comments (0)
My latest article in MSNBC.COM about the Google-Verizon deal....
continue reading "Google net neutrality stance gives 'Net's future to corporations - Technology & science - Tech and gadgets - msnbc.com" »
WSJ.com: Google Launches a Net Neutrality Test Posted By Amy Schatz On January 28, 2009 @ 3:00 pm In Amy Schatz, FCC, Google | 1 Comment By [1] Amy Schatz For years, advocates of open Internet, or Net Neutrality, rules...
continue reading "Google Launches a Net Neutrality Test " »
Everything is ... NYTimes.com has come a looong way. At first, all the links on the site pointed to more of its own content, except for ads, as if the NYT was the only place ever worth reading. Then the...
continue reading "Dave Weinberger explains how Google changed the NYTimes" »
RoughType:Are we missing the point about cloud computing? That question has been rattling around in my mind for the last few days, as the chatter about the role of the cloud in business IT has intensified. The discussion to date...
continue reading "Nicholas Carr on the Cloud and 'The new economics of computing'" »
Isen.blog: Bogus WSJ Story on Net Neutrality Today's Wall Street Journal has a bogus, misleading story claiming that Google has been making deals with telephone and cable carriers that violate Network Neutrality. My bullshit detector was triggered by paragraph five,...
continue reading "isen.blog: Bogus WSJ Story on Net Neutrality" »
Ars Technica: Telecoms and advocacy groups unite over broadband "stimulus" By Julian Sanchez | Published: December 02, 2008 - 08:30PM CT As the sluice gates of stimulus open, proponents of expanded broadband access are hoping the Net will catch some...
continue reading "Do we need a broadband "stimulus"?" »
ZDNet.com: The Federal Communications Commission has opened up so-called wireless white spaces–unused spectrum between broadcast channels–in a move the agency hopes paves the way for ‘Wi-Fi on Steroids’....
continue reading "BIG win for Google (and the rest of us): FCC Opens up White Spaces for Broadband" »
NYTimes.com: SAN FRANCISCO — Tuesday marks the end of a battle that has lasted for more than two years, with each side predicting apocalyptic consequences should it lose. Not the fight for the presidency — the one pitting Google against...
continue reading "Dolly Parton vs. Google over white space" »
Reuters; Lawmaker questions Google-backed spectrum plan Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:40am EDT By Kim Dixon WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. lawmaker on Friday joined a growing chorus asking the head of the Federal Communications Commission to explain his plan...
continue reading "Rep. Dingell pushes back on White Space plan" »
NYTimes.com: McCain Fights for the Right to Remix on YouTube By Saul Hansell (UPDATED 10/15: Added YouTube’s response) Internet issues have taken a back seat in the presidential campaign. But this week, even as Senator John McCain unveiled his new...
continue reading "McCain campaign appeals YouTube takedowns" »
Bloomberg.com: Google Rewires Washington in Challenge to Microsoft (Update2) By Molly Peterson Enlarge Image/Details Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Vivek Kundra, recruited to Washington to overhaul city computer networks plagued by cost overruns and viruses, treats his projects like stocks. The...
continue reading "More on Google in DC" »
picenter from Wired.com: Google may have Microsoft beat in the search innovation game, but Microsoft has more practice in lobbying Congress and knows how the throw its weight around in Washington. Microsoft has been hard at work trying to thwart...
continue reading "MS vs. Google in DC" »
Machinist - Salon.com: Microsoft doesn't matter anymore Earlier this week, Microsoft unveiled a new promotion that tries to encourage more people to use Microsoft Live Search instead of Google. Here's the way it works: Each time you search on Live...
continue reading "Not that I believe the answer is yes, but does Microsoft matter?" »
csmonitor.com: One month later, has Chrome’s polish lasted? Google has attracted few converts with its Web browser but it's thinking long term. By Jeremy Kutner| Contributor for The Christian Science Monitor/ October 2, 2008 edition * E-mail a friend *...
continue reading "Chrome shows Google has its head in the cloud -- and that's ok" »
See the video here. BBC NEWS: Google 'Goliath' Microsoft says By Rory Cellan-Jones Technology correspondent, BBC News The chief executive of Microsoft has admitted that his firm's slowness to grasp the potential of internet search had hit the business. Steve...
continue reading "Ballmer throws mud at Google" »
Could There Be More To Google, Android, Chrome, & Gears Than Meets The Eye? - David Berlind's Tech Radar - InformationWeek Could There Be More To Google, Android, Chrome, & Gears Than Meets The Eye? Posted by David Berlind, Sep...
continue reading "Is there a new "browser war" coming?" »
NYTimes.com: September 9, 2008 O3b Links With Google for Fast Satellite Internet Capacity By JEREMY KIRK, IDG News Service\London Bureau, IDG Satellite company O3b Networks has linked up with Google and other investors to bring cheaper, high-speed wireless Internet access...
continue reading "Google involved in effort to spread wireless broadband globally" »
Journalistopia: If today's launch of Google's Knol is any indication, this line of thinking has fundamentally changed. Google, in short, is becoming a full-fledged media company in direct competition with established news and knowledge sites. Knol âshort for âknowledgeâ is...
continue reading "Is "Knol" a radical move for Google -- challenging big media?" »
The Associated Press: Lions Gate to share ad revenue on clips on YouTube By RYAN NAKASHIMA – 14 hours ago BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Google Inc. said Wednesday that it will partner with filmmaker Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. to...
continue reading "The Lions' Gate-Google deal" »
CNET News.com: Why it matters what Chad Hurley watches Posted by Greg Sandoval 23 comments What will it mean for YouTube if founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have, like many of us, entertained themselves by watching pirated videos found...
continue reading "Why YouTube employees' video habits are at issue in Viacom v. Google" »
washingtonpost.com: The Issue Of Trust Is With Google, Not Viacom Michael Arrington TechCrunch.com Saturday, July 12, 2008; 2:58 PM Earlier this month Louis L. Stanton, the senior judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New...
continue reading "The problem with Viacom v. Google is with Google?" »
CNET News.com: Google, Viacom now clashing over YouTube employee records Posted by Greg Sandoval 12 comments Update: at 9:05 p.m. PDT Saturday to include Viacom's response. Viacom wants to know which videos YouTube employees have watched and uploaded to the...
continue reading "Viacom wants YouTube employee records!" »
Wired.com: Google's Long Reach Muddles Boardroom Picture By Josh McHugh, Portfolio.com Email 23 hours ago News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Ballmer and Icahn, B.F.F.'s Top Coder Lands a Top Job Heroes and Zeros in Corporate America Subscribe to Portfolio...
continue reading "The tangles web of corporate board members" »
WSJ.com: Google Lawyers Look to Hide YouTube-User Identification By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO and MERISSA MARR July 4, 2008 6:57 a.m. Lawyers for Google Inc. Thursday asked Viacom Inc. for permission to better hide information that might help personally identify YouTube...
continue reading "More on the Viacom v. Google YouTube privacy showdown" »
Michael Froomkin has the dish: I was interviewed today for this afternoon’s edition of Marketplace; of course you never know if they’ll use it or not. The topic was the strange — and to my mind wrongly decided — decision...
continue reading "Court opens up massive privacy breach in Viacom v. Google" »
Dial-a-Phone: Nokia has today announced two strategic acquisitions that will help it fend off the challenge from the Apple iPhone and Google’s upcoming Android operating system. The major acquisition is of the final 52 percent of Symbian Ltd for £209m....
continue reading "Nokia buys Symbian to battle GPhone" »
NYTimes.com: ... Still, while news organizations continue to worry about what Google is doing to their business, the company is far from achieving the kind of dominant position in news that it has in other areas. Six years after its...
continue reading "What's Google News doing?" »
WSJ.com: Google's Mobile-Handset Plans Are Slowed 'Android' Launch Is Being Delayed As Carriers Struggle By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO and AMOL SHARMA June 23, 2008; Page B8 Google Inc. is learning that changing the cellphone industry isn't easy. The Internet giant...
continue reading "G-phone software delayed" »
Declan has the scoop. Apparently, fake corn-growers (really telecoms) are part of the astroturfing of Google....
continue reading "Anti-Google (anti-Net Neutrality) forces hiding themselves behind odd lobby shields" »
A couple of weeks ago (I am still behind in my reading), Neil Netanel wrote this on Balkinization: Joe Lieberman, Islamist Terrorism, and YouTube Neil Netanel I thank Joe Lieberman for highlighting a point I made in an earlier post:...
continue reading "YouTube, Terrorism, and Censorship" »
Microsoft, Google Fighting for Unused Spectrum between TV Channels: Scientific American Scientific American Magazine - June 4, 2008 Microsoft, Google Fighting for Unused Spectrum between TV Channels Could future wireless devices destroy HDTV broadcasts? By Larry Greenemeier Microsoft, Google and...
continue reading "Google, MS, and the fight for White Space in the Spectrum" »
IP Democracy: Expert: Google Owes Success to Carrier Discrimination (Washington, DC) The idea that broadband carriers might discriminate in favor of a particular service or application is generally considered to be a bad notion, but some experts say broadband carrier...
continue reading "Did Google benefit from discrimination (i.e. non-neutrality)?" »
According to Wired, Some Open-Source Advocates Find Google's Android a Sinister Threat: Some Open-Source Advocates Find Google's Android a Sinister Threat By Paul Adams Email 11.14.07 | 7:00 PM Android, Google's new mobile software platform based on the Linux kernel,...
continue reading "Just how open will the Google Phone be?" »
T-Mobile Wagers Deal With Google Is Worth the Risk - WSJ.com: The smallest of the leading U.S. cellphone operators, T-Mobile, appears to be the one making the biggest bets. Perhaps its most daring is its most recent. The Deutsche Telekom...
continue reading "What's T-Mobile's stake in the Google Phone project?" »
Business Technology : Google Phone: A Business-Tech Nightmare Waiting to Happen: Google Phone: A Business-Tech Nightmare Waiting to Happen Posted by Ben Worthen Google hopes its new operating system will turn phones into mini computers that are just as useful...
continue reading "What are the hazards of Google Phone?" »
NPR : Dialing Up the Google Phone Give it a listen....
continue reading "My NPR interview about Google Phones" »
Washingtonpost.com: Google Teams Up With Cell Industry By Kim Hart Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, November 6, 2007; D01 Google made its first major foray into the wireless industry yesterday with an announcement that it would partner with cellphone carriers,...
continue reading "A fuller account of the Google phone OS initiative" »
Today Google confirmed what we all saw coming a few weeks back, that it is developing cell phone software. Google developing cell phone software Search giant aims to shake up mobile phone market with new services The Associated Press updated...
continue reading "Confirming the Google Mobile Phone OS" »
This story from today's New York Times gives the first broad account of various strands of rumors and speculation that Google is going to make a major play in the mobile phone universe. Now, we know that Google tried to...
continue reading "What will the mobile Google look like?" »
1-800-GOOG-411 Ha ha. I love "it's totally free!" Right. Reactions? Seems to me to accomplish two goals: Further undermine an inflated and captive market that the mobile phone services have (sticking it to Verizon again!); and collecting voice data for...
continue reading "Google's new 411 service" »
Google has been sniffing around contributing to Wi-Fi infrastructure for some time. Of course, that drives the Verizons and Time-Warners of the world nuts. Here Tim Wu writes in Slate Magazine: about why public-private partnerships are such failures: ... Setting...
continue reading "Tim Wu on why municipal Wi-Fi systems have largely failed" »
YouTube - Google Docs in Plain English: I have been using Google Docs for some time. The word processing function is pretty horrible (no footnotes!). The spreadsheet is great, largely because I don't do complicated spreadsheets and value the collaborative...
continue reading "Great little video explains Google Docs" »
Gizmodo reports: Google is not leaving anything to chance, and according to an Australian newspaper is now planning to span the Pacific Ocean with its own undersea fiber optics cable to blast the world with its do-no-evil goodness. Owning a...
continue reading "Do we need more fiber-optic cable?" »
Topic Archive
Challenging Big Media
Putting the "You" in "YouTube"
This page contains an archive of all entries posted to The Googlization of Everything in the Challenging Big Media category, listed from newest to oldest.
Search
Other Topics
Like the Mind of God (57 posts)
All the World's Information (75 posts)
What If Big Ads Don't Work (20 posts)
Don't Be Evil (16 posts)
Is Google a Library? (84 posts)
Challenging Big Media (46 posts)
The Dossier (49 posts)
Global Google (26 posts)
Google Earth (6 posts)
A Public Utility? (37 posts)
About this Book (28 posts)
Archive
- September 2010
- August 2010
- May 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
Other books by Siva:
Links
RSS Feed
Siva Vaidhyanathan.
A project of the Institute for the Future of the Book
Site design by Holladay Penick