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Verizon Wireless To Introduce 'Any Apps, Any Device' Option For Customers In 2008 — New Open Development Initiative Will Accelerate Innovation and Growth — BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Verizon Wireless today announced that it will provide customers the option to use, on its nationwide wireless network …
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Roger Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
Verizon Wireless to Offer Open Access to Network — Companies Featured in This Article: Google, Sprint Nextel, Deutsche Telekom, AT&T, Verizon Communications, Vodafone Group, Microsoft, Research in Motion — Verizon Wireless said Tuesday that it would allow any device or software to run …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Verizon Went Open & What It Means — The about-face taken by Verizon Wireless today when it said it will open up its network and platform is, at first blush, a good thing for consumers and developers. But I just got off the company's conference call, and there are certain details that have left me with eyebrows raised.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Verizon Wireless opens network to "Any Apps, Any Device" in 2008 — By the end of 2008, Verizon Wireless will open their network to any device which meets a "minimum technical standard." What that standard is, exactly, VZW isn't saying yet — that will come in "early 2008."
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
Verizon Wireless Says 'Bring Your Own' Device — Verizon Wireless has stunned the wireless world by announcing that by sometime next year it will open its network to "any apps, any device." — There is a lot of fine print, but the essence appears to be that Verizon will offer two flavors of service …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Verizon Wireless hopes to reel in developers; Will publish network technical details
Wall Street Journal:
Google Plans Service to Store Users' Data — Google Inc. wants to offer consumers a new way to store their files on its hard drives, in a strategy that could accelerate a shift to Web-based computing and intensify the Internet company's competition with Microsoft Corp.
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Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:Google reportedly offering online storage
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Google:
Google's Goal: Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal — Creates renewable energy R&D group and supports breakthrough technologies — Mountain View, Calif. (November 27, 2007) - Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced a new strategic initiative to develop electricity from renewable energy sources …
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Doug Caverly / WebProNews:
Google Says Goodbye To Coal, Creates R&D Group — Google wants to save the world, and the company isn't going about it in a halfhearted manner; according to a new announcement, Google will put hundreds of millions of dollars towards "a new strategic initiative to develop electricity …
New York Magazine:
Universal Music CEO Doug Morris Speaks, Recording Industry in Even Deeper S**t Than We Thought — In the December issue of Wired, Seth Mnookin sits down with Universal Music Group CEO/supervillain Doug Morris for a pretty excellent profile (which is, tragically, not yet online).
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Seth Mnookin / Wired News:
Universal's CEO Once Called iPod Users Thieves. Now He's Giving Songs Away. — It's Monday afternoon, and Doug Morris, chair and CEO of Universal Music Group, is eating lunch in his private dining room at the company's Manhattan headquarters. Morris hasn't been here much in recent months …
USA Today:
Widgets make a big splash on the Net — SAN FRANCISCO — For nearly a decade, GarageBand.com was the quintessential struggling Web company, barely hanging on as it burned through $17 million. — Until widgets. — Since it developed a widget, one of the mini-Web applications now flourishing …
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Brightcove Gives Up on Consumer Video — Brightcove has never really been more than a half-hearted consumer video play, opting instead to function as a content distribution network for a large number of high profile media partners. Today Brightcove informed members of its Brightcove.TV site …
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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Video: anatomy of a search snippet — Several weeks ago I flew up to Google's Kirkland office to visit with the wonderful webmaster tools team. While I was visiting, someone said "Hey, why don't you grab a video camera, find an empty office, and record as many videos as you can in an hour?"
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
New Terrain Layer in Google Maps — There's a new tab in Google Maps: "terrain". The view combines street maps with visual information about terrains. Elevation data is not limited to geographic features like mountains, but it's also displayed for buildings.
Cory Doctorow / InformationWeek:
How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook — Columnist Cory Doctorow describes how Facebook and other social networks have built-in self-destructs: They make it easy for you to be found by the people you're looking to avoid. — Facebook's "platform" strategy has sparked much online debate and controversy.
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Structure Search Coming To Yahoo — Yahoo to offer structured Web search from Macworld reports Yahoo is going to launch a new structured search component to their web search engine. — Web search is typically considered "unstructured," where there isn't a real method of comparing sets …
