Google BigQuery — Google Developers

Google BigQuery — Google Developers.

Now live and open to anyone

 

BigQuery offers the following features:

• Speed – Analyze billions of rows in seconds.
• Scale – Terabytes of data, trillions of records.
• Simplicity – SQL-like query language, hosted on Google infrastructure.
• Sharing – Powerful group- and user-based permissions using Google accounts.
• Security – Secure SSL access.
• Multiple access methods – Connect to BigQuery using the BigQuery browser, the bq command-line tool, the REST API, or Google Apps Script.

Google just rattled RIMs mobile device management plans | ZDNet

Google just rattled RIMs mobile device management plans | ZDNet.

A Comment On How Google Development Works

I’ve got my name on some bugs al­ready, but this team is in re­lease-fast-then-it­er­ate-faster mode; the bugs are doomed.

via ongoing by Tim Bray · +1.

Google I/O 2011 Announcements roundup

Google I/O 2011.

Researchers Say New Bugs Can Bypass Google Chrome Sandbox

Researchers at the French security firm VUPEN say that they have discovered several new vulnerabilities in Google Chrome that enable them to bypass the browser’s sandbox, as well as ASLR and DEP and run arbitrary code on a vulnerable machine.

The video shows the exploit in action with Google Chrome v11.0.696.65 on Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 (x64).

Google Apps for Business adds My Devices for Android

via Google Apps for Business adds My Devices for Android

Together with the Google Apps contact lookup tool and the new version of the Google Apps device policy tool, Google have also released a new feature for users of a Google Apps for Business domain account: My Devices.

 

Microsoft files EU competition complaint vs Google

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp stepped up its rivalry with Google Inc, claiming in its first-ever complaint to antitrust regulators that Google systematically thwarts Internet search competition.

Google “shouldn’t be permitted to pursue practices that restrict others from innovating and offering competitive alternatives,” Microsoft’s Smith said in his blog.

What Larry Page really needs to do to return Google to its startup roots

Some really interesting insight into the changes that’ve happened at Google over the last few years

Google has a very, very strong NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome. Alternate solutions (Hadoop, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, MySQL, RabbitMQ, etc.) are all seen as technically inferior and poorly engineered systems. Google needs to get off it’s high horse, and look at what’s happening outside of it’s organization.

Ensuring Product Quality at Google

This is made possible because “we rarely attempt to ship a large set of features at once. In fact, the exact opposite is often the goal: build the core of a product and release it the moment it is useful to as large a crowd as feasible, then get their feedback and iterate,”

via InfoQ: Ensuring Product Quality at Google.