Google Chrome OS To Launch Within A Week
First announced in July, will become available for download within a week, we’ve heard from a reliable source. Google previously said to expect an early version of the OS in the fall.
What can we expect? Driver support will likely be a weak point. We’ve heard at various times that Google has a legion of engineers [...]
Google Wave Invitation
Today I got the google wave invitation. As we know it is in the preview mode. You can use this application only if you can get the invitation from google team or from any one who have the invitation. As of now I have 8 invitations. If you want to get the invitation, please leave [...]
Google Wants Out of AOL Investment
Measured strictly in terms of financial returns, Google’s investment in AOL has been a dud. In 2005, Google paid $1 billion for a 5 percent stake in AOL, valuing the Time Warner unit at $20 billion. Last month, Google wrote down the value of that investment by $726 million, which assumes AOL’s new valuation is [...]
Google Ad Deal Is Under Scrutiny
The Justice Department has opened a formal antitrust investigation into a deal struck last month that would allow the Internet titan Google to provide some search advertising for Yahoo, according to sources familiar with the inquiry.Investigators are planning to demand documents not only from Google and Yahoo, but also from other large companies in the [...]
Microsoft confirmed an agreement to buy Powerset, one of the leaders in semantic search
As rumored last week, Microsoft, with the notion of a Yahoo deal receding quickly in the rear-view mirror, is taking another tack in its efforts to stem the dominance of Google search — rather than playing catch up, it wants to try leapfrog. Today, Microsoft confirmed an agreement to buy Powerset, one of the leaders [...]
Adobe Makes Flash Searchable
For years the big problem with Flash-based websites is that they could not be properly indexed by search engines. Flash websites have been favored by marketers and advertisers for a long time, because of the ability to create rich, interactive Web experiences. However for most other businesses, particularly those with a lot of information on [...]
Microsoft’s war against Google
Microsoft is pushing hard to stop Google from teaming up with Yahoo now that the software giant has given up on acquiring the tarnished Internet portal. But antitrust lawyers and technology analysts outside the case don’t think Ballmer & Co. has much of a prayer at stopping the deal from going through.
Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) [...]
Google, @ 10 years, is looking for more
Ten years ago this coming September, two Stanford University doctoral students — one of them a Michigan native — launched a business that would revolutionize how millions of people use the Internet.
Yes, Google is getting older, at least in tech years.
But don’t expect the world’s dominant search engine company to remain content with the enormous [...]
Nokia and Google: Too much emphasis on the mobile OS?
With Nokia’s acquisition of Symbian, it is going head-to-head with Google Android and Windows Mobile to make a run at building the top software platform for mobile phones. The problem is that all three of them could be making some bad assumptions about the way the mobile phone market — particularly the smartphone market — [...]
Microsoft Outlook Accounts Migrate to Gmail
Google seems to have landed a big-ticket contract for issuing Gmail accounts to some 1.3-million students in schools in Australia. Which also means Gmail accounts will now oust existing Microsoft Outlook or Exchange accounts of these students.
The three-years contract is worth nearly $9.5 million; Google, in partnership with SMS Management & Technology and Telstra, will [...]
