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Google is allegedly mulling a periodical publication push for Android smartphones and tablets to challenge Apple’s iTunes store for its iPad magazine and newspaper apps. – Eyeing Apple’s digital content strategy, Google is making a stronger push
for getting major publications onto smartphones and tablet computers based on
the Android operating system.
The search engine is courting publishers to build versions of their publications
tailored for Android mobile gadge…
A number of people involved in WikiLeaks have resigned to start their own whistle-blower site. – Key people involved with WikiLeaks have reportedly resigned to start up their own rival whistle-blower site.
The new site is dubbed Openleaks, and will debut on Monday, according to Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. The news follows the arrest this week of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who w…
News Analysis: Samsung’s Galaxy Tab is now available. And the tech company has high hopes for this new tablet model as it attempts to compete against Apple’s iPad and others. – The tablet market is quickly becoming a place where consumers
are migrating. As Apple has pointed out, iPad sales are quite high. In fact,
during its fiscal fourth quarter alone, the company sold more than 4 million
iPad units. And considering the device’s price starts at $499, the company was
a…
RockMelt Nov. 7 launched to limited beta its social Web browser that lets users connect to their Facebook and Twitter accounts. This connection lets users post status updates and share other bits of content right from the browser window. The idea is that users needn’t go directly to Facebook and Twitter to share or even Google.com to search. Flock had a similar idea in 2007, but failed to catch on with the bulk of users even as Google Chrome carved out an 8.5 percent browser market share. RockMelt is actually a lot like Chrome in functionality, offering an incognito mode for private Web browsing. There is reason for this. RockMelt is built on top of Chromium, the open-source project that backs Chrome. Navigating amid the different social tools in RockMelt was a breeze, and this is where RockMelt is a cut above Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari Web browsers. Check out our initial RockMelt set-up and tour in this eWEEK slide show. – …
ICAP handles $1 trillion in daily trades and “in one fell swoop” risked losing long-standing relationships with customers including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co. and JPMorgan Chase & Co., Kim Rosenkilde, chief executive officer of London-based ICAP’s Asian operations, said in papers filed with the Singapore High Court this month.
The Facebook phone rumor has pundits everywhere talking about the ramifications of such a move and its impact on Google and Apple. But what if Facebook created a soft phone instead? – Industry experts are torn on the idea that Facebook is
building a social networking phone to compete with Google and Apple in the
mobile Web.
TechCrunch ignited the blogosphere Sept. 20 when it reported the company was building a mobile operating system and other software to host on a handset mad…
Apple has purchased facial recognition startup Polar Rose, possibly to build an alternative to Google Goggles. Goggles, which does not enable facial recognition, has yet to hit the iPhone. – Apple has purchased Swedish computer vision startup Polar Rose, which
makes facial recognition software Apple could leverage in an alternative
application to Google Goggles.
Polar Rose offers computer vision software, or applications that use complex
algorithms to identify and derive meaning fro…
IBM CEO Sam Palmisano tells the WSJ that Hurd hurt HP by cutting its R&D budget, and that its Hurds new employer, Oracle, that will be IBMs biggest challenge. – IBM CEO Sam Palmisano is keeping his eye more on Oracle now than Hewlett-Packard.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Palmisano said that during former CEO Mark Hurds five-year tenure, HP was hurt by sharp cuts in its R amp;D budget, and that the company was declining in relevance.
He sa…
The Department of Justice has shown great knowledge of the flight information software market in its inquiry into Google’s $700 million bid to buy ITA Software, says Vayant CEO. – The Department of Justice is well-prepared when it comes to the flight
information software industry and Google’s attempt to buy ITA Software,
according to an executive in the industry.
Google said Aug. 27 the DOJ had issued a second request for information about the search giant’s
$700 million …
Two rival Islamic organizations in Serbia have called off both their rally and counter-rally. The gatherings were scheduled for today, in front of the Serbian government building in Belgrade.
Singapore’s very young gaming sector revenues could rival those from Las Vegas strip in next two years, according to some estimates, according to Dow Jones.
CLSA expects sector to generate US$5.1 billion ($19 billion) in 2011, which compares with Galaviz & Co.’s 2011 estimate of US$5.8 billion for Las Vegas strip for 2011.
Reflects weakness in gaming revenues in traditional US gambling Mecca of Las Vegas, especially as Asian players look closer to home at venues in Macau and now increasingly Singapore following opening of Las Vegas Sands’ (LVS) Marina Bay Sands and Genting Singapore’s (G13.SG) Resorts World Sentosa earlier this year.
“The appetite for gambling in Asia is significantly higher than it is outside of Asia,” CLSA analyst Aaron Fischer says.
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Google acquires Jambool, which makes the Solid Gold virtual currency service that competes with Facebook Credits. Jambool is the latest piece of Google’s social network strategy. – Google confirmed that it acquired Jambool, whose Solid Gold platform
provides a virtual currency service for providers of online games and others
who want to put payment options in their applications.
TechCrunch broke the news Aug. 9, saying the deal was worth $70 million.
Jambool and Google co…
Apple purchases Web mapping software startup Poly9, an alternative to Google Earth. It is unclear whether Apple will continue to endorse Google’s applications when it can offer its own brand of the same apps. – Apple has purchased Web mapping software startup Poly9, which could mean the
secretive company is looking to offer its own version of Google Earth.
Poly9 makes Poly9 Globe, which it advertises here as a cross-browser,
cross-platform 3D globe that does not require any download. Google Earth provid…
The Islamic Community of Serbia (IZS) rejected on Monday all standpoints held by the General Council of the Islamic Community in Serbia (IZuS). The rival community is headed by Mufti Muamer Zukorlić.
According to Belgrade daily Blic, SRS leader Vojislav Å eÅ¡elj “ordered the assassination of his former deputy Tomislav Nikolić”. For the past seven years, Å eÅ¡elj has been detained at the Hague Tribunal undergoing trial on war crimes charges, while Nikolić broke away from the Radicals (SRS) in the meantime, setting up his own party, the Serb Progressives (SNS).
As per the announcement made recently by Microsoft, there is in the pipeline an upgraded version of Hotmail to be launched soon, and will be named as Windows Live Hotmail. Chris Jones, corporate vice president for Microsoft, revealed this in a press briefing in San Francisco, and briefed reporters present there about changes made by [...]
Borders plans on joining the e-reader wars with its Kobo device, which will be priced at around $109 less than both Amazon.com’s Kindle and Barnes Nobles Nook e-reader. These companies find themselves in pitched battle against not only each other, but also the Apple iPad, which includes a robust e-reader application. Google also plans on selling e-books online as early as June, raising the specter of yet another aggressive competitor in the space. Borders is likely betting that its lower price will be a crucial differentiator, although it risks being left behind as the Kindle and Nook add features.
– Chalk this one up under the category of “inevitable:”
Borders Group announced that it would release its own e-reader, the Kobo, on
June 17. That brings the bookseller into an e-reader market already occupied by
its rivals Amazon.com, which sells the Kindle, and Barnes amp; Noble, which
offers t…
The oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is shaping up, experts say, to become the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. Crude oil’s pouring out of an underground well at a rate of up to 5,000 barrels a day.
Google confirms it has acquired Episodic, which makes a platform for broadcasting live and on-demand video over the Web. Website publishers, marketers and businesses use Episodic’s platform to stream, analyze and serve video content to their audiences through computers, mobile devices and IPTV devices. YouTube and Episodic overlap in some areas, as both serve video for publishers and marketers on various Web-connected devices. Google is quite serious about expanding its Web video purview, which makes good business sense.
– Google April 2 confirmed it has acquired Episodic, which makes a platform for broadcasting live and
on-demand video over the Web.
Website publishers, marketers and businesses use Episodic’s platform to
stream, analyze and serve video content to their audiences through computers,
mobile devices a…
