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Google Analytics Up and Running Again
 The Google Analytics blog announced on Monday that many users were subject to a Temporary Reporting Delay. Since this was in place since Saturday night, many of the affected users were already aware that something was up. The post reassures us that no data will be lost in the process. An update on the situation late on Monday stated that this situation was almost fully rectified. Read more: searchenginewatch.com    |
 Search giant Google is setting the stage for its biggest push yet into the U.S. mobile market, in a strategy that delicately straddles the line between partnering and competing with the major cell phone operators. Last week, Google signed its most significant deal with a U.S. wireless operator to date. Sprint Nextel will integrate the company's mobile services with the carrier's new 4G WiMax network. But in a move that could pit Google against wireless operators, the company recently announced plans to bid in the Federal Communications Commission's upcoming 700MHz wireless spectrum auction. Google is also continuing with its plans to build free citywide Wi-Fi networks in San Francisco and Mountain View, Calif. The recent activity has many Google watchers speculating about the company's ultimate plans. Will it build its own wireless network using spectrum from the upcoming auction? Or will it strike more deals like the one it signed with Sprint Nextel? Will it come out with its own Google phone that will take on the likes of the Apple iPhone and other manufacturers like Motorola and Nokia? Full article: news.com |
Community-based search engine Wikia to take on Google
 Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has unveiled details of his company's community-developed open source search engine which aims to challenge the dominance of both Google and Yahoo! Over the weekend, Wales’ commercial start-up Wikia purchased a web crawler platform called Grub from LookSmart and released it under an open source license. Grub is powered by volunteers who download the platform onto their computers, letting it run as a background process, thus reducing the need for Wikia to set up a web crawling network of its own. Read more: techspot.com |
 Coco-Cola holds place as the world's No. 1 most valuable brand name, but search engine has the momentum Coca-Cola Co. and Microsoft Corp. are still the most valuable brand names on the planet, but for the second year in a row, Google Inc. was deemed to be the fastest growing, according to the annual Interbrand rankings of the 100 Best Global Brands. It took two years for the California-based Internet search firm to break its way into the Top 20, improving its brand value to $17.8-billion, up 44 per cent this year. The value is intended to measure how much a brand is likely to earn for the company in the future. Interbrand uses analysts' projections, financial documents and its own analysis to reach the value. Full article: theglobeandmail.com |
Gates Goes Off On The Threat Of Google's Phone Software
 Maybe it was Microsoft's annual revenue shooting past $50 billion (along with Google's quarterly slump), but something seems to have brought out the claws in company Chairman Bill Gates. When asked by the New York Times about the threat Google poses in terms of phone software, Gates said the following: "How many products, of all the Google products that have been introduced, how many of them are profit-making products? They've introduced about 30 different products; they have one profit-making product..." Read more: wired.com Labels: Bill Gates, microsoft, phone, Software |
Introducing the Google AJAX APIs
 Google's Mission As you may know, Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. This article discusses how Google is doing just that by providing easy to use JavaScript-based APIs that allow a wide range of web developers, from experts to casual bloggers, to integrate rich and compelling Google provided search and feed data seamlessly into their web pages. More specifically, this article reviews the overall architecture of Google's AJAX Search and AJAX Feed APIs and shows how to use the technologies they provide. As you'll see with this article, integrating cool search and Internet feed technologies ranging from traditional web searches to compelling multimedia searches is actually very easy to do without even requiring a hard core AJAX programming background. Introducing the Google AJAX APIs: AJAX Search and AJAX Feed Have you ever wanted to integrate rich, multimedia, search, or feed-based Internet content into your web applications/pages only to realize that creating your own AJAX infrastructure for doing this turned out to be a daunting task? Fortunately, Google provides a solution to this by providing very easy to use JavaScript APIs known as the AJAX Search and AJAX Feed APIs. These APIs are cousins to the popular Google Maps API and are functionally similar in that you can use them to easily insert rich AJAX content into your pages simply by adding small amounts of JavaScript code. The AJAX Search API allows you to easily integrate some very powerful and diverse Google based search mechanisms or "controls" onto a Web page with relatively minimal coding. Full article: developer.com |
YouTube AntiPiracy Tool By September
 Google may have an antipiracy tool for the YouTube video sharing site as soon as September according to a statement Friday by an attorney for Google. During a hearing in the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Viacom against Google last March a Google attorney stated that they are currently working on some type of video recognition technology. The new technology should be able to create a unique identification on each video, similar to the uniqueness of a fingerprint, that owners of the videos can place on their media. Read more: slipperybrick.com |
 YouTube now has enhanced sharing and uploading features, new partners, and better browsing for your mobile appliance. Take YouTube on the road—now you can watch the best of YouTube from anywhere your mobile device gets a signal. Whether you want to see the most viewed, top rated, or other popular videos, they're all right at your fingertips. Shoot and upload video in the moment—capture the best bits of life and share them with your friends and family, wherever you are. All it takes is a few keys on your mobile device. Read more: youtube.com |
Casio Introduces Two Stylish New EXILIM® Digital Cameras with YouTube Capture Mode
 Casio Introduces Two Stylish New EXILIM® Digital Cameras with YouTube™ Capture™ Mode Agreement with Popular Video Sharing Site, YouTube™ Connects Casio with Video Enthusiasts DOVER, NJ, JULY 10, 2007 – Casio, Inc. and its parent company, Casio Computer Co., Ltd., announced today the release of two new digital cameras with the cutting-edge EXILIM Engine 2.0 image processing module. In conjunction with the release of these cameras, Casio, Inc. announced today their agreement with YouTube to include a unique YouTube Capture mode and bundle software to provide ideal settings for recording, storing and uploading video on the company’s newest EXILIM digital cameras – EX-S880 and EX-Z77. This agreement represents an effort by Casio, Inc. to directly engage the YouTube community by simplifying the process of creating and sharing videos. Read more: casio.com |
Google Earth, Maps Spike Enterprise Punch
 In the consumer space, Google Earth and Google Maps go hand-in-hand. Now the same goes for Google Earth for the enterprise. Business and government users of Google Earth for the enterprise can now view their organizations' geospatial data in 2-D on a browser behind the firewall. As a part of the product upgrade, Google opened a "special" Maps API for the enterprise. That means administrators can now embed the Google Maps 2-D view into any Web application and create mashups with information from external databases, spreadsheets and other data sources, Noah Doyle, product manager for enterprise geo products, told internetnews.com. Full article: internetnews.com Labels: Earth, enterprise, Maps, Mashup, Spreadsheets |
Life without Google: Can Yahoo regain search share?
 Yahoo has a strategic plan due in 100 days and lags Google in most metrics. Yet despite Yahoo’s issues it still has the No. 2 market share in search. But if Yahoo wants to change its standing it should work on its interface a bit more. According to Nielsen/Netratings, Google’s search market share in June was 52.7 percent with 20 percent going to Yahoo (gallery at right). To put this in context, Microsoft in third place with 13 percent. Yahoo’s year over year search growth is 20 percent compared to Google’s 46 percent. Microsoft’s Live Search grew 77 percent annually. Full story: blogs.zdnet.com |
Microsoft opens research center for search engines
 Microsoft is still failing to overcome Google, king of the search engines, despite trying every tactic they know. Those tactics included ample marketing, bribery, OS integration and a host of others – but they just can't knock down the kingpin. Now they intend to learn how. They are opening up a dedicated research center specifically for search technology and advertising technology. Read more: techspot.com |
Digg Dumps The Google For Microsoft
 Social News site Digg has dumped Google in favor of Microsoft to serve up the contextual ads on the site. Financial details of the agreement have not disclosed, but the deal is a three-year contract. Kevin Rose announced the change on his blog saying that the new deal is “similar to the one Facebook signed with Microsoft last year.” Read more: wired.com Labels: ads, advertisements, contextual, Digg, microsoft |
Google's 700MHz plan versus the laws of physics
 Conditions that Google wants the FCC to impose on eventual buyers of the 700MHz spectrum have generated much interest, but higher laws than any that might be imposed by the FCC - the laws of physics - might determine the future of its proposals. Google's highly publicised and controversial letter to the FCC says that 'the only way to guarantee new broadband platforms is through open platforms." Google discuses four types of platforms that it says "should be mandated for commercial spectrum": open applications, open devices, open services, and open networks. Under its open networks proposal, ISPs would be able to interconnect their own network facilities with the last-mile towers of the wireless providers. The ISPs then would purchase or lease discrete blocks of network capacity and provide a competing retail service. Full story: itwire.com.au |
Sprint, Google Hook Up For WiMax Services
 For Google, the deal provides access to Sprint WiMax subscribers who will presumably be eager to use the Web-based tools on the go, at no or little cost. Seeking to build on the momentum for its ambitious nationwide WiMax network, Sprint Nextel(S) said Thursday it will partner with Google to provide users of the network with Web services from the search giant, including e-mail, chat, and social networking tools. The two companies said they will work together to develop a new mobile Internet portal over WiMax that will enable access to many of the Google services. Full article: informationweek.com |
 $250,000 could be yours Thanks to Google, there's extra riches in store for the next winner of computing's "Nobel Prize." Today, the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) announced that Google has joined Intel in funding its prestigious Turing Award, upping the accompanying cash prize from $100,000 to $250,000. It's no coincidence that the president of the ACM, Stuart Feldman, is also the vice president of engineering at Google. "The Turing Award is the highest award in the field of computing science and recognizes achievements that push the boundaries of innovation," Feldman said. "With the continuing financial support of Intel and the newly added contribution of funds from Google, we can significantly increase the award's cash value to better reflect the importance and prestige of the Turing Award worldwide." Read more: theregister.co.uk |
YouTube to Flex Political Muscle With CNN Presidential Debate
 Anderson Cooper and CNN will host a presidential debate Monday night, but YouTubers will be the ones asking the questions. For weeks, YouTube users have been posting videos of themselves posing questions they want asked during the Democratic Party candidate debate. A similar debate among Republican Party candidates is scheduled for September. In a major change to most stodgy political debates, YouTube and CNN are teaming up to let regular YouTubing Americans ask the nation's most influential politicians the hard-hitting questions. YouTubers have been posting videos of themselves asking questions that CNN will select and present live to viewers and the Democratic Party candidates vying for the party's presidential nod. CNN's Anderson Cooper will moderate the two-hour debates and pose follow-up questions Monday evening at 7 p.m. EST. Full article: ecommercetimes.com Labels: Anderson Cooper, CNN, debate, political, youtube |
Google snaps up aerial photographer
 Maps anyone... Google has acquired ImageAmerica, a company that builds high-resolution cameras and uses them to take aerial photographs. The search engine giant announced the move on its LatLong blog about Google Earth and its other mapping efforts. It didn't disclose terms of the deal. Product Manager Stephen Chau said on the blog: "We're excited about how ImageAmerica's technology will contribute to our mapping services down the road. Since we're in the research and development phase right now it may be some time before you see any of this imagery in Google Maps or Earth." Full article: silicon.com Labels: aerial, Earth, ImageAmerica, Maps, photographer |
Google May Recruit Allies in Fight With AT&T, Verizon
 July 23 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc., escalating a battle with AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless, may team up with smaller mobile- phone service providers to create its own multibillion-dollar network. The company, owner of the world's most popular Internet search engine, may bid at least $4.6 billion for wireless airwaves in a federal auction. Rather than use that spectrum to create its own network, Google is more likely to enlist the help of existing carriers, said Chris Sacca, head of special projects. Read more: bloomberg.com |
However much is in your Facebook, it ain't a new Google
 There's an ancient adage in the computer industry - it may have originated at Microsoft - which says: 'Always eat your own dog food'. What it means is that if you are writing software other people are going to use, then you must use it yourself. If you're going to ask other people to commit their time, data and perhaps even sanity to using your product, you should take the same risks yourself. An analogous injunction ought to apply to technology commentators: do not write about something unless you've used it yourself. It was in this spirit that I signed up to Facebook, the social networking service, some time ago. As it happens, I seem to have signed up just at the moment that Facebook reached its tipping point and switched into a phase of exponential growth. It's been fascinating watching from the inside as more and more of my colleagues and acquaintances sign up and confide their innermost thoughts to a few thousand close 'friends'. Full story: guardian.co.uk |
On antitrust, is Google the next Microsoft?
 Not too long ago, nearly every move that Microsoft made seemed to draw complaints that the company was abusing its market dominance. Now another market-leading technology company is under fire in Washington as well. An unlikely combination of onetime antitrust defendants like Microsoft and AT&T and liberal consumer groups that have been their traditional antagonists are taking aim at Google. Interviews by CNET News.com last week show that Microsoft and its occasional allies have met separately with key congressional committees that deal with consumer protection and antitrust issues--both of which announced last week that they will hold hearings on Google's plan to spend $3.1 billion to buy DoubleClick. Read more: zdnet.com Labels: antitrust, ATT, DoubleClick, microsoft |
 Outsmarting Google isn't easy. So on the issue of user privacy, Google's competitors are trying a different tactic: knowing less. Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT) announced Monday that it's introducing new measures on its Live Search application that would erase identifying data from search logs 18 months after it's recorded and will allow users to surf sites with Microsoft-provided ads without having their behavior tracked. Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO) plans to make all search data anonymous after 13 months, according to a spokesman, and InterActiveCorp's (nasdaq: IACI) Ask.com announced last week that it will be launching AskEraser, a search option that erases all history of Ask searches. Microsoft and Ask.com issued a joint statement over the weekend calling on members of the search industry to meet and discuss ways they can work together to define privacy principles and protect user information. Full article: forbes.com |
Now Google wants to be a telco
 The Cookie Monster, whose gargantuan appetite simply cannot be assuaged no matter what it eats, having gobbled up much of the Internet is now about to get its teeth into telecoms. There is even the possibility that before too much longer there might even be such a things as a Google phone! Over the weekend, the giant web company disclosed that it will be a bidder in the upcoming auction of a swathe of US wireless spectrum. Google says it is willing to bid at least US$6.4 billion as it seeks to become a mobile operator, but will do so only if the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) accepts and imposes a set of rules that would certainly be favourable to the search engine company but that have already been flatly rejected by other, established cell phone operators. Full story: telecomtv.com Labels: phone, technology, telco, wi-fi, wireless |
Look out Windows, here comes Google -- and iPod
 While looking through the latest quarterly results from Microsoft and Google last week, it struck me that Google's companywide revenues had, for the first time, exceeded the sales in Microsoft's Client division, the unit that makes Windows for PCs. That's no small feat, and I decided to explore the competitive and symbolic implications in this week's Software Notebook, in Monday's newspaper. As detailed in the story, there are all sorts of qualifiers that come into play when making that comparison. It's definitely not an apples-to-apple kind of thing. But the financial milestone underscores Google's revenue growth and illustrates why Microsoft has been trying to further diversify its business, in areas including Internet search and online advertising. Read more: seattlepi.com |
Google, Viacom Lawyers Square Off on DMCA
 Viacom and Google go to court July 27 to decide which of the two companies should bear the cost of keeping Viacom's copyrighted content off YouTube, Google's video-sharing Web site. Viacom says Google and seeks $1 billion in damages. Whatever the result, the case will impact most Internet users. According to comScore, nearly 75 percent of U.S. Internet users watched an average of 158 minutes of online video per user during May 2007. Most of those videos came from YouTube. According to web metrics firm Hitwise, YouTube's market share was 50 percent greater than the next 64 most popular Web video sites combined. Full article: internetnews.com |
Google vows to bid billions for airwaves
 Yet Internet giant demands FCC meet open-access conditions WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Internet-search engine Google Inc. on Friday said it's prepared to bid at least $4.6 billion for wireless licenses in an approaching federal auction if the U.S. government sets the rules to favor open access for all comers. The Federal Communications Commission plans to sell valuable wireless licenses in the 700 megahertz range by early next year in an auction sure to raise billions of dollars. Big wireless-phone companies and other bidders want the spectrum to offer speedier mobile-Internet connections and other new services. Read more: marketwatch.com |
YouTube: Now With Customizable Player
 YouTube has launched a new “custom player” feature that allows users to customize embedded YouTube videos. Users are able to customize player features including the name of the player, color theme, layout (a standard layout or one with related videos to the right), and content. Read more: techcrunch.com |
Google Expands Print Ads Service
 Subscribers to the AdWords program can now buy newspaper advertising via Google Print Ads. Google Inc. has expanded its Print Ads so that anyone subscribing to its AdWords program can purchase print advertising from a growing network of newspapers. Google Print Ads, which began with 50 newspapers in November 2006, now has more than 225 newspapers with print advertising available for agencies and advertisers. Now, any U.S.-based advertiser with a Google AdWords account can purchase print advertising for any of these entities, which include newspapers from publishers such as W.W. Scripps, Freedom Communications, Hearst Newspapers, GateHouse Media, Gannett, MediaNews Group, The New York Times, The Seattle Times Company and the Washington Post, among others. Full article: pcworld.com |
Long Inquiry Road Ahead For Google-DoubleClick
 A U.S. House subcommittee plans an additional inquiry into the proposed $3.1 billion merger between Google and DoubleClick. The deal is already under review at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In a letter this week to FTC Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras, Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) said there is "widespread concern" about the deal. "Concerns have focused not only on the implications for competition -- in online advertising and other possibly affected markets -- but also on the potentially enormous impact on consumer privacy," Rush wrote. Full article: internetnews.com Labels: advertisements, advertisers, advertising, DoubleClick |
Can Google Defy Gravity Again? Probably
 Burlingame, Calif. - Investors may grudgingly accept Yahoo!’s long-term slump, but its weak earnings performance Tuesday doesn’t let Google off the hook. Its not the Internet that’s suffering—its just Yahoo! Expectations are as high as they've ever been that Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) will turn in impressive results when it issues its second-quarter report Thursday afternoon. That hopeful attitude is evident in the company’s stock price, which rose 15% during the last three months. Read more: forbes.com |
Google cookies will 'auto delete'
 Google has said that its cookies, tiny files stored on a computer when a user visits a website, will auto delete after two years. They will be deleted unless the user returns to a Google site within the two-year period, prompting a re-setting of the file's lifespan. The company's cookies are used to store preference data for sites, such as default language and to track searches. All search engines and most websites store cookies on a computer. Currently, Google's are set to delete after 2038. Read more: BBC News |
Report: Google working on searches of mobile content
 Google is working on a service to let mobile-phone users find and buy items such as ring tones, the Wall Street Journal said, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter. The technology will allow consumers to use Mountain View-based Google to obtain lists of companies that provide the content they're seeking and links to where the products can be purchased, the Journal said on its Web site Monday. Google and competitors such as Yahoo are bolstering their mobile offerings with services including maps and calendars after handsets outsold personal computers by more than 4-to-1 last year, according to researcher Gartner. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in May that the company's biggest growth opportunity is in mobile phones. Full article: mercurynews.com |
Poll shows European students ga-ga over Google
 Internet company Google Inc. has topped a poll of ideal employers in a survey of engineering and IT students across Europe published yesterday. Nearly 17 per cent of the 8,100 engineering and information technology students polled from 100 European universities between January and April selected Google as their ideal place to work. Swedish research firm Universum Communications, which has been polling European university students on their work ambitions since 1995, said it was a spectacular entrance for the Internet firm. Read more: theglobeandmail.com |
Apps vs. Office: Google Ups the Ante
 The search king's free Web-based business software has 100,000 small-biz clients. But will big corporate fish bite for a paid "premier" version? Noah Sachs, general counsel, business development director, and resident computer expert at a biotechnology startup named Enzymatics, has one word for the holdouts who still use Microsoft Office to create documents and spreadsheets. They're "curmudgeons," he sniffs. Most of the people at the 10-employee company use Web-based software from Google (GOOG) for these tasks and e-mail. Since they're all delivered online, "any computer I sit down at becomes my computer," says Sachs. Enzymatics, based in Beverly, Mass., is experimenting with other Google software, too, including a specialized search engine that combs competitors' Web sites for information on rival products and prices. To build such a tool from scratch using Microsoft (MSFT) software would have entailed buying multiple product licenses. "I have enough on my plate without having to worry about that," he says. Full article: businessweek.com |
 Google has launched a search engine service for small businesses that costs as little as $100 (£49) a year to run. Google Custom Search Business is aimed at the millions of businesses that have a web presence but offer users no way of searching their website. Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager, Google Enterprise, said: "While many of these businesses invest in search advertising and search engine optimization to help customers find their business, customers are left on their own to navigate content once they land on a site. Read more: telegraph.co.uk Labels: business, enterprise, search |
Google Wants Testers for Mobile AdSense
 Developers can earn money by accepting AdSense advertisements for mobile devices. Google Inc. has begun inviting mobile Web site developers to display Google ads on their sites as part of a limited beta test. The offer extends to the mobile environment Google's AdSense program which lets Web site developers earn revenue by placing advertisements on their sites. Google runs the backend network that places ads on the sites relevant to site content. Site owners earn revenue when visitors click on the ads. Full article: pcworld.com Labels: Adsense, developers, devices, mobile, testers |
Chinese company files lawsuit against Google
 Jul. 16, 2007 (China Knowledge) – A Beijing-based company is suing Google China, a subsidiary of Google Inc A court in Haidian district of Beijing has accepted the case on Jun. 29. In response to the accusation of promoting itself through the lawsuit, Tian Yunshan, company secretary for Beijing Guge Science & Technology, said that the company had registered with the name "Guge" one month earlier than Google China. Read more: chinaknowledge.com |
AOL up, Google down? Not so fast
 While it wasn't exactly the lead story on the nightly news, a new way of measuring website popularity startled the Web punditry earlier this week when it put long-suffering AOL in the top spot. You read that right: that's above Google, MySpace, MSN and any other website you'd expect to be doing reasonably well. Crazy, you say? You're not the only one. Here's how it happened: Nielsen/NetRatings modified its website popularity gauge, adding time spent to its unique-audience metric. Using a new "total-minutes" calculation, Nielsen/NetRatings said AOL was the No. 1 site in the U.S. in May, followed by Yahoo; MSN/Windows Live; Fox Interactive, which owns MySpace.com; Google; eBay; Microsoft; Electronic Arts; Apple and YouTube, which is owned by Google. Full article: usatoday.com |
 Google's CEO Eric Schmidt took a swipe at Viacom Friday, saying the company was "built from lawsuits" and pointed to its litigious history. Schmidt's comments were made to reporters at a hotel bar at the annual Allen & Co. meeting of media moguls. Viacom is currently suing Google subsidiary YouTube for $1 billion, claiming "massive copyright infringement." Both sides have failed to reach an agreement. Read more: BetaNews Labels: Eric Schmidt, lawsuit, Viacom, youtube |
FeedBurner Integration for Blogspot Blogs
 Hot on the heels of last week's much-ballyhooed free FeedBurner for everyone, we are very excited to announce the immediate availability of one-click redirection for Blogger Blogspot blogs (note our fine use of both alliteration and first syllable congruence). If you host your content on a Blogger blog with a blogspot.com address (or use Blogger's “custom domain” feature), you can now redirect your native Blogger feed to your FeedBurner feed (quite easily, might we add). Gone are the muggy, languorous days of wrestling with "autodiscovery" tags in foreboding corners of your Blogger template code or hacking through this tangled discussion thread for a glimpse of configuration clarity. Starting right now, you just log into your Blogger account, select Settings | Site Feed, enter your FeedBurner feed address and click "Save Settings." Zap! Pow! Kraaakkkk! Now you've got the complete picture of how your content is being consumed out here, out there, out everywhere. Read more: blogs.feedburner.com Labels: blogs, Blogspot, Feedburner |
Oz watchdog accuses Google of misleading public
 Organic The Australian competition watchdog has accused Google of "misleading and deceptive conduct". The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has taken action against Google Inc, Google Ireland Limited, and Google Australia Pty Ltd in the Federal Court, Sydney, saying Google has breached the Trade Practices Act by failing to adequately distinguish between sponsored links on its website and "organic" search results. Read more: theregister.co.uk |
Mash Your Own Geodata: Google Adds More Custom Mapping Features
 Now Google users can create custom map mashups built from other people's mashups. The company has rolled together two of its user-generated mapping products -- MyMaps and Mapplets -- to give Google Maps users the ability to create custom maps using dynamic data. Users can add data points like location-based photo searches from Picasa and gas prices from GasBuddy to their custom maps Read more: wired.com |
Google, Skype Could Benefit If FCC Backs 'Openness" For 700 MHz Auction
 "Openness" means a service provider won't be able to dictate which devices and services can be used on the network in the way cellular carriers currently do with their networks. Providers of Internet telephony services seem to have won a battle in the war against conventional wired and wireless telephone service this week when FCC chairman Kevin Martin called for "openness" in draft rules for the upcoming auction of radio spectrum in the 700 MHz band. Companies like Google and eBay's Skype applauded the move. Google called Martin's new public stance a "favorable development". eBay's CEO supported Martin, too. Google and eBay and other technology companies are increasingly facing off against entrenched telecom firms like AT&T and Verizon Communications(VZ). The auction, which won't take place for several months, is shaping up as a major battlefield between IP technology firms and traditional telephone companies. And the draft rules still need to win votes from a majority of the commission before the auction can take place. Full article: informationweek.com |
Google Reader Notifier Firefox Extension
 This firefox extension shows you how many unread items you have in your Google Reader account. Firefox versions: 1.5 - 2.0.0. Download: Google Reader Notifier Firefox Extension Labels: browser, extensions, Firefox, reader |
Dresden becomes king of Google Earth
 Model city AMD'S FAVOURITE BIT of Germany, Dresden has become the largest digital city on Google Earth, according to its boggle-eyed creators. A virtual model of the Saxon city went online on Monday for folk to peruse with Google Earth. It seems to be pretty popular as the site is currently reclining tits-uppermost. Read more: theinquirer.net |
 Can the Web giant’s suite of free online programs replace your copy of Microsoft Office? Imagine being able to access all your important documents from any computer with an Internet connection—or never having to buy, install, or upgrade office software again. You may already use a Web-based e-mail service instead of an e-mail client, but the next programs to go online could very well be your word processor and your spreadsheet program. You can now get a lot done with only a humble browser. The idea behind Web applications is simple: rather than running on your computer, a Web application runs on a server—you interact with it through your browser. These programs don’t need to be updated and maintained on individual computers, and since your files are also stored on a server, you can access them from anywhere without schlepping a disk around. Full article: Macworld.com |
Nielsen emphasizes on time spent on a site for web rankings
 Website popularity has long been measured by the number of individual pages loaded by surfers. However, with the adoption of Ajax, which refreshes content without reloading entire pages, and the growing popularity of streaming video, companies need to find a more accurate yardstick for advertisers to use in deciding where to put their dollars. To that end, Nielsen//NetRatings, an Internet media and market research company, announced today it will put less emphasis on page views in favor of total time spent on a site. Read more: techspot.com |
 Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Postini, a global leader in on-demand communications security and compliance solutions serving more than 35,000 businesses and 10 million users worldwide. Postini's services -- which include message security, archiving, encryption, and policy enforcement -- can be used to protect a company's email, instant messaging, and other web-based communications. Under the terms of the agreement, Google will acquire Postini for $625 million in cash, subject to working capital and other adjustments, and Postini will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Google. The agreement is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close by the end of the third quarter 2007. Read more: postini.com Labels: Communications, encryption, postini, security |
Google Earth Captures China's New Ballistic-Missile Sub
 Discovery of the submarine image is likely to cause consternation within China's military. Google Inc. is offering a rare public glimpse of China's new ballistic-missile submarine, according to a researcher at the Federation of American Scientists. "The new submarine was photographed by the commercial Quickbird satellite in late 2006 and the image is freely available on the Google Earth Web site," wrote Hans Kristensen on the Strategic Security Blog. (Photo Courtesy of Strategic Security Blog) Full story: pcworld.com |
Mosh, Yahoo’s New Social Network Initiative
 Here’s a juicy tip - we’ve been hearing about a new Yahoo social network initiative called Mosh, which is at mosh.yahoo.com but can only be accessed from inside the Yahoo offices. If you happen to be using the guest wifi at Yahoo, you should be able to access the site, although this may be shut down soon. It’s likely this would replace Yahoo’s 360 social network service, which has never really gotten traction. Read more: techcrunch.com |
JotSpot joining Google Apps revolution
 Google is adding JotSpot, which the company acquired in October 2006, to the Google Apps, according to Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager of Google Enterprise. Google Apps currently includes mail, calendar, instant messaging, Web page creation, documents and spreadsheets. JotSpot will bring wikis and easy to build team Web sites to the suite. The company has been in the process of moving JotSpot to the Google infrastructure to gain reliability and scale efficiencies, Girouard said, but he didn’t disclose when JotSpot would become available. Read more: blogs.zdnet.com Labels: apps, calendar, docs, JotSpot, mail, Spreadsheets, Web |
Google Adsense Ad Border with Rounded Corners
 Most Google Adsense publishers match the ad border color with the site background to remove the ad unit border and increase clicks to generate more money. The square edged border failed to blend with many web designs, and now I see an option to create rounded corner borders. Login to your Google Adsense panel and find a new option of Corner Styles to optionally choose from one of 3 pre-designed corner styles. Read more: quickonlinetips.com |
 Google Desktop gives you easy access to information on your computer and from the web. It's a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, music, photos, chats and web pages that you've viewed. By making your computer searchable, Google Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails and bookmarks. It makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google. Google Desktop doesn't just help you search your computer; it also helps you gather new information from the web with Sidebar, a new desktop feature that shows you your new email, weather and stock information, personalized news and RSS/Atom feeds, and more. Sidebar is personalized automatically, without any manual configuration required (though you can certainly make your own customizations if you want to). We've also improved your desktop search experience. With Quick Find, you can now launch applications and see search results as you type without even opening a browser. We've also extended our Outlook integration, so you can search Google Desktop with the Outlook Toolbar and see results within Outlook itself. Finally, you can search even more stuff, including your Gmail, files on network drives, many Outlook data types (including Contacts, Tasks, Calendar, Notes and Journal) and MSN Messenger chats. And if you yearn for even stronger security, you can encrypt your entire index. Improved Sidebar and Google Gadgets. Add Google Gadgets to customize your desktop and Sidebar, Developers: Create and share your own gadgets. Requires Windows Windows 2000 SP3+/XP/Vista Download: Google Desktop 5.1.0706.29690 | Gadgets |
In dispute over Gmail brand, Hamburg firm defeats Google
 Hamburg entrepreneur Daniel Giersch has won a legal dispute with Google concerning the Gmail brand. The Hanseatic Upper Court has now ruled (Az 5 U 87/06) prohibiting Google from using "Gmail" for its e-mail service in German. The court has not yet handed down any written statement. Daniel Giersch's lawyer Sebastian Eble stated, "The Hanseatic Upper Court felt that the law was so clear that it has not even allowed its ruling to be appealed to a higher court." Read more: heise.de |
Consumer Group Questions Google-Doubleclick Deal
 European group asks for an investigation into how Google's DoubleClick acquisition could affect privacy rights. A European consumer group has complained that Google Inc.'s proposed acquisition of online ad broker DoubleClick Inc. could hurt privacy rights due to the massive amount of data the companies would hold. In a letter, the Bureau Europien des Unions de Consommateurs (BEUC) has asked the European Commission and other authorities to investigate how the deal would affect consumers. Full article: pcworld.com Labels: DoubleClick, Europe, privacy |
 Search giant acquires web telephony specialist GrandCentral Communications Search giant Google ramped up the pressure on Skype, Microsoft and others last week by acquiring web telephony startup GrandCentral Communications for an undisclosed sum. GrandCentral’s technology allows users to manage all their numbers through one interface and one number that can be applied to ring all, or any of, the user’s phones. Google product manager Wesley Chan wrote on his company blog that “GrandCentral is an innovative service that lets users integrate all of their existing phone numbers and voice mailboxes into one account, which can be accessed from the web.” Full article: itweek.co.uk Labels: Communications, GrandCentral, phone, Skype |
Google apologises for Sicko blog comments
 Slamming Michael Moore is not company policy An advertising sales account planner at Google has apologised for comments on a company blog regarding the new Michael Moore film Sicko. Lauren Turner used Google's Health Advertising Blog to make a pitch to healthcare companies to buy Google adverts opposite the film to get their message across. The comments caused a storm. Read more: vnunet.com Labels: blogs, health, Michael Moore, sicko |
Google again asks to weigh in on whether Microsoft has violated antitrust settlement
 SAN FRANCISCO: Google has again sought court permission to file legal arguments on whether Microsoft is violating terms of an antitrust settlement, a week after a federal judge rebuffed its complaints. Google told U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington that it had a "special interest" in ensuring Microsoft's compliance with a 2001 consent decree barring it from harming competitors. In court filings Tuesday, Google called Microsoft's opposition to its request "inappropriate." Read more: the International Herald Tribune |
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Forget YouTube... check out EUTube
 The European Commission jumps on the web 2.0 bandwagon The European Commission has launched its very own channel on YouTube to make its audiovisual content more widely available to the public. EUTube contains video content ranging from documentaries covering the EU's activities and history to interviews with European commissioners. Issues such as climate change, energy and immigration will all be covered by the content available on the channel. Read more: silicon.com |
Google Announces GrandCentral Acquisition
 We're pleased to announce that we have acquired GrandCentral Communications, a company that provides services for managing your voice communications. GrandCentral is an innovative service that lets users integrate all of their existing phone numbers and voice mailboxes into one account, which can be accessed from the web. We think GrandCentral's technology fits well into Google's efforts to provide services that enhance the collaborative exchange of information between our users. Read more: Google Blog Labels: acquisitions, Communications, GrandCentral, phone |
JBoss adds Google Gadgets to portal software
 The latest upgrade to the open source portal software integrates Google Gadgets mini-apps and makes personalizing individual portlets easier JBoss is introducing an upgrade to its open source portal software on Monday that features integration with Google Gadgets. With Google Gadgets, developers can drop Google Gadget components onto a portal. These are mini-applications that work with the Google homepage, Google Desktop, or any page on the Web. Examples of Gadgets include a calendar, a weather globe, or a media player. Full article: infoworld.com |
 Either Lauren Turner or her employer, Google, doesn't much like Michael Moore's latest work. But just whose anti-Moore review readers found in an official Google blog last Friday wasn't quite clear. "Moore attacks health insurers, health providers and pharmaceutical companies by connecting them to isolated and emotional stories of the system at its worst," read Turner's entry in Google's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) Health Advertising blog, a new project launched last month and aimed at health care companies. "Moore’s film portrays the industry as money and marketing driven, and fails to show health care’s interest in patient well-being and care." Turner's blog entry, titled "Does negative press make you Sicko?," went on to suggest that health care companies invest in Google ads to combat the movie's criticisms of the industry. Full story: Forbes.com Labels: health, Michael Moore, sicko |
Google Establishes Panel Of Health Care Experts
 The Google Health Advisory Council aims to help the search engine firm better serve users seeking health-related information. Google has created a health care advisory group of prominent medical and health care experts -- many with an interest in speeding up the use of technology in health care delivery, including online medical searches and sharing of health information. Read more: informationweek.com Labels: advisory, health, medicine, technology |
Yahoo launches customisable ad tool
 Yahoo just upped the ante in the display advertising space. The company on Monday launched a new display advertising product called SmartAds, whish allows marketers to offer ads that are customised based on the web surfer’s age, gender, location and online activities. For instance, instead of just seeing a generic ad for a Toyota Prius, a woman in San Francisco who conducts research on hybrid cars on Yahoo Autos could be served an ad for a local San Francisco dealer with information on the types of Priuses that are in stock and the purchase price. The ad, which is configured on the fly, could also feature a background colour targeted for women in her age range, as well as a Golden Gate Bridge logo. Full story: ZDNet.co.uk |
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