Archive for June 2nd, 2009

Google promises to sell e-books (Guardian Unlimited)

Nothing says we're not a monopoly like trying to break up another perceived stranglehold. Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) plans to enter the commercial e-book business this year - and, unlike Amazon ( NSDQ: AMZN ), apparently plays to let publishers set prices, according to the New York Times . The program would be separate from the recent book-scanning settlement. Piecing together conversations Google ...

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Ellison pits Sun and Oracle against AJAX and Google (The Register)

JavaFX for OpenOffice and netbooks JavaOne Under Oracle charge, Sun Microsystems will fuel PCs and phones with Java and JavaFX, challenging Google's Android on netbooks, Oracle's chief Larry Ellison has said.… Video - Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Russian burglars use Google to raid posh mansions: report (AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Russian police have arrested two men who staged audacious robberies in a chic Moscow suburb near the presidential palace after studying satellite images of the area on Google, a newspaper said Tuesday.

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Google puckers up to biz world (The Register)

Goes after big fish, little fish with new products Google released a brace of new products today pitched at SMBs and high-end, tech savvy corporations.… Video - Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Obama administration joins Google (The Register)

Reverse takeover almost complete Steve Jobs may have engineered the most audacious reverse-takeover in tech history when Apple "acquired" NeXT in 1996. Within a year, Jobs and his NeXT colleagues had purged Apple executives from all the key positions (although the chief accountant remained - which may tell you something about chief accountants). But that's small beer compared to Google's ...

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009