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- Apple to announce entirely new iPod family today
- Apple to announce entirely new iPod family todayAh...The Bauble Factory has been fired up again and is ready to blind the clueless into buying yet another brand new bauble to replace the not-so-shiny-anymore bauble.Who knows, maybe this time around they will have Invented the Subscription Service. Then we should...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., new iPod family, iPod family
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- Day 3 with a new Dell and Vista
- Coming in late? Catch up with the Day 1 and Day 2 installments. The executive summary: I’m documenting my experience with a new Dell C521 running Windows Vista Home Premium. A buggy BIOS update delivered by the Dell Support tool caused a catastrophic hardware failure on Day 1, but after...
- Tags: Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- Google flexes political muscle in presidential campaign 2008
- Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Google is determined to control all the world’s information, and to make sure “the presidential campaign trail winds though the Googleplex.” Not only is the Google top brass, led by Googler in Chief Eric...
- Tags: Google, John McCain, Political Campaign, Politics, President Clinton, Presidential Race, User Generated Politics
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- On the road with Windows Vista
- I’m away on vacation this week, nearly 7,000 miles from home. But I’m not out of touch. Judy and I have been coming to Italy for the past five years, and it’s instructive to see with each visit just how much the experience of leisure travel has changed for use...
- Tags: Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- YouTube copyright lawsuits mount: Who needs Google?
- The Google YouTube lawsuits for massive copyright infringement are coming at a fast and furious pace.The latest, as reported by Bloomberg News:"Google Inc.s YouTube unit was sued by David Grisman, a mandolin player who once performed with the Grateful Dead, over what he says are unauthorized postings of his music,...
- Tags: Google, Video, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- News to know: Browser data leaks; Tweetr; SOA sabotage
- Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: Do you know what’s leaking out of your browser? Symantec vulnerability research founder joins Microsoft.Ryan Stewart: Is Tweetr the first mainstream Apollo application?Dion Hinchcliffe: Mashups: The next major new software development model?Robin Harris: Apple’s Spotlight: keywords are so ’90s.David Berlind: Mobile RIAs: Java, Apollo, and Silverlight’s deathmatch?...
- Tags: General, News to know
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- Chasing Google Patents: What's the real deal?
- Word is “out” about the latest Google “plans,” so says “The Guardian,” thanks to a patent filing “scoop.”Publicly filed Google patent applications are seductive, holding the allure of an “inside” look at what Google is REALLY up to. But alas, the very public, accessible to anyone, filings do not provide...
- Tags: Google, Google Software Applications, Search
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Microsoft, Yahoo, Google: All Aboard!
- Information Architects New Years gift to the world was: Web Trend Map 2007!What is it?It shows all the big players, the current Internet trends and how they’re connected, using the Tokyo Metro map. It’s totally unscientific and almost useless, but definitely fun to look at. Fun indeed. But what is...
- Tags: Culture, Google, Microsoft, Web 2.0, Yahoo
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- News to know: Microsoft vs. open source; Wi-Fi security; AMD; Halo 3
- Notable headlines:Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: Free and open source software violates 235 Microsoft patents. Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents. Fortune: Microsoft takes on the free world.AMD goes quad-core with Phenom.George Ou: Why VPN cant replace Wi-Fi security.Ryan Naraine: Hacker demos how to defeat Citibank’s virtual keyboard.David...
- Tags: General, News to know
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Google Gmail: Hot, hip or third place player?
- Hitwise is aptly named: It creates Internet hits, courtesy of its “Hitwise Intelligence Analyst Weblogs”! The blog of LeeAnn Prescott, Research Director at Hitwise, solicits prospective clients to use its: “competitive insights to maximize online marketing programs.” Prescott’s latest “competitive insights” posted at her blog concern Gmail, asserting:Users...
- Tags: E-mail providers, INTERNET, Google Inc., Hitwise, Google Gmail, Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-05-13
- Google search visitors: Will they stick around?
- Does Google SEO success suck’? I asked rhetorically last month, noting Rich Skrentas love-hate relationship with Google, and the traffic it drives to the company he leads, Topix.While Google SEO traffic is theoretically "free," Topix is betting its future, and its sharholders millions, that greater ROI will be had from...
- Tags: Google Search, Searchblog, Google Inc., Battelle
- Blog posts 2007-05-13
- Google privacy jungle: Where is YOUR data? Don't ask!
- "Google CEO wants your personal information" I underscored in reporting Google’s announced claim of “taking steps to further improve our privacy practices” two months ago.The touted Google privacy “step” at the time was that user search data will be “much more anonymous, so that it can no longer be identified...
- Tags: SECURITY, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-05-12
- Google at Risk: YouTube class action lawsuit changes DMCA copyright game
- YouTube class action lawsuit: Has YOUR copyright been infringed?So asks Proskauer Rose LLP and Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, the law firms prosecuting the action of The Football Association Premier League Limited, et. al. v. YouTube, Inc., et al., a copyright infringement class action pending in the United States...
- Tags: game, YouTube Inc., class action, William Hart, Google Inc., DMCA
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- Google CEO sends mixed messages to investors, again
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt addressed the Wall Street investment analyst community last month for the Google quarterly earnings reporting ritual; He also addressed the companys own investors today for the Google annual shareholder meeting ritual .What a difference three weeks makes? Or, more aptly, which Google story is the real...
- Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., advertisement, core business, shareholder
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Hillary Clinton plays winning hand in Las Vegas
- Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Hillary Clinton cant get enough of Vegas, thats why she has opened up a campaign headquarters there!Clinton vs. Edwards, not Obama: ‘User Generated Politics’ live from Nevada I reported in February, live blogging the “first...
- Tags: User Generated Politics, Presidential Race, President Clinton, Politics, Political Campaign, Hillary Clinton
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- NY to Google: Stop trapping consumer data, or no DoubleClick merger
- Has Google CEO Eric Schmidt finally met his match in New York state Governor Eliot Spitzer?Schmidt feigns scant concern over Viacoms $1 billion lawsuit claiming "massive copyright fringement" following the Google $1.65 billion stock buyout of YouTube. Will the chief Googler also "dismiss" the efforts of Spitzers administration to call...
- Tags: Advertising, DoubleClick, Google, Google Software Applications, Internet Data, Privacy, Search
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Google Analytics: Should Google be minding YOUR Web business?
- Google is doing a full court press for “V2” of Google Analytics. Occam’s Razor blog by Avinash Kaushik, an “independent consultant” and author of “Web Analytics, an hour a day”:Version 2 is so radically different and provides such a compelling value proposition to users of web analytics that I...
- Tags: Metrics, Google Software Applications, Google, Enterprise
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Vista Home Basic on 512MB? Hey, it works!
- Everyone knows Windows Vista is a resource hog. Everyone says it doesn’t even get out of first gear without a gigabyte of RAM, and it takes 2 GB before it stops stuttering and stammering with each mouse click. Everyone says Vista Home Basic is the black sheep of the family,...
- Tags: Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Google News Flash: Google.com SERPs get News, and images!
- Google News is NOT newspaper driven: Zell vs. Schmidt I said exactly one month ago.Google News is indeed NOT newspaper driven, I reiterate: Google News is Google driven, Google.com that is.Poor Sam Zell I noted last month: The blogosphere has been quick to come to Google’s defense by suggesting that...
- Tags: Media, Google
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Google vs. Microsoft Office? NO: vs. Open Office (.org)!
- If we take Google CEO Eric Schmidt at his public words, Microsoft Office is welcome at the Google Apps table. But what about OpenOffice.org? Will the Google chief’s we can all get along in the cloud PR stance apply as well? "FREE OFFICE SUITE" is the succinct,...
- Tags: Enterprise, Google Apps, Google Software Applications, Microsoft, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
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