Posts Tagged with ‘Google’

Honestly, I did not want to write about Google Reader team proudly reporting on making the world wide web truly worldwide by offering the functionality to translate any feed you read into your native language (on condition that your native language is among those supported by Google’s machine translation system). Really, I thought I have [...]

When Google and T-Mobile first announced the first Google Android-powered phone, T-Mobile G1, back in September, T-Mobile promised we would see a huge promotional campaign for the innovative gadget. So it is quite understandable that the blogosphere was a little disappointed when we did not see T-Mobile G1 pushed at us everywhere and the launch [...]

I actually thought it was quite predictable. It was way too obvious that Yahoo behaved too aggressive trying to resist the unsolicited acquisition by Microsoft all the way after the software giant offered a generous $37 per share earlier this year. In its attempts to stay independent Yahoo tried just about everything, including even partnership [...]

It looks like Google is facing yet another patent lawsuit – this time involving a huge amount of money, the technology that is the key to Google’s money-making machine and a team of Russian developers. The Russian company “Era Vodoleya” (translated into English as “The Age of Aquarius”) claims that they patented the technology involved [...]

This morning Google has announced on the official blog that it will not proceed with the advertising deal with Yahoo. This deal was supposed to help Yahoo withstand the acquisition by Microsoft by offering it a stable revenue stream to survive and support itself. The revenue was supposed to be generated by Yahoo showing Google [...]

Today Google is rolling out an interesting functionality to Gmail Labs – sending SMS to your contacts and new phones instead of simple text messages in a chat. Quite predictably, the functionality only works in the US and ignores international users as it must involve certain agreements with carriers. For some reason the official Gmail [...]

It looks like Google actually wants to have at least some presence in every possible field of business available online. The recent announcement is Google becoming OpenID provider so that people could sign in to supporting sites with their Gmail accounts. For a while Google will be offering this additional login functionality to a limited [...]

Back in July we reported on acquisition of a Russian contextual advertising company Begun (one of the largest companies working in the field in Russia) by Google. At the time we suggested that a combination of contextual advertising sold by Begun and Google AdSense could very well serve to monopolize the market of such ads [...]

Yesterday evening we saw a number of publications discussing the fact that the number of applications in the Android Market was suddenly reduced from more than 50 to only 13 – with only two days left until the first Android powered device, T-Mobile G1, starts shipping on Wednesday. There were a few theories for why [...]