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If opening the Kijiji classifieds site to American users draws business away from Craigslist, eBay stands to lose a little bit too.
This won’t change the world, but it’s a nice gesture: Helio (“don’t call us a phone company”) has stopped charging its users for access to YouTube. The “mobile brand” is even refunding customers who already sent over some cash.
$375 million will buy a lot of things, and one of them appears to be Zantaz, “a global leader in content archiving, electronic discovery solutions and software as a service.” Autonomy, “a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise,” is behind the purchase.
One name we haven't seen in the Net Neutrality debate is Apple, Inc. Though Jobs & Company are cozy with neutral net advocate Google, they also just launched iPhone with AT&T exclusivity. And that brings up some interesting questions, the most interesting of which: Is buying an iPhone a vote against Net Neutrality?
LG’s recent Google phone (the KU580) received a small amount of buzz - perhaps proportional to the area in which it was launched. Now there’s word that a YouTube phone is on the way, yet it may be a while before the device reaches American shores.
Statistically speaking, it’s likely that you (whoever you are) use Google for most of your searches. That’s fine - and I’m right there with you - but new information suggests that people who use Yahoo are better spellers. Wo is us!
