Archive for 'Google Grams' Category
What Google Learns about Mobile Search in Japan
22 February 2008Google says in the BusinessWeek article “Japan: Google’s Real-Life Lab” that it’s learning a lot about search on mobile devices in its operations in Japan where most all the country’s 100 million cell phone users, seemingly, use their handset to access the Net - and do that at speeds comparable to what most European and […]
Nokia and Friends To Wage Mobile War On Everyone Else
29 January 2008“Nokia estimates that in 2010, the total Internet services market will be approximately €100 billion ($146 billion),” said Nokia president and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. “Nokia’s goal is to be the world’s number-one in bringing the Internet to mobile devices.”
Nokia has slowly been pushing its way into absolutely every aspect of the industry. Nokia’s VP of […]
Google Expands Online Video Marketshare
19 January 2008Google sites including YouTube not only continued their reign as the
top US online video destination but also increased their marketshare
from October 2007 to November by two percentage points to 31.3%,
according to comScore.
Of the 9.5 billion online videos viewed by Americans in November, 3
billion were viewed on Google sites (mostly on YouTube).
Fox Interactive Media ranked second […]
Breaking In The New Market, a la Mobile Busts a Move on Android
19 January 2008A la Mobile, a big player in Linux platforms and open source
technology for mobiles, showed some love to Google’s Android with
the first industry demonstration of applications based on Android’s
framework. On an HTC Qtek 9090 smartphone, a la Mobile demonstrated
a browser, phone dialer, maps, camera function, audio player, games,
notes, calendar and a contacts and task manager.
While […]
Verizon Wireless to Support Google’s Android
8 December 2007- An Open Access Cellular Network Followed by Selection of LTE for High-speed Wireless Broadband
- Integration of FiOS and LTE: Wireless Meets Wireline
- Verizon Could Offer Seamless High-speed Wired & Wireless Broadband Services
Last week Verizon Wireless said it would open its network to third-party devices and Internet applications and services. Then it said it would […]
Google Plans to Keep Users on Its Sites Longer
1 December 2007Is there anyone left that thinks Google is just a search company and not a full-blown, big time advertising network - what with its recent announcement of an operating system for mobile devices that will compete directly with Apple, Microsoft and the Nokia-backed Symbian? There’s also the free, or near free, online storage service that […]
Clearwire Explores Partnership Options, Including Google
1 December 2007- Could Revisit Sprint Alliance Once New Sprint CEO Is Hired
- Chairman McCaw Exploring Other Potential Partners
- Meanwhile, Google Reported to Be Preparing for 700 MHz Bid
The perhaps temporary split between Sprint Nextel and Clearwire has the upside of throwing the once closed US WiMAX market, making Clearwire and perhaps Sprint itself candidates for partnerships […]
AT&T to Google: Wireless Networks Not for the Faint of Heart
1 December 2007- Bring Money - Lots of It
Evidently AT&T, the largest US mobile phone service, isn’t worried about the possibility that Google will enter the market. GigaOM reported that AT&T’s head of wireless operations Ralph de la Vega said, “Running a wireless network is a capital-intensive business. It’s not a business for the faint of heart.” […]
Google to Offer Web-based Storage to Consumers
1 December 2007- All Things Online Google will shortly continue its march of offering Web-based services by allowing consumers to keep their data and entertainment files on Google’s servers and accessing them over the Net. Google already offers Web-based word processing, spreadsheet, presentation (à la Microsoft’s PowerPoint), e-mail, maps, language translation and newsgathering. In addition to traditional data […]
‘Another Lucrative Channel for Peddling Ads’
10 November 2007We’re not the only ones to have noticed that Google is an advertising network, not a search company, although it uses search and other applications (like word processing) and services (like Google Maps) to attract eyeballs. “Google is hoping Android opens another lucrative channel for peddling ads and services to people when they’re away from […]