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Friday, May 8, 2009
Well, Google can’t say it’s not in the content business anymore. Here are 11 ads the company has commissioned to promote its Chrome browser. Most are designed to be “viral videos”, though you might see one of them on TV, because Google will be buying some airtime for the spot using its TV Ads platform. Read More »
Looks like Microsoft has settled on a legal defense for its European Commission antitrust inquiry: sanction us and you might as well just hand the search market entire over to Google. Sources with knowledge of Microsoft’s legal strategy tell The New York Times that the company will argue that an EC mandate to distribute other browsers with its Windows operating system will hurt its competitive position in the search market. Read More »
If journalism were a psychological disorder, traditional print reporters have attention deficit disorder, while bloggers are more on the obsessive-compulsive-disorder side of the coin. Read More »
There are plenty of question marks surrounding Vevo, Universal Music Group’s new music video site that’s scheduled to launch later this year with a big assist from Google’s YouTube. But here’s one answer: The venture will be run by Rio Caraeff, who currently oversees UMG’s digital business. Read More »
A couple bombshells in Sun Microsystems’s latest 10-Q filing. Seems the company believes it may have violated the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bans bribery of foreign government officials. Oh, and some of its shareholders are suing to block its acquisition by Oracle. Read More »
The honeymoon is over for investors in The Knot. The wedding planning site’s shares are down sharply lower following disappointing Q1 results. Revenues for the quarter of $23.7 million were slightly ahead of the consensus at $23.5 million, and down a tad from $23.8 million a year ago. But the company lost 4 cents a share in the quarter, slightly worse than expected. Read More »
Developers building applications for the iPhone best make sure their work runs on the device’s forthcoming 3.0 OS. Because effective yesterday, Apple is no longer accepting applications that don’t. Read More »
A classical piano player in Christchurch, New Zealand decided to see how quickly he could make an app for Apple’s iPhone. Reuben Bijl, 22 years old, took 30 minutes and came up with a pointless one called “Sound Grenade.” Read More »
2009 may prove to be the year that Blu-ray caught on. Sales of the high-definition DVD players, sluggish throughout 2008, are surging in 2009. According to the latest metrics from the NPD Group, sales of standalone Blu-ray disc players in the United States rose 72 percent from the first quarter of 2008, driven by an increasing awareness of the technology. Read More »
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.) Read More »
“We are now in the midst of an epochal debate over the value of content and it is clear to many newspapers that the current model is malfunctioning. We have been at the forefront of that debate and you can confidently presume that we are leading the way in finding a model that maximizes revenues in return for our shareholders….The current days of the Internet will soon be over.”
— News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch says we’ll all be paying for content online within a year
Oh dear, I always forget that the camera is turned on 24/7 these days, knows all and sees all and then sticks it on YouTube.
Like this moment for me that came during a speech I gave last week at the Software & Information Industry Association’s NetGain conference in San Francisco, which was titled, “How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Tweet: What Interactivity Really Means for Real Businesses.”
In 140 words or fewer, I insult Amazon’s Kindle, Apple and even myself for being a Steve Jobs fanboy. Read More »
YouTube generates billions of views but no profits. That’s because Google’s video site only sells advertising on a small portion of the clips it shows. That may be changing, argues Bernstein Research’s Jeffrey Lindsay. Read More »
No one can say for sure that antitrust regulators in Europe will levy a big fine against Intel next week, or ever for that matter. But there don’t seem to be too many people betting against that possibility. Read More »
Larry Ellison’s got some news for skeptics predicting Oracle will dump the Sun Microsystems hardware business when its $7.4 billion acquisition of the company closes: It’s not gonna happen. In an interview with Reuters subsequently filed with the SEC, the Oracle CEO said he plans to maintain that part of Sun’s business. Read More »
Earlier Posts
- Plum’s Hans Peter Brøndmo Speaks About the Less-Social Social Network! on BoomTown
- Google CEO to FTC: You Can Have My Apple Board Seat When You Pry it From My Cold, Dead Hands … on Digital Daily
- RealNetworks Q1 EPS Misses; Declines to Forecast on Voices
- QOTD on Digital Daily
- LIVE: Google Press Luncheon on Digital Daily
- Nintendo’s Mysterious Caution on FY ’10 on Voices
- Cablevision Mulls Madison Square Garden Spinoff on Voices
- Energy Conversion Devices: Big Customer In Cash Crunch on Voices
- Palm Pre on June 5? on Digital Daily
- Kindle DX: Must You Power Down on the Plane? on Voices
Quickoffice Brings Editing to iPhones
The iPhone Quickoffice app allows users to create and edit Word and Excel documents, but getting files into the app is a pain. Read More »
