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    WebSocratis
    Sep 05 06:41 PM
    What (If Anything) Google Chrome Will Mean for Businesses [view article]
    Microsoft will never develop a full feature web browser, so us not to undermine their windows dominance. Of course they will develop web browser as a piece meal depending on their tool/solution requirement.
    But with Chrome into picture they cannot afford to take Web browser as a second class citizen.     Reply
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    Matt Lillig
    Sep 05 03:34 PM
    My Website
    Search vs. Display Ads: The Gap Widens [view article]
    If advertisers are smart, that trend will change quickly. Here's why....

    mattlillig.blogspot.co...

    "When marketers supplement search with display impressions, they get a significant lift in conversions. Unfortunately, most advertisers that run both search and display are unaware of this...” The study demonstrated that "users exposed to both search and display ads convert at a higher rate: an average of 22 percent better than search alone and 400 percent better than display only."

    Advertisers who focus on only search are risking a 22% lift in conversions.




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    KenC
    Sep 04 10:35 PM
    Web Browser Wars: Google Looking Beyond Market Share [view article]
    WebKit isn't just "strongly supported" by Apple, it was developed by Apple on top of KHTML, which is open-source. As a result, Apple has to return their work to the open-source community. This allows Nokia's S60, Adobe Air, Google's Android and Chrome and others to use WebKit to build their browsers. It's an informal WebKit alliance. WebKit's goal is to be the most web-standards compliant out there. In other words, it's built to stand up to MS's Internet Explorer. This is not about money, but about keeping the internet playing field open. Reply
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    Geddy
    doesn't get
    it
    Sep 04 03:16 PM
    Nationwide WiMAX: Who Benefits? [view article]
    Scott-If you really believed that consumers would benefit, then it should have been on the list in your analysis, rather than a rebuttal to comments. It is stating the obvious that key stake holders i.e. Craig McCaw stands to benefit most--duh! The man had the vision to create a nationwide cellular network, which later became AT&T wireless. He invested in Nextel when no one believed iDEN would work...and it became the jewel of the industry prior to it's merger with Sprint--in terms of customer loyalty, operating margins, and wannabe imitators. Now he's invested in, and got other's to invest in, a proposed nationwide broadband wireless network. It's about time the U.S. takes the lead again in wireless technology. It won't do so waiting around for LTE. I believe US wireless customers would stand to benefit much. Reply
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    SatOps
    Sep 04 01:53 PM
    GeoEye: Launch Delayed, Announces Deal With Google [view article]
    www.ulalaunch.com/ Reply
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    jack dee
    Sep 04 01:17 PM
    Google's Chrome Sounds Like 1970s Pressure Cooker [view article]
    People ranted, printed, whined and cried out load, how MSFT was killing IBM.

    They wrote books about it, claimed a new world order.

    But 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 years later IBM still makes about as much money as MSFT.

    IBM rev 100b profit 40b
    MSFT rev 60b profit 48b

    How did IBM continue to thrive when every tom dick and harry was 100% sure that MFST had crushed IBM.

    The answer then and now, is simple. Fanboys will project the success of their loved one based on a static competitor. The fanboys tend to assume that the "Bad guy" is some how set in stone and can not protect its market.
    In the real world companies compete and adapt.

    GOOG will not flatten the planet. GOOG is well aware that they have a very fragile cash source. GOOG is fighting 100% to ensure it has some other ways to make money should/if/when search breaks down.

    long goog msft


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    jack dee
    Sep 04 12:54 PM
    7 Reasons I Switched to Google's Chrome [view article]
    You crazy fanboys. Chrome is just another browser. It will NEVER be an OS even if every single thing went the way of fanboy wetdreams it would still just be a free app sitting on top of a grow up OS.

    Stop talking out of your OS, and get a life. There is no new school old school OS that is fanboy talk.

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    Cbetlaha
    Sep 04 12:52 PM
    GeoEye: Launch Delayed, Announces Deal With Google [view article]
    New launch date - Sunday 1451hrs EST www.floridatoday.com/c... Reply
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    Zomack
    Sep 04 12:34 PM
    7 Reasons I Switched to Google's Chrome [view article]
    Potentially great browser...sure, why not? I'm a bit of a MSFT fanboy --largely because of intertia and laziness -- but I've pretty much moved to FF3 on the browser side, admittedly. So, I'm open to the idea that Chrome could be something better(haven't tried it yet).

    But an OS? Hahahaha!

    99%(unofficial stat) of people have no idea what an OS is, what it does or how it does it. Not that they should even need to know this, of course, but there is MUCH MUCH more to an OS than surfing the web and enabling AJAX apps.

    Just thinking about the gap between the current incarnation of Chrome(or any browser) and an OS gives me a headache. Sure, in years things could change and GOOG could certainly evolve this into something more substantial(I don't doubt they'll try, actually)...but let's not get too far ahead of ourselves.     Reply
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    reinharden
    Sep 04 12:24 PM
    Web Browser Wars: Google Looking Beyond Market Share [view article]
    You left a few important points out.

    1) Chrome and Firefox are indeed open source; however, Chrome is built upon WebKit which is an open source tool strongly supported by Apple (it's the basis of Safari on the iPhone and under MacOS X). Assuming that all of Chrome is maintained in the open source arena, Apple will benefit relatively quickly. As Firefox doesn't use this software, their benefit will be less direct and immediate.

    2) Chrome is designed to slide right into Android. So Chrome is Google's Mobile web browser (akin to Apple's Safari on the iPhone). Obviously Apple wasn't likely to do something so potentially competitive with the iPhone and Google would be nowhere with a PhoneOS without a web browser.

    3) Google's line of web applications (Google Documents, gMail, Google Reader, etc) are currently hobbled by the absence of some key features in the web browsers. By providing an open source web browser that is optimized for enabling these web applications, Google is better able to compete with Microsoft's (and Apple's) more desktop centric application suite.

    In the final analysis, short of buying Opera, Google really had little choice but to develop their own web browser.

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    SatOps
    Sep 04 12:02 PM
    GeoEye: Launch Delayed, Announces Deal With Google [view article]
    ULA is trying for a 11:50 PST September 6 launch Reply
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    mollytjm
    Sep 04 11:56 AM
    Web Browser Wars: Google Looking Beyond Market Share [view article]
    PK de C'ville... i agree but i'm long APPL. i doubt Apple will let Google run away with the prize. no one innovates better than Apple but it'll be interesting.
    msft hasn't a clue, so they're out of it. they couldn't even name their mp3 player something that didn't rhyme with tune (as in iTune). i hear they're paying seinfeld 10 million. so do you think he'll order the zune...in brown?     Reply
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    jons
    Sep 04 11:07 AM
    Google’s Chrome Saturating an Already Crowded Browser Market [view article]
    Reply to BertNo!!:
    Chrome is not a pet project. Yes it is open source and free and Google will make no money on it directly.

    Let's assume Chrome causes an increase in web usage by 0.001%, either because chrome users are getting a faster and better web experience or because IE and Firefox were nudged to do better. How much money, in units of developer salaries, will Google make in increased ad sales?

    Google may seem like just an informal fun company but they are serious business.     Reply
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    Misuse of
    Monopoly?
    Sep 04 10:19 AM
    My Website
    Microsoft's Answer to Google Docs Reaches Its Millionth User [view article]
    Did everyone notice one thing? Online Workspace ties directly into MS Office products, while competiors products can not. This hugely biases users towards their Workspace product, even though competitors have better products. Doesnt this comprise a misuse of MS's near monopoly of the desktop office suite market?

    Read my take on this at - www.onlinedocumentshar...     Reply
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    nickgogerty
    Sep 04 09:32 AM
    My Website
    7 Reasons I Switched to Google's Chrome [view article]
    The OS just isn't that important and will become less so as more applications leverage rich html. In 5 years the average person will care about the computers OS about as much as they don about the on their phone, TV program guide etc. Some people will care a lot and others not at all. The rich margins of Vista or windows 7 will erode proportionally. Look at the margins that CE, Symbian, Android etc. yield. that is what computers OS margins will be like in the future a mix of free and pay but definitely lower than the average margins of today. Reply
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