One of Google’s most brilliant strategies to conquer the online world hasn’t made them more than a trivial amount of revenue and perhaps never will. But they’ll be OK with that, because Google is slowly encroaching on Microsoft at a game that company has dominated for over a decade with the Microsoft Office Suite.
Google Docs are still a small part of both the home and enterprise software market but they appear to be slowly getting incorporated into home desktops and enterprise applications around the globe, and this poses a huge threat to the Microsoft Office dominance in that More»

Labels: 700mhz auction, companies, enterprise 2.0, Google Docs, Microsoft

The dust is finally settling from the recent US Government auction of licenses to operate using the 700MHZ spectrum that will be freed as Televisions move to “digital only” signals in 2009.
Verizon was the winner of most of the new spectrum by bidding the highest, and thus will have a new and commanding mobile presence. However Google has some ideas of their own about how to use the “white space”, or unused parts of the spectrum, for WIFI signals to handheld devices. Many analysts feel that Google was participating in the multi-billion high stakes auction for More»

Labels: 700mhz auction, open handset alliance, verizon