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June 22nd, 2008

Net Neutrality Links 06-22-2008

Rogers Admits to Violating Net Neutrality
By Holiday Shapiro
In a meeting held yesterday, that was restricted to only select members of the media, Rogers Communications admitted that it violated the principle of net neutrality by arbitrarily interfering with customers’ internet communications.
The restricted press event conducted by Rogers yesterday appears to be in response to an increasingly […]

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June 11th, 2008

Advertising On Mobile Devices

Is expected to become Google’s biggest source of profits in the future, according to Eric Schmidt;
“During a question-and-answer session at an event hosted in San Francisco by Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, Schmidt reiterated his belief that advertising on mobile devices eventually will emerge as Google’s biggest source of profits. The company hopes […]

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April 9th, 2008

700MHz Spectrum Auction Chatter [Post-Bidding]

Bidders in latest FCC auction start talking
“The gag order that silenced those participating in the FCC’s auction that ended last month was lifted late Thursday (4/03). Now companies are free to discuss their plans and strategies for bidding in the auction.”
Yet its beginning to appear that part of the plans and strategies are to circumvent […]

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April 3rd, 2008

Another Time Another Place Another Attitude

Had we not been living at a time when we had to be truly concerned with the openness or privacy of our world this story might have generated a different attitude towards the “players.”
Unfortunately, with the stink of the uproar over Net Neutrality, with the stink of the lies and denial of an administration which […]

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March 21st, 2008

Wireless Spectrum Auction Results

I don’t know that the results could actually have been any different than they were… disappointing, to me.
[H/T to Save The Internet]
Spectrum Results Are Out; Google Bids But Verizon Wins
“The winners of the recent government spectrum auction that raised $19.6 billion are finally being revealed. Based on early reports, the results are as expected: Verizon […]

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March 20th, 2008

Google Gadgets Ratchets Up Apps Competition With Microsoft

Google’s are free - MS’s aren’t, and that ought to say a lot :)
Thank you to Elinor Mills at the News Blog;
Gadgets comes to Google Docs
Google on Wednesday unveiled Gadgets for Spreadsheets in Google Docs, allowing people to create graphical representations of data in spreadsheets and publish them on Web sites.

[Google Docs lets you turn […]

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March 19th, 2008

Google Rival Might Be Best For All?

I’d tend to agree with the concept. How about you?
Financial Times In Depth tells us;
“Interviews with agency executives since the unsolicited $40bn offer for Yahoo was announced last month make clear that they and their clients welcome the prospect of a stronger rival emerging to Google.
“If we have two competitors, a duopoly is better than […]

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March 14th, 2008

Google Demonized Once Again

Google Now Selling SEO Services Via Performics
“Google is now offering paid services that promise improved search engine listings in Google itself, a 100% conflict of interest.”
And the negativity increases in the comments…

“Unethical behavior”

“Internet domination should be their new phrase”

“This will be the beginning of the end for Google”

“More evil than MS buying Yahoo!”

“Preposterous”

“Pretty fishy to […]

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February 23rd, 2008

Google’s Technology Playground

It’s no doubt old news to many but it’s the first time I’ve seen it…
Labs.google.com, Google’s technology playground.
“Google labs showcases a few of our favorite ideas that aren’t quite ready for prime time. Your feedback can help us improve them. Please play with these prototypes and send your comments directly to the Googlers who developed […]

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February 14th, 2008

m5-rc14

There’s been high level changes in the M5 release of the Android SDK.
Jason Chen…
“We’re excited about the progress that we’ve made and look forward to making additional updates in the future as the platform evolves towards production-readiness.”
There are a couple of changes in m5-rc14 I’d like to highlight:

New user interface - As I mentioned when […]

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February 3rd, 2008

Gonna Watch The Super Bowl

And then I’ll be back…
Meanwhile, this is where my heart is;

And this is what my brain tells me;

[Yes, I’ve duplicated this post elsewhere…]
Tags: Android, Android-Developer-Challenge, Google, Mobile-Applications, Open-Handset-Alliance

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January 30th, 2008

Android Developer Challenge Submission Deadline Extended

Posted on The Android Developers Blog by Quang Nguyen;
“We’d like to let you know that we are extending the submission deadline for the first Android Developers Challenge to 14 April 2008. Based on the great feedback you’ve given us, we’ve made significant updates to the SDK that we’ll be releasing in several weeks. In order […]

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January 28th, 2008

Bush - Positive - Legacy

Putting those three words in the same sentence ought to earn you… a night in purgatory or something similar. That is almost the same as putting “Scott Cleland” “Net Neutrality” and “Truth” together.
From “In State of the Union, Bush to begin framing legacy”
“After all, few people still are looking to Bush for political leadership, says […]

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January 25th, 2008

Is Google Bringing An End To Domain Tasting?

Jay Westerdal initiated the rumblings online with this post: Google to kill Domain Tasting
He speaks of an apparent policy change by Google which will end the opportunity to monetize parked domains. That ought to mean that Google will have to dismantle Adsense for Domains? I don’t think that’s the most important item on Google’s agenda […]

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January 24th, 2008

I Don’t Think Big G Noticed

What appears to be a negative?
Google Drops More Than 160 Points
“Since its peak back in the Fall at nearly 750, Google has dropped to 584 currently, a 166 point drop (it’s dropped more in after hours, all the way down to 568). It’s on a steep decline in the past few days, perhaps due to […]

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