iTunes: Some Good News and Some Bad News
First, the bad news… According to the WSJ the EU is investigating whether iTunes overcharges UK customers. The price of a song in the UK is about 20% more than …
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Is Google Losing Its Global Edge?
Suw Charman says “I still think there’s a fundamental mental block regarding the rest of the world from a lot of American companies and developers.” She points out the new …
Chevy, Meet Chery
According to the WSJ, the US will see Chinese-made automobiles by 2007. And we’re not talking about Hondas or Dodges made in China, we’re talking about a Chinese car company …
Predicting 2005: From Amazon to Apple
As the end of 2004 draws near, I feel compelled to toss in a few predictions for the year ahead… Web Globalization Goes Mainstream Based on surveys Ive conducted, discussions …
When Is iTunes Not iTunes?
When a British company owns the rights to http://itunes.co.uk/ and won’t sell it to Apple. Apple wants that domain name real badly and is using all legal means it its …
Google Is Best Global Web Site (Again)
All Web sites are, by default, global. But which Web sites do the best job of truly speaking to the world? That is, which Web sites support the most languages, …
iTunes Japan in 2005
According to News.com, Apple is launching iTunes for Japan in March 2005. As I reported a few weeks agoiTunes is already localized for 12 European markets. Japan, however, will not …
A Closer Look at Google’s Global Trajectory
Google says that half of its Internet traffic emanates from outside the US. While this is significant, what really matters to Google is where the revenues emanate from. Now that …
Googling China
The search engine war in China has long been heated, but Yahoo! recently upped the stakes with the launch of a new search portal: www.yisou.com. It sure looks a lot …
The Globalization of Google
Amy Campbell alerted me to a very interesting graphic on the Google Zeitgeist page. It tracks the languages used to access Google over the past two years: Google handles more …
Apple’s Mac OS X goes Arabic with Jaguar
I’m happy to see Apple launching the localized Arabic version of Jaguar so quickly. Read the MacWorld article.