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The iPhone is a lovely device with a sleek interface, top-notch music and video features and innovative design touches. The touch screen is easier to use than expected, and the multimedia performs well. But a host of missing features, a dependency on a sluggish EDGE network, and variable call quality leaves one wanting more.

The iPhone boasts a brilliant display, trim profile, and clean lines. In true Apple style, the iPhone’s menu interface is attractive, intuitive, and easy to use. In the main menu, a series of colored icons call out the main functions.

Still, the interface and keyboard have a long way to go to achieve greatness. And it somewhat tedious to scroll through long lists, such as the phone book or music playlists. The bad news is that the iPhone’s iPod leaves out the ability to manually manage the transfer of music and video content. On balance, the iPhone is noteworthy not for what it does, but how it does it. -

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By now, just about everyone should be seeing and using Google’s new Universal Search, characterized by a new navigational interface. The integration of Google’s various search tools will be ongoing, but major changes are already discernable. To be sure, it’s a game changer for search marketers-particularly search engine optimizers.

But those who specialize in vertical search will see new opportunities. Why? Because Google Universal is going to make vertical content more visible by integrating the company’s various, under-utilized vertical search services. These include: Book Search, Blog Search, Catalogs, Code Search, Finance, Images, Local/Maps, News, Patent Search, Product Search and Video.

“You almost need a search engine for all our search engines,” Google’s Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience, says. “We’re so excited about taking all these different silos of information and making them all into one.” By blending them all together, Google can finally expose all its vertical richness.

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The big news of the day is that Microsoft Corp. is acquiring the Internet ad services firm aQuantive Inc. for the hefty price of $6 billion–it’s biggest-ever acquisition. AQuantive owns two giants of the Internet advertising world: the marketing advertising services firm Avenue A/Razorfish and ad-management technology provider Atlas. The offer is 85% higher than aQuantive’s closing price yesterday and more than 80 times its anticipated earnings this year.

The move comes in direct response to Google’s $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick last month. Atlas is an advertising management company similar to DoubleClick, meaning it provides management tools and services for agencies and an ad-serving platform for publishers. Avenue A/Razorfish offers a variety of digital services for marketers, including advertising, Web design and development.

To be sure, online advertising and ad management tools have been profitable business for aQuantive, but what does this acquisition mean for Microsoft? This is certainly not a content acquisition, but more of a technology-based one. Atlas will improve adCenter and bring with it a considerable client list on both sides of the advertising pond, while Avenue A/Razorfish should help improve Microsoft’s Web sites and bring its extensive marketing relationships to the table. But these companies don’t create or come up with content, which could indicate the demise of MSN and the Web portal strategy. It is clearly a move that brings Microsoft farther into Google territory.

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