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Google Reports Strong Fourth Quarter, Bright 2011 Outlook

Posted on 20. Jan, 2011 by Daniel Cawrey. 1 Comments

In a fourth quarter earnings call that featured in the beginning some comments from Eric Schmidt, Larry Page and Sergey Brin about leadership restructuring, the outlook and overall strategy seems to be in a good place for the company. 2010 was an excellent financial year for Google, and a fantastic fourth quarter. The company saw revenue of $8.44 billion, which is a 26% increase from 2009′s fourth quarter. Net income was $2.54 which is up over 2009 when that number was at $1.97 billion.

The company talked a bit about expansion plans, citing the New York building purchase which cost the company over a billion dollars. They plan on continuing to hire both engineers and product managers at a steady clip.

One of the elements that CFO Patrick Pichette talked about aggressively expanding into included Chrome and Chrome OS. He also did not shy away about talking about moving away from projects like Wave and 1-800-GOOG-411, citing that Google will take on risky projects knowing that analysts and the media alike will let the company know when a product offering is not working out.

You can see all of the earnings details here.

Eric Schmidt on Chrome OS Launch: “Among the Most Important of My Working Life”

Posted on 10. Dec, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments

Google CEO Eric Schmidt took to the stage on December 7 after updates on Chrome, the Chrome Web Store and Chrome OS were given out. He talked a lot about how cloud technology had been around for quite some time – ideas that he had used in the past to try to develop cloud computing machines.

This was during his time at Sun Microsystems. While the idea had merit at the time, networks were simply not prepared to be able to handle this type of platform.

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Rebutting CNN’s “Chrome OS May Have Missed It’s Moment”

Posted on 22. Nov, 2010 by Chris Sorensen. 2 Comments

Living in the New York City metropolitan area offers interesting insights. For example, it’s always fun to watch the New York Yankees play a nationally broadcasted game. The shiny nationwide television “A”-ranked sportscasting team jets in. Through the game they espouse countless facts about the Yankees.

The only problem is – for us locals – some of the information is dead wrong, or a week old. It’s simple to understand since locals hear about the Yankees 7 x 24. In New York City there are two sports radio stations, dozens of newspapers and countless internet resources. These resources disperse news, facts and fiction about the Yankees.

The shiny nationwide “A” broadcast team doesn’t stand a chance for captivating diehard Yankees fans in New York regardless of how outstanding their production meeting is. I guess this is why my cross country betting buddies call me up to get the local view on the game.

Recently CNN Money broke a story entitled “Google’s Chrome OS may have missed its moment”. To us Chrome OS early adopters, this is a rather stunning statement. Now how could this be?

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Eric Schmidt’s Complete Comments on Chrome OS at Web 2.0

Posted on 16. Nov, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 6 Comments

If you want to you can scroll down and watch this for yourself (go to 42:46), but I thought it would be better to provide a transcript of what was said yesterday during the Web 2.0 Summit when at the end of Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s talk he was asked about Chrome OS.

Take what you will from the release comments. I’m sure the CEO knows all but we haven’t heard anything from Google PR yet about the fact that Chrome OS was supposed to arrive in 2010.

Arpit from Comcast: (asks an Android fragmentation question, then) Where does Chrome OS fit? What’s the logic of Chrome OS, another platform? Now I’m confused. On a particular sized device is it going to be Chrome? Is it going to be Android?
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Video: Eric Schmidt at Web 2.0 Summit

Posted on 16. Nov, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 1 Comments

Well, here it is. This is the full video of the Web 2.0 Summit, and I’ll go ahead and quote Schmidt’s words about Chrome OS here. It’s the very last question, by the way.

Video: Eric Schmidt at TechCrunch Disrupt 2010

Posted on 15. Oct, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 1 Comments

He talks about how we are using computers to create an augmented version of reality, the power that devices can leverage with cloud computing and building an open web with Chrome.

thechromesource Daily: Links for 9/30/10

Posted on 30. Sep, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments

Here’s a look at the Googleplex in full color pictures.

The Beta Channel has been updated; fixes are available for all platforms on numerous issues.

Is Google really open or are they closed like other tech titans?

Acer refuses to give up on netbooks; we’re convinced that they’re going to release a Chrome OS netbook soon.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt plans on having searches happen before you ask for them.

Eric Schmidt Talks a Little Chrome OS at IFA Berlin

Posted on 29. Sep, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 1 Comments

The clip here is an hour long and is worth a look in its entirety, but if you skip to the Q&A at about 1:03:28 you’ll get Schmidt answering a Chrome OS question.

The Wall Street Journal Interviews Eric Schmidt

Posted on 24. Sep, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments

The Google CEO has been on a tear recently, making media appearances everywhere, including Comedy Central’s Colbert Report. Here is a segment done for the Wall Street Journal, which is surprisingly embeddable from a news organization that has been trying to erect paywalls for their content.

Video: Eric Schmidt on Colbert Report

Posted on 22. Sep, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 1 Comments

In a reasonably lighter interview than most, Eric Schmidt appeared yesterday on Comedy Central’s Colbert report. Most of the subject matter here has been covered before, but is more humorous. Schmidt referred to his comments about young people changing their names to erase things left permanently on Facebook as a “bad joke”.

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