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5 Reasons Google Buzz Could Fail and 7 Ways It Could Win
A lot of what I see in Google Buzz points to it being a hybrid of Twitter and Facebook. Sure, it's hard to see a new social network overtaking those seemingly entrenched web juggernauts, but Google is no lightweight. Buzz can either be open to the public, like Twitter, or it can be private, like Facebook. ...
AOL Partners with Facebook, Ties Lifestream to Mail
AOL has made an explicit effort to tie social networking to its e-mail service, adding a LifeStream widget to AOL mail. The company also announced a partnership with Facebook, tying its AIM chat with Facebook Chat. AOL actually added the LifeStream widget shortly after Google announced Google Buzz, an integration of social services into its Gmail ...
Google to Build High-Speed Broadband Networks
On the heels of a move into the social networking sphere, Google on Wednesday announced that they are ready to tackle another role Internet service provider. Google plans to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the U.S., and is promising speeds up to 1 gigabit per second. ...
RealNetworks to Spin off Rhapsody
RealNetworks said Tuesday that it intends to spin off its Rhapsody music service into a separate company at the end of the first quarter. The deal was struck in conjunction with MTV Networks, a division of Viacom, DMS Holdco, a subsidiary of Viacom, and Rhapsody, according to an 8-K filing filed Tuesday with the SEC. Real ...
9 Things You Wish Google Would Announce
Update: Google announced a new social application called Buzz. How did it match up to your wish list? Check out our in-depth breakdown of the product to find out. Virtually everyone expects Google to announce something to do with social networking today, when the company holds a press conference at 1 PM ET. Maybe it's some ...
Sirius XM Blackberry App Bans MLB, Howard Stern
Sirius XM, the beleaguered satellite radio provider, has unveiled a new BlackBerry app that lets users listen to over 120 channels of commercial-free music, talk, sports, and comedy programming. However, there's a catch. As FierceMobileContent reports, the new app lacks The Howard Stern Show, as well as live coverage of NFL, MLB, and NASCAR events--just like ...
When Does Hacking Become Cyber Warfare?
The problem with most hacking attacks is that the source of them is, fundamentally, unverifiable. Even if you can have an intelligent guess at the origin, you can't usually know. But let's assume, for the sake of argument, that widespread malicious attacks against US companies, infrastructure and government are coming from China; there's plenty of evidence ...
AOL Posts a Profit
AOL Inc posted a quarterly profit and beat Wall Street's revenue expectations, even though the weak advertising market and the Internet company's dwindling subscriber base dragged revenue down from a year ago. AOL, which became an independent company once again in December after former parent Time Warner Inc spun it off, said net income for the ...
Why Chrome Will Be Your Next Browser
Google's Web browser is about to make the leap from upstart to leader of the pack. Google Chrome's market share numbers are skyrocketing, blowing past Safari and Opera to become the number three most-widely-used Web browser. That's pretty impressive, and I don't think it's going to stop there. I fully expect it to overtake Firefox and ...
Who Doesn't Like Amazon's Prices? Rupert Murdoch
Enjoy $9.99 electronic books while you canfor they soon may be a thing of the past. News Corp Chief Rupert Murdoch, who oversees a media empire than includes HarperCollins books, home to authors like Michael Crichton and Janet Evanovich, made clear on Tuesday his displeasure with the low price Amazon.com Inc has set for electronic books. ...
