Sunday, December 27, 2009

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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Android now uploading photos by Yelp




On Tuesday, Yelp is making good on its promise to quickly pad the app's features. Version 1.2, an update available through the Android Market app on your smart phone, now lets you upload pictures from your Android phone to Yelp's site.

The initial feature set of Yelp's business review app for Android, which debuted December 7, was minimalist. It contained enough features--read-only access to Yelp.com, click-to-call, and a hyperlink to get directions from the browser or Google Maps--to avoid a user riot, but one would hardly call it the answer to Yelp's iPhone app.

Microsoft has lost its appeal against i4i


Microsoft has lost its appeal against i4i a Canadian company regarding Word due to the xml editor. Microsoft will have to stop selling Microsoft Word 2007 and other Office 2007 products by Jan. 11.
Microsoft can continue selling these product after the company has removed the xml editor code from the software.

BlackBerry outage once again in 23 Dec 2009 continentally


Today is a very bad day for two Research In Motion (RIM) and BlackBerry users. BlackBerry users around the world are reporting that BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), e-mail, and Internet are all down and have been down for many hours. This happened is not for the first time. Its continentally bad happened last week on December 17 as well. None of the carriers are responsible for this outage, RIM is.
A spokesperson from RIM says that they are working on fixing this problem, but there is no estimate as to when it will get fixed. BlackBerry users are getting really frustrated and venting their thoughts on social networking sites.
Is BlackBerry down for you? What is working, and what is not working? Share any thoughts you have about this in the comments!

Monday, December 21, 2009

Download Free BlackBerry Messenger 5.0.0.55 New Series


Now you can see just only our blog here you want a new and different posts just a week; we’re seeing a new leak of Blackberry messenger. Around about four and five days ago, BB forums and blogs were all talking about 5.0.0.54 BlackBerry messenger and it hasn’t been merely a week when we have new leak of BlackBerry This is the new update series 5.0 leaked messengers.
It is known change that it is not a longer 4 MB and this to Brought back down to 2.4 MB albeit. It has a good sizes of memory nowadays in BlackBerrys but it totally good and light.Since it is a leak there is no change log available as yet but if you try it out do give us your comments.

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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Free Download Windows 7 theme


A Deviant Art user has released a Windows 7 theme, that can be used for Windows XP. The theme looks really beautiful and gives Windows XP the looks of Windows 7. Windows 7 is occupying a lot of space on different technology sites and everyone wants to cover something about it. In such scenario, techies have forgotten their old Windows XP users who still want to stick to their old XP. For all such users of Windows XP who wants to stick to their older Windows but are enticed by the Windows 7 outlook, we are sharing Free Windows 7 Theme for Windows XP users. They can simply install the new theme and get the look and feel of Windows 7 at their old XP OS.
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Great Hacked twitter by Iranian Cyber Army




This is the latest in Twitter's series of security snags. In a recent event, their web servers were misconfigured to reveal detailed internal network information. Back in July, Twitter was suffering with a bug that made it easy for anyone to access the Twitter servers directly. In an attempt to beef up its security, Twitter hired a a number of security experts including a new COO Dick Costolo Cyber-terrorism has struck again, with Twitter last night hacked by a group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army. The site is now back up and running normally, but questions are being asked both about who the Iranian Cyber Army may be and how Twitter seems to be attacked so often and so easily. It's time to repeat the parody - don't use the same password for all your login accounts. Once your favorite site is hacked, your password is compromised and you have a world of insecurities to live in. On Twitter's part we can expect them nip the bud for its over 12 million users in US, before its too late. The popular microblogging Web site Twitter was hacked overnight, leaving the millions who use the site tweetless. Those who tried to access Twitter were redirected to a site that had a green flag and proclaimed "This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army." The Web site was down for nearly an hour. Representatives from Twitter could not be immediately reached for comment, but the company spoke about the issue on its official Twitter page. "Twitter's DNS records were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed. We will update with more information soon," the company posted at about 2:30 a.m. ET Friday. It was unclear who the group Iranian Cyber Army was and if it is connected to Iran. However, Twitter has had an interesting relationship with Iran. Twitter became so fundamental in spreading news of the protests that followed that the U.S. State Department asked the company to delay a planned shutdown for maintenance.

WordPress 2.9 Free Download With New Global Trash Freture.

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WordPress is named Carmen, who is a Jazz vocalist. WordPress 2.9 also includes a cool new feature to embed videos using oEmbed technology and batch plugin and compatibility checking. For more info on this release, visit the official release post on the WordPress development blog.
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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Motrola Backflip/Enz About Updates as New York Time

The Nexus One continues to grow ever deeper, but we can pretty much confirm Google's planning to sell something under that name: the search giant filed an intent-to-use trademark application for "Nexus One" on December 10th, and in order to be granted the trademark registration it'll have to use the mark in commerce at some point in the future. Now, don't get too carried away -- sure, that could mean free unlocked GSM Android sets for all, but it could also just mean Google's planning to sell the Nexus One as its next-gen Android Developer Phone. Considering everything we've heard points to the device being limited to T-Mobile 3G, we'd say the developer phone theory is still the most likely, but it's all up in the air until Google provides a sample of the Nexus One mark being used in commerce to the USPTO -- or, better yet, announces something official. Now, the rest of the specs. Rumored are the standard Qualcomm MSM7201A processor at 528MHz, 512MB ROM/256MB RAM, a 3.1-inch display at HVGA, 5MP camera, Bluetooth 2.1, WiFi, GPS, etc. Also, it's got Android 1.5 on board (let's hope that gets updated real quick) and

Update:
permission. According to the New York Times, Dick's daughter -- who is in charge of licensing his work -- was never told of Google's plans, and she's contacted the lawyers now that she's found out. We're guessing Google can still make nice though: she says she would have been open to an agreement had contact been made earlier. So... let's get on that, guys.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Android2.0.1 dosent Compete the Google Phone Features

Its is very honest Google Phone is the good pics of the AKA,the Nexus one

This device is made quiet to those devices we have already seen, that's why this device designed totally different. First changing of this device graphic on back which is covering in a picecs of the tape and QR code .Now here extended his amount of homescreens who look like the lock screen and mute to same of Android 2.0.1

Its device is new additionally change grid icon to the bottom of there homescreen,when you click brings up a webOS so card style preview appear of all homescreen pages which gives us a some interesting possibilities.

There you have been new software update for the device pushed tonight and this phone is identified as the Nexus One of the system page. This device can use to run on T-Mobile, and is use also WiFi, Here we have got to questions answers to. This phone appers to come loaded up with Google Navigation and the brand-spanking-new Google Goggles.

And this phone Hardware is thin and sleek, it has no slew buttons those have four up front touch sensitive,his volume rocker along the side. And its main things is you can find HTC logo anywhere.


Update 2: If you're interested, here's Android 2.1's boot animation for Nexus One

Friday, December 11, 2009

Nokia was filing suite against Apple



Two month ago we informed that Nokia was filing suite against Apple, Inc. for infringing on, “patents for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN) standards.” Today Apple has fired back with a counter suit and a little shot across the bow from Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours," said Bruce Sewell, Apple's General Counsel and senior vice president.


DOWNLOAD UPDATES: A copy of Apple’s counter claims, all 79 pages of them, download in here. [PDF]

How about a little preview of what’s inside: “Long a leader in computer technology, Apple foresaw the importance of converged user-friendly mobile devices. Capitalizing upon its unique operating system, hardware, application software, services, and know-how, Apple provides its customers new products and solutions with superior ease-of-use, seamless integration, and innovative industrial design. […] In contrast, Nokia made a different business decision and remained focused on traditional mobile wireless handsets with conventional user interfaces. As a result, Nokia has rapidly lost share in the market for high-end mobile phones.”

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NOKIA 5230 HAS COME TO THE LOWEST PRICE WITH NEW MUSIC CHANGING





The NOKIA 5230 has only recently made its way out to stores, but that hasn't stopped Nokia from fashioning a KIRFy sort of successor for it. Meet the Nokia 5235, a spec for spec copy of its elder brother, including the same 3.2-inch touchscreen, 2 megapixel camera, and Symbian S60 5th edition. We thought we could spot a tiny difference in the materials being used, but otherwise you really are looking at the exact same handset. Your wallet would tell the difference, though, as the 5235 has a pre-tax and pre-subsidy price of €145 ($214), which is more than €100 cheaper than the previously noted 5230 CWM variant -- in other words, Nokia is renaming its CWM model and chopping the price nicely. Why, we don't know, but when is the first quarter of 2010.

Notepad2 and Notepad++ are Comparative most batter for Windows Notepad

Windows Notepad can officially and is use its very limited functionality to view txt files with a major ‘characteristic’ of it being slightly less non user friendly

I searched a Notepad2.Its better alternatives for Windows Notepad. So here are they:

Notepad2:

Notepad2 is a freeware alternative to Windows Notepad which is a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor and comes with syntax highlighting and enlists line numbers for your code. This program can be run out of the box without installation, and does not enters into your system’s registry.Notepad2 has also been extended by other developers to add more functionality for example Notepad x64 has been released for 64-bit platforms, NotepadCrypt is available with encryption features, and other variants for lua syntax highlighting, NSIS syntax highlighting, Ruby syntax highlighting and ABAP syntax highlighting.

Notepad++
Notepad++ is also Scintilla-based and is written in C++, uses win32 API and STL to ensure that editor remains compact in size while execution is fast. The user friendly and feature-packed Notepad++ comes in more than 50+ local languages including Chinese, french, Spanish, German, Italian and many other local languages. Apart from functionality being super, the developers of Notepad++ have also paid attention to its visual beauty as well. So you have the option to download skins and themes.
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Friday, November 13, 2009

IT latest news by Uptomark


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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Domain names in non-Latin

The internet had been developed more then 40 years ago, but still not support the domain name in non-Latin character. But now the proposal of non-Latin domain is in final stages. The meeting is on 30th October 2009. If the meeting got success then non-Latin domain name is available after 20Novermber.

I thing this is very difficult to handle the major language character e.g. Arabic,Spanish and the work on back end is the same to map the domain name to the IP address.

What do you thing give your suggestion ……
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Monday, October 19, 2009

Welcome to Singled Out! where we ask artists to tell us the inside story

Welcome to Singled Out! where we ask artists to tell us the inside story of their latest single. Today Charlie Starr from Blackberry Smoke tells us about "Up In Smoke" from their brand new album "Little Piece of Dixie" (which received 4.5 stars from antiMusic's Gary Schwind). We now turn it over to Charlie for the story:

"Up In Smoke" was a collaboration between the band and our buddy, Randy Houser. We got together with Randy in Nashville one day for a little picking-writing session. It was pretty evident from the get-go that everyone involved had imbibed just enough liquid refreshment the night before to make even shaking hands a little difficult.

A little "hair of the dog" was immediately administered to lubricate everyone's motor skills, and away we went. The chorus was put together very quickly, and part of the first verse was coming together when the inevitable happened. Laughter took over. I believe it was Randy who started to sing a song from "Revenge Of The Nerds" in the middle of the proceedings, and I guess I quickly followed suit by trying to make
"What you talkin' bout, Willis?" fit into the song somehow. Nevertheless, it was decided that we should take our little midday party to a bar and finish the song later.

The next week I was at home and stumbled across the demo of that hilarious session. I quickly realized that, despite the silliness, I thought it was a really great song. So I sat down in the lazy boy and finished the rest of it. This is probably a "you had to be there" kind of story, but it was a freakin funny experience. I guess that acoustic demo is floating around somewhere. Maybe Randy's got it.

Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself and learn more about the album - right here!



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Thursday, October 15, 2009

THE FUTURE TECHNOLOGY thing become small

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Thursday, October 8, 2009

Windows 7 Browser given the option to all browsers

The ballot screen, see above, will be delivered via Windows Update.  This means it looks as if Internet Explorer will initially be available after installing Windows 7.  Indeed in the screenshot above they say…

"The browser ballot has unpinned Windows Internet Explorer from your taskbar"

What this means for people who use Windows 7 is that, at some point shortly after you begin using it you will be asked to choose which internet browser you would like to use.  You may decide to choose Internet Explorer, and my guess is most people will, in which case it will switch it back on.  However you may choose to opt for the also excellent Firefox or the minimalist Chrome.

The ballot feature a choice of 12 browsers; browsers are listed alphabetically by vendor, and are sorted into groups according to their popularity. Microsoft provides introductory information for each option. You can see a screen shot of the ballot screen here.

Microsoft (MSFT) was equally upbeat on the EC's decision. "We welcome today's announcement by the European Commission to move forward with formal market testing of Microsoft's proposal relating to web browser choice in Europe," General Counsel Brad Smith said in a statement. "We also welcome the opportunity to take the next step in the process regarding our proposal to promote interoperability with a broad range of our products."

There were, however, a few that were not so welcoming of the move. Top among them, ECIS, an industry group whose members include Oracle (ORCL), Sun (JAVA), IBM (IBM) and Nokia (NOK). "ECIS notes that the settlement does not appear to deal with the inadequacies of Microsoft's standards compliance, unfair pricing practices or other concerns related to patent abuse or standards manipulation," the group said in a statement.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Google’s new logo is a barcode

Google's new logo is a barcode which, as far as we can tell, says "Google." Today is the 57th anniversary of the first patent on the bar code. Inventors Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver filed the patent on October 1949, and it was granted, No. 2,612,994 (pdf), on October 7, 1952. The original patent was for a system that would encode data in circles (a bulls eye pattern), so that it could be scanned in any direction.

The barcode on the Google homepage is Code 128 encoded, which is a standard way of encoding ASCII character strings (ie. A-Z, a-z, 0-9, etc.) into a barcode. It would be safe to assume that Google used their own open source barcode project

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/06/new-google-logo-celebrates-the-barcode/http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/06/new-google-logo-celebrates-the-barcode/

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Review: Retro-bit configuration awesome phones


PSP Why? No one cares about that old thing. Honestly, do you want to carry around another heavy, and fragile, state-of-play in art? No. What you need (what this country needs) is a little cheap Genesis 20 of his sports a semi-greatest hits. There is no need to worry about version management, and digital rights management, and firmware updates, or lightness of transport - just hit the power button and you'll be playing changed beast or Sonic & Knuckles before you can say "Segaaaa!"

It's fully licensed device a bit, and this means you will not play Revenge of the Shinogi Eco, or porpoise. These are real games. The device itself from what is cheap as you would expect $ 50, but it runs everything well and comfortable and responsive controls. On the screen is bright and sharp, although it seems that there is some overlap effect. The sound is loud and clear with little deviations (not bass). It comes with a cable for vehicles as well as, associated with the enclave, such as MPro 120, means you've got Genesis the big screen in your bag wherever you go, they have provided enough of the dark. I can not speak to battery life, but I think it's good, considering how little the device needs to be done. It takes the American Association.

(Update: I am if it were me, with the enclave, in a ceremony last night and he had been beaten. You have to be careful, however, is very nerdy to do)

My system came with an error in the part of the screen, which include, but are not very clear during gameplay. Since mine is a free and Review Unit in any case, I'm not going to buck - I'm sure they want it to replace you in early if they were a matter of this kind.

This issue, however, is whether you want to lock yourself in the game and the system presented here, or pay another $ 50 and pick up what looks like Dingoo? It is up to you, but the simplicity of this system is a little point of sale, as well as weak - and its limits, it does not attempt anything that can not do that, nor Dingoo (and the Neo Geo and SNES] performance is spotty).

I suppose what it comes down is what games are. After all, can be the best tool in the world if you do not have a decent game, why would anyone want it? And the full list here:

Sonic & Knuckles
Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Palace
Gain ground
Arrow Flash
Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja
Eco son.
Gold hack
Suppression
Altered beast
Flicky
Decap attack
Cyper police ESWAT
Alien storm
Shadow Dancer
Columns III
Sonic Spinball
Jewel Master
Baby chameleon
Dr. Robotnik in the Mediterranean Bean Machine
ECHO

So. Some classics, and some garbage. It is expected to be. In any case, this little thing is a great little time waster, perfect for riding the subway, waiting in queues, and so forth. It's the tool, it's awesome, why do you need to know?

They’re around, but Buy.com has free shipping.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

BlackBerry Storm 2 will bee release in October

BlackBerry 8800 (Cingular VersionImage via Wikipedia
This could be it folks, the day quite a few of us (including me!) have been waiting for. Yes, a chance for RIM to make up for its errors and hopefully right the touch-screen smartphone ship.
Indeed, a possible release date, or at the very least, a day around when RIM will be releasing the BlackBerry Storm 2, its new incarnation that has captured the hearts and minds of BlackBerry lovers everywhere.
Ok, that was a little cheesy.
Boy Genius Report has apparently caught wind of a Best Buy inventory listing that shows the store receiving dummy units of the new touch-screen phone on October 25th. What that means is that the actual retail phone will be hitting the store and Verizon, a little bit before or after that date.
While this certainly is far from confirmed, it gives a glimmer of closure to a phone that has been revealed in video multiple times and was rumored to have an imminent release.
Of course, hopefully once released, it doesn’t disappoint like the last one.
Circle that date and apparently you should have $599 ready for it.
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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Top 3 Free Download BlackBerry Themes

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Most used software for Nokia N97 with free download links

Nokia most famous and latest phone for these days because of their smart attractive 3.5 inch touch screen display. Other specifications are screen resolution of 360×640 pixels, and sliding QWERTY keyboard , integrated GPS, the UMTS network, HSDPA, the internal memory of 32 GB, radio The reader,  Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity. One more thing which attracts me that having 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics. This can record the DVD quality movie at support 9 formats. With these specifications you can compare with iPhone. Some cool software’s are preinstalled in it. However list of some most used software of Nokia N97 are listed below with download link.

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Mobbler
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N97Compass FREE DOWNLOAD LINK
Qik FREE DOWNLOAD LINK
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Google Maps
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after a long time AT&T give the MMS facility for iPhone 3GS

AT&T MMS requires iPhone OS 3.1 and a carrier settings update.
Here's what it looks like on a Mac







Unlike other iPhone updates I've installed via iTunes, this one is actually very quick. Very quick. On the other hand, you do have to hard reset the iPhone to enable it. Once it's rebooted, which takes more time than booting a PC, you can use the standard Messages app to send one or more photos with a text message. You'll see the following new toolbar above the virtual keyboard:

Photos have to be added one at a time, which is no big deal. (But I wish Apple would drop the awful iChat-like "thought bubble" UI in this SMS/MMS app. It's just childish looking.)
Needless to say, this being Apple and AT&T, the complaints have already begun rolling in. I'm sure they'll get it right eventually.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Demostration of Surface Technology

This is awesome technology where you can find great work you can say unbelievable work. here is demonstration  watch out and enjoy.








Fast Flip, Google's hardly secret visual news search product, just made its debut today

Fast Flip, Google's hardly secret visual news search product, just made its debut today. It's a premiere that tells us lots about the swirling winds in which the company now finds itself. It also marks two important milestones, one about the slow replacement of news search 1.0 and one about Google's willingness to share its ad revenues with news publishers.

First off, Google search, web search and news search, has been good enough to become and remain the standard for almost a decade. That decade's almost over, though, and we can see news search 1.0 about to fade into history. Cooler than cool was the ability to bring together 4300 or so global news sources into a single interface, with reasonable relevance. The 1.0 experience though has been so list-like, so redundant and duplicative and so lacking clarity as to original source. It's ready to pass on, but needs a few pushes. Bing with its mouse-over capabilities provides on push. The news visualization of Newser provides another.  Politico's mobile app operates smartly on the same principle. Overall, give credit to Apple's cover-flow presentation, which is now flowing from music to the rest of the online world, as Apple itself made it part of the new Safari.

We're visual creatures and we like to use the web to scan, not just read lists, and text.

So Fast Flip as a product, as an experience, does that. As Google will tell you, Sergey Brin has long complained about how long it takes news pages too load. Fast Flip -- on a reader level -- is one attempt to deal with that issue. The news reading experience online, we've all known, isn't what it could be. 

What Fast Flip does then is give us a quick view of the news -- by individual title, by topics, by recommendations -- so that we can scan and zone in on what we want, then click off to it. That's very Google News search-like, but with pictures. So far, more than three dozen publishers are signed up. Google went to top newspapers (the New York Times, the Washington Post), top magazines (Business Week, Elle, Popular Mechanics), top broadcasters (BBC News, Frontline), top web-only sites (Techcrunch, Slate, Salon, Daily Beast) and intriguingly three of top independent investigative sites (Center for Investigative Reporting, Pro Publica, Center for Public Integrity). All the companies represented have opted to be part of the program -- they are essentially licensing content to Google.

For publishers, it's a test, one of many at this point.

"We're trying to find out how users relate to a visual interface," Martin Nisenholtz, senior vice president of digital operations at the New York Times told me, when I asked what was most important about the Fast Flip. "It's purely a research project." Maybe, just maybe, visual search can take readers beyond the news search 1.0 world that Martin describes, "where everything seems to be generic and the algorithm rules." Visual search allows for a "brand presence," something that high-quality news producers have been seeking to reclaim in the digital wilderness.

The company plans to add more, but within the bounds of "keeping it manageable."    

It's a smart list, a good mix of older and newer media.

Scan the screenshots, which Google picks up both by RSS feeds and by the use of its crawler, and you can see pages or parts of then. You can't click on any "link" within the screenshot, of course; clicking takes you to that publisher's page, their own url. It's just another way to browse/search, accessed through Google Labs to search with a link planned from Google News itself, but not yet in place. Fast Flip is available for mobile as well, but only for the iPhone and Android-powered phones. No app through any store; access it through the mobile browser.

Coming, if Fast Flip is a hit: Google will license the technology for use by publishers on their own websites.

What the visual test may be cool, it is the business model that may have greater impact.

Google is providing participating publishers with majority of ad revenues earned on the Fast Flip pages. Those are pages hosted on Google.com. Sure, we may say, Google had to do that. In using screenshots of the pages, it is using the intellectual property of the publishers, beyond any reasonable "fair use" argument. That's true, but it's also the first time in a current news product (News Archive possibly) that I can think of that individual publishers -- unlike the wires of AP, AFP, CP and PA -- got ad revenue shares from the use of their content on Google itself. (It's worth noting that because of those pre-existing wire licensing relationships, Google users clicking on AP and AFP screenshots will land on a Google.com hosted page with that content).

Some of us have been making the argument (Content Bridges: Google and Newspapers: Fairplay, Fair Share and "Fair Use") that a "Fair Share" rationalizing of the Google/newspaper relationship is needed. That new deal would involve Google sharing ad revenue -- earned on Google News and Google.com more generally -- when news content spurred Google usage. 

My sense: Though this is an experiment -- a six-month one, according to Nisenholtz -- in visual news search, it's also a step forward in Google and the news industry coming to a new financial relationship on text as well.

The financial impact of Fast Flip won't be great -- remember it is still in Labs and much of the public may not happen on it for awhile. Still, the principle is one worth marking.

Back, lastly, to Google in the larger landscape.

Take the business landscape. With half the newspaper industry allied with Yahoo (and thus arch-enemy, Microsoft) through the Newspaper Consortium, it needs to redouble efforts to play well and become a better partner with news companies.

Further, it needs to find the kind of success it has found with search and paid search -- dominant #1 player in both -- in news search. Check out the latest Nielsen news numbers for August, and we find Google able to say, "We're #9!" Hardly a grade it is used to getting. In uniques, Google has moved up 22% year over year. That has plugged it into the ninth spot, moving up from the teens.

Still it is way behind Yahoo News, MSNBC, and AOL. It needs a better news mousetrap.

On the political landscape, it needs to continue making nice. Christine Varney has revitalized the Justice Department's Anti-Trust Division. Google's books deal and general search/paid search dominance have put a big target on its back. At times like these, it is good to have friends, and who could ask for better friends than those with printing presses?

Monday, August 3, 2009

Xbox Live Avatars to rock out in Guitar Hero 5

I like where Microsoft is taking their Avatars. They're not just limited to your profile to put on a face and look all cool 24/7. We've seen them go for a Joy Ride, we've even seen them playing golf. This time, Microsoft and Activision have joined hands to integrate the Xbox 360 avatars into Guitar Hero 5 (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii), where we will be seeing ordinary avatars living out their rockstar dreams.

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If you download the special Guitar Hero 5 trailer from the Xbox Live Marketplace, you'll see the bigwigs Don Mattrick, Shane Kim, Phil Spencer, and Marc Whitten all rocking out with their avatars. Activision has made the annoucement, and this is for real.

Major Nelson should be in touch with the Guitar Hero 5 producer today, and he'll let us all know how that goes via his weekly podcast. Avatars will be rocking out by September 1sy, 2009.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Microsoft Deal with Yahoo! Looks To Next Generation

Microsoft (MSFT) has talked about using it Bing search engine to search the internet “real time” to pick up Twitter messages and other information and data that rockets across the web nano-second by nano-second.

In theory , mappingthe web as it evolves may be nearly as valuable as indexing old pages which is what search engines have done for years.

Wall St. has assumed that Yahoo! (YHOO) would stop devoting resource to search technology now that it will use Bing for its search functions. Yahoo! is making clear that is not true, even as the ink on its deal with Microsoft is still in the process of drying.

According toReuters, Yahoo’s Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo Labs, said that the company could potentially “mine” messages from Twitter, the popular microblogging service, to offer Web surfers search results beyond those offered by Microsoft’s Bing.

Yahoo! may have decided that it does not want to leave its entire fate in the search business to its ten-year alliance with Redmond. The portal company has to contend with the fact that market leader Google (GOOG) will continue to improve its product. It may even be able to increase its 65% market share in the US. Google still has the opportunity to add features to its core search features and those improvements could bring it even more customers.

Yahoo!’s concern now must be that even if it can bring new search features to market, they may not be ones that the market cares about.

There is no clear indication that consumers or business care about what goes on across the internet “real time”. Twitter messages, texting, figures that are transmitted from point-to-point without analysis may be so much “space junk” circling the world of the valuable data the Google delivers with its basic product. Real time search may produce results so raw and disorganized that no one can use them.

Yahoo! may have some success delivering the next big thing in search engine results but it may not be anything people care about.
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Thursday, July 9, 2009

Koogle Search Engine For Israelis


A new ‘kosher’ search engine called Koogle has been launched for orthodox Jews living in Israel, which will allow them to surf cyberspace without ever encountering unbecoming images or faith wavering text and keep the dangers of subversion and temptation at bay. Koogle will follow the religious standards set by the rabbis and is aimed at helping orthodox Jews stay on the stipulated path.

Apparently a jibe at Google, Koogle will filter out forbidden material and provide its consumers kosher bits and pieces from the net.

The search engine links to Israeli news and shopping sites but the results are filtered to exclude items deemed unsuitable.

“This is a kosher alternative for ultra-Orthodox Jews so that they may surf the Internet,” Yossi Altman told Reuters, Jerusalem. “The site was developed in part at the encouragement of rabbis who sought a solution to the needs of ultra-Orthodox Jews to browse the Web particularly for vital services,” he added.