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The Google Phone, Unlocked (Confirmed and More Details)

The writing is on the wall..Google is becoming a phone company.!

They have the phone.
They have the wi-fi
They have the spectrum
They have the customers - If I am not mistaken they have over a million loyal Google voice users who use their google voice service to make a phone call. Google voice is not even open to the public yet.
I realize most people don't have access to google voice but ask those who do how much they love their service. The waiting list to get Google voice account is huge. I have been using it for 2 yrs (since it was Grand Central) and I can't tell you how much I appreciate the service.
I even use Google voice to make international calls. I spend about $40.00 a month just making international calls. I like the fact buying long distance is credit is easy, calling is easy and I don't get charged with connection fee and etc fees.

I can't wait for Google's phone so I can use it with my Google voice account.

Google may not be threat but it is surely changing the way we use phones. It surely has changed me with Google voice.

Yahoo's Dwindling Search Share: Time to Panic?

Yahoo tried to be everything for everyone with inferior products. Take a look at their home page. They redesign it so they can add more useless ads. They are more interested adding another ad on a page than giving the users fast loading page.

I wish they focus on making each of their products great and think how they can make it easy on us instead of adding another page that no want to use.

Few days ago I wanted to send you greeting card from yahoo. The link to me to a page that has the same huge graphic ad on three places. Take a look at the page - www.yahoo.americangree... . It was turn off. To add insult to injury, I can't use my yahoo ID to send the card. They want me to sign-up for Americangreetings.com account. Horrible...I hate Yahoo!

Android: Handset Makers Are at Google's Mercy

What is happening is Google is papering itself to become a phone company. Google has over 1.5 million Google voice customers with over 500K loyal users and it is not even open to everyone yet!!! Add Google's android and a recent purchased wireless frequency to the mix and you got a wireless phone company.

Very scary to VZ and AT&T.

Google's Android vs. Apple: History Repeats Itself

In about 2-3 years Google can become huge mobile phone player. They are slowly building huge telephone/mobile customer base using Google Voice, building a nice slick mobile software (android) and add things like Free maps and you have a real threat to Apple.

I realize Apple can still capture huge percentage of smart phone market but it is nice to have an alternative option to keep their prices in check.

Top 10 U.S. Online Video Properties, July 2009

Let me correct my statment.."More than 1/3 of American citizens have watched video on Google sites at least once in th month of July".

Top 10 U.S. Online Video Properties, July 2009

These numbers don't mean anything. According to this number, more than 1/3 of american citizens have watched video on Google site at least once. We all know this is far from the truth.

Google Drops a Nuclear Bomb on Microsoft. And It's Made of Chrome.

Yes, it is easy for the geeks and nerds to install linux/OS and may run the new chrome OS but the average person doesn't want to do it or have the time to do it. My wife is a prime example. She is an office manager and I suggested to her to consider using start office instead of ms-office software. Her response was big No. Why? Because she and her staff have been using office and they have no desire to change and learn anything new.
It is great news for geeks but the average user doesn't care . It is not like the geeks pay for their OS anyway.

Google Voice's Secret Weapon: Number Portability

I have been using google voice and formerly grand central for over two years. It has saved me tons of money due to my unlimited incoming calls plan on my cell phone. Plus, it is of course it is a slick way to combine all your phone numbers (office,home, cell and etc) into one number.
The problem with GV is that it is not open to the public yet and it may never be opened. Could you imagine the demand for the service? If Google can open the service for the public, Google can become a huge telecom company over night but the problem is that I don't think Google's infustructure is ready to support millions of requests for the service.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Introduces Bing!

msft is much better position than a year ago. Last year they were about to pay 34-36 dollars/share for yahoo. Today they can easily buy it for almost half of that price and instantly become threat to google.

In my opinion what lacks msft and yahoo is vision. They need to start think outside the box just like Google and compete aggressively with google.

For example, publishers don't have much alternative to adsense and lots of people are not happy with google ad (including me). Here yahoo and msn can fill in the void. Why is it taking them long to open up their publisher network open up for the public.

I don't think plastering your home page with annoying ads will increase traffic. Bring something people can use.

Google: Where Failure Is Instructive

I will argue that Google's best years are behind it. I personally think TV ads will continue to decline even if the economy recovers due to the popularity of DVRs. Google is still the best search engine in the world but other than that it really doesn't have much of anything else. Yes, they have great products like gmail, google voice, googledoc and etc but they don't ad much to the revenue.

The big question for google is that if companies will be willing to pay top dollars as they did 3-4 years ago for google ads? The way the economy is, I have my doubts.

Google’s Chrome Saturating an Already Crowded Browser Market

I have been using both IE and firefox for the last two years. I switched to vista about 6 months ago, I had so much problem with IE so I have been using firefox about 75% of the time.

I tried chrome today and I was impressed. It seems that it load sites a bit faster than firefox and IE. I also enjoyed some of their nifty stuff they added. For example, the ability to go to a site without leaving any trace that you have been on the site on the computer. This is specially nice future If you are on public computer and want to check your bank statements and etc. I also love the fact that most of my freqent sites are available for click when you open chrome.

Being a website developer, I use browser 6-8 hrs a day and I do have to say the speed, the slick look without lots of junk has convinced me to make it my primary browser.

Google Talk for iPhone: It's Not What You Think

The link to google talk is broken