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POPSMicrosoft: No New Xbox Anytime Soon One of the things that make boxes like the Xbox and PS3 more useful is that they're connected to the internet, and can download new software updates that radically change the feel of the machine. In some ways, the "New Xbox Experience" released last years was like getting a whole new system.
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POPSSamsung Unveils Another iPhone Competitor In an interesting choice of timing, Samsung unveiled this slick touchscreen phone Monday morning, just before Apple's debut of the 3G iPhone. Also interesting: Samsung already has an iPhone competitor--its Instinct, which will launch on Sprint on June 20. The two phones could be part of a broader global strategy, with the Omnia targeting Asia and Europe.
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POPSWindows XP Sp3 - Run!!!! Just when you thought it was safe to run WIndows update, this shark rears its head. Think I'll wait a while before deploying it.
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POPS10 Cool Google Search Tricks Already started playing with the location time function! If more than one place has the same name, you will see a list of all known locations/times.
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POPSIs Google the New Yahoo!? Google is a monster when it comes to syndicating its ads on third-party sites. AdSense revenue, which accounts for more than a third of the company's total revenue with its presence on sites like News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace, CNET (Nasdaq: CNET), or Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) AOL and CNN.com, climbed 37% higher this past quarter at Google. That compares to a 13% year-over-year dip in affiliate revenue at Yahoo! during the same period. Google has also been growing beyond the clickthrough, whether it's through impression-based display advertising or expanding its action-based affiliate program spots. There is also the monetization of the fast-growing YouTube. Is revenue growth going to decelerate this quarter? Definitely. Is it going to slam on the brakes and go in reverse? This isn't Crazy Taxi! The comScore data pegged Google's click growth at just 25% this past quarter, but Google's top line actually soared 51%.
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POPSBlodget's MicroHoo! Solution Former analyst turned blogger Henry Blodget has offers up his ideas about how MSFT & YHOO should combine forces. It's a pretty interesting strategic idea--but falls apart over issues such as leadership and execution. Steve Ballmer wants to make this deal happen. The idea that he'd delegate the whole thing to somebody in an organization where he has a mere 51% ownership sounds like a tough sell.
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POPSThe Wii whips the competition From the moment I heard Shigeru Miyamoto describe the concept behind the Wii (then codenamed Revolution) I knew they'd have a hit on their hands if they got it right. I got mine last Christmas, and they're still selling so fast Nintendo can't keep them on shelves - it's an amazing system, and they're redefining the whole market by creating a new class of "casual gamers". My parents, in-laws, and even my grandmother have played and love the Wii.
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POPSHenry Blodget: Skype Could Sell for $4B Skype fanboy (and former Wall Street analyst) Henry Blodget is hoping that eBay decides to dump Skype. He figures it will go for about 10x revenues of $400M. If Google buys it, it could be an interesting fit with Google's GrandCentral, Android, and all of Google's other communications schemes....
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POPSIs GOOG Too Good? Strange thing about public companies...you have to win, but you can't make it look too easy. Google is eating up market share so fast that Henry Blodget worries it can't keep up a steady diet--and that may mean a hit to its ever-more-ginormous stock price.
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POPSMicrosoft getting serious about buying Yahoo! Maybe, just maybe, the recent "losses" to Google in acquiring DoubleClick and YouTube were Microsoft's way of goading Google into acquiring those companies so that Microsoft could more easily acquire Yahoo without any anti-trust problems. Possible?
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POPSVietnam's Growing Role in Outsourcing Picture in vietnamnet.vn: E-Town, rapidly developed hi-tech center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. HCMC has recently been chosen as 1 of 10 new destinations of outsourcing, follow Business Week.
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POPS10 Worst Internet Acquisitions Ever Ever heard of "MySimon"? CNET paid $700 million for it in '99. What about the online greeting card site "BlueMountain.com"? Excite@Home paid $780 million for it. So many billions of dollars down the drain.
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POPSMicrosoft and Facebook sign exclusive ad deal They rushed to get this done after the blockbuster MySpace-Google deal a couple of weeks ago. Unlikely to be as lucrative as that, but Facebook is definitely a solid network with a natural base of incoming users.
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