New York Times:
Google fields questions about its Power Meter, its market strategy and the privacy of consumer data at a smart grid conference in California. (Read More)
New York Times:
With $8 billion in government and private money devoted to modernizing the power grid, meter automation is suddenly a growth industry, pitting veterans against well-financed start-ups. (Read More)
New York Times:
Many who paid for the once-free Shazam music search app may not have known about two competitors that are better in many ways.
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New York Times:
A woman charged in the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart pleaded guilty in Federal District Court in Salt Lake City as part of a deal with prosecutors and asked Ms. Smart to forgive her.
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ReadWriteWeb:
Most text excerpts that appear on search results pages aren't very useful. Imagine if instead your search engine showed a list of clear sentences summarizing the contents of each link on that search result page. That's what (Read More)
BBC:
A grand dinner in a glamorous location, a ceremony presided over by a former star of Strictly Come Dancing and a clutch of winners who are stars in their field. No, it wasn't the BAFTAs but the inaugural iAwards event held la (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
We've added a couple of more events to this week's events guide. You can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside ea (Read More)
New York Times:
“The Supper Club of Lost Causes” is a fractured look at faded glory that is being given a strange, smart production at Theater for the New City.
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readwriteweb:
Often compared to Twitter for its meteoric rise to media darling status, location-based check-in game Foursquare is incredibly smart about its member acquisition and business strategy. On the heels of its September launch of (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
With Google's Social Search experiment, Bing's integration with Twitter and Yahoo!'s partnership with One Riot, social search clearly has both potential and momentum. But what will social search look like, and will it help us (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
We test a lot of software around here, on the web, on our desktop and on our phones. It's a great job to have, but only so much of what we test really sticks and becomes a part of our daily routines. Every once in awhile we (Read More)
New York Times:
The acquisition will help the Internet search company to speed up efforts to develop more effective tools for creating and placing mobile ads on smart phones and other devices.
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ReadWriteWeb:
It's been two years since ReadWriteWeb last published the Thunderbird 2 review. Since then Thunderbird has been restructured away from Firefox into Mozilla Messaging and the group is finally releasing its desktop email applic (Read More)
New York Times:
Recent discoveries from the nascent study of pig cognition offered evidence that pigs were quick learners, slow to forget and similar to humans in many ways.
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ReadWriteWeb:
Google announced this morning that it has acquired 3-year old mobile display ad serving platform AdMob for $750 million, half the price it paid for YouTube in 2006. Why did Google make this move? Two probably reasons stand (Read More)
Webware.com:
Mobile advertising is AdMob's specialty, and the deal gives Google a technology inroad into a fast-growing segment of online advertising. Originally posted at Relevant Results
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BBC:
Can Europe compete with Silicon Valley when it comes to smart young web start-ups? When so much of the venture capital money is still based in Palo Alto and Mountain View, it's hard to start a business in Shoreditch or Stuttg (Read More)