by admin at Thursday, November 15, 2007 in Breaking News,Google,Internet
There is prosperous news from Silicon Valley. Co-founder of Google Inc “LARRY PAGE” will tie the nuptial knot with his girlfriend on December 8 at an undisclosed location, according to San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Page’s girlfriend “LUCY SOUTHWORTH” is a bio-medical informatics doctoral student at Stanford University.
Page’s 34, founded Google as a Stanford University computer science doctoral student and is Silicon Valley’s richest bachelor with a fortune worth around USD 20 BILLION.
Many current and former Google employees are expected to attend the wedding.
I wish Mr. PAGE A Very happy and prosperous marriage life.
by admin at Tuesday, November 13, 2007 in Google
Tags: Google Contest, Google Phone, Googlephone, Phone Applications
Google just announced a competition where $10 million dollars has been put out for grabs by the best teams who can develop great mobile applications for the Android platform, possibly for the preparation of the highly anticipated GooglePhone, which Google has kept under wraps for a long time. There are no strings attached and everything to gain as Google has stated on the official page at http://code.google.com/android/adc.html.
50 of the “most promising entries”, as quoted from the official page, will receive $25,000 to further develop the software and a chance to advance even further to the $275,000 and $100,000 awards. This is especially lucrative for companies or passionate individuals that may not know where to start and it is a great opportunity to get them exposed and known in the development world. The panel of judges may prove to be tough as Google’s reputation for their strict standards of quality will make sure that only the best get through.
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by admin at Sunday, November 11, 2007 in Google,YouTube
Tags: desktop uploader, Google, Videos, YouTube
Up until now, Google Video’s bigger video size limit has made it the leading video website for larger, higher quality videos. However, YouTube just announced a new windows desktop uploader that will allow the users to upload a large amount of videos each time. The file size limit has also been raised a whooping 900 megabytes (900 MB), which brings it to 1 gigabyte (1GB) per video. Even though the limit has been raised 10 times the previous amount, the maximum duration of each clip remains at a mere 10 minute – so it looks like YouTube will not be competing too much with Google on the longer videos. This response seems to be in conjunction with a competing video site, Vimeo, which recently allowed High-Definition video uploads.
Even with YouTube’s setbacks on their video length limits, it seems that many people would still rather split their videos just so they can put it on the world’s largest video website – and it is possibly due to the higher exposure they will get. This new limit on video size should bring even more people to YouTube and for the existing members; this will further justify the reasons to stay a loyal user.
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by admin at Friday, November 09, 2007 in Internet,Microsoft,Yahoo
Tags: Iran, Microsoft, webmail, webmail services, Yahoo
It is a sad day for the people of Iran as Yahoo and Microsoft have removed Iran from the country lists of their webmail services, claiming that they had to comply with the US policy that prevents them from doing business with Iran. Fortunately, Google mail is still available to the people of the country, and it seems that they are playing with the law by staying at the edge – claiming that they are still complying with the US export controls and sanction programs.
Since these services are free, there is the question of whether this course of action was even necessary. Skype’s removal of their paying Iranian members made more sense, since it dealt with the exchange of currency and would be more appropriately be considered as ‘conducting business’. Perhaps the lawyers of the giants, Yahoo and Microsoft were over-zealous, especially with Microsoft taking a few hits from huge law suits recently. If it is in compliance with the law, what the US is doing may be questionable. What justifies the action of taking away free international communication services from the Iranians?
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by admin at Thursday, October 25, 2007 in Google,Microsoft,Technology
Tags: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Tech, Technology
Microsoft has recently purchased 1.6 % stake in Facebook for $240 Million. A surprising fact here is that Facebook, about 3 ½ years old, doesn’t have annual revenues of even $200 Million.
This is believed to be Microsoft’s response to Google’s recent major acquisitions of YouTube and DoubleClick Inc. However, it turns out that the other side of the coin has a lot to do with Microsoft internet advertising plans. Also, this investment by Microsoft just goes to say that social networking – dating, friendship, photo sharing, etc. is valuable and is here to stay.
It’s amazing to note that Facebook, which started in a dorm room in Harvard University, has been valued at $15 Billion, thanks to Microsoft. One more important thing to note here is that Facebook is the second largest social networking website, after MySpace, which was acquired by News Corp. a couple of years ago, for $580 Million.
Microsoft is relying on Facebook’s reach and popularity, which it believes can help them sell more ads online, something Google is better than them at. In June 2007, online advertising revenues of Microsoft stood at $1.84 billion, an annual rise of 21 percent. During the same fiscal year, Google’s online advertising revenues rose to $13.3 Billion, a good 64 percent rise.
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