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Google Says Infected Spam Is Getting Worse
The company's Postini corporate e-mail security service reported that the volume of e-mail virus attacks peaked at almost 10 million on a single day. read more
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"Mapping software needs to have specific limits for the sake of security and privacy. It's the mavens like this that will force Google to watch its limits."
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Google 'Ransoming' Customers Searching For Trademarked Brands, Lawsuit Claims
A packaging company claims that until May 2008, Google actively hid the extent to which its AdWords program monetized low-quality pages, parked domains, and error pages. read more
Google Searches Sought In Defamation Suit Against Cisco
The subpoena demands Google reveal information associated with blog postings, Internet searches, and financial data related to a libel lawsuit filed last year against Cisco. read more
Under Cyberattack, Georgia Finds 'Bulletproof' Hosting With Google And Elsewhere
The president of Georgia's Web site has been moved to the state of Georgia in the United States to defend against threats real and virtual. read more
Google Apologizes For Gmail Outage
Millions of users were unable to access Google's Gmail service for several hours on Monday. read more
Google Admits Its AOL Investment May Be Impaired
Google's 5% stake in Time Warner's AOL unit may be worth less than the $1 billion the Web company paid for it in 2006, Google warned in a regulatory filing Thursday. read more
Google Conflagration View
A Google Maps Street View driver captured pics of a house on fire. In an attempt to deter gawking, Google took the images down. I guess where there's smoke, there's privacy. read more
Gmail, Google Apps Go Dark For Users
According to reports, an unknown number of users had trouble accessing Gmail and Google Apps. Many were prevented from getting into their accounts for up to 15 hours. read more
Google Takes Your Mobile Phone To The Olympics
Just in time for the opening ceremonies, Google unfurled a new mobile search tool to help track down Olympics results quickly from your mobile phone. It also set up a mobile Web site specifically so followers of the games can peruse results and events at leisure. Let the Games begin! read more
Google Launches Free Music Service In China
Google has launched a music search service in China that will give users access to free downloads of licensed songs, while capturing advertising revenue for music providers in a market rife with piracy. read more
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Editor's Note
Apple Now Worth More Than Google
At the close of the stock market on Wednesday, Apple's value as a company surpassed Google's. Apple's market capitalization reached $158.84 billion; Google's settled at $157.23 billion.
Silicon Valley tech gossip blog Valleywag predicted as much back in November 2007 based on the strong performance of Apple's iPhone and the fact a Google phone was nowhere to be seen.
Nine months later, there's still no Google Android phone on the market and Apple's iPhone 3G remains in short supply. Not only that, but Google has nothing yet that can challenge Apple's iTunes tollbooth.
Google has demonstrated its might as online advertising's middleman; it has yet to show that it can win the loyalty of phone buyers. And it needs to do just that, soon.
Google doesn't yet have a diversified revenue stream like Apple does. And it still depends on the forbearance of Microsoft and Apple for distribution. It has user loyalty, but not much leverage, particularly where Internet browsers aren't involved. If users of computers and phones start leaning toward Internet-enabled apps like iTunes rather than browsers, Google will find it much harder to keep its foot in the door.
And that's the way Google's competitors will erode Google's position. They won't beat Google as a search engine. That ship has sailed. But what they can do is change the nature of the playing field. That's what Apple is doing.
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