Google has a wireless phone in development. About a hundred people are working to develop the Blackberry-like device, which will be able to make Internet voice calls and support Google applications.
Microsoft associate general counsel Tom Rubin has criticized Google over its “cavalier” approach to copyrighted materials. Rubin thinks Google breaks copyright law because it has “bestowed upon itself the unilateral right to make entire copies of copyrighted books”.
Yahoo shut down its Mixd group mobile service for the youth market. In what looks like a consolidation move, those users are being moved to Yahoo Mobile. Yahoo could integrate some of Mixd’s look into Mobile.
Terry Semel, Yahoo’s CEO, picked up a bonus of eight hundred thousand shares worth $25.7 million in 2006. For the year, Yahoo’s shares dropped 35 percent while they worked on building their new advertising system.
The global Internet audience has grown ten percent in the past year. ComScore Networks said 747 million people aged 15 and up used the Internet in January 2007. The United States and China have the top two Internet-using populations.
