In Google Versus Apple, the FTC Makes Microsoft a Clear Winner
The FTC increasingly sees Google and Apple as counterbalancing forces. That gives Microsoft more room to maneuver unhindered.
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How Google is Taking on iTunes in the Cloud
The race is on to give users access to their entire music collections online. Apple's (APPL) shutdown of Lala this month was a precursor to a cloud-based iTunes. Then last week Google (GOOG) announced it will launch its own online music service. Details about both projects remain sketchy, because bo...
Facebook: The Six-Year-Old Fuddy Duddy
Facebook may be a young company, but when it comes to agile strategic planning and execution, it is stiff, unyielding, and ultimately self-damaging. Without learning a more adaptive strategic approach, Facebook could wind up flat on its code base.
Don't Count on 3D Gimmicks to Revive Video-Game Sales
Corporations are 3D crazy in Hollywood and TV Land -- and now also in the video-game industry. Nintendo (NTO) has its upcoming portable 3DS system, Sony (SNE) included 3D support in its latest PlayStation 3 software update, and now one of the leading third-party companies is claiming that half of al...
Content Mill Demand Media Expands Its Reach -- To More Newspapers! [Exclusive]
Demand Media has expanded its move into traditional newspapers with a publicly unannounced deal to provide articles and video to web sites owned by Hearst's San Francisco Chronicle and Houston Chronicle.
Google's Pac-Man Homage Shows the Power of Old Tech
Google understands the power of low tech and how it can work for a cutting-edge company. Just look at how it used an homage to the 30-year-old video game Pac-Man.
Microsoft's Well-Timed Entry into Smart TV May Herald a Turnaround
Microsoft may have timed its entry into home theater uncharacteristically well.
Facebook and MySpace Are Begging Congress to Regulate Them on Privacy
In yet another privacy fiasco, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites have been delivering user identities to advertisers, even when they claim not to. These companies are putting all businesses that use online advertising onto the fast tract for regulation.
How Google's A-Team Will Finally Make Web TV Work
The marriage of television and the Internet has been a dream in the technology industry since 1996, when WebTV first appeared. But to date no one has combined the intelligence of the net with the sublime stupidity of television in a way that broke through to the mass market. The introduction of Go...
Google, Apple, and RIM: Win, Place, and Show in the Smartphone Horse Race
Given current growth rates, Google Android looks as though it will ship more units than Apple's iPhone OS, even taking the iPad into account. Even if Android slows a bit, it seems clear that RIM's BlackBerry is about to drop into third place.
Google and the Seven Stages of Astoundingly Bad Crisis PR
Google proves that it doesn't take much be astoundingly bad at crisis PR. Only seven little steps.
Why Social Kingpins Facebook and Zynga Decided to Bury the Hatchet -- For Now
Facebook and Zynga may be feuding over money, but they both realize they stand to gain more as a team.
Google's Internet Video Gambit: Supporting Everything Really Means Supporting Nothing
Google's new WebM royalty-free video technology only adds to the confusion of its video strategy.
Apple Goes Mainstream: Shift on Final Cut Software Will Leave Old Pros in the Lurch
Apple reportedly plans to refocus its Final Cut video production software from professionals to a more mainstream focused audience. That would be in keeping with its general change in audience and market identity.
And the Nobel Prize in Futility Goes to... Makers of New Web-TV Boxes
My colleague Chris Dannen wrote about the possibility that Target (TGT) and Walmart (WMT) could lose the Internet TV battle to the Apple iPad. The food chain continues: Yet other companies are still creating Web devices for televisions that, in turn, will be eaten by Target and Walmart-backed TVs. ...
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