Archive for April, 2008
Friday, April 4th, 2008
Google did not actually want the spectrum licenses, that ultimately went to Verizon and AT&T. Google's objective was to secure a bid that met the $4.6 Bn price tag that would enforce the regulations they had lobbied for open applications and open devices. Google admits this strategy in their Public ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
MySpace has struck a deal with Universal Music, Sony BMG and Warner Music to create a joint venture for a Music Site. EMI is reported to be still in negotiations. The labels would take a minority stake at the spin-off of MySpace Music service.
TechCrunch was the first ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Just the same day Google announces the invention of the web time machine, these guys announce a JV with Virgin to establish a permanent settlement in Mars in the next 20 years. The JV is called Virgle, and they are recruiting the first settlers or Virgle Pioneers. See video announcement from ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Google Australia announced today a search service able to search pages in the future. The service is called Gday.
Gday relies on a technology named MATE™ (Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation). Excerpt from Google:
"Google spiders crawl publicly available web information and our index of historic, cached web content. Using a mashup of ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
"...music existed long before the record industry was born, and it will live long after it’s dead". This was a wise comment in the agitated discussion that followed Mike Arrington post The Music Industry’s New Extortion Scheme.
I can only agree with Mike position and the comment against those who claim ...
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