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Intel In-trouble Again, This Time With The FTC
Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:29 am // 0 comments // DomainZaar-Reporter
The Federal Trade Commission (USA) is suing Intel, saying it has "abused its market dominance". Richard A. Feinstein, director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition is quoted as saying: "Intel has engaged in a deliberate campaign to hamstring competitive threats to its monopoly. It's been running roughshod over the principles of fair play and the laws protecting competition on the merits."
Intel issued the following statement yesterday:
"Intel has competed fairly and lawfully. Its actions have benefited consumers. The highly competitive microprocessor industry, of which Intel is a key part, has kept innovation robust and prices declining at a faster rate than any other industry. The FTC's case is misguided. It is based largely on claims that the FTC added at the last minute and has not investigated. In addition, it is explicitly not based on existing law but is instead intended to make new rules for regulating business conduct. These new rules would harm consumers by reducing innovation and raising prices."
Intel senior vice president and general counsel Doug Melamed added, "This case could have, and should have been settled. Settlement talks had progressed very far but stalled when the FTC insisted on unprecedented remedies – including the restrictions on lawful price competition and enforcement of intellectual property rights set forth in the complaint, that would make it impossible for Intel to conduct business."
"The FTC's rush to file this case will cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars to litigate issues that the FTC has not fully investigated. It is the normal practice of antitrust enforcement agencies to investigate the facts before filing suit. The Commission did not do that in this case," said Melamed.
The FTC's suit claims Intel engaged in threatening and rewarding of big-name PC makers like Dell, HP, and IBM. Last month, Intel agreed to pay $1.25 billion to settle multiple disputes with rival chip manufacturer AMD over similar accusations. Intel has also recently been hit with an antitrust suit from the New York Attorney General. The financial cost of all this may not be too damaging for Intel, but the damage to its reputation is far reaching.
Google's "Place Page" Lets You Edit Info Now
Wed Dec 16, 2009 1:16 am // 0 comments // DomainZaar-Reporter
When searching and finding a specific business on Google Maps and you click on "more info", you will be taken to that business' "Place Page." These are the pages that Google introduced a some time ago, which gather available content related to that particular business in one place. One might find photos, coupons, reviews, etc. on the Place Page.
Businesses can tell Google if they want specific items there, but if you don't claim your listing, Google will put whatever it wants there. So now Google is letting users know that owners have verified their Place Pages, or not. If it is verified, there is now a link with a checkmark beside it at the top of the page that says "Owner-verified listing."
If this listing has not been verified, users are now greeted with links that say "Edit the place," or "Business Owner?". The latter gives you an opportunity to verify the listing if you are indeed the business owner. The former lets users make edits to the page. You will to want to verify your listing in order to prevent any information from being added to the page which could damage your reputation.
As we reported recently, the local search scene continues to change dramatically, and paying attention to things like this is will become increasingly important, not only from a reputation management standpoint, but from an important visibility angle. This is because more people are using the Internet from their mobile phones to find local business listings.
Google's URL Shortener New Miracle For Online Advertisers?
Mon Dec 14, 2009 11:28 pm // 0 comments // DomainZaar-Reporter
Google announced today the launch of it's new "Share Button", which allows users to share any site on the web via their social network of choice. This is done by a new URL shortener similar to the one Facebook is now using also. This is allowing users to instantly post links on their profile pages, for their friends to view. Suddenly, the link to your obscure and little viewed blog, or home page, or even advertising video, will be thrust onto hundreds or thousands of peoples' news feeds across the world within minutes!
Also, Google announced that with Feedburner, you can now set your feeds up to post to Twitter.
The shortening service is located at goo.gl, but it is not available for broad consumer use at this point. Google is just using it itself to compliment the aforementioned services. In other words, you can't just go to goo.gl and shorten a URL yourself. However, Google says that in time, it may offer such an option.
"We think people who use the Google Toolbar and FeedBurner, will benefit from a shortener that is easily accessible — making it faster and easier to share post and email links," Google says. They also say the core goals of the Google URL Shortener are:
- Stability – ensuring that the service has very good uptime
- Security – protecting users from malware and phishing pages
- Speed – fast resolution of short URLs
Google's standard privacy policy applies to goo.gl. The company says that it may choose to publicly display aggregate and non-personally identifiable statistics about particular shortened links, such as the number of end use clicks.
Domainers' Spell Check Nightmare Coming To An End?
Mon Dec 14, 2009 12:53 am // 0 comments // DomainZaar-Reporter
To any domainer, website builder, or anyone who writes content or text for domains, it would seem that no attempt has been made to "standardise" or "internationalise" spell checkers which have been around for about 30 years. They still use only American 'misspelling', use archaic words no longer found in the Oxford Dictionary, (the Gold Standard for modern English), still miss words completely, or more annoyingly, incorrectly 'red-underline' many correctly spelled words, which is really exasperating to any writer of text of content. Try writing "eye wonder weather this is write"!
Google wants its transcription software to improve more "quickly" and so is asking for its users to help. (Does this mean they have actually started? One would never have noticed!) Vincent Paquet, a senior product manager, recently wrote, "Until now, the only feedback you could give was to let us know if the quality of the transcript was good enough to be useful or not by checking the corresponding box next to the message. You can now go one step further by letting us figure out why it was good or bad. When you rate a transcript, you will be asked whether you would like to donate the message." (For research purposes only.)
Paquet then explained by continuing, "The messages you donate may be listened to, manually transcribed by us or used to gauge transcription improvements over time, but they will never be made public or used for any other purpose than improving the transcription quality."
In this office it is believed what Mr.Paquet was trying to say, is that Google wants its transcriptions to be more contextual, which spell check users have been asking for the last thirty years! This is a nice thought, but after waiting for so many years for something to be done, can we really believe it?
Another angle to this is, it may represent a step towards launching Google Voice in the U.K. and Australia, where people have for years been so fed up with the "official" American misspelling of common words. Although these 'misspellings' were officially made 'standard' in the United States in the 1960's, they were not elsewhere in the world of course and were seen as a symbol of the USA drifting away from it's colonial history. What a shame nobody saw the Internet coming, which already existed in theory, in the UK, and how it would bring us all back together again and reverse this cultural drifting. 45 years later, the world has never seemed so small and "standard English" is the international language for over 5 billion people around the world!
