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Google Under Siege – Reason: Jealousy – The International Letter To Google Over Privacy
Privacy officials from 10 countries Monday sent Google a letter demanding that the Internet giant build more privacy protections into its products and services. This is another signal around the international tension over Google’s power. Google dominance around the world is under siege. What’s next Facebook? Damn. This is the letter (in full) to CEO ...
Datacenter Trends – HP Reorganization Walks The Talk On Convergence
HP announced some organization changes (thx Larry Dignan). I guess you can say that it’s now the HP “converged datacenter group”. HP is rolling out a HP Networking brand, under it which it will offer an edge-to-core set of sub-brands: the A Series; E Series; V Series; and S Series products. The ProCurve and 3Com ...
How To Get Into Citrix Synergy For Free
If you’re interested in Citrix then here is a chance to get into their upcoming event Synergy next month. Citrix Synergy San Francisco is right around the corner: May 12-14, 2010. At Synergy, you can take advantage of many opportunities to hone your business and technical skills, including: 200+ breakout sessions led by industry recognized ...
Printing Is Changing According To Google. Say Hello Cloud, Printing, but Where is HP?
Google put out a blog post talking about a new approach to printing. Google is now pushing printing into their internet operating system. It’s not clear the role Google intends to play here. Outside of the obvious role of Google being one big print server in the sky no specific partnerships are being talked about. ...
Google Announces Q1 Finanicals – Uncertainly Around China and Admob Looms
Google is doing well as outlined in their Q1 financial report. They now have $27 billion in cash on the books. Big issues this past quarter for Google has been their fight with China which as we blogged about impacts the future of the web. Also Google is under fire from the FTC regarding the ...
DC Showdown with FTC On AdMob- Glenn Manishin Argues Against FTC Blocking Google Buyout of Admob
Today in DC a panel of experts debated the Google Admob acquisition. No other than our own SiliconAngle contributor and friend Glenn Manishin was there – making an argument – yes he is lawyer and that’s what they do. Glenn argued against the FTC blocking the Google Admob acquisition. Here is a good roundup by ...
Broken Promises And Now Cisco Having Big Product Problems – Network World Points Out Cisco Can’t Deliver
Network World broke a story about Cisco having product problems mainly they are shipping delays for up to six months due to delays in product changes at the hardware and software level. This is big trouble for Cisco as they are taking on the most ambitious market take down in their company history. Here is ...
Twitter Userbase Soars To Over 100 Million – Greater Than 200 million Overall Users
As Twitter continues to go mainstream, they are still a startup. Twitter is soaring. I have estimated in the past that Twitter is not pushing greater than 50 million users. I was wrong and Twitter is pushing over 300,000 new users everyday. They have a big opportunity. Biz Stone on stage at the Twitter developer ...
Introducing Yesterday’s Old RealTime Web – Google Innovating Real Time With Yesterdays Web
Google’s Dylan Casey introduces real time search and timeline discovery via the Google Blog. This is great for folks looking to harvest what Twitter was failing to do which is go back in time to see what people have been saying. In other words Google is allowing users to search and explore the public archive ...
Apple iPad Huge Success According To Apple
According to Apple the iPad is a huge success. Over half million iPads delivered in the first week of sales. Given the success in the US Apple is delaying their international launch by one month and will shift the order taking outside the US to May 10th. Here is Apple’s release. Although we have delivered ...
