A decision due this week on whether to prevent Google from purchasing the AdMob advertising network has been postponed because of complications created by Apple’s aggressive foray into online advertising, according to a report in the “New York Times” (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/technology/12google.html).
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The Apple-Google competition just gets more interesting. Google has purchased startup firm Agnilux, a San Jose company founded by a number of defectors from P.A. Semi, the chip company Apple bought in 2008, according to a “peHUB” report (http://www.pehub.com/69556/google-buys-stealth-hardware-startup-agnilux/).
On April 22, 2008, it was made public that Apple had agreed to buy a boutique microprocessor design company called PA Semi for US$278 million. The company was known for its design of sophisticated, low-power chips.
Read MoreIt’s April Fools day, and if you didn’t catch it yet … Google has renamed itself “Topeka”. Why? If you didn’t catch it on the news a while back, Google is looking for communities to do experimental deployment of 1GB Fiber networks at a competitive price for consumers. Over 1100 cities applied, many with some creative video appeals on YouTube (see Westlake Village’s 2 minute video as an example at http://youtube.com/watch?v=rw1f4UJOd2E).
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Appcelerator — a platform for developing native mobile, desktop, and iPad applications using web technologies — has announced updated findings of its Mobile Developer Survey taken of application developers about their plans to build applications for various mobile and tablet platforms. And they find it’s a tight race between Apple and Google.
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Another day, another lawsuit. A company called Microunity (http://www.microunity.com) has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in a Texas court against Apple, Google, HTC, Samsung — and well, all the main players in the mobile space.
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