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After Amazon, how many clouds do we need?
...nolith with infrastructure services of their own, you have to ask: How many clouds do we need? This Google-Microsoft news broken this week by Derrick Harris, proves to anyone who didn’t already realize it, that Amaz... (Read Full Article)
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Telcos and Cable are Not "Platforms"
Explore IP Carrier (May 16 2012) Applications
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is already the most-watched net-connected TV device in the United States and soon, the w... (Read Full Article)
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Hold The Phone — How The Future Of Web Advertising Is Linked To The Call
Explore TechCrunch (May 13 2012) Marketing , Mobility
...this massive failure put a UK startup, Iovox, into the spotlight of a potential bidding war between Google, Microsoft’s Bing and telco giant BT. Here’s how the scandal of the £4 million campaign that virtually failed ... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Telefonica Microsoft Google
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YouTube to pay for your mobile data charges? Carriers betting on it
Explore FierceWireless (May 10 2012) Applications , Business Models , IP Telephony , Mobility
NEW ORLEANS--Should content providers like Netflix and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) pay wireless carriers so that mobile customers can visit their sites for free? Some w......es. Moreover, such a strategy may not pay off anyway--if mobile Internet searches were free through Microsoft's Bing, for example, I think most users would still pay for the few megabytes it would take to sear...
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Comment Mentions: Microsoft Google Virgin America
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What WebRTC means to Telecoms
Explore ALAN QUAYLE (May 7 2012) Business Models
...nt for any real-time communication and control. On the current status of browser implementations: * Google Chrome: integrated WebRTC into its developer channel in January 2012, allowing any website to take ......la released a demo of WebRTC video calling that ran inside the Firefox browser * Internet Explorer: Microsoft has also started work on implementation of the API * Likely by the end of this year we'll see Chrom... (Read Full Article)
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Will Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon or Microsoft Become Mobile Service Providers?
Explore IP Carrier (May 3 2012) Applications , Marketing
...n suppliers, for example. Some believe the "Four Horsemen" of the Internet include Facebook, Apple, Google and Amazon. Others might say the list actually is "Five Horsemen" and include Microsoft. Either way, the notion is that handful of firms have the ability, at least in principle, to creat... (Read Full Article)
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Apple, Google, Amazon Microsoft: Who Wins the Ecosystem War?
Explore Google FeedBurner (May 3 2012) Marketing , Mobility
...ok might also have to produce a tablet. Apple will have to create a mobile payment service, as will Microsoft. Google and Facebook will have to get more share of the e-commerce and mobile commerce transactions, and al... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Microsoft Google ABI Research
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Apple, Google, Amazon Microsoft: Who Wins the Ecosystem War?
Explore IP Carrier (May 3 2012) Marketing , Mobility
...ok might also have to produce a tablet. Apple will have to create a mobile payment service, as will Microsoft. Google and Facebook will have to get more share of the e-commerce and mobile commerce transactions, and al... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Microsoft Google ABI Research
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Lowenstein's View: Is the mobile M&A binge crazy or justified?
Explore FierceWireless (Apr 26 2012) Marketing , Mobility
...of companies that really matter and are doing much of the buying is relatively concentrated: Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Microsoft, eBay, Intuit, Visa, SAP, Oracle, Disney, Comcast. Many of these companies are in multiple, overlap... (Read Full Article)
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Google Driving into the Enterprise
Explore No Jitter (Apr 25 2012)
...the problem was already being addressed by several providers including DropBox, Box, SugarSync, and Microsoft's SkyDrive. All of these, including Google now, follow a freemium model with some unique twists, but what does Google bring and why? For starters, it is tied to Google Apps, which means it can open/view over 30 file formats natively in a web browser. This includes Microsoft Office and Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop ... (Read Full Article)
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Diller: Online Video Should Be Subject to Same Obligations as Traditional Distributors
Explore The Cable Industry Book (Apr 24 2012) Applications
...diculous overreach" of the Stop Online Protection Act, legislation backed by studios but stopped by Google and other Web forces. Diller made a pitch for his Aereo TV service, which charges for what he descr......to the prospect of over-the-top services, like those represented by other witnesses from Amazon and Microsoft, for potentially providing downward pricing pressure on cable bills, which he criticized as outstri... (Read Full Article)
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Google Drive is here, and you can install it right now
Explore Ars Technica (Apr 24 2012)
...is "not ready" yet. The system, in my limited use so far, seems about as smooth as Dropbox. But Google has plenty of competition—Microsoft just updated SkyDrive and is making a serious push into the market. While Dropbox has achieved th...
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Google Drive To Launch Today With 5GB Free Storage?
Explore techweekeurope.co.uk (Apr 24 2012)
...emerging in February. Reports gathered momentum last week and it was speculated that the arrival of Google Drive was imminent. The launch of such a service would bring it into competition with Microsoft’s SkyDrive, which is available on iPhone, and Dropbox, whose free service offers just 2GB of stora...
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T-Mobile to sell HTC One S for $199; RIM reportedly engaging with JPMorgan
Explore FierceWireless (Apr 19 2012) Business Models , Mobility
... features to its hit mobile game Draw Something, which the company acquired last month. Article > Microsoft introduced a version of its Kinect Star Wars app to Apple's iOS and Google's Android. Article Broadband Wireless News > Mobile operators need to look at Wi-Fi offloading ... (Read Full Article)
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Apple to maintain tablet lead over Android
Explore reghardware (Apr 11 2012) Marketing
RIM, Microsoft elbow in as rivals fight Don't think World+Dog is bonkers for tablets? Market watcher Gartner does......se for guessing Apple will lead the pack - and then some. iOS will outsell its closest competitor, Google's Android, right through 2016, Gartner said. Judging from the two OS' near-parallel growth rates to...
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Google planning to brand and sell Android tablets
Explore Channel Register (Mar 30 2012) Marketing
...d, but the next version of Android, codenamed Jelly Bean, is due mid-2012. According to the report, Google will start producing tablets once the $12.5bn acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings is cleared ......per cent market share worldwide and Apple's iOS had 64 per cent with others - including HP, RIM and Microsoft - constituting the remainder, Canalys revealed. Tim Coulling, analyst at Canalys, described the eco... (Read Full Article)
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The Cloud is the New "Operating System?"
... strength: In data we trust EMC is our final big contender for cloud dominance. Unlike Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, EMC sits far away from the consumer-side of IT and squarely faces the enterprise. EMC’s principle ...
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Comment Mentions: Microsoft Google Amazon.com
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Feature: The five technologies that will transform homes of the future
Explore Ars Technica (Mar 7 2012)
...o turn the computer off and sit through an OS start up. Smart grids were big news around 2009, with Google and Microsoft looking to get in on the action, but the field has seen little activity since. Home automation syst...
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Comment Mentions: Microsoft Google Wireless Gigabit Alliance
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What Comes Next Will Reshape Mobile Marketing, the Issue is "How?"
Explore IP Carrier (Mar 3 2012) Marketing
...d be called the most important technology firm on the planet, or that a technology firm as large as Google could be funded by advertising. Asked to speak about mobile marketing, one has to acknowledge the i......Mobile is a bunch of things, marketing is a bunch of things and so is “digital” or “online.” A 2008 Microsoft paper described eras largely in terms of the relationship between computers and ... (Read Full Article)
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What Era of Computing are We In? What Comes Next?
Explore IP Carrier (Mar 3 2012) Business Models , Marketing
... of the market. Also, some would note, Apple, in terms of market valuation is bigger than that of Google and Microsoft combined. Microsoft is valued at about $257 billion and Google at about $197 billion. In the product area, though many firms "compete" against Apple, few can app... (Read Full Article)
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Vodafone Germany CEO: Android will force smartphone costs to drop
Explore FierceWireless (Feb 24 2012) Mobility
...oussen, CEO Vodafone Germany. Speaking to the Financial Times Deutschland, Joussen said that the Google OS will trigger a major cost reduction in smartphones while also improving their performance. The C......rformance doubling over the same period. This upheaval, Joussen said, will resemble the impact that Microsoft's Windows OS had on the PC business. This radical shift, the Vodafone executive said, means that ... (Read Full Article)
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Google to Launch Line of Consumer Devices?
Explore Thoughts on Carrier Evolution (Feb 24 2012)
Google might be preparing to create and launch a whole family of consumer devices that would compete again......it had the opportunity, because of the perceived risk of alienating its service provider customers. Microsoft, which also works closely with mobile service providers, made a different decision, and purchased S... (Read Full Article)
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White House announces new privacy "Bill of Rights," Do Not Track agreement
Explore Ars Technica (Feb 23 2012) Marketing
...model. Signed by a group of web advertising networks and "leading Internet companies," including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL, the agreement will lead to the adoption of Do Not Track features integrated into web brow...
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Comment Mentions: Microsoft Google European Union
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Wah! Wah! Mommy, Skype won’t play with me
Explore GigaOM (Feb 15 2012) Applications , Unified communications
European Union's decision to approve the Microsoft & Skype merger without any objection isn't sitting well with Cisco, the unified communications gian......ls should have similar interoperability. When asked if Cisco’s video calling was interoperable with Google’s video call services or Apple’s FaceTime, Cisco’s De Beer said they are in talks with those compan...
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Comment Mentions: Microsoft Google European Commission
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