As we have mentioned earlier at Ereviewguide.com, Google, Apple and Microsoft have widely diverging grand strategies regarding their products. To put in to most basic terms, Google is all about internet connections, Microsoft is all about the operating software and Apple is all about hardware devices. Given the recent announcement of Microsoft’s Surface tablet and [...]
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Congressional scrutiny shifts to Google and Apple’s spy plane mapping
Google and Apple have been at it in the news lately. Recently, Apple booted Google maps of its default apps for iOS6, the operating system for the iPhone. This means that the previously favored Google was kicked down a notch as the default mapping app for Apple. In its place, Apple has its own in-house [...]
Apple and Google increase Smartphone Marketshare
If you are thinking of investing in Microsoft stock in anticipation of the earth-shattering impact of windows 8 on smartphones, tablets and other portable devices, you might want to hold off until you read the following news. As we have already reported before, Microsoft has been seen as a hapless bystander in the landgrab for [...]
Apple and Facebook team up for impending Google assault
Convenient friends. That’s the best term to describe Facebook and Apple’s convenient partnership in light of an impending assault from Google. They aren’t truly friends in the classic sense but neither are they full on enemies. They are allies by necessity united more by their concern about the rising threat posed by Google than any [...]
Keep an eye out for the Google Nexus Tablet
Last December, Google’s head honcho Eric Schmidt told an Italian paper that Google plans to launch its own tablet to go head to head with its arch rival Apple. Schmidt said that the tablet will be of “the highest quality.” What made this prospective product launch plan different was that it sidestepped the obvious hype-building [...]
Google buys Meebo only to shut it down on July 11
Wow, that was quick. It took only a week from Google’s purchase of social platform Meebo for the search giant to announce Meebo’s shutdown. What gives? Apparently, according to rumors, Google plunked down somewhere in the neighborhood of a cool $100 million to score Meebo. The rationale for the purchase, it is becoming clear now, [...]
Google’s Andy Rubin discloses 900K daily Activations for Android
If you wanted to get a clear idea of who exactly is winning the marketing war for the king of the smartphone hill, you only need to look at the recent disclosure by Google’s Andy Rubin. In a tweet, Google’s Mobile senior vice president Andy Rubin said that Google Android clocks over 900,000 device activations [...]
Apple Boots Google Maps off iPhone
Saynora, Google Maps. The tech trendsetters at Apple have voted you off the iPhone island. Sure, you were good but apparently, your best is not good enough for the ubercool tech wizards at the Cupertino-based hardware maker. Looks like Steve Jobs’ old-time grudge against Google has a tough time dying. Funny how grudges at Apple [...]
Google tries to tip off Chinese users on censorship schemes
China and Google aren’t exactly best buddies currently. In fact, the Mountain View-based search giant has not had a mainland China presence since 2010. It now caters to its Chinese user base through Hong Kong. Google’s move was due to China’s intense Internet crackdown. Google’s aim at providing information has hit the wall of China’s [...]
Why can’t Facebook be like Google?
If you were one of the investors who went in on Facebook during its IPO, your initial tears have probably dried by now. Sadly, your wailing has probably been replaced by a muffled resigned whimper now as you shake your head at the almost daily declines of the social network site’s stock. You are probably [...]