Google set to make announcements this week...

John Markoff reports in today's New York Times that Google is poised to make two product announcements this week. The first is a new version of their already useful desktop search tool and the second is an unnamed "communications tool." Markoff speculates that we might finally get Google's Instant Messenger.

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Phil Yanov is a Technologist, Columnist and Public Radio Commentator.

He is the founder of Tech After Five as well as the founder and President of the GSA Technology Council and the IT Leadership Council.

His personal technology column appears in Greenville Business Magazine and the Columbia Business Journal.

He co-hosts the Your Day technology shows heard on NPR radio stations across South Carolina and is a frequent contributor to technology stories appearing on radio and television.