Google go mobile crazy!

Google´s going mobile at breakneck speed.

Today YouTube announced an exclusive partnership with Verizon to offer videos to Vcast users in the US.

And Google are ramping up ALL their applications for mobile usage as well as partnering up with the operators to offer mobile search and text based ads.

Given that over 1 billion cell phones will be sold wordwide in 2007 you can´t exactly blame them.

iPod's latest threat - the iPhone!?

Some smart alec Wall Street analyst has just decided that the biggest threat to Apple's iPod franchise is going to be Apple's iPhone.

Right...

Proving that Wall Street analysts are dangerous as hell and that Apple have no outside competition. I plan to own both an iPod and iPhone. Figure that one out Mr analyst!

Video site offers $400 per video

Break.com, one of the rising number of Web sites offering user-generated videos to rival the likes of YouTube and Revver, just announced it would nearly double the amount of money it pays for video clips to $400.

Break.com's CEO said that so far the site has seen little correlation between higher pay and the quality of videos it receives(???).

So why hike the money offered (Der)? Oh well...

Apple and Google soar!

Apple and Google defied stock market gravity again this week as their stocks hit all time highs.

Google 'cos they can finally claim to be the Microsoft beater everyone has been waiting for and Apple 'cos they are about to launch the iPhone.

Google is now worth over $150bn, which is over half that of Microsoft and four times Yahoo's. Apple is worth more than Dell.

Plus Google office applications will hurt Microsoft more than anyone realizes and Apple will gain 20% of the PC market. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

Yahoo beats Google to newspaper deal

Yahoo stole Google's deal with 176 US newspapers in a sign that they are not totally beat by Google yet.

Yahoo has announced ad, search, jobs listings and local content deals with members of seven major chains including Hearst and Scripps, who are responsible for more than 12 million copies sold daily in 38 states. The chains involved in the deal also include Belo Corp., Cox Newspapers Inc., Register Co., Lee Enterprises Inc. and MediaNews Group.

For Yahoo can still claim the greatest number of viewers and supremacy as an Internet media story. YouTube may alter that, but Yahoo have proved that Google need get off the fence about whether they are search company or media portal. The reality is they are both.

Dell, the new IBM!!

Dell proved today that they are fast becoming the corporate with a snooze factor to make the most steadfast tech aficionado drop off, as they announced revenues up 3%, practically in line with inflation.

Earnings were boosted though, sending their shares up, thanks to selling more high margin stuff. And even their accounting irregularities fail to excite!

Yep, that's what we can look forward to with Dell, profits taking priority over revenue growth, which means few exciting innovations from them (not that they ever had many), a drive for higher quality, higher priced computers and manufacturing excellence.

Well, that tops it for me. Night, night Dell. Zzzzzzzzzzzz...

TV on your handset in the UK

Get one of these babies in the UK (the Sony Ericsson W950i silly), get it from 3 (the mobile network provider) and you also get Sling Media inside which means you get your favorite TV shows on the move.

Nice one!

Gates on Zune - what a loon!

Billy boy Gates has stated that he sees the Zune player as the central device in a world of connected devices all sharing files and media with each other. A PC, a Smartphone, games console, car, TV, etc etc, you get it.

Powered by which software?

This is the age old concept of a remote control for your life. Unfortunately for Microsoft I think that device is much more likely to be a mobile phone than a digital music player. And Windops Mobile hardly owns that space.

Maybe that means Microsoft will follow Apple with their own iPhone! Mmm...

Google goes mobile - again!

Mobile operator 3 has teed up another great deal, this time with Google for mobile search proving yet again that when it comes to the mobile Internet they may just get it more than any mobile carrier.

And they are even talking about opening up their walled garden and introducing an open Internet experience on their handsets. I'll believe it when I see them really do it.

And they should 'cos the walled gardens that mobile operators have erected worldwide has done more to slow the take-up of the mobile Internet than anything else. By a long way.

When, oh when will they get it! At least they are making small steps - Yahoo has just done an ad deal with Vodafone in the UK and Cingular has teamed up with Microsoft for local search. The more mobile operators partner with Internet leaders the better, for all of us!

Orb serve up YouTube on a mobile!

Orb Networks has today announced that they are about to eclipse YouTube by offering their video sharing site on mobile phones.

Well, at least on the Motorola Q.

Mind you, with Google behind them, YouTube will be going mobile in the blink of an eye/camera!

Slide takes on Yahoo's Flickr

Need an online photo slide-show or screen-saver? Check out slide!

For anyone wanting to do a little more with their digital photos than share them on Flickr, this could be the way to go.

And its proving popular too. Slide is now neck and neck with Flickr in terms of numbers of users.

The ex-founder and CTO of PayPal may be onto another winner!

Is this Apple's iPhone?

Is this Apple's about to be launched iPhone?

It looks like it? Mmmm. Sexy.

Coming to a store in January and fresh off the Internet thanks to iPodlounge.com!

World airlines fly iPod!

Just when you thought todays tech news was about Microsoft launching the Zune (yeah yeah), Apple decided that they would announce deals with five leading international airlines allowing consumers to plug their iPod into in-flight systems starting next year.

So long as you fly Continental, Delta, American, Air France-KLM or UAE!! I guess they all have crap in-flight entertainment technology!

Why not just take your video iPod and laptop? Or am I missing something?

Microsoft Zune hits US stores - Zzzzzzzz...

Microsoft's Zune hit US stores today and apparently the launch went down like a hot balloon on a cold day. There were no queues and few buyers.

Even Microsoft Execs stated that this was just a starting point. Which is corporate mumbo jumbo for "we had to get something out fast so we did. Next time we may even produce a product that people will want to buy. Who knows?"

Zune sales will make no impact on iPod's market share this year or next, a little like Apple computer sales will make no impact on Windows sales.

But after 2008 the gloves will be off! Till then stick with your iPod!

The PlayStation 3 finally hits the market - AND?

Sony's much anticipated PlayStation 3 has finally hit the stores! Japan was up first starting Saturday (last) and the US gets peppered this Friday.

Pundits expects Sony to grab the market back from Microsoft right out of the gates. We agree!

But the real question is who will win the number 2 spot? We think (sometimes...) that Nintendo's icon for branding lunacy, the Wii, will win out, pushing the XBox into third position.

The PlayStation 3 for serious gamers and kids with 'loads a money', the Wii for the masses, the not-so-richies and not-so smarty pant gamers with the XBox for those that failed to wait for the other two!