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The country's largest car maker, Maruti Suzuki India (MSI), today said it will launch a new an within this fiscal to replace its MPV Versa, whose production has been stopped. "We will be launching a new van by the end of this fiscal. This vehicle will replace the Versa, whose production has already been stopped," Maruti Suz (Read More)
Boing Boing
Microsoft is ready to pay Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to remove its news content from Google, according to the Financial Times. Microsoft has also approached other "big online publishers" with similar deals. "One website publisher approached by Microsoft said that the plan 'puts enormous value on content if search engines a (Read More)
: analysis of this to date has been terrible. the real possible story here: the web of the right wing and international markets and the web of everyone else. The potential for this rests in the hands of a company which has historically profited strongly from business strategies predicated on asymmetrical information markets, and this move would, for the short term, until it destroyed western democracy or was made illegal, instantiate asymmetrical information markets to the extent that we will again kill our own family members.
mashable
Internet-enabled set-top box makers Roku (who we wrote about in our top 10 gadgets for social media addicts feature recently) have some welcome announcements today about 10 new, free content partners being added to the platform in an also new Roku Channel Store section. Coming to the new “App Store”-style store are popular (Read More)
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Bollywood actress and Celebrity Big Brother star Shilpa Shetty married London-based businessman Raj Kundra in a 'fairy-tale wedding' on Sunday, her spokeswoman said.Shetty, 34, clad in a red-and-gold saree, walked around a holy fire with Kundra in a traditional Hindu ritual that signifies the bond of marriage."She was surro (Read More)
Scobleizer
One is a huge company that’s well known inside huge enterprises. The other is a startup with five employees that hardly anyone knows.But they both shifted the world last week in big ways. Note I didn’t put Google’s Chrome OS on this list. Why not? Because that’s largely vaporware at this moment. Next year when they show us (Read More)
TechCrunch
The debate over Droid v. iPhone rages on, but lots more Android surprises are on the way. Get ready for the Google Phone. It’s no longer a myth, it’s real.The next “super” Android device will almost certainly be a HTC phone that’s much thinner than even the Droid or iPhone – The the Dragon/Passion. This is the phone the sen (Read More)
: Google is building their own branded phone that they’ll sell directly and through retailers. They were long planning to have the phone be available by the holidays, but it has now slipped to early 2010. The phone will be produced by a major phone manufacturer but will only have Google branding
TechCrunch
Imagine a world where you sit at your computer and you never go outside. Where you never see another human being. This is the world that sites like Google and Facebook want you to live in.Though they’d never admit to such a thing, the reasoning should be obvious: The longer you’re at your computer, the more time you’re spen (Read More)
Technorati Gadgets Channel
Microsoft finally gets its head in the clouds, announcing the launch date for its Azure cloud computing service. (Read More)
Submitted by Mahendra
from Google Reader:
Everyone is talking about the “real-time web”. That’s usually a pretty strong indication of a buzzword that will soon mean very little. Some would argue that it already doesn’t mean much. And yet, as Paul Graham’s web 2.0 article showed, it is possible to extract value even out of apparently meaningless buzzwords. “Real-tim (Read More)
Sean's shared items in Google Reader
Based on popular demand, we are getting ready to push out a preview of feedly for Google Chrome. If you are an early adopter and would like to test drive the preview, please follow @feedly_chrome. We will start giving out invitations next week.Feedly for ChromePlease follow the @feedly_chrome twitter account or send us an e (Read More)
kottke.org
http://www.rssmeme.com/story/13652831/from-sketch-to-photo-instantly-this-is-insanely-awesome Shared 29 times. Wow. With PhotoSketch, you just draw a sketch, label each item, like so:and then the system goes out, finds photos that match the sketched items and their labels, and automatically pastes it all together (Read More)
Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
“Why make things simple when you can make them complex?” is probably what Dave Winer thought when he read about PubSubHubbub. It was probably just too easy to have a common open protocol that everyone would share and use for push notifications of feed changes. At Superfeedr, we chose PubSubHubbub, for obvious reasons, and w (Read More)
CNET News.com
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--The month of September was jam-packed with the launch of more than 100 new start-ups and services at high-profile conferences like Demo Fall and TechCrunch50. In a much smaller gathering Tuesday night at Microsoft's Silicon Valley campus, just 10 companies--all in the seed stage--got to pitch as part (Read More)