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Netflix CEO 'Very Bullish' on Google TV, Apple TV
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-11-19
Google TV was a frequent topic of conversation at the Web 2.0 Summit this week. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings provided a very CEO-style answer Nov. 17 when asked what he thought about the Web-meets-TV-surfing service and Apple's own Apple TV streaming service.
He's a good man to ask,
Google Apps Connects to 60 Apps, Sheds Standard, GAPE Titles
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-11-18
Google in May began retooling its Google Apps infrastructure to make all Google applications available via single sign-on from users' Apps accounts.
The company ratcheted up this
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Google Goggles Tested on Disney, Delta, T-Mobile G2 Ads
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-11-17
As demonstrated at AdAge in September, Google is leveraging the Google Goggles visual search technology for its advertising purposes. Goggles is a mobile application that
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Google CEO Schmidt on Google TV, Chrome OS, NFC Chip
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-11-16
San Francisco -- A bunch of us media peeps here at the Web 2.0 Summit had the pleasure of chatting with Google CEO Eric Schmidt after his mysterious non-unveiling of the Nexus S smartphone powered by T-Mobile Nov. 15. Schmidt waved around the smartphone you see
Why Facebook Has Google over a Barrel: Social Ads
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-11-15
When we journalists talk about the rivalry between Google and Facebook, which Columbia Law School Professor Tim Wu sees (WSJ paywall) as our new resident monopolists, we tend to speak in blanket scenarios. We might juxtapose the fact that Google has 1 billion searchers to Facebook's
Google, Thank Apple for Buoying the Mobile Ad Market
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-11-12
It might be one of the most clichéd aphorisms running, but Apple has again proven to be the rising tide that lifts all boats.
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece on how the company's iAd in-application advertising platform for its iPhone, iPod touch and iPad is boosting
Dish Discounts Google TV Logitech Revue for $179
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-11-11
Google TV hasn't been on Logitech Revue boxes or Sony Internet TVs and Blu-ray players for a month, but are sales lagging? Google won't say, but the company promoted Dish Network's amazingly reduced sale of the Logitech Revue for $179, or 40 percent off of the $299 retail
Blekko Goes Gaga with 1M Daily Queries, 30K Slashtags
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-11-10
Blekko said Nov. 9 that users made more than 1 million queries per day and created more than 30,000 slashtags in the curated search engine's first week in public beta. Launched Nov. 1, Blekko tries a crowd-sourced approach to search results to help users better pinpoint answers. The
Google Needles Bing with Search App for Windows Phone 7
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-11-09
Google Nov. 8 launched a version of its search application tailored for Windows Phone 7, which debuted today on handsets from AT&T and T-Mobile. AT&T is selling the Samsung Focus and HTC Surround for $199 with a two-year contract. T-Mobile is offering the HTC HD7 for $199.
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Facebook Could Buy RockMelt to Beat Google
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-11-08
I've spent the morning playing with and writing about RockMelt, the social Web browser. RockMelt hooks into Facebook Platform to let users browse content online and share it with their Facebook friends and tweet to Twitter.
Users can also integrate RSS feeds. Pretty much anything anyone
Google Preps Product Search Overhaul to Battle Amazon, eBay
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-11-05
Google is reportedly close to releasing a refreshed Google Product Search service leveraging the technology it acquired from Like.com, which it picked up in August.
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Android Will Rule Over Apple iOS for Developers in 2011
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-11-04
2010 is hurtling toward its end, and it's always good to take the pulse of the mobile applications industry.
This is especially apt considering mobile poses the greatest growth potential of any app sector, when combined with local and social apps. Millennial Media, that intrepid standalone ad shop
Google Voice Leveraged for AdWords Call Metrics
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-11-03
First Google Voice has been seamlessly blended with Gmail, now AdWords. Is there anywhere Google won't put the call management application? Google has launched AdWords call metrics,
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Blekko Has Usability Issues as it Seeks to Bite Google
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-11-02
It may never be fair to cry "Dead Man Walkin'" for a brand new Web service, but unfortunately that's the conclusion I've come to after playing with new curated search service Blekko this morning. Blekko is geared to cut out the clutter of Web search on Google,
AdMob Founder, Google Wave Creator Leave Google
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-11-01
Google saw two high-level departures last week, with AdMob founder Omar Hamoui and Google Maps and Google Wave creator Lars Rasmussen. Who knows what Hamoui is doing, but Rasmussen has gone to Facebook, the latest of the 20 percent of former Googlers who now make up Facebook.
