Google (GOOG), IBM (IBM), Microsoft (MSFT) and Apple (AAPL) are the stalwarts of technology industry today. Google is a relatively young player in this group, while IBM is the seniormost. Let's take a brief comparative look at their current financials.

Google Wave is a personal communication and collaboration tool which was announced at Google Conference on May 27, 2009. It is a web based platform to combine email, instant message and social networking. Currently, there was a preview release of the application to the developers. After going through different blogs and views about the preview release, I jotted down some ideas about how to improve the Google Wave further. I would like to share the following ideas with you.

more images When Google unfurled its plans to build an browser based OS, techies were abuzz with the anticipations that the Chrome OS would be lame duck with bunch of infirmity. After much anticipation and waiting, Google unveiled the Chrome OS on November 18th, 2009. The new OS by Google was a combination of already-familiar Chrome browser with a thin Linux underpinning.  However, the Internet search giant revealed that it will take one more year for the computers driven by this OS to appear in the market. Acer netbook would be the first to take on the historic browser based Chrome OS.

more images Do you know how to get the best of the Twitter lists ? With the new List feature Twitter allows all its users to curate the real time web. However, it's a tough ask to dig-out the best list from the plethora of Twitter lists. Instead of going for a wild search, there's an easier and simpler to find the best Twitter lists on any given topic. Listorious is a key to discover the best Twitter list. It's a web service designed to generate the best lists of Twitter for any searched topic and list creator to publicize their lists. The site has been created with support from Twitter team and uses a new Twitter API. Listorious assorts the Twitter list into various categories that include media, finance, marketing, food, humor etc.

more images A day after Yahoo and Microsoft finalized their search partnership, Google announced its intention to deliver personalized search results even to those searching its site without having signed into a Google account. The search engine major was quick to react to the situation. Google would track history of the users by an anonymous cookie would stay on your computer for 180 days. It is an anonymous cookie in the browser to track your search queries and results you most frequently click on. This was offered only for those Google accounts that came up with customized search results based on history. Now even those without Google accounts will have access to tailored results based on a history of search activity. The searches results would be based on the person's profile.