News From The Not Too Distant Future
Mega Merger! Google & Verizon Become Googizon Being hailed as the most significant corporate merger of the century, Google, Inc. and Verizon, Inc. have merged and will now be called Googizon. According to Googizon spokesperson Ishiro Honda, Googizon will be able to provide all of the top web and technology offerings for a fixed monthly [...]
Minority Report: Should We Start The Anti-Trust Lawsuit Now?
With each passing day Google is sounding more and more like Microsoft before Microsoft got hit with an anti-trust lawsuit. By the time that lawsuit came along, they had already manipulated the PC manufacturers into offering only their operating system; they had already wiped off the earth any competing web browser (namely Netscape Navigator); they [...]
Rethinking Google: The Conversation That We Should Be Having in the U.S.
On March 18th, 2010 in central London, Brits will be asking the question Has Google Got Too Big? Google started life as a search engine, but it has now become so much more than that: it’s an economic powerhouse and even a political player which wields much influence in both the online and offline worlds. [...]
Can A Price Be Too Low? Thoughts on the eBook Price War
In the ebook pricing war between Amazon and publisher Macmillan, Amazon has come out the loser. They insisted on holding the price for ebooks at $9.99 while Macmillan wanted the price to be $15.00. You might be inclined to think that the consumer has also come out the loser. After all, a lower price is [...]
Google Book Search A Disaster
This is a non-A.D.D. related post. { ==== //\\ ===== } As a lover of ideas, I found this examination of Google’s book search to be an eye opener. One of the commenter’s nicely summarized one of the salient points of the article. The author, he writes, has documented “how badly Google has bungled the [...]
