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Think Tank Tries Imagining a Yahoogle Consent Decree
The American Antitrust Institute (AAI) has waded into the Yahoogle debate with a 22-page white paper that worries that the Yahoo-Google alliance will turn into “a black hole that swallows up Yahoo.” And it says that if the government can’t negotiate a consent decree that “preserves Yahoo’s [economic] incentives to remain in the paid search market” and compete against both Google and Microsoft – the only potentially pro-competitive feature in the deal is the money it would throw off that Yahoo could invest in its Panama advertising platform – then the Justice Department should “seek an injunction to prevent Google and Yahoo from implementing their agreement.” read more
Google Apps no threat to Microsoft? Maybe it is…
Steve Ballmer is convinced that Google Apps is nothing to worry about -- according to Steve(24 minutes in), "you can't even put a footnote in a document". Perhaps what happened directly after he said that is precisely why Microsoft should be worried. About 2 days after Steve downplayed any kind of competition that may be coming from Docs, Google added footnote support. The agility, and horsepower that Google has behind it is something that companies -- even Microsoft -- should be wary of, and definitely shouldn't take lightly. It's true that Google Docs hasn't yet challenged Microsoft as much as I'm sure they would like, but don't count Google out just yet. This is how I see it playing ...
EC Probing Yahoogle Deal as Opposition Mounts
Remember how Yahoo and Google carefully restricted their deal to the US and Canada so they could tiptoe past the persnickety European Commission? Well, it turns out the slumbering giant woke up anyway and has been informally reviewing the controversial web search advertising axis since mid-July on the theory that the pact could violate European price-fixing rules (oooo!, heavy antitrust stuff) and regulations on sharing sensitive business information. read more
T-Mobile’s Android Phone Has Limits Outside Google (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Now that analysts are getting their hands on the T-Mobile G1, talk is beginning about what the first Android-powered phone doesn't offer. T-Mobile launched the HTC-made device Tuesday, complete with full touchscreen functionality and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for a mobile Web experience largely driven by Google products, including Search, Google Street View, Gmail and YouTube.
Did Google Disassemble Vista Software
It is reported that the underlying technology of Google Chrome shows Vista was reverse engineered to learn about the usage of Vista security features. It is believed that the source of Google’s disassembly is found here — Bypassing Windows Hardware-enforced Data Execution Prevention. In an excerpt from CNET: The Chrome source code said a particular [...]
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