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A post earlier this week about Google Voice ringing into Google+ Hangouts generated a good bit of commentary, not only on the original post, but also out on Hacker News, Reddit, Google+and other areas.

At Mobile World Congress this week, new attempts to create competing mobile device software ecosystems were announced. What are they up against? Google Android and Apple iOS, the number one and number two ranked smartphone OS worldwide, combined account for 91.1% of all smartphone shipments during the fourth quarter of 2012.

Besides Facebook, Google is the best example of a global Internet powerhouse that has been blocked from entering the Chinese market in a fair and meaningful way.

There are three aspects where Google was expected to strongly disrupt things: services, costs and replicability.

The one thing I probably get asked the most about the Fiber Revolution is “what is the killer app for Fiber?” I dislike the question: I think the frame of mind that leads one to asking the question is potentially dangerous.

After more than 18 months of investigation, the EC has presented Google with its concerns over the search engine’s business practices.

comScore released data on the key trends within the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending April 2012. Their latest market study surveyed more than 30,000 U.S. mobile network service subscribers.

Google is the new Microsoft but boy are they faster than Redmond ever was. Part of the reason has to do with the search engine leader’s access to the eyeballs of almost every human on earth via its home page but another reason for the blistering speed of the company has to do with the speed of innovation – which I recently described as (Moore’s Law*Metcalfe’s Law)/Patent Lawsuit Activity..