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Google does not sell hardware, Eric Schmidt told us as much, but the company has few qualms about buying the stuff up. Bloomberg is reporting, on the authority of a pair of well informed sources, that the Mountain View team is about to buy up “thousands” of VeriFone’s NFC payment terminals, with a view to installing them in stores across San Francisco and New York City. Those two technophile cities represent the most receptive audience NFC is likely to get in the US, and Google will be hoping that users there will be able to appreciate the convenience of being able to swipe their Nexus S (or other similarly equipped handset) to complete payments. We already know that Schmidt and co. consider the concept of “mobile money” a priority and there have been rumblings of Google setting up its own payment system, which together make this hookup with VeriFone appear highly credible. Bloomberg expects the trials to commence within the next four months, just in time to make iPhone 5 users green with envy.

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This article was written on August 01, 2007 by CyberNet.

Remember back in April when Google announced that they were acquiring DoubleClick, and Microsoft said “not so fast” and protested the move saying it would hurt competition? Then what did Microsoft do? They acquired online advertising firm aQuantitive, and more recently, they announced they were acquiring an advertising exchange firm called AdECN as well. They weren’t the only major Internet Company with an advertising related purchase either. AOL recently announced their acquisition of TACODA, and Yahoo announced they were acquiring Right Media. All of the major Internet Companies are getting in on advertising, yet Google seems to be the only one under scrutiny for the intention of their purchase.

I think Ars Technica’s article title perfectly describes what Google is thinking right now: “Google on DoubleClick merger: Everyone else is doing it, why can’t we?” Ain’t that the truth! An article recently published on the official Google Public Policy Blog essentially says that everybody is in fact doing it, so why can’t we, without actually saying that. They point out all of the other advertising related acquisitions lately and explain that “each of the leading Internet companies believe that they can position themselves to succeed in the online advertising space — through the free market, and without government intervention.”

So why is it that Google has to fight to finalize the acquisition of DoubleClick? I think the answer is simple. Google is becoming the next Microsoft and everybody is screaming ANTITRUST! When Microsoft became dominant is when they were criticized and had to fight to do what they wanted. It seems Google is now quickly entering the same position that Microsoft has been in where everything that they do is looked over with a magnifying glass, checked, and rechecked. With Google growing faster than a weed, I think they need to prepare for many trips to Washington in the future with lobbyists in tow, to fight for what they want to do. Without a doubt, Google is quickly becoming the next Microsoft whether they like it or not.

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This article was written on July 25, 2007 by CyberNet.

One of the things I use the most in Gmail is the "View as HTML" feature for previewing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets that are attached to an email. This lets you scope out what a document is about without having to download it to your computer.

It does, however, have some limitations. One of the things this feature never did in the past was display images or graphs. That’s no longer true when you’re viewing a DOC file in an HTML format as seen in the screenshot above. I took one of our recent posts that we did this morning, copied the content into Microsoft Word, and saved it in a DOC format. Then I emailed it to myself and used the HTML preview to see how well it rendered the image.

Judging by the side-by-side comparison above I would say that the two results are pretty identical, and the View as HTML feature in Gmail just got a lot more useful! The bad news is that this feature only works for DOC files for the time being, and doesn’t seem to apply to spreadsheets or presentations. To get a preview of what those files you would need to use the specialized Google offerings, such as this one for presentations.

Now I would like to see Google do is add some support for the Office 2007 file formats. I’ve been receiving quite a few attachments with the DOCX filetype, and I have to download them in order to view the contents.

Source: Google Operating System

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Google just released a pretty cool feature for their Customized Search Engine (CSE) creator. For those of you unfamiliar with the CSE it is just a way for users to create their own search engine that returns results only from the sites they specify. For example, you could make a technology search engine that only queries technology websites for results, and all you would have to do is provide the URL’s of those sites.

The new feature that was added for the Customized Search Engine lets users include the sites listed as well as the sites they link to. To demonstrate this I’ve created a search engine for our site that will also search all of the sites we link to. Then if you do a search, such as this one for "review," you’ll notice that the results included are not just for our site.

You can also go to the "On the Fly" site and type in the URL of the site you want to test out. This is an easy way to see what this feature might be like on your site because it doesn’t require that you fill out information prior to doing a search. If you like how it turns out just grab the code they provide on that page and paste it into your site.

This feature adds a lot of possibilities to the existing Customized Search Engine, and this is something users will probably start to take advantage of. If you use this in conjunction with the Google Marker you could probably develop some pretty nifty search engines.

Source: Google Custom Search Blog

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What’s this? Honest-to-god good news in the face of on-going economic disaster? Why it sure is. Looks like YouTube will be expanding its staff by around 30 percent, making 2011 the video site’s biggest year of hiring.