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How Presumptive of You, Google
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-13
Attorney Richard Wageman has been in China a lot longer than Google. He works for Lehman, Lee & Xu, a Chinese law firm. His is a rather refreshing view of Google goings on in China, where it's agreed to censor search results in order to operate a Web site from
Google is Porting Picasa to Linux
By Steve Bryant | Posted: 2006-02-13
Yes, it's true. They're working with codeweavers. And while it's not a full port (they're using Wine), it raises quite a few eyebrows: Google and CodeWeavers Inc. are working together to bring Google's popular Windows Picasa photo editing and sharing program to Linux. The program is now in a limited
Google Developing AJAX Web Editor?
By Steve Bryant | Posted: 2006-02-13
Mike Arrington points to Ajaxian (nice redesign) points to Valleywag points to an email from a source that says Google is working on a Web page editor called Trogdor. I'm willing to bet, and so is
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20% of Google's Income is from Interest, Same as Yahoo's in 2000?
By Steve Bryant | Posted: 2006-02-13
On the news Barron's predicting a possible 50% drop in Google shares, here's an interesting article in the WSJ that I don't see many paying attention to online. The headline is as witty as it is accurate: New Key Word for Google: Interest. Fourth-quarter net interest income was $70.2 million,
TVEyes Open
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-09
Sure, video search specialist TVEyes kicks Google's butt, feature-wise. But can it, or any search start-up for that matter, emerge from Google's shadow?
Share Across Computers is Just the First Step
By Steve Bryant | Posted: 2006-02-09
By now you've heard the news that Google Desktop 3 beta is available for download. There are plenty of useful new features, most of which include enhanced interaction with other desktop
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Amazon.com Unit Exec Takes Post at Google
By Steve Bryant | Posted: 2006-02-08
John Battelle made noise about this last night, and now the AP has the story: Google has hired Amazon search chief Udi Manber. Amazon's A9 is replacing Manber with David Tennenhouse, who
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Gmail + Gtalk = Next Step in Separate Internet Plan
By Steve Bryant | Posted: 2006-02-07
Over on the Intermedia blog, I've got some conjecture about why Google's merging Gmail and Gtalk. On the surface, it looks like Google is driving users to Gtalk by 1) embedding it in
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PayPal Prepares for Google Challenge
By Steve Bryant | Posted: 2006-02-06
The Wall Street Journal is reporting (no pay wall) more details on Google's online payment service, GBuy. But PayPal must now contend with Google. The Mountain View, Calif., Web-search giant,
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The Google Phone: The Next Big Thing?
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-05
The "deck", in cell phone speak, is the features menu that appears after turning on the phone's Internet connection. Now comes a report warning cell phone operators better not let Google get its
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Google Enemies List Update
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-02
The World Association of Newspapers has made it official: a lot of newspapers hate Google too. Like a lot of people in the news business, WAN is irked at how news outfits never see a penny of the ad revenues that companies like Google generate by redistributing their hard work.
A Minute With Alec Muffett
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-02
Muffett found a rather easy way around the censorship software Google's using on its newest search engine in China. EWEEK'S GOOGLE WATCH: How did you figure out all you needed to do was enter search terms in capital letters? Was the cap key stuck and you didn't notice? Muffett "A
The Cell Phone Effect
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-02
Perhaps Google's Billionaire Boys Club ought to seek out advice from Jorma Ollila, the chief executive of Nokia. He's also running a company that's spoiled investors with incredible balance sheet after
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Blacklist Me!
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-01
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has added a $20,000 pool and spa a $300,000 garage with basement, a $200,000 fence and retaining wall, and a $4,000 accessory structure to his home, which sits on a recently merged two acre lot. Gotta keep up with the Joneses; houses in Schmidt's neighborhood
Google Doesn't Go To Congress
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-01
Google sent a letter rather than make a personal appearance at today's Congressional Human Rights Caucus. It seems Google, Yahoo and others support industry guidelines to rely on when operating in
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