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Bill Gates on local advertising: Yellow Pages gone in 5 years: Microsoft wagered an estimated $1 billion of its competitive kitty that it will loudly beat search nemesis Google in both the mobile search and local advertising $50 billion challenge, as I report and analyze in What Microsoft is telling Google about mobile search: Tellme Networks, Inc.In buying Tellme, Microsoft aims...; Tags: Cell Phones, Advertising, Google, Local, Marketing, Microsoft, Wireless; Blog posts 2007-05-14
What Microsoft is telling Google about mobile search: Google recently warned investors about the “formidable competition” it faces from number one rival Microsoft, underscoring in particular that Redmond bests Mountain View on the cash resources front.In its acquisition of Tellme Networks, Inc., Microsoft is wagering an estimated $1 billion of its competitive kitty that it will loudly beat...; Tags: SEARCH, Tellme Networks Inc., mobile search, mobile marketing, Google Inc., vision, radio, advertisement, Microsoft Corp.; Blog posts 2007-03-25
What the Tellme deal says about Microsoft: What the Tellme deal says about MicrosoftWell, MS has nothing against services, well, if the services require you tolicense Windows or MS Office. They just need to make sure that they keep those two cash cows a runnin'. Look for MS to put billions into creating dependencies on Windows and...; Tags: Neukom, donation, Microsoft Corp., Tellme Networks Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-03-21
Podcast: HP pretexters get wrist-slaps, the mortally wounded copyright, Red Hat seeks threesome with Microsoft, and Tellme more: Podcast: HP pretexters get wrist-slaps, the mortally wounded copyright, Red Hat seeks threesome with Microsoft, and Tellme moreJustice was not served. Not by a long stretch.The bottom line is this....If I or most others I know had been caught or implicated in fraudulently obtaining records that I had no...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., patent, HP Pretexters, Tellme Networks Inc., Red Hat Inc., podcast, Hewlett-Packard Co.; Discussion threads 2007-03-20
Microsoft-Tellme: How the deal went down: News.coms Ina Fried has some of the inside story on how the Microsoft-Tellme deal went down on Superbowl Sunday. It was only a few hours before kickoff on Super Bowl Sunday, but Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wasnt at home getting ready to watch the Bears take on...; Tags: Tellme Networks Inc., Microsoft Corp., News.coms Ina Fried; Blog posts 2007-03-15

Podcast: HP pretexters get wrist-slaps, the mortally wounded copyright, Red Hat seeks threesome with Microsoft, and Tellme more: This week on the Dan & David Show, ZDNet executive editor Larry Dignan fills in for Dan Farber and we cover the four biggest news stories of the week so far. While the world looks for ways to bridge the digital divide, Microsofts attempts to close the gap between computer...; Tags: Novell, virtualization, YouTube, Hewlett-Packard, Red Hat, VMware, Microsoft, Google, Linux, Berlind, Hollywood on Demand, Entertainment, Software Infrastructure, Podcasts, Dan &, David Show, General, Open Source; Blog posts 2007-03-14
Microsoft please Tellme: Will voice, Internet, software really become seamless?: Microsoft please Tellme: Will voice, Internet, software really become seamless?Not with current softwareI think in order to have that kind of convergence MS needs to trash the current products, and start from the ground up building a new operating system and productivity suite that is designed from the beginning to...; Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone, Tellme Networks Inc., Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-03-14
Microsoft please Tellme: Will voice, Internet, software really become seamless?: Updated below: Its official. Microsoft is purchasing Tellme Networks. Financial terms werent disclosed, but the price is expected to be about $800 million. The deal, which was reported by News.com on Monday, is designed to bridge the worlds of speech recognition and the Internet. The question is whether users...; Tags: Speech recognition, SEARCH, Tellme Networks Inc., Microsoft Corp.; Blog posts 2007-03-14
Done deal: Microsoft acquires Tellme: Microsoft announced that it is acquiring Tellme Networks. Financial details were not disclosed, but analysts peg the cost at around $800 million. Tellme has received more than $230 million in funding, employs 320 people and is profitable. The deal is expected to close by the end of Q2 2007. ...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, SEARCH, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft&rsquo, s strategy, Combining Tellme&rsquo, s, Tellme Networks Inc., voice; Blog posts 2007-03-14
Microsoft + Tellme expected today: Microsoft will be holding a press event at 9:30 PST that will have something to do with speech and unified communications. Sounds like the Tellme Networks acquisition that has been rumored for the last few weeks is coming to fruition. Stay tuned...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Tellme Networks Inc., Microsoft Corp.; Blog posts 2007-03-14
Microsoft's software + services strategy takes shape: The news emerging from this weeks Convergence conference and elsewhere shows that Microsofts servers+services strategy for surviving the shift to on-demand computing is crystallizing. Whether it will work is another matter. But here are the strands that seem to be coming together: Office running on web services (ie XML and...; Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web services, Enterprise software, software, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Dynamics ERP, Tellme Networks Inc., on-demand, strategy; Blog posts 2007-03-13
News to know: Microsoft eyes Tellme; OneCare patched; TI; SXSW pix: Notable headlines: Sources say Microsoft near deal to buy Tellme. Dan Farber: Microsoft’s speech aspirations fulfilled? GigaOM: Tellme Price - $800 Million, or More.Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft quietly patches Windows Live OneCare to fix Outlook problems.Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:90 must have Firefox extensions.Linux software apps - What’s hot and what’s not? Microsoft...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Microsoft Corp., Tellme Networks Inc., Texas Instruments Inc.; Blog posts 2007-03-13
Sources say Microsoft near deal to buy Tellme: Sources say Microsoft near deal to buy TellmeHmm. Will it be renamed "Windows Live Phone Internet Access"?or something equally wordy?A Rose by any other name.. nt.NT as are festering weeds :o):o); Tags: Sources Say, Tellme Networks Inc., Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-03-12
Microsoft's speech aspirations fulfilled?: Microsoft and Bill Gates have been in pursuit of speech technologies for a long time, and news.com is reporting that it may end up buying Tellme Networks for a pretty price (the company has received $230 million in funding so far and is profitable). Speech input has been the next...; Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Microsoft Corp., Tellme Networks Inc., speech recognition; Blog posts 2007-03-12
One reason for Java on iPhone: TellMe: One reason for Java on iPhone: TellMeCareful, Apple might sue you... AGAIN[url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/mobiles--handhelds/apple-crunches-websites-over-iphone-skins/2007/01/15/1168709656280.html] Apple sues even more bloggers [/url][i]Apple's lawyers also sent letters to journalists who simply reported on the fact that the skins were available.[/i]You might want to be [b]very[/b] careful about what you write when it concerns anything by...; Tags: Identity theft, Programming languages, Java, Apple Inc., Securipod, Apple iPhone, Tellme Networks Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-01-23
One reason for Java on iPhone: TellMe: Techcrunch has the juice on a killer new service for mobile phones, TellMe:TellMe mobile is a free Java application that you install on your phone. You can then find normal 411 information via a voice activated menu. Just hold the talk button and say the city and state you are...; Tags: Software, iPhone, Java; Blog posts 2007-01-23

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Mossberg's review of iPhone 3G: Newer, Faster, Cheaper: The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg has been testing the iPhone 3G for a couple of weeks and today posted his review. As you'd expect, he loves the "between three and five times as fast" 3G networking, "wireless synchronization with corporate email" and the App Store which gives iPhone 3G...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Mossberg, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Congress looks at next-gen ad networks: The Center for Democracy and Technology will testify Wednesday about the privacy concerns over ad networks like NebuAd, which has come under fire over a deal with Charter Communications to deploy user-tracking technology, ChannelWeb reports. "For years, Web sites have entered into agreements with advertising...; Tags: Advertisement, Network, U.S. Congress, Ad Network, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Dan Kaminsky breaks DNS, massive multi-vendor patch coming, details at Black Hat Vegas '08: It would seem there's a bigger story to that MS08-037 flaw that came out for Patch Tuesday today. From Dave Lewis over at the Liquid Matrix security blog: Today Dan Kaminsky released a first, as far as I can recall. A coordinated patch was released today...; Tags: Black Hat, DNS, CERT, Flaw, Mogull, Updates, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Software's drive to become like television: Software business models are becoming more and more like that of television. That fact is the real driver behind Microsoft's desire to buy Yahoo, given the central importance software-oriented ad networks will have in the future. by John Carroll; Tags: Software, Advertisement, Microsoft Corp., TV, Tools & Techniques, Games, Management, Personal Technology, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-07-08