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The LA Times had a nice chat with Lise Buyer (I swear I am not making that up), the former investment banker who helped Google go public in 2004, about the LinkedIn IPO yesterday.
Day two of Google’s I/O conference was all about Chrome and the big announcement was the pricing and availability of the Chromebook netbook featuring Google’s new Chrome OS. It’s essentially a very streamlined and efficient netbook and will be available worldwide on June 15th, with models produced by Samsung and Acer and ranging from $349-$499.
Google’s I/O developer conference officially kicked off this morning with a keynote of several product and service announcements. The Pièce de résistance was the unveiling of Google’s long awaited cloud music service, called “Music Beta.”
Search Engine Land has a nice retrospective of the different products Google has announced since the first I/O conference back in 2008. Looking through them is a little like looking down the memory lane of failure, though.
In a move that is eyebrow-raising, but not entirely unsurprising, Google has begun tightening its policies on its Android code licensing for mobile hardware manufacturers. It’s reserving the right to have final approval over who gets the latest Android code based on their plans for the software.
Within an hour after news broke of the devastating earthquake in Japan Friday morning, Google had deployed their crisis response page including their person finder technology.
Last week, a shady Android app publisher took 21 popular free apps from the marketplace, injected root exploits into them, and re-uploaded them on to the app marketplace. “What’s a ‘root exploit?” you might ask? Basically, it’s as if someone staged a coup in your Android phone and instituted The Joker as the leader. Very bad things could happen.
The gloves have finally come off in the search engine wars. Yesterday, Google fired the first salvo at Microsoft, accusing its Bing service of blatantly pilfering search engine results from Google’s own results. Microsoft initially said “so what?” to the claim, then eventually shifted to the offensive as the day went on.
It’s interesting how many of us have been conditioned to use Google Search over the past few years in spite of the advances being made by its competitors.
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