Google Phone a uso interno o no

Techrunch trova tracce in rete del vero Google phone

Last night, we started seeing some Tweets from Google employees and others about a new Android-powered Google phone that was apparently handed out at an “all hands” meeting. Now Google is confirming that it is indeed “dogfood” testing a new Android device with employees around the world.

But this isn’t just another Android phone. Very trustworthy sources who have seen the phone say that it is the Google Phone we first wrote about last month (despite the uninformed saying we were dreaming). It will be branded Google and sold by Google as an unlocked phone, which could change everything. As we wrote in our original post:

Google is building their own branded phone that they’ll sell directly and through retailers. They were long planning to have the phone be available by the holidays, but it has now slipped to early 2010. The phone will be produced by a major phone manufacturer but will only have Google branding (Microsoft did the same thing with their first Zunes, which were built by Toshiba).

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Google oramai in tempo reale

Dal blog di Google

First, we’re introducing new features that bring your search results to life with a dynamic stream of real-time content from across the web. Now, immediately after conducting a search, you can see live updates from people on popular sites like Twitter and FriendFeed, as well as headlines from news and blog posts published just seconds before. When they are relevant, we’ll rank these latest results to show the freshest information right on the search results page.

Try searching for your favorite TV show, sporting event or the latest development on a recent government bill. Whether it’s an eyewitness tweet, a breaking news story or a fresh blog post, you can find it on Google right after it’s published on the web.

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8.8.8.8 , 8.8.4.4

Sono gli indirizzi ip dei nuovi Public DNS di Google The average Internet user ends up performing hundreds of DNS lookups each day, and some complex pages require multiple DNS lookups before they start loading. This can slow down the browsing experience. Our research has shown that speed matters to Internet users, so over the … Leggi tutto

Come Google può aiutare i giornali

Eric Schmidt CEO di  Google sul WSJ ripreso da Paidcontent

This is a long way from where we are today. The current technology—in this case the distinguished newspaper you are now reading—may be relatively old, but it is a model of simplicity and speed compared with the online news experience today. I can flip through pages much faster in the physical edition of the Journal than I can on the Web. And every time I return to a site, I am treated as a stranger.

So when I think about the current crisis in the print industry, this is where I begin—a traditional technology struggling to adapt to a new, disruptive world. It is a familiar story: It was the arrival of radio and television that started the decline of newspaper circulation. Afternoon newspapers were the first casualties. Then the advent of 24-hour news transformed what was in the morning papers literally into old news.

Now the Internet has broken down the entire news package with articles read individually, reached from a blog or search engine, and abandoned if there is no good reason to hang around once the story is finished. It’s what we have come to call internally the atomic unit of consumption.

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Google: cinque click gratis, il sesto si paga

Google cede agli editori Usa e si inventa una curiosa formula di gestione degli accessi ai siti di news. Ora tutti si chiedono che farà l’utente quando avrà esaurito la quotidiana razione di click su di un sito: passerà a pagare o passerà a un altro sito  ?

Alla fine ha vinto Murdoch. Google si arrende: gli scrocconi del web dovranno fermarsi dopo cinque articoli, addio alle notizie gratis. L’annuncio è arrivato ieri da un blog di Google proprio mentre a Washington lui, SuperRupert, discuteva davanti alla Federal Trade Commission del futuro dei giornali e di Internet e la trattativa del mega-accordo in vista tra News Corp e Bing di Microsoft subiva una prima battuta d’arresto.

La guerra delle notizie era scoppiata qualche settimana fa. Il più grande imprenditore della comunicazione al mondo aveva aperto le ostilità: Google non può continuare a pubblicare i contenuti dei giornali senza metterci un dollaro. L’ha ripetuto ancora ieri a Washington: “I creatori dei contenuti sopportano tutti i costi, gli aggregatori godono dei benefici. E questo, nel lungo termine, è insostenibile”. Ma quel termine non sarà evidentemente così lungo.

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Microsoft vuole pagare Murdoch per togliere le news da Google

Il Financial Times riporta di abboccamenti fra Microsoft e News Corp secondo cui il gigante di Redmont sarebbe disposto a pagare perchè il gigante dei media di Murdoch tolga i contenuti da Google Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company’s being paid to “de-index” its news … Leggi tutto

ChromeOs: test drive negativo

Le prime esperienze d’uso di Chrome installato via Virtual Box non hanno lasciato impressioni positive. E’ un sistema operativo troppo Google e troppo browser centrico per essere utile a molte persone. Lo stesso discorso può applicarsi al fatto che pare troppo poco flessibile, per lo meno in queste prime versioni disponibili. E pare altri la … Leggi tutto