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Google joins world's top 10 brands as Microsoft slips

LONDON - Google has joined the top ten most valuable global brands in Interbrand's annual survey for the first time, with Coca Cola remaining top as Microsoft slips to third place.

Google in Attack.

The web is crazy! A new war has just starts. A browser war, a clash of the titans, Google and Microsoft, the battle of the browsers. Finally, Google has unveiled their very own web browser they called it Chrome. It designed to take on Industry leading Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and also one time Google web allies Mozilla ( Goodbye Mozilla.). With chrome Google has just declared war not just on Microsoft but also to the Mozilla folks. Google is known to support open source community and Mozilla is one of those but the games has changed Google got no choice but to drop Mozilla.The competition has just started to get hotter. What exactly Google wants here? World domination? Google got greedy here. First they got Google Apps to take on Microsoft Office then they unveiled Chrome to take on Microsoft internet Explorer.

Yahoo- Google inc. : A threat to Microsoft?

Yahoo, a major prize for Goliaths such as Google and Microsoft that wants to build a web empire with a major audience, sizable revenues, and good brand. By making a deal to Yahoo, Google gets a vastly bigger audience to go with its formidable resources. Google won’t be able to bid for Yahoo because of antitrust concerns. Yahoo has already surrendered some of its advertising space to search leader Google. The deal will allows running Google ads on yahoo search result pages. Google ad partnership with Yahoo could boost revenue and extend its online reach, making it the sole master of online advertising. Does Google deserve Yahoo? Google ad partnership with Yahoo would keep Yahoo out of Microsoft sight. Yahoo so desperate to stay away from Microsoft.

Google Android: The dude? Or big dud?

Today's the day Android strutted its stuff to the world. Is Android the game-changer for the SmartPhone industry, a real contender to the iPhone or just another cell phone OS? It's definitely not just another cell phone OS, as evidenced by all the attention around today's launch. Google has technology that other phones use but Google Android will exploit. Google search, of course is the 800-pound gorilla in search. Add Google maps (including a compass feature Google demonstrated in the T-Mobile [HTC] G1 phone), Google Webkit and the Chrome Web browser (a Chrome Lite comes on Android), Google Talk, YouTube, Google Apps, and so forth. This has allowed Google to layer in a single sign-on for all Google apps, and Android syncs data with your Google account for contacts, calendar, chat and likely other applications in the future.

Google joins world brands top 10

Tech companies have put on the strongest showing, and financial companies the weakest, in an annual study on the most popular brands in the world. The two biggest movers in Interbrand's "definitive" 2008 Best Global Brands were Google, which jumped from 20 to 10, and Apple, which jumped 9 spots to 24. Rankings:

» Google joins world brands top 10

Tech companies have put on the strongest showing, and financial companies the weakest, in an annual study on the most popular brands in the world. The two biggest movers in Interbrand's "definitive" 2008 Best Global Brands were Google, which jumped from 20 to 10, and Apple, which jumped 9 spots to 24. Rankings:

Borders.com Goes Live with Google Preview

Borders has enabled Google Preview on their site. Google Preview, unveiled in September, is a widget-like tool that allows retailers or anyone handy with Web site code to embed a preview of 20% of any book in Google’s database onto their site. Borders joins Books-A-Million and the U.K. retailer Blackwell Bookshop in using the service. The deal between Google and its retail partners stipulates that retailers will enable Google Preview for any book being sold that is also available in Google’s database, in exchange for an enhanced version of the Preview software. The big advantage for retailers of Google Preview is that it allows consumers to brows books scanned by Google without leaving the retailer’s Web site. Click the “Google Preview� button beneath the jacket art on Borders.

Google Now Allows Sites to Serve Content to Them While Showing a Registration Box to Non-Google Users

There once was a time when Google search tried to be a neutral bystander, watching the web without getting too actively involved. There once was a time when Google instructed webmasters to serve their Googlebot the same thing served to a site’s human users. Now, Google is officially telling webmasters they can serve one thing to people coming from Google web search, and another thing to people coming from elsewhere. Think of it as Google now offering publishers to hand Google a special key to the publisher’s content. Google calls this “first click free� and they say they do this in order “to help users find and access content that may require registration or a subscription�, to “include highly relevant content in Google’s search index� and to “to provide a promotion and discovery opportunity for publishers with restric

Google joins world's top 10 brands

Google has joined the definitive list of the 10 most valuable global brands. Interbrand’s annual audit said that the company, which has built on its dominance in internet searches, and expanded into software, video, mapping and web browsing, was “the undisputed king of the internet world�.

Microsoft, Google Battle Over Energy Efficiency

1sockchuck writes "Microsoft and Google have opened a new front in their battle for global domination: data center energy efficiency. Just weeks after Google published data on the extreme efficiency of its previously secret data centers, Microsoft says it has achieved similar results with shipping containers (despite Google's patent) packed with up to 2,500 servers. The geeky benchmark for the battle is Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), a green data-center metric advanced by The Green Grid. Microsoft says its containers tested at a PUE of 1.22, while Google reported an average PUE of 1.21 for its data centers, which apparently are also now using containers."

Microsoft Has Windows Azure Cloud OS, Google Has Nothing

When it comes down to cloud platforms, Google is no contest for Microsoft. During the User Conference for Microsoft Services in Japan, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer pointed out that despite the fact that “Google [is the] number one search company from the cloud,� it “has yet to introduce a platform�. Ballmer explained that the reason for this is the fact that Google has not embraced building platforms for IT as a business model. By contrast, Microsoft is hard at work developing Windows Azure, the company's Cloud operating system.

Microsoft Joins with Google To Favor White Space

Microsoft has joined Google in pushing to use television white space for a national wireless broadband. The Federal Communications Commission has scheduled a vote on white space for Nov. 4. Microsoft said it has been looking at white space since 2002 and agreed with Google that approval could make the U.S. a world leader in broadband.

Could You Google Bomb Google Flu?

Google got a lot of attention recently for the launch of Google Flu Trends, which looks at aggregate data on searches related to the flu, to see if it can act as something of an early warning system for where there are flu problems. It's an interesting use of the data, and it will be worth watching what else can be done with this sort of data over time. However, Ed Felten raises an interesting question: can Google Flu Trends be manipulated? The idea is that, right now, it may be accurate, but the very fact that people know Google is tracking this information, could create incentives to game that info -- in the same way people have tried gaming Google in other ways for years, using tricks such as Google bombing. While you might not think there would be that many reasons to manipulate Google Flu Trends, there could be reasons to do so.

CompanionLink for Google a Powerful Alternative to Google Calendar Sync

PORTLAND, OR -- 11/17/08 -- CompanionLink Software, a leader in mobile synchronization solutions, was the first to release two-way synchronization for Microsoft Outlook contacts, calendar, and tasks with Google. CompanionLink for Google has more features, includes free live technical support, and is compatible with more versions of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Outlook than the Google Calendar Sync tool developed by Google.

Google shows its frienemy side

Google collects friends easily, but it also turns on them just as fast. It played the white knight to Yahoo, when big, bad Microsoft came knocking uninvited. And it also aided Microsoft arch enemy Sun in its anti-Microsoft crusade, not only by distributing Office competitor StarOffice with the free Google Pack, but also by creating a deal to distribute the Google Toolbar with every Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) download. But things change. It looks like that now both Yahoo and Sun are weakened players in the online marketplace, Google has no further use for them. And Yahoo and Sun, who are both now turning to Microsoft, have to be left wondering: Who's the friend, and who's the enemy?

Was Google Lively DOA?

google_Lively.jpgOver the summer Google released Lively by Google, its version of a virtual or persistent world. Though it got early support by participants and brands such as National Geographic, there was insufficient momentum to sustain the Google Labs venture. This morning the Official Google Blog posted Google Lively will shut down at the end of the year. "Google has always been supportive of this kind of experimentation because we believe it's the best way to create groundbreaking products that make a difference to people's lives. But we've also always accepted that when you take these kinds of risks not every bet is going to pay off," it said on the blog. Additionally the Lively.com Web site urges users to create memories of their virtual experiences by recording videos and screenshots.

California Nonprofit Internews Network Joins Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! in Free Speech and Privacy Initiative

PRNewswire/ -- Internews Network (http://www.internews.org), a nonprofit leader in fostering independent media and access to information around the world, has joined with Google (http://www.google.com), Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com), Yahoo! (http://www.yahoo.com) and other stakeholders to develop a global code of conduct to protect free speech and guard privacy against government interference on the Internet.

California Nonprofit Internews Network Joins Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! in Free Speech and Privacy Initiative

PRNewswire/ -- Internews Network (http://www.internews.org), a nonprofit leader in fostering independent media and access to information around the world, has joined with Google (http://www.google.com), Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com), Yahoo! (http://www.yahoo.com) and other stakeholders to develop a global code of conduct to protect free speech and guard privacy against government interference on the Internet.

California Nonprofit Internews Network Joins Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! in Free Speech and Privacy Initiative

ARCATA, Calif., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Internews Network (http://www.internews.org), a nonprofit leader in fostering independent media and access to information around the world, has joined with Google (http://www.google.com), Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com), Yahoo! (http://www.yahoo.com) and other stakeholders to develop a global code of conduct to protect free speech and guard privacy against government interference on the Internet.

Gmail and Google Talk Users Access Online Collaboration through Yuuguu

Yuuguu announced the integration of the Google Talk Instant Messaging (IM) network into its real-time collaboration and web conferencing service. Yuuguu users can now share screens, hold web conferences, and work collaboratively with anyone on the Google Talk IM network all via the Yuuguu application. The Google Talk IM network is accessible via the downloadable Google Talk client, and the purely browser based GMail, iGoogle, and Google Apps services. Yuuguu has an integrated buddy list and chat system. Yuuguu users can link to their existing Google account and any contacts they have on the Google Talk IM network will automatically appear in their Yuuguu buddy list. Yuuguu users can chat with friends or colleagues on the Google Talk IM network.

Google gets it, Microsoft doesn't

Google's new Labs for Google Apps just further underscores the different philosophies for cloud computing embraced by Google and Microsoft. While Microsoft is just now launching its Azure cloud OS and stepping up its promise of an online, yet limited, version of Office, Google is opening up its venerable Apps productivity suite to include more features--even those from third parties.

When it comes to Google Docs, there are no good numbers

No matter which set of numbers you believe, Google Docs has a lot of market share ground to gain, not only against Microsoft Office but also OpenOffice.org's free office suite. Google's Matt Cutts takes issue with a recent study by ClickStream Technologies, which found that Google Docs was used by just 1% of Internet users, vs. 5% using OpenOffice and 51% using Microsoft Office. Cutts did some research on his own and found Google Docs with 5%, Open Office with 12.4% and Microsoft Word with 49.6% share. But either way you slice it, Google Docs isn't really a big factor in terms of office productivity suites--at least yet.

Microsoft Attempting to Edge Google Out of Verizon Deal

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft is courting Verizon Wireless heavily and trying to get the carrier to offer Microsoft's search services rather than Google's. Google has been trying to become the default search provider on Verizon Wireless phones. Microsoft decided to step in and offer its own search services to Verizon at favorable terms. According to the Journal, Microsoft is offering more generous revenue sharing and a guarantee of substantially higher payments to Verizon. Verizon has not made a decision yet.

Nintendo Make "Top 100 Brands" List

Every year, market researchers Interbrand publish a little chart. Amongst marketing types, it's very important. They compile what they believe are the top 100 "hottest" brands in the world, and rank them in order of, well, "hotness". Any and all brand names are eligible, so the top of the list is dominated by names like Coke, IBM, Microsoft McDonalds. But cast your eyes down the list to #40 and you'll see little old Nintendo. No doubt thanks to the continued success of the Wii and DS, they moved up four places from the 2007 list, one spot behind Kellogs and one spot ahead of...Swiss financial services firm UBS. They're the only games-specific "brand" to make the list; both Sony (#25) and Microsoft (#3) are present, but they're of course there primarily for other stuff.

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