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Happy Holidays from Google Doodle #4 For 2007
December 24th, 2007 by iDunzo
Here is Google’s fourth holiday Doodle for counting down the days until Christmas:
Only one more colorful holiday logo to come from Google. Stay tuned.
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Happy Holidays from Google Doodle #3 For 2007
December 23rd, 2007 by iDunzo
Here is Google’s third holiday Doodle for counting down the days until Christmas:
Two more fun and colorful holiday logos from Google coming soon.
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Happy Holidays from Google Doodle #2 For 2007
December 22nd, 2007 by iDunzo
Here is Google’s second holiday Doodle for counting down the days until Christmas:
Be sure to keep a watchful eye out for more fun and colorful holiday logos from Google over the next few days.
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Happy Holidays from Google Doodle #1 2007
December 21st, 2007 by iDunzo
Google is sending out holiday greetings by counting the days with fun and festive holiday Doodle logos:
Keep an eye out for more fun and colorful holiday logos from the big “G”… no, not the Grinch, Google of course!
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Google-DoubleClick Deal Gets FTC’s Blessing
December 20th, 2007 by iDunzo
After eight long months, the Federal Trade Commission finally approved Google’s $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick in a 4-1 vote, concluding that the deal is “unlikely to substantially lessen competition.”
In its public statement, the FTC explicitly said privacy concerns are not its problem. Privacy issues are “not unique to Google and DoubleClick,” the FTC statement said, and even if they were, the agency denied it could do anything about it.
“As the sole purpose of federal antitrust review of mergers and acquisitions is to identify and remedy transactions that harm competition.
The FTC lacks the legal authority to block the transaction on grounds, or require conditions to this transaction, that do not relate to antitrust.”
The DoubleClick acquisition, announced in April, comes on the heels of a few similar deals from competitors: Yahoo has spent nearly $1 billion building up its advertising arsenal in the last six months.
In July, it closed on its acquisition of Right Media ($650 million) and in October it closed on BlueLithium ($300 million), an online behavioral ad company. Meanwhile, Microsoft bought online ad company aQuantive for roughly $6 billion in August.
The FTC didn’t take nearly as long to approve any of Google’s competitors’ deals. Yahoo closed on BlueLithium in a month, and on Right Media in about three months. And it only took Microsoft roughly three months to complete the aQuantive acquisition.
Privacy groups were quick to chastise the FTC for not probing the privacy angle harder. Jeff Chester, executive director, Center for Digital Democracy, who has been one of the most vocal critics of the deal, is already calling for Congressional oversight hearings into the FTC’s probe of the merger.
“The FTC is supposed to protect the privacy of Americans in the digital age. The excuse offered by the majority of the commission–that consumer privacy can’t be addressed by current antitrust law–reveals a lack of leadership and determination to protect U.S. consumers.”
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Google Takes Mobile Fight To Microsoft’s Doorstep
December 13th, 2007 by iDunzo
Google’s latest mobile software offering takes aim at the heart of Microsoft Exchange.
Google has made it possible to sync your Gmail, applications, your own domains, and now your Google calendar with your BlackBerry’s on-board calendar application. No pricey Exchange servers and licenses required.
Recently I’ve started using Google’s calendar application to schedule meetings.
Even though Google made the calendar available to smartphones via mobile browsers, it was a little awkward to use and you couldn’t sync it with your mobile device.
Well, now you can. Google has added calender syncing to its list of mobile capabilities.
You can now sync appointments, meetings, and events from your Google calendar to the calendar application on your BlackBerry smartphone.
Excuse me for a second while I say, “Woo-hoo!”
All interested users need do is install a calendar update patch from BlackBerry and go to Google’s mobile services page.
Google will walk you through the steps and before long, Bingo! You’re all set to sync your calendar wirelessly to your BlackBerry.
Does Microsoft already offer this functionality to BlackBerrys? Yes, it sure does but at a price.
Not only do you have to buy the servers (which start at $700 and jump to $4,000 very quickly), but you have to license the software to each user, starting at $67 a pop.
Google offers all this for free, gratis, nada, zip, zilch, nothing.
Google has really stepped up the pace of innovations of late. Microsoft, are you paying attention?
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