Google warns of Microsoft, Yahoo competition

05 March 2007

Google warns of Microsoft, Yahoo competitionZDNet - 15 hours ago
Google is warning shareholders of the “formidable competition” it faces from both Microsoft and Yahoo.
Google considers Microsoft and Yahoo to be its primary competitors, acknowledging in particular that their Internet portals may have a greater ability to attract and retain users than Google does.
Analysts: Outlook grim for Microsoft online businessInfoWorld, CA - Mar 2, 2007

Despite its CEO's claims that Microsoft eventually will trump Google to be number one in online search revenue, the company's online business is "massively underperforming" against the competition, according to a leading financial analyst.

On a conference call Friday, Heather Bellini, an analyst with UBS Investment Research, said Microsoft is actually losing ground against competitors Google and Yahoo in online search revenue and the frequency of search queries that leverage its Windows Live Search engine.

FCC: Local telephone carriers must connect to VOIPInfoWorld, CA - Mar 2, 2007

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has ruled that incumbent local exchange carriers must connect to VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) services, overruling two state public service commission opinions.

The FCC on Thursday granted a petition from Time Warner Cable Inc., which had complained that the South Carolina and Nebraska public service commissions had allowed rural local exchange carriers to refuse access to wholesale telecom vendors connecting to Time Warner's VoIP service.


FCC Orders 'You Will Connect VoIP'VoIP - 05 March 2007

In a ruling that overturns two state directives, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ruled that rural carriers must connect VoIP services.
Following a petition submitted by Time Warner Cable in response to rulings in South Carolina and Nebraska that local exchange carriers could refuse to allow access to their networks on the basis that VoIP was not a "telecommunications service". The petition was submitted almost a year ago.
IBM teams up with Google over gadgetsUSA Today - Mar 3, 2007

IBM and Google are teaming up to bring mini applications called gadgets from the consumer Web to corporate networks.
The two tech giants on Wednesday announced a partnership that will allow business users to access Google gadgets from IBM's WebSphere Portal software.


IBM and Google collaborate on mash-upsComputerworld – Mar 5, 2007

IBM's WebSphere Portal users are about to find a brand new bag of tricks on their doorstep. Next month, the WebSphere Portal catalog will include Google Gadgets, which means portal page designers and portal dwellers will have access to utilities that provide links to research databases, package delivery tracking tools, Google Maps utilities, traffic information, and applications such as Google Docs & Spreadsheets.


Google's 2nd attempt to buy Chinese Gmail domain name gets no responseEarthtimes.org - Mar 2, 2007

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA: Internet business giant Google is finding the Chinese namesake of its Gmail service playing hard-to-get. According to one report, the US company approached Beijing-based ISM Internet Technology Development Co. Ltd., the firm behind the Chinese email service, with an offer to acquire the Gmail.cn domain name. But ISM offered no comment saying it did not understand the situation clearly.

Does it matter if Google can't have Gmail.cn?Cnet Asia, CA - Mar 3, 2007

A few days ago Reuters published an article about Google's attempts to buy the Gmail.cn domain from a Chinese company. It seems Google has been frustrated in its attempts to get its hands on the domain, which was first registered back in 2003, before Google announced Gmail, by a Chinese domain registrar called ISM Technologies. Naturally enough, ISM runs a Webmail service on the domain. It even uses a multicolored logo that, while not a direct ripoff of the Gmail logo, is certainly suggestive. But this isn't a new story.