Google's Android GPhone Already a Flop (17)
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Google's forthcoming GPhone is critical to helping Google unlock the dreamy $50 billion market for mobile advertising that Eric Schmidt keeps talking about. It's critical to proving that Google can be successful at something besides search. It's critical to re-inflating Google's droopy stock price. And it's finally almost here! Are critics and analysts waiting breathless on the edge of their seats? No, says the FT's Richard Waters. Why? Because they've already panned it. When the ...
Google Satellite Now Watching You From 423 Miles Up (54)
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The GeoEye satellite that Google will use to provide mapping imagery at 50-centimeter resolution successfully blasted into space today. So don't leave your underwear lying all over your lawn. Andy Plesser of Beet.TV put together a cool video animation (below). Stephen Shankland of CNET has the story: GeoEye-1 will orbit 423 miles above Earth, but it will be able to gather imagery with details the size of 41 centimeters... Google, though, is permitted to use ...
Google's Chrome Already Owns 1% Of Browser Market And 6% of SAI Readers (3)
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No Mac version yet and a public panning from WSJ oracle Walt Mossberg, but Google's (GOOG) Chrome already owns 1% of the Web browser market. Actually, 1.13% of the market as of 1 p.m EDT, according to Net Applications, which is tracking Chrome usage by the hour. Similarly, StatCounter is giving Chrome 1.15% of the browser market as of today, which means it's stalking Apple's (AAPL) Safari (2.48% share) fast. This is an impressive feat, ...
Life At Etsy, Tweet By Tweet (2)
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What's life like at Etsy, the Brooklyn-based, crafts-meet-the-Web startup? After reading new CTO Chad Dickerson's Twitter stream this week, it sounds pretty fun! Dickerson, who left his job at Yahoo (YHOO) in July, recently moved to New York, and started at Etsy on Tuesday. His work-related tweets, so far: See Also: Etsy Knits New Management Lineup: Swaps CEOs, Hires Yahoo Exec As CTO
McCain-Palin Win TV Ratings Race (With Help From The NFL) (12)
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On the Web, it's Obama in a landslide. But on TV, McCain and Obama are close, very close. Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention drew 38.4 million viewers last week, according to Nielsen. McCain's acceptance speech Thursday night drew 38.9 million viewers. This comes after Sarah Palin pulled ahead of Obama in the Nielsens once PBS's audience was added in to the network and cable numbers. Of course, it didn't hurt McCain that ...
Microsoft To Put “Gurus” In Big-Box Stores (MSFT) (2)
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Have a question about Windows Vista at Best Buy? Need to know which mouse to buy at Circuit City? Maybe one of Microsoft's new "gurus" will be there to help. Microsoft (MSFT) said today that it will put specially trained staffers in 155 U.S. stores by the end of the year to answer questions and demo Microsoft products. We like this idea - especially because the 'gurus' won't be paid on commission. We hope that ...
Twitter's Corporate Users Get A New Marketing Tool (10)
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A neat new tool for companies that are looking to use Twitter for marketing: Twittertise, which lets you schedule Twitter messages in advance to send automatically. What's the point? Twitter is a live wire, so whatever you send now is immediate. That works for individual users, or companies trying to take part in real-time conversations. But if a company wants to send out pre-written tweets -- like promotional messages, coupon links, reminders, etc. -- over ...
Researchers Dupe 1,000 Facebook Users Into Downloading Malicious App (1)
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Thinking of downloading a cool Facebook app that uploads a new picture of the day from National Geographic? Don't. The app, 'NG Photo Of The Day' is part of an experiment conducted by researchers in Singapore and Greece to demonstrate how easy it is to distribute harmful applications within Facebook, PC World reports. The researchers uploaded the app in January (there's another, much larger National Geographic photo of the day app, which is safe), and ...
Nokia: Competitors Burning Us With Lower Prices (NOK) (1)
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Nokia (NOK) shares dropped 10% today after it said cost-cutting competitors were eating its market share in Q3, and that a new phone was coming along slower than expected. AP: Nokia said it was losing share because of its "tactical decision" not to match the aggressive price cuts of some of its competitors, seeking instead to be "sustainably profitable in the longer term." It also cited tough competition in emerging markets and a slow "ramp-up ...
Seinfeld's First Microsoft Commercial: Not Funny (2)
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Looks like skepticism was the right reaction when Microsoft announced it was hiring Jerry Seinfeld as its new $10 million pitchman. Seinfeld's first commercial starring Bill Gates is out -- shot in a mall shoe store -- and it's not going to help Microsoft look any cooler: Update: As commenters rightly point out, the brand ad is getting its primary job done -- getting people to talk about Microsoft. And since many people think it's ...
IBM Drinks Second Life Kool-Aid, Makes More For Lotus Users (IBM) (2)
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Think Second Life is over? IBM doesn't. Yesterday Big Blue announced it was integrating support for Second Life (and a few other virtual world platforms) into its Lotus Sametime corporate instant-messaging product. Why? IBM thinks if an engineer has to walk a customer through replacing a part on a computer server, the two can meet in Second Life and together manipulate a 3D model. Or, Sametime users could collaborate in a virtual world to review ...
New York Times Agrees: Microsoft Windows Toast (4)
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The market trend that, slowly but surely, is eroding one of the greatest business monopolies of all time--Microsoft's Windows--is now visible enough that general business columnists in the mainstream media are writing about it. Consider the latest from Joe Nocera of the New York Times: Windows is already dying a death by a thousand cuts. Yes, Microsoft still makes billions by selling pre-installed Windows via computer manufacturers. But ever-so-gradually, the Internet is upending its business ...
Startup Freshman Fund Rolls Out Online Gift Registry for College Savings (3)
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New York-based startup Freshman Fund has created an online registry that simplifies giving and receiving 529 contributions for college. Parents create an account that lets friends and family contribute directly to their child's college fund, with tax-free growth through a 529 plan of their choice. Launched last month, the free service differs from competitor Upromise in that it supports all 529 plans available nationwide.CEO Jason Olim, who cofounded CDNOW with twin brother Matthew (also at ...
The Porn Business Goes Public (1)
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Is porn really growing up? There's no shortage of talk about the mainstreaming of the skin trade, but most of it misses the mark. Instead of ogling the Vivid Video billboard on 7th Ave, check out the OTC listings instead. Adult entertainment just got a new publicly traded player, Adult Entertainment Capital, Inc., and the flesh biz just moved a step closer to legitimacy.For the past year and a half, we've seen finance creep into ...
Metallica Finally Realizes It Can’t Fight The Internet (4)
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Metallica is infamous for helping kill the original Napster, but it looks like the metal group has finally realized that they can't stop the Internet. Or at least they've figured out how to talk like that. Metallica's new album, 'Death Magnetic', leaked out onto the Internet a week before its scheduled release. But instead of resorting to lawsuits -- so far, at least -- drummer Lars Ulrich had this to say on a Bay Area ...
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Ben said:
Sorry Lars, too little, too late. You're part of the cabal that started the bullshit we live in today.
"TinyCrunch" Guys Strike Again: Start Ripping Off Mashable (2)
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Last week we talked to the guys behind tinyCrunch, a site that condenses TechCrunch posts into bulleted (Blackberry-friendly!) items for the time-pressed tech professional. Back then, the "tiny" guys, Matthew Glueckert and Jason Wilk, said they'd be launching new "verticals" for what they're calling a "newswire for blogs" in the near future. Today they delivered with -- you guessed it -- "tinyMash," a feed of Mashable posts condensed into four- and five-bullet posts. Gleuckert and ...
Amazon Launches Video Streaming Service: Look Out iTunes, Hulu, Netflix (6)
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Not to be outdone by whatever iTunes/iPod services Apple's (AAPL) Steve Jobs is planning to announce next week, Amazon (AMZN) has rolled out its new Amazon Video on Demand video streaming service. After a quick test, we think it's the best competition iTunes has seen yet. Amazon's new video service picks up where its old one, Unbox, left off -- it now works on Macs, for example, and video starts streaming instantly. We just tried ...
