Sep 07, 2010 - Google TV Coming to a Console Near You This Fall
Adding another Apple-fighting feature to it’s roster, Google will be launching its web-to-TV service this fall in the U.S. and worldwide next year. CEO Eric Schmidt announced at the IFA consumer electronics trade fair in Berlin, that the service wil...
Sep 07, 2010 - Google?s Music Service to be Launched by Christmas? It Sure Seems Like It
According to sources very close to the project (as reported by Wired), Google’s Andy Rubin has been in talks with various music labels about a music service that the search giant has been trying to launch. Now, according to these sources, we may get...
Sep 02, 2010 - Apple vs. Google Part Deux: Social Networks And The ?Battle For The Living Room?
Most of Apple’s announcements yesterday were anticipated. Still there were a few surprises; for example the specifics of the iTunes-based social network Ping, as well as the pricing of Apple TV 2.0 ($99). Apple pre-empted Google to some degree with ...
Sep 02, 2010 - Social Sharing Architecture on Ping, Apple's Music Social Network
Today Apple launched Ping. You can get the full story on ClickZ who covered the announcement. Were you expecting apple to launch a music social network today?Click to read the rest of this post...
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Aug 31, 2010 - Gmailing is Much More Social with Rapportive
If you do business online and participate in social media networks, the number of contacts you have is overwhelming. Networking is the most important step to succeeding online. Contacts are gold. Therefore finding the way to value each contact you build i...
Aug 25, 2010 - Apple Bringing 99 Cent TV Show Rental Service to Fend Off Competition
Companies like Hulu and Netflix are pretty steep competition for Apple in the online video services arena. As of right now iTunes users must purchase TV episodes to watch them; prices can be anywhere from 99 cents to upwards of $2.99 per episode. Why spen...
Aug 25, 2010 - StreetSpace Sues Google, Nokia, Apple, Mobile Ad Networks For Infringement Of Location-Based Ads Patent
StreetSpace is a company you probably haven’t heard of, but it’s not a so-called “patent troll” seeking to cash in on unimplemented intellectual property. Rather StreetSpace is a company that has been around since 1999 and installs...
Aug 25, 2010 - Android Market and Piracy
Google has recently released a licensing service for Android applications that is supposed to make it more difficult to pirate paid apps. The service is not yet part of the operating system and it works by sending a query to Google's servers in order to d...
Aug 24, 2010 - Chomp Taking a Bite Out of iPhone App Search Competition
I am not an iPhone user but I know the look of app-finding frustration. I have seen it many times on the faces of my friends as they browse through the plethora of choices in the iTunes apps store. Now there is one app that will change all of that for all...
Aug 24, 2010 - Google, Bing & The Dance Of The iPhone
The iPhone may have been outsold last quarter by Android, but Apple’s phone remains at least for the time being the “it device” in the smartphone market. Google and Microsoft are both, let’s say, “ambivalent” about the ...
Aug 23, 2010 - Google's iPhone App Adds Notifications for Gmail and Google Calendar
I rarely use the native email clients from Android and iPhone. Gmail's mobile web app has a better interface and it's easier to use than those applications, but there are some limitations that force you to switch to the native apps: you can't attach files...
Aug 20, 2010 - Tablets & Trash Talk: Apple Competitors Prepare To Bring Their ?Me Too? Products To Market
Now that the iPad has made the world safe for tablets, it would appear the tablet invasion is beginning in earnest. Google is reportedly working with Verizon and HTC on an iPad competitor and LG is preparing to release an Android tablet in Q4 this year, t...
Aug 20, 2010 - Google's Implicit Site Searches
Malcolm Coles spotted an interesting change in Google's ranking algorithms. If your query includes the name of a company, an organization or any name associated with a website, many of the top search results are pages from that site. For example, a search...
Aug 17, 2010 - Android Developers Lose Money Because Apps Can't Be Bought In Most Countries, Pingdom Says
Pingdom writes:
Google is talking about fighting piracy, but perhaps the first thing they should focus on is actually making it possible for users to buy apps. All users. Sounds rather logical, doesn’t it? So what are we talking about? The proble...
Aug 16, 2010 - Is Google?s Brand Equity In Danger?
Last week, while I was on vacation, the big news was the Google-Verizon “net neutrality” agreement. Mostly the public response has been negative and very negative in some quarters.
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