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Google Android + Facebook Could be the Reese's of Smart Phones
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Google's Android mobile and wireless aoftware is creating quite a stir, spurring Motorola to hire an application development expert who can work on a special gadget? That gadget is an Android-based smart phone optimized for social networks such as Facebook or MySpace. The move comes as social network use via mobile phones is growing. When I attend conference sessions with a mobile bent, people inevitably debate what will be the killer app or Web service will be for smart phones. Will it be search? Will it be mashup-laden location-based services that fuel commerce? We speculate, but we don't know. Now that Google's ...
Will Google's Q3 Earnings Offer a Window View to the Recession?
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Tomorrow could be a telling day for Internet stocks, with Google slated to report third-quarter earnings. It could also tell us nothing, if, as some reports suggest, Google's search advertising sales may not be severely impacted by the recession. As I noted last week, Citi Investment Group expects Google to announce $4.47 billion in net revenue and $4.77 in non-GAAP earnings per share, compared with consensus expectations of $4.76 billion and an EPS of $4.81. Citi's Mark Mahaney also put a healthy price target of $590 on Google, which is currently trading at $345, or less than half of its stock value from this time last year. If Google beats ...
T-Mobile Android Smart Phone a Solid Device
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T-Mobile Android Smart Phone a Solid Device ( Page 1 of 6 ) The innovative T-Mobile G1, the first smart phone using the Google Android mobile operating system, is a worthy competitor to Apple and its iPhone. The T-Mobile G1 is a strong consumer offering, but enterprises should wait until more corporate features are included. As the first publicly released smart phone running the Open Handset Alliances Android mobile operating system, the T-Mobile G1 with Google ...
Google Adapts Google Health for the Visually Impaired
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Google's Health portal, which symbolizes cloud computing for consumers, is augmented to allow visually impaired users to access the site via screen readers and self-voicing browsers. Google Health competes with Microsoft's HealthVault as the search engines continue to slug it out for more users of their Web services. Google ...
eWEEK Likes the T-Mobile (Android) G1
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... As the first publicly released smart phone running the Open Handset
Alliance’s Android mobile operating system, the T-Mobile G1 with Google
is a qualified success. But while packed with innovative features and
well-designed capabilities, the device is also overrun with a raft of small,
first-generation bugs and idiosyncrasies. ...
Google's Varian on Search Ad Auction Quality Scores
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Google Chief Economist Hal Varian continues to enlighten the public on what makes Google's search moneymaker tick, explaining the value of quality scores for the company's search engine ad auction. Call it Google's latest plank of defense for its pending deal with Yahoo, which would let Yahoo run Google search ads alongside its own results. The Association of National Advertisers, U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl and others have written letters to the Justice Department condemning or expressing concern about how the Googlehoo deal will impact the online advertising sector. Google defines its quality score as a formula that reflects what ads ...
Google's Q3 Profit Jumps 26% Amid Recession Fears
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Google bests third quarter income estimates, topping $1.35 billion at a time when financial analysts are concerned about weakness in the online ad market. Google's solid financial and paid click results indicate keyword advertising on search engines is alive and well. Industry experts will now look to Yahoo next week to see if display advertising has been impacted by the recession. Google's ...
New iGoogle Suits Me Fine. Others? Not So Much.
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Yesterday, I published this short post on the new canvas view and left navigation changes Google made to its iGoogle homepage application. I couldn't say much then because Google hadn't yet pinged one of its illustrious data centers to switch my new iGoogle page on. Of course, an hour after I posted Google did flip that switch and I've been accessing the new iGoogle for the last 18 hours or so. I'm comfortable with the changes. Click on a left tab to get a canvas view of a gadget, then click home to go back to the start of iGoogle. Easy enough. I'll use that in perpetuity for Google Reader and Gmail, but perhaps not so much for the other gadgets, ...
Google Apps Outages Officially A Part of Our Lives
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Google's Gmail and Start pages suffer outages, again casting a pall over SAAS, cloud computing and the whole Web services world. We might yet be able to depend on SAAS, but just as with on-premise messaging and collaboration apps from Microsoft, IBM and others we must take additional measures to make sure all of the data we transact via desktops and computers is made redundant. There is a harried Google Apps Advisor named Mark whose life I don't envy. Once, sometimes twice a month it seems, he gets to try to sooth angry users of Google Apps, the search engine's Web-based applications that enable collaboration via e-mail, word processing and spreadsheet documents. These users, some of ...
