Google Quietly Launches a MediaServer
Google have quietly introduced a media server application that helps stream and display media content such Video clips, movies, music and photos from the PC to the TV via UPnP enabled devices using Google Desktop software.
Google Media Server is a Windows application that aims to bridge the gap between Google and your TV. It uses [...]
Google and Friends Invest in WiMax Network
Google together with Comcast, Intel Capital, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Trilogy Equity Partners have combined to invest $3.2 billion in a new wireless broadband company. The new company which is named Clearwire (same as existing company) formed after the combination of Clearwire’s existing consumer WiMAX business with Sprint’s broadband infrastructure and 2.5 [...]
AdSense Add a Known Issues Page
Google AdSense have added a new Known Issues page, where AdSense publishers can track and check the status of reported and known problems and issues with their accounts and the programme itself. The Known issues pages will thus provide updates on just reported issues and other existing ones. The aim is to provide more transparency [...]
New Google Web Services: Good News for Developers
Well if you are a developer you might be excited to hear that Google have jumped on the web services bandwagon and just launched Google App Engine. It is a service, like Amazon Web Services (AWS), for developers to create and run their web applications on Google’s infrastructure.
The infrastructure given is the same what [...]
Google finally get DoubleClick
The European Commission have finally approved the acquisition of DoubleClick by Google with no conditions attached saying they did not see this move would marginalise competitors as there are many alternatives in the display ads market.
DoubleClick is an online display ads company that also provide ad serving and management technology to advertisers, web publishers and [...]
Google Gears Goes Mobile
Google have launched Google Gears for mobile that will let users run web applications offline. Just like the standard Google Gears (still in Beta), Gears for mobile is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality. Developers can use the extension to create web apps that run offline using JavaScript [...]
Yahoo! Outsourcing to Google?
I stumbled upon a great piece written by Mike Arrington at TechCrunch on which he talked about Yahoo!’s options and his general outtake on it. What caught my attention and got me thinking was the idea that Yahoo! would outsource their search advertising unit to Google, which is unlikely to happen because of the [...]
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