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According to Google’s vice president of search product and user experience Marissa Meyer, Google is looking to streamline its search experience. Using a jazz metaphor, Meyer explains that customers aren’t happy with the fact that Google’s search interface is too unpredictable (much like jazz, especially if you aren’t into i (Read More)
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Sony is one of world’s best known brands when it comes to home electronics, gadgetry, and entertainment. However, the landscape has changed in recent years. You can have the best media player around, but if you don’t offer users a place where they can easily get content for it, it won’t be competitive. And it’s been proven (Read More)
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We’ve been matching up popular web services, applications and mobile apps against each other in heated one-on-one battles here in our weekly Faceoff Series. Last week Microsoft Office bested Google Docs in a head to head race for the title of office suite champion.This week we turned our attention to a rather timely battle (Read More)
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From the Article:Facebook has threatened legal action against a service that sells friends on the social networking site.It said it would take the action against marketing firm USocial unless it stopped violating Facebook’s rights. [Snip]Customers of USocial use it to boost follower and friend numbers on social network site (Read More)
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From a Blog Post:In the spring of 2008, we visited the websites of nearly 600 public libraries in the United States, including all Colorado public libraries, looking for the presence of web technologies, including those identified as “Web 2.0.” This report details our findings about what public libraries are doing on the we (Read More)
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Ah yes, this is indeed a wonderful era for learning and networking. There are conferences and webinars coming out our ears, hotspots a-plenty and if you’re lucky, sponsored drinks at the bar. Our weekly events list is designed to help you plan ahead. And if we’ve missed something, don’t hesitate to add your event to our ind (Read More)
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How much is a a Palm Pre, or the new, lightweight, webOS-powered smartphone, Palm Pixi these days? The answer might surprise you. Officially, Palm Pre costs $150 on Sprint.com, and Palm Pixi is around $100; both deals come with a two-year contract with Sprint. But Amazon has slashed the prices even further; way further.Righ (Read More)
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An Audio Report is Also Available at the Top of the Web Page. From the ArticleStarting Wednesday in Sweden, the European Union is holding a conference of ministers of technology from across Europe that will be looking at lessons learned throughout the EU.In conjunction with that, a new book is out: State of the eUnion: Gove (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Regular readers will know that my browser of choice has long been Camino. It’s that other browser built by Firefox-makers Mozilla, that runs on the Mac platform and is entirely open-source. I love it because it’s much lighter and faster than Firefox is, while being extremely compatible with just about all sites on the web. (Read More)
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Social media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Here are the week’s top stories in scan-friendly format: Twitter scraps ‘suggested users’ list We’re at war! For the Web! Facebook implements a new privacy policy Twitter and Facebook party with Xbox Live, but it’s not poppin’ Read f (Read More)
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In the battle for the hearts and wallets of smartphone owners in the U.S., there’s a reigning champion platform, an up and coming competitor, and a handful of former champions whose stars appear to be waning. Then there’s Nokia: a mobile phone company that has been narrowly holding onto its number one mobile market share wo (Read More)
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Here’s a bold statement: Symbian S60 is simply not good enough. I’m sure that many Nokia owners and analysts who know that Symbian currently holds around 50% of the smartphone OS market would disagree. But I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: the new generation of smartphones – primarily Androids, the iPhone, and web (Read More)
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Social network Bebo which has seen a rapid decline in popularity but is still one of the biggest such services around, has added a tiny but important new feature: a button that helps children report abuse or bullying.The button is called the CEOP Report button, (CEOP stands for UK’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection (Read More)
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A couple of weeks ago, Opera released the latest beta version of its mobile browser, Opera Mobile 10, but only for Nokia’s Symbian phones. Now, the same beta is available for Windows Mobile users, too. A short digression: I own a Sony Ericsson P1i, once the company’s flagship smartphone, that’s based on a now abandonded str (Read More)
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Old habits die hard. Rupert Murdoch believes that the future of the newspaper business is subscriptions—electronic subscriptions. He’s done with giving away his news for free on the Web and to search engines like Google. Instead thinks that Kindle-like tablet computers can save the media industry. It’s a notion that’s b (Read More)