Can a Google Phone Connect With Carriers?  —  Google Inc. is close to unveiling its long-planned strategy to shake up the wireless market, people familiar with the matter say.  The Web giant’s ambitious goal: to make applications and services as accessible on cellphones as they are on the Internet.

Source:   Wall Street Journal
Author:   Amol […]

Gmail 2.0 Screenshots  —  Google during the recent Analyst Day announced they want to release an updated version of Gmail that’s supposed to be faster than the current one, thanks to a JavaScript back-end rewrite.  Also, the new version aims to improve contacts management.

Source:   Google Blogoscoped
Author:   Philipp Lenssen
Link:   http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-10-29-n47.html

Google Analyst Day Features New Gmail  —  It’s been well-known for a while that Google is readying a version 2.0 of Gmail, designed to update the four-year old email software that has been looking dated lately.  At Google’s recent Analyst Day, they talked about the new version publicly for the first time …

Source:   InsideGoogle
Author: […]

Don’t Open Bogus Email that Claims to Come From the FTC  —  Email That States It’s From the FTC’s “Fraud Department” Has Virus Attached  —  A bogus email is circulating that says it is from the Federal Trade Commission, referencing a “complaint” filed with the FTC against the email’s recipient.

Source:   Federal Trade Commission
Link:   […]

Leopard will open the Mac OS X floodgates (and embarrass Microsoft)  —  As many of you are aware, I think Windows Vista is a blunder.  And with its annoying UAC system and horrifically slow operation, it won’t take long before the majority of home users agree with me.

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Don Reisinger
Link:   […]

Is Age Just a Number?  —  Whether you’re a MySpace addict or a Luddite who logged on once to see what all the fuss was about, you’ve likely met Tom.  As the public face of MySpace, cofounder Tom Anderson has become a celebrity since the site launched in 2003 because he’s every user’s first …

Source: […]

Reimagining the Automobile Industry by Selling the Electricity  —  Shai Agassi, a Silicon Valley technologist who was in competition to become chief executive of SAP, one of the world’s largest software companies, has re-emerged with a grand plan to reinvent the world’s automobile industry around battery-powered all-electric cars.

Source:   New York Times
Author:   John Markoff
Link: […]

Zucker says Apple deal rotten  —  NBC U says iTunes revenues meager  —  NBC U topper Jeff Zucker warned that new digital business models were turning media revenues “from dollars into pennies” and revealed NBC U booked just $15 million in revenue during the last year of its deal with Apple’s iTunes.

Source:   Variety
Author:   […]

Facebook’s New Hiring Hurdle?  —  Microsoft Deal May Boost  —  Options Prices, Hurting  —  Ability to Lure Top Talent  —  There is a little-noticed downside to Microsoft Corp.’s investment in Facebook Inc.: The deal will likely raise the price of stock options issued by the social-networking company …

Source:   Wall Street Journal
Link:   http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119361242157474303…

Google’s Response to Facebook: “Maka-Maka”  —  Google may have lost the bidding war to invest in Facebook, but it is preparing its own major assault on the social networking scene.  It goes by the codename “Maka-Maka” inside the Googleplex (or, perhaps, “Makamaka”).

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Erick Schonfeld
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/29/googles-response…