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Google Is Unstoppable – More Cloud More Web More Mobility – A Cloud Monopoly
Google is unstoppable. The only thing that will stop Google is the government. Google is innovating on so many fronts it’s unbelievable. Today, Google is announcing cloud storage on docs and spreadsheet. Google will be rolling out the ability to upload, store and organize any type of file in Google Docs. With this change, you’ll ...
#CES2010 RUMOR: AT&T and Microsoft Buying DIRECTV – Announcement at CES
According to an industry source AT&T along with support from Microsoft will announce at CES that they are buying DIRECTV. I have not heard of an amount yet. I am actively trying to confirm. Based upon a reliable industry source, AT&T will purchase DIRECTV with support from Microsoft. Microsoft would be contributing money to secure ...
Google Phone Nexus One – A Pawn In The Mobile Chess Game
Google is introducing the Google gPhone or as the official names goes – The Google Nexus One. Engadget has the definitive review while others are chiming in here, here, and here. Google is playing the open card by forcing fast innovation in a developer focused way – similar to what made Microsoft successful in the ...
Apple Tablet Coming – You Can Thank Not The iPhone But The iTouch And App Store
The Apple Tablet is coming. What is it you ask? It’s an oversized iTouch. It will be perfect for surfing the web in bed or on the couch. The Apple Tablet will be just perfect. Why? One reason: The Apple App Store. Apple has just released the massive number on the App Store -3 Billion ...
Confirmed: Apple To Buy Quattro Wireless
Last month Google bought AdMob for a whopping $750 million. Now information is swirling around about the Apple Tablet. How will Apple deal with publishers and advertisers? The answer according to multiple industry sources is to buy Quattro Wireless for this months big announcement in San Francisco. Apple is said to be buying Quattro for ...
My Short List From Past 10 Years
Top Macro Trends of 2000s 1. Demand for online, Internet, and web 2. Proliferation of wireless capability 3. Social media –old way: one way broadcast web – email; new way: two way web – consumer generated media – blogs, podcasting, video, social networks, sharing Biggest Winners (Companies) in 2000s 1. Google 2. Apple 3. Facebook ...
Happy New Year
2009 was the year SiliconANGLE was born. What a great year. In our first 10 month of existence we managed to produce over 1100 posts reaching over 600,000+ unique users. What’s more exciting is the engaged group of contributors. At the beginning I felt that a healthy goal was to have maybe 20 contributors in ...
Rackspace Takes Page Out of the Old Microsoft’s Playbook – Partner Don’t Kill Ecosystem Players
Rackspace is partnering with FathomDB, a relational database-as-a-service (DaaS) company. FathomDB is a service that will make the day-to-day operations of running a database much simpler, allowing you to focus on higher end tasks of your application. This partnership is an extension of Rackspace’s ecosystem buildout (under Cloud Tools site), and at the same time ...
Techcrunch as the Content Strip-Mall
Mike Arrington has a good op ed about the future of machine based blogs and content theft. Bottom line: it’s a speed game and fast food content is being served up all over the place. I agree with Mike (and Steven Hodson, who talked about this topic months ago over at the Inquisitr). I do ...
2009 Mobile Advertising Revenue & Market Share Leaders
IDC’s Karsten Weide just released revised estimates the annual gross U. S. advertising revenue of the major mobile players. What’s interesting is that the Millennial Media was the clear leader in both revenues and in market share. The top spot is now owned by Google thanks to Ad Mob. That leaves Millennial Media (the former ...