Google Fumbles Softwares for TV, Tablets and Cell Phones

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Ashlee Vance and Claire Cain Miller, We Interrupt This Product; Struggling with TV, Google Reins in the Hardware Side. New York Times, Dec. 20, 2010 (title in the print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/technology/20google.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=google%20tv&st=cse
("But, again, phone and computer makers have been forced to push back their plans to release tablets based on a refined version of the software, leaving Apple’s iPad as the tablet king this Christmas")

My comment:
(a) No wonder Taiwan has held back in tablets.
(b) Sigh. Less than a month aho, it was reported that Sony abandoned its own software development in preference for Google's.

Daisuke Wakabayashi, Sony TV Unit Seeks Path to Profitability. Wall
Street Journal, Nov. 26, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704008704575638640136442582.html


-------------------------Separately
(1) Tim Culpan and John Helyar, Taiwan Offers Trove of Insider Data for Hedge Funds Seeking Trading Edge. Bloomberg, Dec. 19, 2010.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-19/taiwan-offers-trove-of-insider-data-for-hedge-funds-seeking-trading-edge.html
("'Taiwan has been the wild, wild East,' said Peter Douglas, a principal of Singapore-based hedge-fund consultant GFIA Pte. 'If you want to understand the global tech value chain, you’re going to need to know what’s going on in the Taiwan slice of it.'")

(2) Gregory Zuckerman, Inside Tips Don't Always Pay Off. Wall Street Journal, Dec. 18, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703395904576025940015355856.html
("The tip proved correct, but there was one problem: AMD's shares tumbled the following day" because the same AMD employee on the same day sold the inside information to many)

(3) Azam Ahmed and Peter Lattman, 5 Arrested in Inquiry on Trading; A complaint says that tech workers provided private information. New York Times, Dec. 17, 2010.
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/four-arrested-in-insider-trading-investigation/?scp=1&sq=longoria%20ahmed&st=cse
("In particular, two witnesses were cited as being extremely valuable in the government’s complaint: one, a person with extensive experience evaluating technology companies whose identity was not disclosed, and Richard Choo-Beng Lee, a former hedge fund manager implicated in the Galleon case who began cooperating with authorities in April 2009.")


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