Archive for November 18th, 2010
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Random From The Google Apps Shared Contacts Capacity Increased to 50,000 Entries
- Mar05Office 14 Beta “relatively soon”
Just because Office 14 won't be fully released until next year doesn't mean consumers will have to wait that long to try out - Apr10Twitter for iPhone; Twitter buys Tweetie iPhone Twitter client, Plan to roll out Twitter for iPad
Twitter acquired “Tweetie,” the very popular and highly polished Twitter application for iPhone. The application will now be called “Twitter for iPhone” and will drop - Aug10comScore July 2011: Yahoo! Gains on Google’s Loss, Google Still #1 Accounced 65.1% U.S. Search Engine Market Share
comScore,-July 2011-qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace report revealed that the-Google Sites led the explicit core search-with 65.1% of search queries conducted,-followed by Yahoo! - Nov10Microsoft launching Windows Essential Server Solutions & Dream Server on Nov 12th
In conjunction with The Dream Server virtual launch, Microsoft and its partners are sponsoring a virtual tradeshow that includes both webcasts and exhibits. - Feb27Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map Version 2
The Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map is a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application
