Archive for November 18th, 2010


Nov 18

comScore: Google Tops, Followed by Yahoo! in the October 2010 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

comScore, qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace reports that Google Sites led the explicit core search market in Oct. with 66.3% of searches conducted, an increase of 0.2 share points from Sep'10, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 16.5% and Microsoft sites with 11.5%. Ask Network captured 3.6% of explicit core searches, followed by AOL LLC
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Nov 18

Twitter Calculates Reputation Scores for ‘Who to Follow’ Features

Third-party services have been experimenting with various ways of measuring Twitter reputation for some time now, but it turns out that Twitter has its own "internal scoring system," and every user has an official "reputation score."Twitter hasn't made the algorithm -- or the scores themselves -- public, but former CEO Evan Williams at the Web 2.0
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Nov 18

Bing Maps Adds ‘AJAX V7 Control, Redesigned Left-rail and Broader Access to Map Apps & StreetSide’

Bing Maps announce the following additions and changes:AJAX V7 Control provides consumers improved browsing performance, updated navigation controls, enhanced Bird's eye and optimization for mobile. You'll notice the different position for navigation and map layer options. Also, Bird's-eye option now refers to both exclusive Bird's-eye 45-degree angled view and a traditional top-down aerial view (a toggle
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Nov 18

Kinect “Voice Recognition” Feature Coming to ‘Canada (French), France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia’ and More in Spring’ 2011

Kinect owners in Australia in the official Xbox forums reporting that "voice recognition features don't work outside of the US, UK, Canada, Japan and Mexico." Users outside these locales receiving a message: ''Speech recognition isn't supported for your LIVE language and locale.''A reason cited for the omission is Microsoft's focus on providing native language voice recognition
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Nov 18

Google Sky Map for Android Devices Now with ‘Time Travel’ Feature

Have you ever wondered how the sky was back in 1900? How the sky looked when the Apollo 11 moon landing happened? Google released a new version of Google Sky Map that lets you time travel to see the sky at a specific date, past or future. After smooth travel to the desired year, you can
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Nov 18

YouTube Social Lets You Watch Videos Online and Chat with Friends at the Same Time

YouTube Social is web service for watching videos together with friends, synced in real-time, with chat thrown in for good measure.And it's easy to start with: you take the URL of a YouTube video, say: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G5JaicYuVU, and add the word "social" after "youtube," like: http://www.youtubesocial.com/watch?v=6G5JaicYuVU.You then get a rich interface
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Nov 18

Spotlight on the Best of Google TV – Week Ending 11/20/2010

Google introduced the "Best of Google TV" series, about the favorite things to do and watch on Google TV. Here's this week's digest:List of favorite websites, Spotlight sites, apps, and/or interesting features within Google TV:Net-A-Porter.com, ESPN.com, SesameStreet.org, TED.com, Tumblr.comHere're some new websites that have been optimized for Google TV:Chow - Learn how to become
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Nov 18

Steve Ballmer Leads the Mob at Microsoft’s New Bellevue Square Store

Microsoft today morning opened a new store at "Bellevue Square" -- the seventh in its retail chain and the first in its backyard -- and thousands of people crowded into the mall for the occasion. Of course, being a chance to score Miley Cyrus tickets.Also, Steve Ballmer was in his element, leading the festivities leading
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Nov 18

Safari Browser 5.0.3 for Mac and 4.1.3 Windows Released

Apple updated its Safari web browser to version 5.0.3 for Leopard, Snow Leopard, and Windows and 4.1.3 for Mac OS X Tiger.This update contains improvements to usability, compatibility, stability, accessibility and security, including the following:More accurate Top Hit results in the Address FieldMore accurate results in Top SitesFixes an issue that could cause content delivered with
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Nov 18

U.S. Based Internet Traffic Redirected to China for 18 Minutes

Researchers at McAfee this week revealed that a major portion of the world's Internet traffic was redirected to China's primary telecommunications carrier for a period of about 18 minutes earlier this year.At 15:54 GMT on April 8, 2010, McAfee detected a routing announcement from China's state-controlled telecom company, China Telecom, which advertised 15%
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Nov 18

Scribd Stats: Now See Which Portion of Your Document People Find Most Interesting

Scribd, document sharing hub announced a new feature dubbed "Scribd Stats," that'll allow publishers on the site to more accurately measure how their content is performing. After logging in, you'll see an overview chart of your overall document popularity. You can also see this broken down on a per-document basis. Graphs look similar to Google Analytics,
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Nov 18

Eye-Fi SDHC Memory Card Allows You Wirelessly Sync Photos to Windows Live Photo Gallery

Eye-Fi to provide an automatic and wireless way for you to import pictures from your camera into Windows Live Photo Gallery. "A special Eye-Fi SDHC memory card that fits in your camera just like any regular SDHC mc that has built-in Wi-Fi that connects to wireless
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Nov 18

OnLive MicroConsole Ships December 2 Brings PC Games to TV

OnLive's cloud-based game service, which allows nearly any Internet-connected laptop or desktop to play a variety of high-end PC games via a unique streaming system.The long-awaited OnLive MicroConsole ships Dec'2 for $99, and includes a free game (games typically cost the same as retail boxed versions, around $49)
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Nov 18

Google India Launches ‘AdWords Call Center, Google Engage’ for Small-Medium Businesses

This month, Google AdWords celebrated 10th birthday! Google India will be publishing a global map featuring businesses who're want to tell their stories. If you're an AdWords advertiser, submit a short (three minutes or less) YouTube video or written piece (750 characters or less) telling us your story: who you're, what your business is
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Nov 18

Google Apps Shared Contacts Capacity Increased to 50,000 Entries

Gogle has just announced that starting today, Google Apps for Business, Education and Government customers have "space for twice as many contacts as before in their organization's shared contacts.""IT administrators told us that they needed more capacity, so we upped the limit from 25,000 to 50,000 entries. Shared contacts are part
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