Compelling stuff from Tony Romm for Politico:
To start, Google quickly hired 12 lobbying firms, a decision that contributed to the estimated $25 million the company, along with its purchased subsidiary, Motorola Mobility, accumulated to influence Washington decision makers over the life of the FTC’s probe.
I know this may come as a shock to some of you, but I’m mainly on Google’s side here and I think the FTC was right not to go down the antitrust road — at least not yet. Google wins search because it’s the best at it. I think companies like Yelp have some legitimate gripes. But others like Microsoft, which has its own search engine, should compete by making a better product, not by hoping the government goes after Google.
Also, this is hardly the last we’re going to hear of this. Just because the FTC isn’t pursuing antitrust action against Google right now, it doesn’t mean they can’t in six months or a year or two years. This will all be looked into again and again and again. And it should be, as Google keeps getting into more and more businesses. Their search monopoly is legit, but it shouldn’t be allowed to unnaturally bolster other products that aren’t worthy — cough Google+ cough.
January 2013
2 posts
Associated Press: Hockey is back, and it took nearly four months and one long night to get the game back on the ice.
With the season on the line, the NHL and the players’ association agreed on a tentative pact to end a 113-day lockout and save what was left of a fractured schedule.
November 2011
4 posts
Title says it all.
Notice: not one looks like shit.
I wonder how many I’ve been to? I’d guess about a dozen.
October 2011
19 posts
kumadeThe big changes to kumade this week: the rake task automatically works, and is properly tested too; the
Less::Morepackager is gone; and the cucumber tests are more extensive and reusable. This is all in the 0.8.0 release of kumade.
Following close on the heels of Google Maps releasing their WebGL based mapping engine, Nokia has taken it to the next level bringing 3D Google Earth style maps to WebGL as well, and boy is is smooth! Not only can you spin the Earth around, and fly to places in 3D, but many of the…
If you’re at all familiar with Apple’s Core Image framework on the Mac and iOS, you’ll know that it is both very powerful, and extremely fast since it runs on the GPU. It is possible to chain multiple filters together and update their parameters in real time without any lag at all.
Obviously, if…
Компанијата за истражување на технолошките пазари, Strategy Analytics, објави извештај според кој оперативниот систем на Microsoft, Windows Phone 7, ќе зафаќа 12,3 отсто од пазарот на паметни телефони во Западна Европа во 2012 година. Овој пораст ќе се должи пред сè на партнерството на Microsoft со финската компанија Nokia, која ќе го користи Windows Phone во сите свои паметни телефони, но исто така и на партнерството со HTC и Samsung.
Според извештајот, во 2012 година се предвидува дека во Западна Европа ќе се продадат 117 милиони паметни телефони, од нив се очекува Microsoft да продаде над 14 милиони паметни телефони кои ќе работат на Windows Phone 7.
Strategy Analytics сметаат дека пазарот на паметни телефони во наредната година ќе порасне за 12 отсто, од 105 милиони парчиња на 117 милиони парчиња, a Windows Phone ќе биде најбрзо растечкиот оперативен систем. Се очекува Windows Phone да биде третиот по застапеност мобилен оперативен систем во Западна Европа, веднаш зад iOS на Apple, и Android на Google.
Извор: http://www.it.com.mk/windows-phone-ke-bide-najbrzo-rastechkiot-mobilen-os-vo-2012/
