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A Brief Conversation with Google’s Director of TV Advertising

Last night I moderated a panel for the International Radio and Television Society (IRTS) called "Traditional media meets the digital challenge." Among the panelists...

LG and Google in Mobile Partnership

LG announced it will pre-install Google mobile apps, including Maps and Gmail, on milions of LG phones starting in 2Q 2007. The phones will...

YouTube Mobile Coming June 2007

YouTube will publicly launch a version of its site for mobile users just as soon as its exclusive contract with Verizon expires, reports Katie...

Orkut Polls: More Google Data Mining

Google may be all about automation, but it understands the benefits of user-created data.Hence, the new polls functionality in Orkut. Google has now made...

No Robert Young, Murdoch did not just KO Google

NewTeeVee contributor Robert Young wrote an interesting post yesterday positing that News Corp./NBC's video distribution plan could potentially disrupt Google's efficacy as a search...

Viacom: YouTube Filters for Porn, but not for The Daily Show

Viacom published on the Washington Post op-ed page on Saturday their case against YouTube.Michael Fricklas, Viacom's general counsel, argues that while the DMCA fosters...

News Corp-NBC Plan Good for Business, Bad for Users

NBC and News Corp.'s newly-announced video distribution network is a good idea in theory and will succeed in putting pressure on Google. But even...

Arg! Google Wins Belgian Piracy Lawsuit

A Belgian court handed a victory to Google this week, declaring that the search engine was not liable for helping hackers find tools to...

Google Operators Apparently Not Standing By

A Google executive implied yesterday that Google had no plans to manufacture a phone."At this point in time, we are very focused on the...

Yahoo Sued in Class Action Complaint for Misrepresenting Premium E-Mail Terms

Who's running the Yahoo e-mail store?Yahoo is being sued in a California class action lawsuit for misrepresenting the terms of its paid premium e-mail...