iTunes and Google, both are now selling TV shows and video content. Capn Design has done an analysis comparing the usual Cable TV costs and the cost of downloading all the shows individually. If you are a big live sports fan and have a large family, downloading all your favorite content would cost you at [...]
In a season of business news dominated by Google, now a dampener. For the first time since its 2004 IPO, Google’s performance has fallen below analyst’s expectations. The 12.4 percent fall in its share price has wiped out $16 billion in shareholder wealth. Though its net income has almost doubled (82% actually) to last years’ [...]
Google might be the one with most number of innovative ideas among the Net-dominating trio of Yahoo, Microsoft and itself. It might also have the least number of employees. Now, I found this nugget of information about how much Google: The Company whose shares have climbed to great heights (notwithstanding the blip after its latest [...]
Enough of business and Technology talk. The following cartoon is inspired by Aaron Wall’s post on Threadwatch about the so-called power-couple of Larry Page and Marissa Mayer.
We are creatures of habit. More than that though, we like useful things. Before Google, I used Altavista a lot. Google has become habit for me now. I need to learn about something new, I Google it. I have lost the link to a news story, I google the rough headline and Google shows up [...]
The NOW Net Video offering from PCCW is thriving in Honk Kong. Its NOW broadband service has 500,000+ subscribers, one-third of the total worldwide IPTV user base. The NOW service is delivered over broadband phone lines. It offers around 100 channels. The service offers flexible options to the consumer as customers can pick channels one [...]
Myspace? Google? Think again. Google Blogoscoped has a forum devoted to the topic. The challenge is: Who can find the biggest website using Google’s site operator? First a note about the site operator: just type ‘site:www.yoursitename.com’ to find out the number of pages of your site Google has indexed. Highlights from the challenge so far: [...]
Can’t Find On Google is the dump site fro all things that users have not been able to find on Google. Goto
Valleywag reports that Google is planning a Web 2.0 version Geocities-like instant Homepage creator. …Google has a project codenamed trogdor, an ajax webpage editor for creating web pages. = geocities except with a javascript page creator. Calendar for GMail, basically like ical in javascript. Wireless in every city in the US, not just mountainview – [...]
A judge has issued injunction against Google in the Perfect 10 Image Search case. As you know, Perfect 10 is an adult-oriented site dealing with biological [:-)] images. The judge ruled that Google’s image search service, which displays small thumbnail versions of images found on other Web sites, ‘probably’ violates U.S. copyright law. Though other [...]
