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Google Voice is moving forward. Whereas the application was just available to users of GrandCentral (a service Google acquired in mid-2007), all…
Google and the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology have signed a $10 million contract regarding business and workforce development in Egypt. Egyptian Minister of CIT, Dr. Tarek Kamel came to Washington D.C. this week with the goal of reinforcing bilateral relations between Egypt and the US, a representative for the Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) tells Webproworld.
Update: YouTube has made an official blog post saying they're ready to start rolling out the new channels design. Here's a new video about the redesign.
China on Thursday expressed anger at Google for providing links on its English language search site that lead to vulgar content that violated the country's law. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang dodged a question about whether the government had played a role in recent disruptions to Google sites within China. He did make it clear that the government was angry with Google.
While the Apple App Store has grown to contain over 50,000 apps in less than a year, the most popular apps are generating the majority of usage by consumers. AdMob has released its Mobile Metrics Report for May (pdf), which examines the distribution of consumer usage of iPhone applications. Highlights from the May 2009 AdMob Mobile Metrics Report:
We caught up with Michael Gray at SMX Advanced in Seattle and talked a little bit about realtime search. Now, realtime search is one of those super buzzy concepts that meets all the criteria as the ‘Next Big Thing’. It’s so big, Google is supposed to be afraid of it. It’s so awesome, it’s going to change politics in the Middle East. Why, the way…
