Google TV Is Ready to Change the Game
newteevee.com
Google TV has the potential to be a game-changer in the pay-TV business, by bringing web-like search navigation to traditional channel surfing, according to a new report I wrote for GigaOM Pro entitled Google TV: Overview and Strategic Analysis (subscription required). I also foresee an eventual clash between Apple’s App...
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Google Now, Hangouts feel here, there and everywhere
www.computerworld.com
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Google this week unleashed a blizzard of updates and improvements that fundamentally change -- and radically improve -- how we get information and communicate....
How devoted are Apple users to the Apple ecosystem?
tech.fortune.cnn.com
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Very, according to a new Forrester survey. Microsoft and Google don't fare as well. FORTUNE -- According to a Forrester survey released this week, the vast majority of computer users (85% worldwide, 88% in the U.S.) have little or no loyalty to a particular mobile computing ecosystem -- the nexus...
Google Faces Another Antitrust Probe As Canadian Agency Prepares Formal Investigation
techcrunch.com
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Google is facing another competition investigation, according to the Financial Post. The Canadian Competition Bureau has informed Mountain View of its plans to launch a formal investigation of its Canadian operations. It has not yet requested any information or documents from Google but has informed the search giant of its intention...
Google's FRAND-zero patent license for VP8 threatens to divide Web and FOSS communities
www.fosspatents.com
Google is already promoting the VP9 video codec, which may very well raise new patent issues, while pushing for adoption of VP8 as an Internet standard. But the patent license it has drafted for VP8 and just published doesn't meet the requirements of the Open Source Initiative's definition of open...
7 stories to read this weekend
gigaom.com
What a week! Google I/O 2013 kept us busy and then last night it was Yahoo and Tumblr trying to get it on. I am just surprised I even had time to breathe, forget reading. But somehow I managed and here are seven gems I can recommend for your reading...
Google's business practices to be investigated by Canadian Competition Bureau
www.theverge.com
It appears that Canada will become the latest country to look into the business practices of search giant Google. The Financial Post reports that Canada's Competition Bureau — a law-enforcement agency focused on ensuring competitive conditions in the marketplace — has notified Google that it will be investigating the...
HTC Pledges To Pump Up 'One' Production While Samsung's New Flagship Ships Like Crazy
techcrunch.com
Oh HTC. You’ve produced one of the finest Android smartphones ever (seriously, just look at all these reviews), but you’ve faced more than your share of challenges when it came to actually pumping your top-tier One smartphone. As it happens, that may all soon change. FocusTaiwan reported earlier today that...
Google Now Introduces Mark Up Tools For Select Partners To Flag Flights, Hotel Stays And Reservations In Emails
techcrunch.com
Google made a relatively quiet announcement today regarding how it’s pushing the developer ecosystem forward around Google Now, its intelligent personal assistant for Android devices. The company has begun extending mark up tools for emails from select partners, which help highlight flight schedules, hotel bookings and various types of reservations, to make...
Google Now Introduces Mark Up Tools For Select Partners To Flag Flights, Hotel Stays And Reservations In Emails
Next Up to Investigate Google's Competitive Practices: Canada
allthingsd.com
Here’s some late-on-a-Friday regulatory news for you: Canada’s Competition Bureau will investigate Google’s Canadian business operations, according to the Financial Post. Google confirmed the investigation, while Canada declined comment. Earlier this year, Google was largely cleared in a U.S. antitrust examination, and it is currently testing remedies in Europe....
Mobile apps news roundup: Line removes gifts, GungHo bigger than Nintendo and more
www.insidemobileapps.com
Puzzle & Dragons creator GungHo reaches $15.1B market cap; higher than Nintendo – As pointed out by industry watcher Dr. Serkan Toto, GungHo Online Entertainment’s market cap, the Japanese company behind the wildly success mobile game Puzzle & Dragons, reached as high as 1.54 trillion yen ($15.1 billion) on Monday on...
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