Posts Tagged ‘ google ’

I’m not sure if Big Brother’s peering out at us right now through our LCD monitors. Or maybe it’s just Little Brother, but when it’s Google and Verizon … it’s big enough. Net neutrality is a core concept underpinning the foundations of the entire internet. Everything that goes through the “pipes” is treated equally:...
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Everyone’s favorite kicking-boy lately is Microsoft, and it’s easy to see why. Mobile is a disaster, Bing is having issues catching Google, the slate/tablet revolution started by Bill Gates has bypassed Windows … in so many ways Microsoft just feels so yesterday. Last week Microsoft execs clarified how they view their business, and how...
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If I am Microsoft or Apple today, I’m fairly happy. It’s obvious that Google is a huge threat to both Microsoft and Apple. Using its massive cash surpluses from owning the high-volume, high value search ads industry, Google is funding investments that are commoditizing both mobile and “desktop” operating systems … and significant chunks...
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This is completely, desperately, and viciously true. I’ve experienced it myself. A few months ago the CIO was asked by the chief marketing officer to provide a way for marketing employees around the world to share and build documents together, and perform other collaborative tasks. The CIO discussed the project with his application development...
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Portals are getting worried because people aren’t staying in one place on the web anymore (unless that one place is Facebook). According to Compete.com, AOL had 45.5 million unique visitors last month, down slightly from 47.9 million in May 2009 – and a serious drop-off from January, when it saw 55.8 million. Yahoo, at...
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… is that every carrier will customize it slightly differently. Not only does this lead to potential differences in app compatibility, it also (and worse!) can lead to horrible security as companies who have no clue how to create and ship a secure mobile OS start tinkering with things they don’t know anything about....
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This is significant and insightful: “Android is a bet on the past. Chrome is a bet on the future.” Android is still about installing applications on a specific device. Chrome OS is designed for a future where everything is online, in the cloud. You can also argue that it’s great execution by Google …...
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Another brilliant parody from The Onion: New Google Phone Service Whispers Targeted Ads Directly Into Users’ Ears
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This is interesting … searches on Google for how to delete your Facebook account are growing. I just noticed this article at Search Engine Land, and tried it for myself: Looks like Facebook’s recent privacy (anti-privacy?) changes might be having an impact …
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Good insight into both Facebook’s business model and especially their aspirations … how high they think they can go. Over dinner at her favorite restaurant, a few blocks from her home in Atherton, California, her strategy for making money sounds simple. She takes my pen and notebook and starts drawing the classic marketing funnel,...
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From the official Google blog: We launched Place Pages last September for more than 50 million places around the world to help people make more informed decisions about where to go, from restaurants and hotels to dry cleaners and bike shops, as well as non-business places like museums, schools and parks. Place Pages connect...
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In its first 10 days, Apple’s iPad has captured almost as much online usage share as the BlackBerry or Google’s Android operating system, a Web metrics firm said today. According to data from Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based NetApplications.com, the iPad’s share has averaged 0.03% since April 3, the day Apple started selling the media tablet....
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Speaking at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., where the Atmosphere conference takes place, Schmidt said: “What’s really important right now is to get the mobile architecture right. Mobile will ultimately be the way you provision most of your services. The way I like to put it is, the answer should always be...
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“If you go down the list now where they compete, the list is pretty extensive,” said Peter Farago, vice president of marketing at Flurry Inc., a San Francisco mobile analytics firm. In addition to smartphones, Apple and Google both develop Internet browser software (Safari and Chrome), mobile operating systems (iPhone OS and Android), and...
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I was wondering this morning: how many enemies can Google afford? Apple There’s of course Apple, which Google poked with a stick when they brought out Android, their OS for mobile communication devices (or: smartphones). Apple is less concerned about Chromium and Google Apps (see below) … but any other operating systems and productivity...
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