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Novell Gets Ready To Release Pulse and Federation with Google Wave
The new service will eventually fully integrate with Google Wave . This version does not include Google Wave as part of its service. Groups may also be created with external communities such as partners or customers. The service includes a co-editing feature, much like you see in Google Wave. Novell is providing the first glimpse of Pulse, its new real-time collaboration service. But there is an expectation that eventually the integration will serve as a federated platform that may serve as the basis for new open-source collaboration efforts.
ReadWriteWeb - Friday, March 19, 2010
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Chinese Media: Google Will Leave China on April 10th
Following the well-publicized fracas over censorship, attacks on human rights, full-scale hacking, and accusations of governmental involvement in attempts to steal data from Google 's servers, Google has been very public in its condemnation of the situation. Though hopeful for a positive resolution , Google's executives and spokesmen have not been shy about threatening to completely pull out of China, stranding the country without many of the services the rest of the world enjoys--and the Chinese media, including China Business News is now reporting that a definite decision
Fast Company - Thursday, March 18, 2010
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Google TV Should Finally Push Apple TV Beyond A “Hobby”
And news today about the so-called “Google TV” should do just the trick. Apple and Google are on the verge of war. As the New York Times reported yesterday, Google is working with partners including Intel, Sony, and Logitech to bring a Google TV experience into the living room. As Nick Bilton points out, this Google For the past couple of years now, when talking about the Apple TV product, Apple likes to throw out the word “hobby.” 8221; It’s as if they’re ashamed of the device.
TechCrunch - Thursday, March 18, 2010
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  • Google Announces PowerMeter Partners
    Google.org has just announced an international roster of partners for their PowerMeter gadget. PowerMeter is "a Google gadget that can show consumers their personal electricity consumption right on a home computer," according to today's announcement on the Google Blog . "Our Over the past several months we've been looking to partner with utilities that are installing (or have already installed) this equipment in their customers' homes. Our software relies on 'smart meters' (or other metering devices) as a data source. We're energized by our very first Google
    ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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  • Google Engineering Explains Microformat Support in Searches
    Today, Google is releasing support for parsing and display of microformat data in their search results. While the initial launch will be limited to a specific set of partners (including LinkedIn, Yelp and CNet reviews), the intent is that very quickly, anyone who marks their pages up with the appropriate microformat data will be able to make their information understandable by Google. We talked this morning with Othar Hansson and RV Guha, two of the Google engineers This technology would allow you to explicitly search, for example, for only printers that had an average customer review of 3 stars or higher.
    OReilly Radar - Tuesday, May 12, 2009
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  • Google and Best Buy Partner on Mobile Applications
    Yesterday major electronics retailer Best Buy and internet powerhouse Google announced a partnership designed to help the retailer compete in the mobile sales arena. In addition to other Best Buy strategies for ramping up their mobile division, one key aspect to their multiphase plan involves collaborating with Google on a series of exclusive mobile applications, the first one being a shopping app that helps customers find the item they're looking for within their nearest Best Buy store. Sponsor Best Buy's New Mobile Apps
    ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, October 1, 2009
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  • More Details Emerge on "Google Editions," Google's eBook Store
    At the Frankfurt Book Fair , Google announced more details about their upcoming online ebook service known as "Google Editions." Originally revealed earlier this year , Editions will be a hosted electronic bookstore for a selection of in-print books which would be provided by Google's publishing partners. And unlike some other ebook formats, like those designed for Amazon's Kindle for instance, the so-called "Google editions" will According to news coming out of the Book Fair event , the new digital books program will launch in the first half of 2010 and will offer 400,000 to 600,000 ebooks at that time.
    ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, October 15, 2009
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  • Google Books Offers Creative Commons Licensing
    Earlier this morning Google Books announced a program where rights owners would be given the option to modify their copyright licenses and specify them as Creative Commons (CC) works. The addition of Google Books as a partner is a significant one as the search giant's involvement promises to increase the public's ability to find works to share and remix. For example, Google already The initiative allows writers, artists and publishers to mark their books with one of 6 CC version 3 licenses , a public domain license or the CC "no rights reserved" license .
    ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, August 13, 2009
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  • AdSense: The (Weak) Elephant in the Room
    AdSense was proof of Google's genius, having grown into a multi-billion dollar business in only a few years after its launch in 2003. Google's search business continues to grow in dominance, and the company's apps business is putting a serious dent in Microsoft's franchise. AdSense is 30% of Google's revenue, so this matters. A few years ago, we spoke of the " AdSense Economy ." It was so simple.
    ReadWriteWeb - Saturday, June 20, 2009
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  • Exclusive: YouTube Will Soon Let Big Content Partners Bring Their Own Ads
    Currently very few media partners are able to sell their own ads on YouTube, but industry sources expect that this program will soon be expanded to more big media partners, possibly before the end of the first quarter. YouTube confirms that a few big partners, like CBS, can already sell their own ad inventory on both the videos in their YouTube channels and any videos with their content uploaded by users that is picked up by YouTube’s Content ID system. Big media companies have always had a love-hate relationship with YouTube. They don’t know whether to sue
    TechCrunch - Wednesday, January 21, 2009
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  • Google Broadens Attack On Amazon Kindle, Partners With COOLERBOOKS
    Google is clearly moving fast in setting up partnerships with ebook reader manufacturers and store operators to give some weight to its threat to Amazon and the latter’s Kindle product line. Tags: Company & Product Profiles cool-er coolerbooks coolreaders google interea First, the company teamed up with Sony , adding about 1 million public domain books to the technology giant’s eBook Store. Now Mountain View has sealed a deal with British Interead , bringing the same amount of ebooks to an online store outside the U.S.
    TechCrunch - Wednesday, September 2, 2009
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  • Google in Your TV
    Google is everywhere. From your web mail to your web searches and now even tracking your location on a map , the ubiquity of Google is something that many of us have just started taking for granted when we go online. But something a lot of people don't realize is that Google is also tapping into our information when we're offline. Case in point: Google TV Ads , a part of the company's AdWords channel gives Google access to DVR viewership data from millions of set-top boxes here in the United States. Sponsor
    ReadWriteWeb - Monday, February 9, 2009
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  • YouTube Starts Rolling Out Video Download Program For Partners
    YouTube is trying to find more ways to monetize the popular web service, and recently started a test project with selected partners who were invited to start offering video downloads to interested viewers (they subsequently killed our own download tool , presumably because they want to minimize the risk of losing money on unauthorized download apps). Now it seems the Google-owned online video community site is ready to expand the program to other interested partners based in the U.S. (see see screenshot below). As we noted earlier when we first caught wind of the download
    TechCrunch - Thursday, April 23, 2009
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