iphone 3G: apple making some far fetched claims

Steve jobs is going after Blackberry quite seriously.. apple.com has a icon for iphone for the enterprise which follows with page (image below)..

Steve: unless there is a keyboard, iphone will NOT become an enterprise device.. just like tablet PC's were a very strong attempt from Bill Gates but did not get any broad enterprise acceptance. ADD A KEYBOAD: LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMERS.

Google finance bug!

notice missing data on RIM's stock performance!

nokia buys symbian and makes it open source

Nokia to Buy Phone-Software Firm

Finland's Nokia Corp. is acquiring the rest of United Kingdom-based Symbian Ltd., a provider of software for advanced phones, in a move that will likely increase competition for Apple Inc.

Nokia said Tuesday it has launched a cash offer for the 52% of privately owned Symbian it doesn't already own. The deal is valued at roughly €264 million ($410 million). Nokia said investors holding some 91% of the relevant Symbian shares -- including Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, Sweden's Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson, Panasonic Mobile Communications Co. and Siemens AG -- had irrevocably agreed to accept the offer. Nokia said it also expects Samsung Electronics Co. to accept.

In the face of stiff competition from cellphone-industry newcomers such as Apple and Google

Many of Nokia's rivals, who rely on Symbian software, have been concerned about the Finnish handset maker's influence in Symbian and the degree to which Symbian software is being developed to suit the needs of Nokia alone. But they appear to have put those concerns aside. "We service all of our customers equally," said Symbian Chief Executive Nigel Clifford.

The acquisition by Nokia is part of a broader move toward cooperation among several handset makers and cellphone-service providers under the auspices of a new group called the Symbian Foundation. Participants include the four other largest handset makers after Nokia: Motorola Inc., Samsung, Sony Ericsson and LG Electronics. Symbian's more than 1,000 developers will become Nokia employees and the non-profit foundation will be responsible for marketing and coordination for developers everywhere.

Symbian also will blend its several different flavors of cellphone software into one, to create one open-source software platform. That includes folding in user-interface software from UIQ Technology, a joint venture between Motorola and Sony Ericsson that was spun off from Symbian. UIQ's know-how includes touch-screen technology, which has been made fashionable by Apple's iPhone cellphone.

The efforts will enable "faster, better products," says Kai Öistämö, head of Nokia's devices unit.

google to launch free web site tool

Google to Offer a Tool
To Measure Web Hits

By EMILY STEEL
June 24, 2008

As soon as Tuesday, Google plans to unveil a new service that measures Internet use, according to advertising executives who have been briefed on it. The tool is intended to help advertisers identify the best places to buy online ads by telling them which Web sites their target audiences visit.

Google's approach, aimed at bolstering its ad-sales business, could pose a major threat to the Web measurement services that are available now, ad executives say. The two main players in the business -- comScore and Nielsen Online -- gather data on Internet use largely by tracking what panels of people do online or by conducting surveys, and their results can be inconsistent and incomplete. Google's new offering will be based mostly on data from Web servers, allowing for a deeper and broader view of Internet use. And unlike the services from comScore and Nielsen, Google's will be offered to marketers free, according to ad executives.

ComScore said it wouldn't comment before Google makes an official announcement. Nielsen Online also declined to comment.

Billions of marketing dollars a year trade hands based at least in part on Web-audience figures. Advertisers study the data -- which can estimate the total number of people that visit a Web site or the average amount of time those people spend on the site or both -- to try to determine which sites are popular among particular demographic groups or in certain topic areas, such as technology or health. Publishers also rely on the data to set ad rates.

Google's new tool could bring more efficiency to the process of buying online ads, ad executives say. Google already has one of the dominant systems for online ad-serving, which helps Web publishers manage their advertising sales and serve up ads each time a consumer opens one of their Web pages. The Web-audience data could be combined with the ad-serving system, so that advertisers would be able to find out whether they would reach the right audience before they committed to placing an ad. Existing ad-serving systems don't currently provide detailed Web-audience data about the sites where they place ads. By giving away the new tool, Google could presumably attract more ad business.

Separately, Google this week is expected to roll out a new tool aimed at showing how Web surfers respond to online ads. It will compare groups of people who are exposed to an ad with others who haven't seen it, taking into account such factors as search activity and site visitation.

The services are a logical next step for Google as it moves into other parts of the advertising business, including television and newspapers, where the company has begun selling ad space. Marketers are hungry for research that helps them compare the results of offline and online ads so that they can allocate their marketing budgets more intelligently. Google could be positioned to serve this one-stop-shopping role.

Some ad executives say they are concerned that Google could use the data it compiles about their campaigns to make a business pitch to a competitor. They imagine a scenario in which the biggest online advertiser in a category is running its campaign through Google's ad-serving systems. Not only would Google be helping that marketer deliver ads to particular Web sites; it would also be capturing data about which Web sites and types of ads work best. Advertising executives fear that Google could then resell that same intelligence to competitors. (Any data that marketers put into Google's ad systems will remain confidential, a Google spokesman says.)

For all the cutting-edge technology on the Web, the systems used to measure Internet use are mostly based on traditional models. Both comScore and Nielsen rely on panels of people who agree to let the companies track their online movements, from the Web sites they visit to the purchases they make. ComScore and Nielsen then take these data and extrapolate from them to make statements about the broader population of Internet users. In some cases, Nielsen benchmarks its findings against a Web site's computer-server logs.

..........more at WSJ

George Carlin dies at 71

he was my favorite stand up comedian/artist. Very witty and intellectual. this is certainly a sad day. He will be missed.


http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/06/comedian-george.html

send to car

both yahoo and google are adding features to their map products to link to car navigation systems. makes a lot of sense.

google gadget add

LTE looking like the 4G standard

worth noting..

[from wsj]

Moving Away From WiMax,
Nortel Shifts Focus to LTE

By SARA SILVER and DONNA KARDOS
June 11, 2008 2:06 p.m.

Nortel Networks Corp. said Wednesday it is reducing its investment in developing the ultrafast wireless Internet technology called WiMax to focus its research dollars on a competing technology preferred by major U.S. and European carriers known as LTE.

The decision, announced at the Toronto-based company's annual analyst meeting, comes as Nortel is coming under pressure to focus on fewer new technologies that can make up for the erosion in its core business supplying telecom carriers. The telecom-equipment maker, which posted losses in the last two quarters, has pared costs while it waits for sales of its most promising innovations to pick up.

Nortel shares were trading up 9.6%, or 78 cents, at $8.89 in New York Stock Exchange trading Wednesday.

Nortel's decision also signals how much of the telecommunications industry is gravitating toward LTE—or Long Term Evolution—as the primary fourth-generation wireless broadband technology. The biggest U.S. carriers, AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless, are pursuing LTE, as is Vodafone Group PLC, the European telecom giant which owns Verizon Wireless in a joint venture with Verizon Communications Inc.

Nortel's switch comes two months after some of the world's largest network-equipment makers agreed to a licensing framework they hope will accelerate adoption and deployment of LTE.

Over the past several years many equipment makers including Nokia Siemens Networks, Samsung Electronics Co. and Motorola Inc., invested in development of WiMax products, believing it would let carriers offer mobile broadband services sooner. But some carriers are announcing they will begin to upgrade their so-called third-generation, or 3G, networks to LTE within two years. That evolution has come particularly quickly in the U.S., where 3G devices are only now becoming popular. Fourth-generation technology allows for faster Web browsing and downloads over mobile phones and other wireless devices.

Most of the interest in WiMax is coming from carriers in emerging markets that are expanding wireless coverage to many areas for the first time.

In the U.S., WiMax is being pursued by Sprint Nextel Corp., the No. 3 carrier which is struggling to stem subscriber losses, through a $12 billion venture with Clearwire Corp., a startup also backed by cable-TV companies such as Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc., Internet giant Google Inc. and chip maker Intel Corp.

Further reducing Nortel's interest in WiMax, the company wasn't among the suppliers chosen for the Sprint venture, and the thin margins offered in emerging market contracts forced the company to step away from its investment. Nortel said Wednesday it had established a joint agreement with Alvarion Ltd. to provide WiMax-compatible equipment to its customers.

.... more on WSJ

ATT site down at iphone 3G launch

well! go to apple.com for iPhone 3G info.. att is down

Run Mac Os X on your windows machine

i just tried it.. works well.. best of both worlds!

http://www.aegisryan.com/2005/09/11/simplest-installation-of-mac-osx86-in-vmware/

regards,
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