Between the Lines

Google feeling the pinch? [video]

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:31:52 +0000

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with senior editor Sam Diaz about Google’s financial future according to one analyst. Diaz also discusses what the outlook may mean for the company’s employees and its competitors. [video=253570] Also see: Google analyst sees falling revenue and board conflict

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podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:31:52 +0000

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In other Nokia news today…

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:48:23 +0000

All the buzz about Nokia today may have been about the launch of the N97, the company’s new high-end smartphone. But Nokia did have other news: it has completed its acquisition of Symbian, maker of the mobile operating system on many cell phones. Symbian employees will become Nokia employees on Feb. 1, 2009. The acquisition was [...]

Group calls on Washington to establish national Broadband strategy

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:00:30 +0000

It’s time for the U.S. to step up to the broadband plate. A coalition of companies that includes Google, Cisco, AT&T and Verizon, among others, has sent an open letter (PDF), asking President-elect Obama and Congress to make broadband deployment a high priority for 2009, according to a CNET report. The group - which also includes [...]

Oh, and BTW: ‘Intellectually Bankrupt’ FCC Chief To Be Around Until Mid-2009

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:48:07 +0000

There’s little love lost between the nation’s largest cable operator, Comcast, and the country’s top industry watchdog, Kevin Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin During his tenure, Martin has pushed repeatedly to usher in pricing of individual channels of pay TV programming, a la carte. That would tear apart the tiered [...]

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podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:48:07 +0000

		Mobile productivity meets simplicity in the new Treo Pro. It comes unlocked with Microsoft® Windows Mobile® 6.1, Wi-Fi, GPS, and other one-touch shortcuts. So now standard issue is no longer an issue.
		www.palm.com

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2009: Will It Be Better For Cable TV Than 2010 … or 2011 … or 2012?

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:11:03 +0000

Satellite TV has been gaining subscribers, relentlessly this decade. Particularly DirecTV, which had 3.8 million subscribers at the end of June 1998 and counted 17.2 million, at the end of this June, according to this compilation by the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association of America. Cable TV has been treading water. According to the National Cable [...]

iPhone clouds true Smartphone snapshot

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:32:31 +0000

Can Apple, specifically its iPhone, save an entire industry? The iPhone - now ranked the second most popular smartphone - saw strong enough adoption in the quarter ending Sept. 30 to mask the sluggishness of the overall smartphone market this past summer, according to a report by Needham & Co. research analyst Charlie Wolf. The iPhone [...]

Yahoo: Going private trial balloon floated; Is private equity the solution?

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:03:33 +0000

Former AOL Chief Jonathan Miller is looking in the couch cushions to raise enough money to buy a part–if not all of Yahoo. According to the Wall Street Journal, Miller has been talking to private equity folks and sovereign wealth funds to buy Yahoo for about $20 to $22 a share. Miller would have to raise [...]

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podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:03:33 +0000

		Mobile productivity meets simplicity in the new Treo Pro. It comes unlocked with Microsoft® Windows Mobile® 6.1, Wi-Fi, GPS, and other one-touch shortcuts. So now standard issue is no longer an issue.
		www.palm.com

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Google analyst sees falling revenue and board conflict

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:59:05 +0000

Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry predicts Google’s revenue will fall in the next two years and the company is about to hit its adolescent stage with board conflicts and layoffs. In a research note, Chowdhry lays out the case. The gist: The economy is putting pressure on Google ads; users are tuning out sponsored text [...]

Zoho launches CloudSQL; Plays anti-lock-in card

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:00:02 +0000

Zoho on Tuesday launched CloudSQL, a middleware layer that gives developers access to Zoho Applications data via a SQL database call. With the move, Zoho is playing an anti-lock-in card. One of the biggest worries about software as a service is that your data–and your business–can be locked into one provider. Under Zoho’s plan, the company [...]

Google Chrome and the extension conundrum

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:06:57 +0000

Google appears to be on the extension bandwagon for its Chrome browser, but that also opens a Pandora’s box. In an extensions document (via Stephen Shankland and Aaron Boodman) Google outlines its plan to build extensions for Chrome. Extensions are the most requested feature for Chrome. Enter the conundrum. Extensions are nice, but they often bog down [...]

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podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:06:57 +0000

		Mobile productivity meets simplicity in the new Treo Pro. It comes unlocked with Microsoft® Windows Mobile® 6.1, Wi-Fi, GPS, and other one-touch shortcuts. So now standard issue is no longer an issue.
		www.palm.com

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