'America's Finest [satirical] News Source' details new advertising plans for Google phones
Sure, it's satirical, but it does raise a valid question: how exactly does Google plan to monetize all of its growing voice and phone services? Maybe the Onion is on to something.
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The publication has profiled Google before, hilariously detailing their "opt out program," below.
Seth Weintraub - May 18, 2010 11:42 AM ET
Google pays $68.2 million in cash for the voice and video over IP technology maker.
As part of their expansion into new technology fields, Google has recently been gobbling up companies at a voracious clip.
One area of strong acquisitions is in video and VoIP fields. Google picked up On2 last year and has been building an open source video codec called VP8 around On2's technology. The company also purchased Grand Central to become MORE
Seth Weintraub - May 18, 2010 11:04 AM ET
HCL CEO Vineet Nayar says social media can come in many different forms. Photo: HCL Technologies.
What does social networking mean in developing economies, where laptops are harder to find and phones are often for texting, not browsing?
Over lunch this week, I put that question to Vineet Nayar. Besides being CEO of India-based outsourcing giant HCL Technologies, Nayar is an avid observer of the Internet's effect on global business and MORE
Jon Fortt - May 18, 2010 10:23 AM ET
Goodbye U.S. Senate, hello Genius Bar? Not in our lifetimes.
Source: HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher
If you haven't heard Bill Maher's monologue about why Steve Jobs should be running (and renaming) America -- which aired on HBO last Friday, hit YouTube and the Huffington Post on Monday, and is posted below the fold -- it's worth watching, if only for the clever lines about the Tea Party and MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 18, 2010 8:31 AM ET
The machine unboxed Saturday in a Vietnamese YouTube video hits the Apple store
Click to enlarge. Source: Apple Inc.
In an unusually anticlimactic product update, Apple (AAPL) quietly refreshed its $999 MacBook early Tuesday with a faster processor, better video chip and longer-lasting battery.
There was no hoopla. No press release. No "We'll Be Right Back" sign at Apple.com -- at least none that anybody with a Twitter account seems to MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 18, 2010 6:31 AM ET
Google is now offering a Google Voice invite to anyone with an .edu email address.
The announcement, made on the official Google Voice Blog, lets the floodgates open to users interested in managing their voice communications with Google.
Google offers a free phone number, Voicemail transcription, call routing, cheap international calling and a bunch of other cool features with Voice. (Great video overview of Google Voice services here.)
Until now, the free service had been MORE
Seth Weintraub - May 17, 2010 4:21 PM ET
Fancy driving the A-Team van around San Francisco? There's a Google Map app for that.
Fox and Google teamed up to create a YouTube microsite application to get people excited about the upcoming A-Team movie. According to the (unofficial) Google Maps blog, Planet in Action was contracted along with Google engineers to build the application, which incidentally is quite fun.
Using the 3D renderings of cities like San Francisco and New York you MORE
Seth Weintraub - May 17, 2010 1:44 PM ET
Based on NPD data, iPods, not Macs, are being cannibalized by the iPad, says an analyst
Photo: Apple Inc.
Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster has looked at the NPD Group's data for the month of April and concluded that it's good news for Apple (AAPL). How so?
The data show domestic Mac sales up 39% year over year, on track to beat the roughly 19% the Street is expecting for the June MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 17, 2010 1:35 PM ET
It certainly could, if it were willing to spend what it takes, says an analyst. But that's a big if.
"Without significant increase in spending to woo channel and software partners," writes Rodman & Renshaw's Ashok Kumar in a provocative note to clients issued Monday, "HP's acquisition of Palm will likely fail."
Kumar offers a scenario in which HP (HPQ) revives Palm's (PALM) flagging WebOS platform and successfully challenges both Apple (AAPL) MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 17, 2010 1:12 PM ET
In a move to bolster its search engine revenue, Google has shifted a key executive from the YouTube division.
Ben Ling
Ben Ling left Facebook in August of 2008 after 11 months with the company to do big things at Google. He moved into the YouTube offices in San Bruno California with the mission to help monetize the world's biggest video site. As YouTube celebrated its 5th anniversary today, clearly signs are MORE
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