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Many analysts expect Google to grow its earnings by close to 40% a year for the next five years. Google will probably report a net income of $4.8 billion in 2007, and it should be very difficult to grow such bulk earnings for every company. In addition, the US search ad market has just slowed down a bit, forcing Google to make more money overseas. Another way of growing earnings is to go into other ad markets like online video, newspaper, radio and television ads. Google has already done experiments on these sectors, but the company hasn’t rolled out any competitive business units, yet. After all, analysts should watch Google’s progress in these areas before recommending bulk stock acquisitions.

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Japanese scientists are researching technologies that they hope will replace the Internet at some point in the future.

TOKYO - Japan plans to start research on new networking technology that could one day replace the Internet amid its growing quality and security problems, according to the nation’s communications ministry.

U.S. and European researchers already have started similar efforts to rebuild the underlying architecture of the Internet.

Yoshihiro Onishi, assistant director at the Japanese communications ministry, said Japan must follow suit to stay competitive. Post-Internet network technology is expected to become imperative by 2020, he said.

While I don’t think the Internet will ever be replaced as a whole, I agree that there is plenty of room left for improvements, e.g. the creation of networking technology that consumes less energy, technology that prevents spamming and inter-planetary networking technologies.

Source: Japan to research next-gen Internet

VIENNA, Austria - A Viennese pathologist claims the composer’s physician did — inadvertently overdosing him with lead in a case of a cure that went wrong.

Other researchers are not convinced, but there is no controversy about one fact: The master had been a very sick man years before his death in 1827.

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Yahoo has been testing the beta version of its Yahoo Mail service since September 2005. Now it finally launched in finished form. Yahoo Mail has been worth the wait, because it is slightly better than Google’s popular Gmail service, in my opinion. Unlike Gmail and Microsoft’s Hotmail, Yahoo Mail allows users to exchange text messages with cell phones, too. It also offers unlimited storage of emails and attachments free of charge. In comparison, Gmail offers 2.9 gigabytes for free and sells additional storage space from $20 (6GB)  to $500 (250GB) per year. Hotmail is going to offer 5GB for free and 10GB for $20 a year shortly.

What is nice about the new Yahoo Mail version, is that it acts more like a stand-alone computer program than a web-based application. For instance, you can now drag messages into folders, select groups of messages and right-click on messages to get a menu of options such as marking messages as read/unread or deleting them. Another handy feature is that you can open new tabs in Yahoo Mail, so you can have your inbox in one tab, a new email you’re composing in another tab and a live conversation in yet another one.

Overall, Yahoo Mail offers lots of features that Gmail and Hotmail still lack. But to be fair, Gmail has been in beta status since April 2004 and is still waiting to be released as final version.

Apple is announcing a big event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on September 5, 2007. Damon Darlin from the New York Times’ Bits blog has a list of rumors as to what Apple might be announcing:

1. iPods
2. Beatles music
3. New wide-screen iPods
4. Logic 8, iPod tablet or ultra-light laptops
5. WiFi iPods

Personally, I think Apple TV could use some promotion.

Painting “wuzzlz paradize” by use-her-name at deviantART:

Sunrise in San Francisco. Copyright by pbo31 at Flickr.

Yes, you got that right. The Vatican launched the world’s first airline for Catholic pilgrims on Monday. It aims to serve 150,000 pilgrims per year on a chartered Boeing 737. The new charter airline’s slogan is: “I’m Searching for Your Face, Lord.” Passengers will be able to read religious messages or watch religious movies during the flight. The Vatican also said keeping costs for pilgrims as low as possible was among its highest priorities. Competing discount carrier Ryanair said in a statement: “Ryanair already performs miracles that even the Pope’s boss can’t rival, by delivering pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela for the heavenly price of 10 euros.”

According to the Wall Street Journal, Google’s Chief Finance Officer George Reyes plans to leave the company, but he will help finding a successor for the top management position. Mr. Reyes will be the first top-ranked manager to resign at Google.