China Mobile is in talks with Apple to sell the iPhone in China, the company's CEO said this week. But he's not keen on the type of revenue-sharing model that Apple has insisted on elsewhere in the world.
Karim Temsamani has taken the general manager's role at Google Australia and New Zealand at a time when the company is seemingly invincible. Its share price recently topped US$700 (NZ$917); the company leads the world in search technology, and it has almost too many plays in too many different sectors to enumerate.
Search giant Google may have made billions by organising the world's information, but that doesn't mean it likes talking about its internal operations.
Phones built with Google's Android operating system may suffer from a lack of interoperability, and IT executives will probably be wary about supporting multiple devices built with the much-hyped software platform, says Ken Dulaney, a Gartner analyst.
Google and several other technology companies unveiled a new mobile platform called Android on Monday. The system is expected to yield an actual phone in the second half of 2008.
Google's SketchUp Pro 6 is an enhanced version of its free SketchUp 6 program. The free version features the application's powerful 3-D functionality, while the pro version adds two main features necessary for professional modellers.
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Google has acquired Jaiku, which offers a product called Jaiku Mobile, a software application for mobile phones that enables users to post and browse short messages called "jaikus."
Google and IBM have teamed up to offer a curriculum and support for software development on large-scale distributed computing systems, with six universities signing up so far.
Google's AdSense is offering web publishers who participate in the programme the ability to start displaying ad-supported video clips from Google's YouTube on their sites.
Google has acquired Zingku, a mobile social networking company geared toward teenagers and young adults, another in a series of moves to boost its mobile services.
IT departments that recognise and embrace the increasing commoditisation of collaboration and communication tools within the enterprise will ultimately produce productive employees, according to Google's vice president for enterprise, Dave Giourard.
An Australian Federal Court judge has ordered the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to go away and revise its case against the Trading Post and Google, claiming it didn't make sense.
As Web 2.0 technologies continue seeping into business systems, a new generation of corporate users is starting to gain access to the collaboration capabilities they are demanding from IT, according to attendees at the Office 2.0 conference. But before use of the tools spreads too far, they noted, companies must strike a balance between the Web 2.0 wants of users and the needs of corporate IT.
New Zealand mobile application developer Fronde has referred a new US patent lodged by search engine giant Google to its lawyers.