There is no doubt that we are living in complex and changing times for Telecom industry. I think a good glimpse of the unprecedented transformation Telcos, media companies are internet players are going trough happened during this year’s Mobile world congress in Barcelona.
Several big mobile operators like Telefonica and Vodafone set the tone of the discussion about how Google is turning their business into a mere “dumbpipe” role. Even do the “frenemy” relationship between Internet players like Google and wireless service providers has been there for a while, this is the first time, Telcos ask openly for more regulatory intervention on Google’s internet dominance.
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As part of Google efforts to go green, the giant took a big step by entering the energy business with the creation of a subsidiary called Google Energy. The request done to the federal energy regulatory commission includes buying and selling electricity on the wholesale market.
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Net Applications has just published the Global browser market share figures for December 2009, unveiling several interesting surprises.
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One factor that made possible the great development of Google as a hub for innovation is their recruitment methodology used when hiring employees. That methodology has been able to built Google’s most important asset: Human capital.
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After a series of speculations about Google’s launching their own mobile, the company announced today in Mountain View, California, their new mobile phone called Nexus One, which is described as a fast moving, bright and connected.
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Predicting the future is always a rather challenging task. There is one thing about predicting the future….it is so hard to predict.
Mike Elgan makes a great top ten list with the worst predictions by technology pundits for this 2009. Most of them where too vague considering the existing trends happening at the end of this year.
Check the top ten list below
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Google’s Android OS is growing exponentially driven by a massive amount of handsets based on the new mobile OS that are coming to the market. Also, Android seems to be the perfect marketplace for new applications development due to their “open” source and their application store.
And it looks like developers are supporting this platform: Android already has more than 16.000 applications. Still far below App store´s 100.000 applications but quite impressive if you think the little time Android supported mobiles have been available.
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Google has been working hard on giving a lift to Google Chrome platform. Even do still there is a long way to go, during the last two week some interesting developments put additional hope on Chrome’s future. For instance they launched a Beta version for Mac and Linux and also a extensions gallery from where you can upload and download a growing number of applications.
The current gallery is extremely simple, but you can get a good feeling on the top applications downloaded by users. And based on that ranking, I would like to share the top 10 extensions for Google Chrome.
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What kind of things people has been googling during this year? Google just released their official list with the fastest rising searches for 2009.
Honestly, Google doesn’t provide a unique list , but several rankings that gives you a global and local perspective.
It really worth to go trough the different rankings, as Google search is the number one search engine and a good reflection on what is happening on Internet. The list gives you some interesting trends and also reflects the most important events during this 2009.
Check a short summary below
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Google make it again and took the market by surprise launching Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0, as a nice sneak preview on what we can expect from their new Android version. In the site you can also get more information about what is going to be the first mobile using Google Maps Navigation which is going to be launched by Verizon Wireless in the US and Motorola. (Motorola Droid).
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