Technology

You do know the story about the Trojan Horse, don’t you? Here is the summary of the story. During the Troy war and after a long and unsuccessful siege, Greeks found this clever plan. They left a big wooden horse outside the Troy walls as a victory trophy and they got into their ships and they pretended to sail away. That nasty horse had Greek men inside and Trojans pulled it inside the city walls. During the night Greeks sailed back and the men that were inside the horse opened the gates and you can imagine (if you don’t already know) the result.

We have all tested at least once Google’s search but who will test Google’s beer? No, this is not a name in some service, it is a real beer. Google is working with Dogfish Head (brewer company) to create a Belgian Dubbel beer. Google gave a list to Dogfish Head with the must-have ingredients from all over the world. The ingredients also include honey from Google’s Californian beehives. URKontinent’s availability will be limited and only as a draft. I should also mention that URKontinent has almost double alcohol content from an average beer.

Analyst of Goldman Sachs estimate that Microsoft will have a revenue of $444 millions during fiscal year 2012 (July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012) from Android patent deals. Microsoft settled with companies like HTC and Samsung and according to Goldman it receives around $3-$6 from every android device that is sold. Microsoft has its own smart phones and generating this income from its competitors shows that patents are a very strong weapon.

Google+ is growing very fast since it opened for public and you don’t need an invitation. The user base of Google+ is now over 50 million in just 88 days after its launch. The growth is now about 4% per day and in numbers this means about 2 millions new members per day. Since the launch of Google+ we saw Facebook changing and trying to look more like Google+. They added some functionality about post visibility and some other things like lists, subscribe feature, longer posts etc, which is what Google+ already had. It is good to see the competition forcing companies to change and users benefit from that.