Week in review: Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie on apps, Al Gore at GreenBeat
VentureBeat Nov 21 09
Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie: Apps don’t make your phone special — “It’s not the applications available on the various platforms that will be the differentiators, Ozzie said, even though that’s what many companies and writers seem to focus on.”
Microsoft’s Xbox Live chief on banning modders and browsing Facebook photos on TV — “It’s a cat and mouse game. These were people that were pirating software. Full story...
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Google Buzz is no Twitter-killer, but it may solve an intimacy problem
VentureBeat 3 hours ago
Google tapped its sleeping giant of a social network today with Buzz. The new product lets people follow Gmail contacts for status updates and shared articles, photos and videos.
Toyota loses green cred, recalls hybrids over faulty brakes
VentureBeat 4 hours ago
Toyota’s having a bad week. It is already recalling millions of cars to fix floor mats and gas pedals that have led to unintentional acceleration — a snafu costing the company more than $2 billion.
Mayfield & First Round Capital Host Entrepreneur Event
VentureBeat 4 hours ago
Mayfield Fund has partnered with First Round Capital to host a networking event with the theme Entrepreneurs Helping Entrepreneurs.
Google takes another stab at location-based services with Buzz
VentureBeat 4 hours ago
Many of the rumors and now the news coverage of Google Buzz, the search giant’s new social sharing tool, has focused on the web capabilities through its integration with Gmail.
ITunes music: Higher prices result in slower sales growth
VentureBeat 4 hours ago
On this morning’s earnings call for Warner Music, CEO Edgar Bronfman, Jr said that the company’s $1.
U2 gets behind carbon trading, raises money for geothermal
VentureBeat 4 hours ago
Known for its international relief efforts, rock band U2 is now raising funds in Turkey to pay for the country’s Dora-1 geothermal plant.
How Sergey Brin uses Google Buzz as a business product
VentureBeat 5 hours ago
Google Buzz, the social sharing tool that Google just announced at a press event in Mountain View, isn’t just for the fun.
Google socializes Gmail with Google Buzz
VentureBeat 5 hours ago
Google announced the previously rumored social networking features in Gmail today with a new product called Google Buzz.
A giant table of Super Bowl ads ranked by online results
VentureBeat 7 hours ago
Gomez is a division of Compuware that does website performance measurement for businesses. Like me, they like to hammer the point that a slow site loses a lot of business.
AMD releases details on its graphics-microprocessor combo chip
VentureBeat 7 hours ago
Advanced Micro Devices showed off the progress it has made designing a chip that combines graphics and a processor in a single chip.
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