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Technology is a fully integrated feature of peoples everyday lives and some of the largest names in gadgets this day is Apple and Google. Often times consumers only see Apple and Google (or Android actually) battling it out for the top smart phone, however there is another war that is being waged between the two that goes unnoticed by consumers; ads.
You see, on top of making a massive profit off of the devices that they sell, these companies also integrate ads into their apps and other features of the devices so that they can generate more revenue. Advertising companies understand the value of being exposed to such a large group of people so they will often pay an arm and a leg to get in on the advertising programs for mobile devices.
So what exactly is the war going on you ask? Well, Apple decided to up the prices that advertisers had to pay to be included on their devices while other companies, such as Google, kept the fees that advertisers had to pay rather reasonable. +Continue Reading
Verizon is blocking Google from the carrier’s version of the Galaxy Nexus, set to be released next week in US. Although Google assisted Samsung in the phone’s development, the search engine giant’s mobile payment system will not be functional on Verizon’s version of the phone, at Verizon’s request.
The news was not well received by Android fans. They had hoped to see the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the first smartphone released with Ice Cream 4.0, released onto the market with full functionality.
A representative of Google revealed to CNET that Verizon requested the feature be disabled in the product. However, whether this request is related to Isis, a joint venture between Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile USA, and AT&T, or not is still mere speculation. The trio of carriers announced Isis last Summer as their new mobile payments company, but Google beat them to the punch. +Continue Reading
This week millions of YouTube users were surprised to be greeted with a completely overhauled new look on the video site. It is the biggest redesign in YouTube history and has made the users homepage look more like a social media site. Not only does the YouTube page look like a social page, but it also integrates both Google + (of course) and Facebook into the mix as well.
The overall layout is sophisticated with the activity feed dominating the page in the center, a navigation bar on the left, and a nice stream of recommended videos on the right. The recommended videos are chosen through a complex algorithm that takes all of your current subscriptions and also factors in what videos you have watched recently – what comes out is a nice tailored list of videos that will likely catch your fancy and keep you browsing through YouTube from video to video for hours. +Continue Reading
Here recently there has been an uproar from consumers and website owners at the hypocritical actions taken by the US against certain websites by the effort known as Operation In Our Sites. This effort shuts down commercial websites that are selling or distributing counterfeit material and has led to the seizure of more than a hundred and thirty domains, ars technica reports.
Unfortunately websites now have to fear more than the US government as one luxury goods maker has proven here recently. Chanel, a long standing fashion designer that utilizes the double C logo to trademark their goods, has been fighting counterfeit handbags and other goods for a long time however now they have taken swift action against the online sale of these counterfeit goods. +Continue Reading
The Google search engine has a unique auto complete feature so that users can see the top searched topics as they are typing in their own search query. Unfortunately Google has been slowly censoring this auto complete feature for piracy-related terms since January of this year.
In January only a few terms were censored but here recently they overhauled their blacklist and it now includes almost all of the file sharing websites. Now, when searching for terms such as ‘torrent’, ‘RapidShare’ and even ‘BitTorrent’, you will notice that absolutely no auto complete results pop up to save your fingers from typing in the rest of your query. +Continue Reading
Earlier this year in May, Google announced that it would allow consumers to upload their music collection into the cloud storage as part of the Music Beta that was being launched by Google. The upload and storage process was free for everyone and would hold up to twenty thousand songs per person. This was part of Google’s attempt to allow consumers to get used to streaming data from any device however this now has been upgraded and is known as Google Music.
Google Music will encompass a variety of different aspects such as searching, buying, sharing, and listening to music in new ways. Whether consumers upload their music into the cloud or purchase the music from Google itself, Google Music will automatically sync the entire music library to all devices. This will make it simple for users to go without those annoying connection cords they need every time they want to transfer music onto a device. +Continue Reading
A little while ago Microsoft leaked out a snippet of information about a project they were working on. It appeared on Socl.com and was called ‘Tulalip’. Apparently Tulalip is a website where you “Find what you need and Share what you know.” However now a bit more information has surfaced and you can get a sneak peek into the budding project that will be hopefully be available to the public sometime in the near future.
Socl as it is now referred to, Tulalip was dropped, is a site that takes social networking, searching for information, and discovery and blending it all into one complex mixture. It was previously being tested with a select group of users and it has a myriad of different features which you can find out about below. +Continue Reading
Technology is a fully integrated feature of peoples everyday lives and some of the largest names in gadgets this day is Apple and Google. Often times consumers only see Apple and Google (or Android actually) battling it out for the top smart phone, however there is another war that is being waged between the two that goes unnoticed by consumers; ads.
