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DoCoMo and Google to team up?
2007-12-28 16:03:00
Source: Top Tech News NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s largest mobile carrier, is partnering with Google to offer search and e-mail on its handsets, according to news reports. DoCoMo subscribers could have access to Google’s search tool, Gmail e-mail service, Picasa photo-sharing software, and Google Calendar application early next year via DoCoMo’s i-Mode network, according to Reuters. The report cited ...
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Apple and Fox Plan Movie Rental Deal
2007-12-28 12:13:00
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Apple Inc and Twentieth Century Fox are set to announce a deal that will allow consumers to rent Fox movies through Apple’s digital iTunes Store, according to media reports on Thursday. The agreement will allow rentals of Fox’s latest DVD releases by downloading a copy from the online iTunes store for a ...
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List of Videos featured on GridLock
2007-12-27 18:54:00
An amazing visual on Knowledge Management. First Flight - Airbus A380 A guided tour of MAC OS X An introduction to OpenSocial Configuring Gmail IMAP for your iPhone True Knowledge - A Natural language search engine Think Green - A Rollmio Video Knowledge Management Deployment to NYC Schools SDK launch of Android Think Green - The Video that won the second prize. Web ...
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Former tech CEO dies in Panama plane crash
2007-12-27 08:03:00
Source : CNet News  The former president and CEO of eGroups, once the world’s largest group e-mail provider and now part of Yahoo, was killed Sunday in a small-plane crash in a remote jungle in Panama . Michael Klein (Credit: Pacificor) Michael Klein, 37, of Santa Barbara, Calif., died in the crash of a Cessna 172 in the remote mountains ...
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Ask.com Fights back
2007-12-26 16:27:00
Source : TechCrunch Search Share This
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Stats on Gmail Vs Yahoo!
2007-12-26 16:24:00
Source : TechCrunch Google , Mail , Yahoo Share This
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Another Year draws to a close
2007-12-26 16:18:00
Spending time with family and friends over Christmas does make you reminisce over the year gone by.I feel doing multiple things, and exploring new avenues of learning, opens up a world of possibilities. This blog being a prime example, i started out in February of this year with the intent of focusing on a ...
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What Search Engines are doing this Christmas
2007-12-26 03:33:00
Altavista, Netscape and MSN seem to have stayed away from the holiday revelry this year. Search Share This
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Which route does Santa take?
2007-12-26 02:44:00
For those of you interested in finding out which route Santa takes while making his deliveries keep a close eye on NORAD. “NORAD will use Google Maps to track several hundred of Santa’s stops in over 200 countries and territories, and will embed videos of Santa’s stops captured on their Santa Cams on the Google Map ...
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Army to add Macs for improved security
2007-12-25 04:03:00
Source : Top Tech News One of Apple ’s major marketing themes is that Macs are less susceptible to viruses, Trojans, and other hacker attacks than Windows PCs. While that argument has yet to hold much sway with enterprise I.T. departments, it is causing the U.S. Army to add some Macs to its networks. Lt. Col. C.J. Wallington, ...
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Japan next on the cards for iPhone?
2007-12-24 10:56:00
Source : BBC News Japan ’s largest mobile phone network, NTT DoCoMo, is in talks with Apple about securing a contract to launch the iPhone in Japan, a report says. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) said that Apple boss Steve Jobs had been in talks with the head of NTT DoCoMo. The iPhone would be a coup for ...
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Amazon backs the lil guy?
2007-12-23 12:29:00
The RIAA has been dominating the record industry for a while now, most large record companies have complete control over promotion, branding and distribution of all new artists. Amazon has decided to change all that… Amazon recently announced that it is partnering with a European startup called SellABand and will sell music from their artists. The approach ...
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?Summize? your results
2007-12-22 12:38:00
This service is a great way to read up on reviews of products which could be a movie, CD, or gadget, all you need to do is type its name into Summize. Started by two AOL expats a year ago, and launched in a public beta last month, Summize does sentiment analysis across dozens of review ...
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Have $300 Million to spare? Digg might be for sale!
2007-12-21 13:02:00
It looks like the folks at Digg have finally decided to put Digg on the auction block, after a number of failed attempts in the past its high time they made up their mind. The big question is whether someone would actually put up that kind of money considering there hasn’t been very much interest ...
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Android Prototype
2007-12-21 04:34:00
If looks are anything to go by…… MY GOD!!! This is one of the ugliest phones i’ve seen, however the chances are the Mobile OS would be available through multiple vendors so i hope we can expect better phones. Android , Google, news, Technology Share This
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Track your Flights through Google
2007-12-20 15:49:00
Google has announced a flight tracking service that provides up-to-date information for those flying over the Christmas/ New Year break. The service delivers details as to whether a flight is on time or delayed as well providing the estimated departure and arrival times. Using the service is as simple as typing in the flight number into Google, and the flight details will be delivered as the first search result (airline and flight number, or use an abbreviated version with a space between the airline code and flight number.) The service competes in part with Orbitz’s Traveler Update service, although Orbitz does offer associated airport information as well. Data for the service is pulled from Flights tats.com. Google, news, Service, TechnologyShare This
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Trouble in the social network sphere?
2007-12-20 04:31:00
If there was any doubt about the importance of the information on social networking sites read below? Facebook is suing a Canadian company and 17 individuals for using bots to harvest members’ personal data. In a lawsuit amended in California this month, Facebook alleges that Istra Holdings and others used programs to access Facebook’s computers 200,000 ...
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CMS Watch - 12 predictions for 2008
2007-12-19 14:11:00
Archiving becomes a prime focus for ECM vendors Whether e-mails or regular documents, the need to shift large volumes of dated and dormant data to compliant archives is becoming an IT priority. In 2008 we will see a major shift among established ECM vendors from managing active information ...
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Blognation down in flames
2007-12-19 03:33:00
  The founder of Blog nation is stepping down and putting the network on the auction block barely 6 months after launching the site. Sam Sethi ( the CEO ) is in deep trouble over his handling of the entire company, below is an open letter to him from one of Blognation’s authors. The power of the ...
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The Battle of the consoles kicks into high gear
2007-12-18 13:52:00
With the year coming to a close and with Christmas around the corner its time to take stock of where the consoles stand today. With Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo vying for massive sales in the next week the biggest surprise has been Sony, whose sales of the PS3 have nearly quadrupled since the previous month. The ...
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The Empire strikes back?
2007-12-18 04:49:00
The battle between Browser developer Opera and Microsoft just heated up after the former filed a complaint with the European Commission over Microsoft?s lack of strict compliance to web standards. In a strongly worded statement, this is what Microsoft had to say. “We believe the inclusion of the (IE) browser into the operating system benefits consumers, and ...
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Watch out About.com and Wikipedia ! Google?s-a-coming.
2007-12-17 15:50:00
Google has done it again, however with much less fanfare than usual. With its focus of being a single point for knowledge dissemination Google has introduced a tool based around a concept it calls ?knoll? which in their definition stands for ? a unit of knowledge?. “A knol on a particular topic,” wrote Udi Manber, Google’s ...
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New Poll - Do you think the iPhone??.
2007-12-17 04:01:00
Continuing with the monthly poll…. Do you think the iPhone will revolutionize the Mobile industry ( a simple Yes / No answer ) ? Results for the last poll : Which Social Network do you like the most ? LinkedIn - 32% FaceBook - 32% MySpace - 9% Orkut - 25% Hi5 - 2% Poll , Social Networking , UncategorizedShare This
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Penthouse gets into Social Networking
2007-12-16 18:21:00
Source : NYTimes  While the influx of free and low-cost video has hurt the sale of pornographic videos, the chief executive of the Penthouse Media Group remains so bullish on the sex-related entertainment industry that he is investing $500 million in a group of social networking sites. Marc H. Bell, chief executive of Penthouse Media, said ...
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Yahoo Finance Partners with CNBC
2007-12-16 05:03:00
In a brilliant move Yahoo has decided to Partner with CNBC by broadcasting content through their Yahoo Finance site, which with its large distribution base would allow CNBC to increase its viewership. The main focus of this agreement is to allow the streaming of CNBC videos through the Yahoo site. Although CNBC has a very solid footprint ...
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Linden Lab loses its CTO - Cory Ondrejka
2007-12-15 13:45:00
An email from CEO Philip Rosedale to the employees. “Cory is going to leave LL. He has been with us for 7 years, and was the fourth person to join. So this is a big deal. Cory has been a huge part of the company, having designed big parts of SL, hired many people, contributed greatly ...
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Linkedin Vs Facebook
2007-12-15 04:57:00
While on the surface it would seem that both Linkedin and Facebook cater to a widely different audience in actuality this couldn’t be further from the truth. The only true difference between the two platforms is that one is used exclusively with a business objective in mind, and the other for fun. However with the mad ...
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Microsoft Ads on MSN Mobile
2007-12-14 16:29:00
No surprise here. Microsoft has announced that it will now be serving up ads via MSN Mobile . This gives them a much wider reach than they had previously. This however is not a first for Microsoft, they have actually been serving mobile ads to a number of European countries for a while now. The US was ...
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Most popular posts over the last 30 days?
2007-12-13 16:28:00
Inbox 2.0 “With the massive buzz that Facebook and MySpace have been generating recently Yahoo and Google decided that it might be time to draw attention away from ?conventional? social networks. Enter Inbox 2.0. Now, for those of you unfamiliar with the term i?m sure you have reasoned that because of the introduction to this post this ...
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iPhone Vs iPod - It?s a numbers game
2007-12-13 14:19:00
We’ve all noticed first hand the craze the iPhone threw the consumer world into once it was launched. Well surpassing end user expectations ( in most cases ). There is immense speculation over how the iPhone is going to affect iPod sales. While the iPod serves a very singular purpose ( entertainment in all forms ...
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