Posts Tagged ‘ google ’

Today it seems that the big names like Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft get all of the attention.  However, the everyday actions of swiping your card at the gas pump, having bar codes scanned at the grocery store, and even the simple task of saving a file on your laptop all have to pay...
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Just in time for “cyber Monday” and the season of frantic holiday shopping, Boutiques.com went live last week, promising to revolutionize online presentation and sale of fashion merchandise. The technorati describe Boutiques.com as “a deliberate collision between nerds and fashion mavens.” In other words, the techies at Google set their genius to work in...
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Addressing the usual legions of reporters and fans, Mark Zuckerberg told a San Francisco audience Monday, “This is not an e-mail killer. This is a messaging system that includes e-mail as one part of it.” Zuckerberg acknowledged that users will have the option of creating “@facebook.com” addresses, but he stressed that the changes and...
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Although each development has received decent coverage, the real news at Google comes from the sheer volume of their announcements, upgrades, debuts, and buzzworthy developments. In approximately two weeks, the Google guys have increased their browser’s capacity and features, thrown down the gauntlet in the music market, and claimed second place in worldwide handheld...
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“Wave” and “Buzz” may have tanked, but Google’s free phone service was certified golden on its very first day—very good news for Google officials who had begun to feel like the Rodney Dangerfields of the internet world, “they couldn’t get no respect.” On Wednesday, Google introduced its new feature that enables users to place...
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“The problem with Google is that Google thinks there is a problem with Google,” declares Allyson Hilliatd, senior technical analyst at Patterson-Forbes Partners. “The big kids at Google imagine their company is suffering an identity crisis, and they are having trouble making their company grow up.” In other words, Hilliard explains, as Google has...
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Once again calling attention to the sudden surge in sales of Google Android phones in the fiercely competitive American market, a CNN commentator asked over the weekend, “Has the Apple iPhone lost its cool?”  Recognizing the subtle subtext in the undeniably snarky and unquestionably urgent question, analysts at Patterson-Forbes Partners took long, critical looks...
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For the record, Blackberry remains unrivalled at number one in American smartphone sales. The fierce and frequently ugly battle rages for the second spot in the rankings for the fast-growing US mobile market.  Market analysts NPD Group confirmed early Tuesday that Google, makers of Android-operated phones, edged-out Apple Computer during the first quarter of...
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In the wake of last week’s CTIA fiesta in Vegas, all the buzz has been all about Google Android.  Although Apple and Verizon reclaimed their share of headlines this week with well-informed speculation that a CDMA-compatible iPhone will hit the market in time for the Christmas shopping season, the majority of the ink still...
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Facebook overtakes Google in page visits.  Nexus One sales lag. Reports from Hitwise and other internet monitoring services confirmed Wednesday that Facebook has overtaken Google in the race for most unique page visits.  Qualifying their reports with ginormous asterisks indicating that the comparison was based strictly on visits to Google’s search engine and did...
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