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Samsung vs. Google

January 8, 2012 – 11:04 pm

TweetAndroid is a huge success. Google bought Andy Rubin’s company in 2005 and turned it into a smartphone operating system giant, with more than 50% of the global market and 700,000 activations a day this past December. Perhaps, as Steve Jobs seemed to think, it was Eric Schmidt’s position on Apple’s Board of Directors that [...]

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What If Google Stored All Our Medical Records?

October 17, 2010 – 8:50 pm

TweetRegard the horrified looks on the faces of the attendees at a California Council on Science and Technology meeting in Irvine six or seven years ago. I’m the only member from the Dark Side, from the venture capital milieu, inside an institution “designed to offer expert advice to the state government and to recommend solutions [...]

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Not on the same page. Ever.

December 13, 2009 – 4:12 pm

TweetCould Google and Publishers one day understand each other? Frankly, I doubt it. Two weeks ago I was in Hyderabad for the dual assembly of the World Association of Newspapers and the World Editors Forums (1). There, Google-bashing was the life of the party. As I told in last week’s Monday Note (see The Misdirected [...]

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The misdirected revolt of the dinosaurs

December 7, 2009 – 9:04 am

TweetThe junkies are rebelling against their dealer. The dope is the traffic, and the dealer is Google. For years, the search giant flooded the market with an ideology built on the early 2000′s, ill-fated, get all eyeballs you can, the rest (i.e. monetization) will take care of itself. Publishers have invested tons of money, energy [...]

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War in the Valley: Apple vs. Google

August 9, 2009 – 11:54 am

TweetIt was long overdue: Eric Schmidt (Google’s CEO) finally resigned from Apple’s Board of Directors. Usually, these resignations are handled in the smoothest of ways: Thanks for the distinguished service and the like. This time, Steve Jobs issued a pointed statement: “Unfortunately, as Google enters more of Apple’s core businesses, with Android and now Chrome [...]

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The Trojan Horse: Web Apps

July 18, 2009 – 1:03 pm

TweetWeb Apps are the future: modern, light, run and updated in the Cloud, they will progressively replace the antiquated, bloated, expensive to buy and manage desktop “client” applications. So says Google. And walking the talk, they put their Google Apps against the reigning champion of desktop applications: Microsoft Office. Microsoft never gives up and, as [...]

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Google OS: Chrome-Plated Linux or Microsoft 2.0?

July 12, 2009 – 7:39 pm

TweetHere’s what I think its taking place: Microsoft executives and Board members are no dummies: they know Cloud Computing threatens the Windows + Office + Exchange gold mine, the biggest in our industry’s history. They know the future is Office + Exchange running in dual-mode. From the Cloud when a Net connection is available; locally [...]

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Web video: Microsoft, Adobe or HTML 5?

June 28, 2009 – 8:59 pm

TweetWe have yet another standards battle on our hands — you might say screens, as it concerns Web video. Or we might watch our wallets, as the fight is about who gets the biggest share of the money spent delivering multimedia on our computers, smartphones and, soon, TVs. My money is on HTML 5, co-opted [...]

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Android Week

September 21, 2008 – 6:01 am

TweetSomething to keep our mind off the Wall Street catastrophe. Who knows, we might be on the verge of a “nuclear winter” as the Bush administration wakes up to another consequence of its intellectual shallowness, of its inability to understand that for markets to be really free they need to be regulated with an effective, [...]

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By the numbers. And what do they mean for our industry

September 7, 2008 – 5:27 pm

TweetThis is the Fall season of business plans for the coming year. The numbers will mean pain for the media industry. Below is a set of facts and figures to keep in mind when considering newspapers, advertising, search, mass collaboration… and coffee. . The newspaper industry’s overall condition . 80% gone: Within the last 12 [...]

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