Google announced today a new mapping product called Google Latitude, it will be providing location-sharing within its Google Maps product (and by extension into user home pages through iGoogle into Google Android cell phone software). This feature will allow users to announce their current locations automatically or manually to selected friends.
How does it work? Just [...]
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February 4, 2009
Google’s Latitude – Opening the door for location-based services?
December 15, 2008
Google guilty of wanting to create an Internet fast lane?
An article by the WSJ is creating a lot of controversy on the Internet as it claims that Google is trying to build proprietary “fast lanes” at U.S. ISPs in order to prioritize its own traffic at the expense of other content providers, creating Net Neutrality concerns to some degree (and suggesting some level of [...]
November 19, 2008
Microsoft buying Yahoo is a no-go… for now
Comments from Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer regarding buying Yahoo a few hours ago torpedoed Yahoo’s stock price (now down 17% on the day), squashing hope that Jerry Yang’s exit as CEO of Yahoo would rekindle takeout talks with the Redmond giant. Said Ballmer at the company’s annual meeting, “We thought we had something that made [...]
November 3, 2008
In the battle of search engines, Google starts to dig deeper through character recognition
In the battle between the big 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft), Google has been able to steadily expand its share, largely through delivering better technology for the most part – resulting in Google’s more than 60% share in the U.S. For competitors without scale, it’s hard to compete with Google’s capabilities, and Google is [...]
September 25, 2008
Yahoo unveils new advertising platform APT – Does Google have anything to worry about?
Yahoo yesterday announced the launch of its new advertising platform called APT, a system which Yahoo hopes will enable it to continue its leading position in display advertising and over time, provide a solid platform for advertising in new mediums like mobile, and to eventually over time integrate with search in an effort to stem [...]
September 24, 2008
Google Maps adds Transit navigation – An important step in building location-based services
I wrote earlier about Google’s efforts in expanding its Google Maps product to include pedestrian navigation. Now, Google is incorporating adding the Transit Data of the NYC transit system to its maps, which will allow users to plot the best routes between two locations using car,by train, or on foot. This expansion of Google Transit [...]
September 19, 2008
Amazon bringing content distribution services to cloud computing
On its Web Services blog, Amazon announced that it is taking the next step in its cloud computing initiatives, which already include S3 for Web storage and EC2 for on-demand computing capabilities, and will sell content distribution networking (CDN) services that will compete with market leaders Akamai, Limelight, and L3. CDN services enable content publishers [...]
September 9, 2008
Google News goes old school by digitizing newspaper archives – An ambitious project for the leader in search
Google has announced that it is setting about digitizing old newspaper archives, content which currently is simply not available in a searchable format (microfiche anyone?) This announcement from Google is a logical step for the search giant as it has been trying to digitize book content for some time now, and has been fighting battles [...]
September 8, 2008
Yahoo lands AT&T mobile search deal at the expense of Google
With CTIA just around the corner (starting September 10), Yahoo just announced that it has landed a deal with AT&T to provide mobile search services for AT&T’s mobile platform – an important deal for the Internet company at a time when smartphones such as iPhone and BlackBerry are proving to be a hit with consumers, [...]
September 4, 2008
Online advertising trends – Spending on targeted ads is growing quickly
The WSJ is reporting some data on Internet spending that, at first glance, looks bad for Microsoft and Yahoo.
From the top, U.S. online ad spending grew 20% YoY in Q2/08 despite fears of a slowing economy. But this doesn’t mean that this economic sluggishness isn’t having an impact. Beneath the topline numbers, there is a [...]
