GLG News by Search Engine Experts (North America)

The latest mobile offerings from MySpace resemble its boss: News Corp and newspaper sites have flailed while trying to force consumers to pay for content.  Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn may eventually make money from premium services and ads, but they must be cautious while expanding into the...

User experience, price, and selection are just as if not more important than bandwidth in determining wireless and mobile web usage.  In this vein, Apple's iPhone, Nokia's Ovi platform, and NBC / FOX, and other content providers can improve usage.  Streaming video, and its bandwidth constraints,...

This is a significant milestone in the business sense.  So far, Wimax had been viewed as a threat to the incumbents from the left field.  With this approval by ITU, it begins to legitimize WiMax among the cellular incumbents.

The Xbox 360 has a bunch of people playing games only available on their platform.  So until PS3 has a game or two that I really have to have, I wouldn't buy one even to have as a "cheap" Blu Ray player.

If search & email can be ad supported business models, then why can't other services or software as it moves from desktop to the Internet?

This is really interesting.  The need for local search is great, but the offerings are limited.  How that element can drive growth in '08 & '09 is beyond me - unless it's mobile.

Microsoft is very eager to make noise in the online marketing space.  With the recent acquisition of aQuantive and now Jellyfish, it seems that they'll stop at nothing to (over)pay for companies with a solid future.  The only problem lies in making their money back.  Jellyfish is on fire...

Microsoft gets serious about e-commerce with acquisition of Jellyfish, an innovative community-based shopping service that offers great deals to shoppers, and makes merchants happy, too.

The strongest supporter of WiMax Intel has announced that it will embed its WiMax technology in the processor dubbed Montevina in May of 2008. Intel intends to establish their own Intel-based handsets as well. The biggest US WiMax operator Sprint Nextel also announced that they will deploy WiMax to...

Over the long-term (five years and out), the low-cost Asian phone manufacturers are becoming more competitive with features and low cost, making it diffult for the large vendors to sustain their R&D in the US or Europe.  In the short run, the Asian manufactures are still more focused on the...