Monopolies are not good. That's why the round-house competition between Apple, Samsung, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Dell, Lenovo, and others keeps everyone in check. Google is so darned innovative lately, though, that it scares me. I want to use all its mighty and mostly free online suite of rich...
If you collect enough data, you start to see patterns. Being a pack-rat, I tend to keep things a long time. You never know when you might need it, right? My wife wants to throw away perfectly good 6-week old food, and it just hurts me to see it go in the wastebasket when there's no mold on it. ...
Google's star is reaching solar flare status. Among the handful of true corporate dynasties that sprang from the last twenty years of internet/dot-com/computer/social media ascendance, Google continues break ground faster and farther than most of the others (possible exception: Apple -- and even...