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Steve Jobs vs. Google, the Never Ending Saga

Steve Jobs strategy against Google is easy to resume: I'm better than you, na-na, na-na, boo-boo, stick your head in doo-doo.

Google Music is Rumored to Be This Year's Best Christmas Present

The much rumored about Google music service, already seen as tough competition for Apple's iTunes, might be launch in time for this year's winter holiday season. Google's VP of engineering Andy Rubin has been discussing with record lables and pushing hard to have the new music service ready by Christmas.

Google Opens Up The Buzz API

Google has opened up a bunch of new API's for it's social networking service Buzz this week. The most significant API released is a new real-time "firehose" feed that will allow all of the third-party developers to consume all of the real-time data from public Buzz messages. The firehose, which is powered by PubSubHubBub, opens up the door wide open for building comprehensive Buzz analytical and data mining tools.

Google News Creator Says Journalism Is Here to Stay

Google News creator says journalism is here to stay and identified key changes bound to occur in the next five years or so. Journalistic organizations will have to adapt to new trends and channles to stay relevant to their audiences.

How Google TV is Poised to Change the Television Industry

With high expectations and low details around the upcoming Google TV, many wonder what the new tech implications could be.

No Matter How You Sell it, Nexus One Webstore Was a Marketing Fiasco

Google has announced that it will be shutting down the Nexus One web store, just four months after it launched.

First Topeka, Then Granite State of Mind, The World Goes Google

Chris Wisecarvers home state of New Hampshire gets a boost from his YouTube video going viral. First we say Topeka and Google in the social media branding exchange, now states are getting in on the act of visibility, but not from their experts, from would be rappers gone digital.

The Topeka Google Logo and Brand Strength

For April Fools Google changes its name to Topeka. The interesting thing is how Topeka changes the city's name to Google. The city website is now called "The City of Google", so millions may think Google bought Topeka perhaps? Google's brand is so strong the sky is the limit as far as their applying it.

Google Versus Facebook, Traffic and Where To Shove It

Facebook supposedly surpassed even Google recently in traffic, or so the reports say. Certainly Facebook has a rapidly growing user base, but if the company is making money they sure are hiding it well. What good is traffic if it won't pay the light bill. Facebook uses 5 times as much bandwidth as Google or YouTube, and no one knows how much they win or lose daily. Can speculation and hype continue to keep an online startup in business?

Google Leans on its Own Apps to Create Tower of Babel