Valleywag:
News Corp, ever the online contrarian, is considering pulling all of its news content off of Google and doing an exclusive deal with Microsoft's Bing. For this, Rupert Murdoch would receive a pittance. Welcome to the future of paid media.For years, newspapers and other media companies have complained about Google reaping pr (Read More)
Google Web Toolkit Google Group:
I call a GWT server method which executes perfectly and returns the desired object. But the on return the AsyncCallback enters onFailure method. There is no exception on the server end. On the client side I get the following Throwable exception. com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc .StatusCodeException: The call failed on. (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Confronted with the return of an offensive image of First Lady Michelle Obama to the top of its image search engine, Google is now using some of its own ad space to offer an explanation on how its results are determined.
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Huffington Post:
Google is documenting Iraq's national museum and will post photographs of its ancient treasures on the Internet early next year, Google chief Eric Schmidt announced Tuesday.
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Mashable!:
If you haven’t been following Palm’s little bundle of joy, the Pre, too closely, then you may have been oblivious to the fact that (just like the iPhone in its early days) is devoid of video recording, although it has a perfectly capable camera. Well, that’s no longer true; a new app called the Precorder lets users record 4 (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
If we estimate that the Journal's online ad revenue is $100 million, using the New York Times as a rough benchmark, then the site would only lose $10 - $15 million to de-list from Google.
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Google Web Toolkit Google Group:
Be sure there are no null pointer errors and that all classes you serialize also have a no-arg constructor (that one gets me from time to time) even if you don't use it yourself (I have a lot of private constructors just for serialization). (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Earlier this summer, Leigh Haber, (longtime book editor and Blurb consultant) surfaced a wonderful book opportunity with Andrew Sullivan and his The Daily Dish blog, published by The Atlantic. For three years, Sullivan had been inviting his blog community to upload pictures of the view from their windows. He wanted to comp (Read More)
Engadget:
It's been quite a few months since we've heard anything from Klausner Technologies, but it looks like the company has finally decided on its next set of targets that are allegedly infringing on its now infamous visual voicemail patents. As announced in a pair of expectedly terse press releases, Klausner says that both RIM a (Read More)
New York Times:
Iran handed down a five-year jail term to Ahmad Zeidabadi, a prominent journalist and former student leader, an opposition Web site reported.
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The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Just weeks after California first lady Maria Shriver apologized for parking in a red zone, her husband appears to have violated the same law.The Web site TMZ.com on Monday posted photographs of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger getting into a silver convertible Porsche in a red zone, where no stopping, standin (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Apple's new Core i7-based iMac might be a performance monster, but it looks like the whole family's having some problems getting out of the gate: in addition to the previously-noted performance issues with the Core 2 Duo models, a quick glance across Apple's support forums and on other Mac boards around the web reveals that (Read More)
Mashable!:
Remember when mashups were all the rage? Lately, they’re rarely mentioned, but that doesn’t mean a good mashup can’t be a fantastic service, even one that can replace several others. A mashup called Roomatlas ended up in our inbox, with a fairly simple description: it combines Google Maps with Expedia’s database of hotels (Read More)