Microsoft and Google’s matching application game. SanDisk and Yahoo!’s Wi-Fi MP3 player.

April 10, 2007

So continues Google and Microsoft’s competition of chronically releasing identical applications. The latest are voice activated information services to replace directory assistance. Last month I told you about Microsoft’s purchase of TellMe, for $800 million, and now Google has released its own, called Google Voice Local Search. Simply call 1-800-GOOG-411, say the name of the […]

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Big Wheel Race down Lombard Street

April 9, 2007

This is what I love about San Francisco. We have great silly events like today’s annual Easter Big Wheel Race down the crooked portion of Lombard Street. It’s been going on for seven years and last year supposedly there were only 20 people who raced. This year there were hundreds of people and it was […]

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I can’t find the Thai King clip and I don’t live in Thailand. Trash Techcrunch. Google MyMaps.

April 5, 2007

Yesterday, the country of Thailand blocked access to YouTube. The military run government doesn’t want its citizens to watch a degrading video that makes their king look like a clown. I haven’t seen the video. I’ve been looking for it and I can’t find it. And I don’t even live in Thailand! After Google, owners […]

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Apple steps in EU

April 3, 2007

Lots of iTunes news today. The European Commission has opened an antitrust probe into iTunes and potential collusion tactics with the music labels. They’re saying that Apple has territorial sales restrictions that violate EU rules on competition. And it appears they’ve got compelling evidence as there are price fluctuations all across the continent. This probe […]

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Cingular steals Apple’s thunder. ICANN rejects .xxx, but not porn. YouTube’s TestTube baby.

March 30, 2007

Make sure you reserve some summer vacation money and about half a grand for the iPhone because it’s set to release on June 11th so says an unnamed source from Cingular. While Cingular may have loose lips when it comes to release dates, Apple doesn’t and I’m sure Steve Jobs is not so happy someone […]

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Nothing drives traffic like death threats. Sprint relinquishes music pricing to Apple.

March 27, 2007

It’s no longer safe to go out into the blogosphere. Violence and death threats have entered the blogosphere at prominent blogger Kathy Sierra. The blogging community has begun to rally around her in support. These threats have drawn an insane level of blogging traffic. Robert Scoble and many others have announced they’ve stopped blogging this […]

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Threatening YouTube. Don’t be suckered by domain registration companies.

March 22, 2007

The TV networks and film industry’s frustration with YouTube may come to an end soon. News Corp and NBC Universal announced that by this summer they’ll be offering a YouTube competitor with full length TV shows and movies (something you don’t get on YouTube, but you can get on the French site Dailymotion). While YouTube […]

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Cool tech from VON

March 20, 2007

Spent the day today in San Jose at the VON conference which stands for “Video on the Net.” It’s just a hard core geek conference showing off technologies in video and voice over the Internet. Many of the technologies being shown off are of no interest to the KQKE audience, but I did see a […]

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Viacom sues Google/YouTube-KQED appearance on "This Week in Northern California"

March 18, 2007

I appeared last night on KQED’s “This Week in Northern California” to discuss Viacom’s lawsuit against Google/YouTube. Only 6 minutes. Watch, vote, write comments!

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WebEx SOLD. TellMe SOLD. HP execs IN THE CLEAR.

March 15, 2007

WebEx is being sold to Cisco for a whopping $3.2 billion. That’s double the price of YouTube. Add this acquisition to Cisco’s earlier purchase of Tribe.net’s social networking technology and it’s clear that Cisco is making a strong software play against Microsoft and its collaboration tool, Sharepoint. And at the same time, Microsoft purchased TellMe […]

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