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Google acquires AdMob

In light of Google's announced plan this week to buy mobile advertising provider AdMob for $750 million, it seems like a good time to take a spin back through Google’s more notable buyouts. The AdMob buyout is the third this year (though speculation is swirling that Google has also acquired SIP VoIP provider Gizmo5). First was a $106 million purchase of video compression company On2, which could help Google more efficiently deliver video. The other deal was for ReCAPTCHA, which brings Google some cool authentication technology that it can use to accelerate its massive effort to scan tens of millions of books and periodicals.

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  • Your definitive guide to today's Android smartphone Submitted by Google Subnet on Thu, 11/05/2009

    Although phones featuring Google's open-source Android operating system have been out for more than a year, it's only been in recent months that the platform has really caught on. In fact, this fall alone has seen the debut of several new high-profile Android devices from such esteemed manufacturers as HTC, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Samsung.

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    Version, Out of Control? by Mark Murphy

    In late April 2009, Google released Android 1.5.In mid-September 2009, Google released Android 1.6.In late October 2009, Google released Android 2.0.That is three version releases in a span of six months. Progress is great. Progress is necessary. But there is going to be some fallout for this flood of Android versions, both with consumers and developers.On the consumer side, from what I can see, there is little effort to truly differentiate these Android versions. Yet, we have brand-new devices... 8

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    Dramatic license in the Bing/Google race by Kaila Colbin

    Media coverage of the search industry often reminds me of the editing on The Amazing Race. Even if the first-place team is miles and hours ahead of the second-place team, the producers have to make things seem close and exciting. Otherwise, why would you watch? Come to think of it, this past U.S. election was a bit like that as well. And so it passes that Bing's every move gets covered in relation to Google. Is this the upgrade that will finally allow Microsoft to breathe Google's rarefied... 2

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    Facebook Aids in Open Cloud by Colt Mercer

    After countless hours of lost productivity to Facebook at work, the developers made up for it by offering the Cloud computing community something to build upon. Facebook created a software framework called Thrift, now a project of the Apache Incubator, which allows cross language service deployment. Referred to by Apache as “A software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, Erlang, Perl, Haskell, C#,...

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    Gartner seeing huge adoption of software-as-a-service by Jon Brodkin

    Customer interest in cloud-based software applications is soaring, with software-as-a-service revenues set to reach $7.5 billion in 2009 – an increase of nearly 18% over last year, according to new research from Gartner.I don’t find the numbers too surprising – but the success of software-as-a-service is in stark contrast to many other portions of the recession-plagued IT industry.Worldwide, software-as-a-service revenue will continue growing, totaling over $14 billion in enterprise application...

  • Danny Riley

    Danny Riley's Google Apps: Under the Hood

    Baking an Add-On App: Google Web Toolkit, Data APIs and App Engine by Danny Riley

    This blog comes on the heels of a recent NetworkWorld Google Subnet blog titled "10 App Add-ons for the Enterprise" which details ten popular third party Google Apps add-on applications. These ten applications only scratch the surface of a niche market helping to propel the momentum of Google Apps for the enterprise. Companies and individual developers alike are flocking to the Google developer community with grand ideas for the next must-have add-on application. So how are they building...

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    Six Hot Android Topics at DroidCamp by Conder and Darcey

    Lauren and I presented two--one on tips and tricks for Android projects (which are up 94% this month, according to http://bit.ly/1TxPAw) and another for Android beginners. We listened to the developer buzz and went to a bunch of sessions. Here is our take on the hot topics simmering within the Android community here: Augmented Reality: This came up many times in discussions. New Handsets: To date, there aren't many shipping Android handsets. Many, however, have been announced. These new...

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