Yearly Archives: 2006

SiliconBeat directs us to a post by Robert X. Cringely about the value and strategic potential of Google serving ads on TV (contextual targeting). At a high level, it's consistent with this report. On a related note, I took a…

Speculation that Google will move more aggressively into the jobs vertical.

This WSJ article (sub. req'd) details plans (and negotiations) to charge fees of content providers for priority high-speed delivery of broadband content: Large phone companies, setting the stage for a big battle ahead, hope to start charging Google Inc., Vonage…

The New York Times (free reg. req'd) has more detail about the expected announcements from Terry Semel and Larry Page today. Semel's keynote is going on right now, and Page's is later today. We'll follow up with recap and analysis…

Motorola has announced that it will integrate Google and Yahoo! into handsets ("button on the phone's keypad" ). A big deal—Motorola is the world's second-largest handset maker—this will raise user awareness of mobile search (and especially Mo-Lo) and is more…

YellowPages.com announced today it has entered a distribution agreement with Yahoo! that covers both Yahoo! Yellow Pages and Yahoo! Local. You can read the press release here. We will cover the deal in more detail in next week's Local Media…

It's already clear that this will be a BIG year for broadband video and offline "on-demand" cable and, maybe, telco IPTV. The fierce competition among Google, Yahoo!, MSN and AOL in the online ad/search world is spilling over into the…

There has been no shortage of 2005 recaps and 2006 predictions and recommendations for tech and media companies. However Business 2.0's "Futureboy" Erick Schonfeld penned one yesterday that caught my attention. It's a series of resolutions for Google, Apple, Microsoft,…

As promised, SEW has a link to listen to Terry Semel's Keynote at CES tomorrow. They also cover Bill Gates' keynote last night. A further roundup of keynote coverage and other CES news is posted below by my colleague Greg…

Here's what the WSJ (sub. req'd) has to say re Larry Page's forthcoming CES keynote: Google Inc. plans to announce Friday that it will begin allowing consumers to buy videos from major content partners through the Google site and will…

Lots of news and releases are coming out of CES. Among the many news items worth noting is the Skype-Netgear Wi-Fi phone—no PC required. The phone will work: " ... in a home, office, cafe, open public hotspot, or any…

SEW points to a few places online where you will be able to listen to the live CES Keynote from Bill Gates tonight at 6:30 PST (If you aren't watching the Rose Bowl). We expect that local search will play…

... to paraphrase the words of George Bush. For the past 7+ days, I've had limited Internet access because of myriad problems at Comcast and with the weather in the Bay Area, where I live. Three technicians, 7 calls and…

We're bracing ourselves for a torrent of announcements to come out of the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas over the next few days. Device convergence will be a major theme and IPTV will get a lot of attention.…

Here's Shankar Gupta's piece at MediaPost (reg. req'd) about Google gearing up to potentially charge users to watch full-length videos. While more and more users are paying for content online, this move would (in my view) be premature. There's too…

Now I know partly why I feel so exhausted. According to the Google Blog , the company introduced 77 new products in 2005. So there are 52 weeks in a year ... that makes approximately 1.4 product announcements per week.…

According to new consumer data from Burst Media, older Americans (55+)—thought to be a die-hard audience for traditional media—are apparently adopting the Internet at the expense of those media: television, radio, magazines or newspapers (the study, reported in MarketingVOX, doesn't…

On the subject of consumer electronics ... How low can it go? The price of PCs, that is. The cheapest desktop PC I was able to find online was selling for less than US$300. That's pretty cheap, but remember the…