: First, in order to install any addons, you’ll need to get the 4.0 beta version of the Chrome-Browser: Navigate... read more