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Reuters is running an interesting piece that looks at the two tech giants, Amazon and Google, and their relations. The authors, Alexei Oreskovic and Alistair Barr, suggest that next year we’ll see the two companies confronting each other in a big way.
Amazon is offering its own tablet with a special software layer that runs on top of Android. In this scheme, Google doesn’t get all the ad dollars it used to get from more standardized Android installations. Moreover, the online retailer is also a strong player in the cloud space and is already offering advertising services.
Google on its end has the Compute Engine, which directly competes with Amazon’s popular EC2 platform, and is still reigning supreme in digital advertising.
Now, we’ve already heard few rumors that Amazon will launch its own smartphone and when that happens, the battle will begin… or so I think. We’ll make sure to follow where this goes and in the meantime, make sure to read the full analysis at Reuters…
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
