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Nov 30, 2009 | The Internet Stock Blog

Google Searches for Black Friday Deals up 50 Percent from 2008

As online retailers are witnessed strong Black Friday results, Google is reporting that there was a surge in online shopping searches with "Black Friday" on Thanksgiving day and the Friday after the holiday.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Day after Thanksgiving, Google, Startups, Emerging Technology

Nov 30, 2009 | CANOE

Canuck Google jobs up for grabs

At a time when many companies are drastically cutting jobs, Google Canada says it's hiring in all of its offices and has good reason to grow: Canada is more into Google and its products than just about any other country.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Marketing

Nov 30, 2009 | Telegraph.co.uk

Google and Bing reveal year's top searches

Michael Jackson, swine flu, Twitter and Facebook were among the most searched-for terms of the year, according to the latest statistics from search engines Google and Bing .

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Stephen Gately, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Twilight

Nov 30, 2009 | WABC 7

Will newspapers survive shunning Google?

There's an intriguing idea floating around the media: Microsoft Corp. wants to undercut Google so badly in Internet search that it might pay newspapers to withhold their content from Google.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Microsoft, Software, Internet, Science / Technology, Media, Yahoo!, Computers

Nov 30, 2009 | ComputerUser

24-7PressRelease.com Reaches Milestone of 90,000 Published Press Releases on Press Release Distribut

"This is a great achievement for us," said Michael Iwasaki, Managing Partner with 24-7Pressrelease.com. "This really demonstrates our strength in providing excellent value to our customers.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Nov 30, 2009 | PC World

Baidu Targets Google With Mobile Search App

Top Chinese search engine Baidu.com is pre-installing a mobile service app on handsets, its latest blow to Google over mobile search in China.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Baidu, Internet, Science / Technology, Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics

Sun Nov 29, 2009

KCBS-TV Los Angeles

How To Shop Safely Online This Cyber Monday

Share + Nov 29, 2009 4:45 pm US/Pacific NEW YORK Shopping online does carry some risk, but so does shopping at brick-and-mortar stores.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Internet, Science / Technology, Emerging Technology

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Recession slows plan to build bunker data centers

The precise spacing between the mounds of earth that decorate miles of central Nebraska farmland east of Hastings hint at their original purpose as Naval ammunition bunkers during World War II.

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Related Topix: Nebraska, Emerging Technology

PR-inside.com

SEO India: SEO Services India Sends Traffic For A Company Soaring

SEO Services India: Gain #1 Google ranking. SEO Company India: Secure high conversion rate.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Science / Technology, Internet, Outsourcing

Seeking Alpha

Google, Microsoft and News Corp. Fight While Consumers Stay Anchored to Free Content

Google fights for net neutrality and the right to index all of the world's information for free.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Microsoft, Software, Internet, Science / Technology

Silicon Alley Insider

AOL Stock Could Shoot Down To Low $20s As Big Time Warner Shareholders Flee

AOL Stock Could Shoot Down To Low $20s As Big Time Warner Shareholders Flee Nov.

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Related Topix: Time Warner, Computers, Media, Emerging Technology

TMCnet

Chinese search engine Baidu to boost market share with new services

Chinese search engine Baidu Inc. has launched two services for mobile users, in an effort to gain an edge and market share in the world's largest mobile market, China Daily reported Thursday.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Science / Technology, Internet

Sat Nov 28, 2009

Slam Sports

Android-powered smartphones make inroads

Google has come calling on smartphones with its Android operating system and it's saying more than just a friendly hello to the BlackBerry and iPhone.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, iPhone, Internet, Science / Technology, Cellphones, Canada, Cell Phones, Electronics

The Internet Stock Blog

Online Advertising Begins to Stabilize in the U.S.

Online advertising revenues in the U.S. seem to be stabilizing. The Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers released third-quarter figures showing that online advertising in the U.S. approached $5.5 billion, up 1.7 percent from the second quarter of 2009, but still down 5.4 percent from the same quarter a year ago .

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Accounting, Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Media, Yahoo!, Computers

The Sydney Morning Herald

As we emerge from shelter, look what's in store for 2010

If you have spent the past year in a bunker you can be forgiven for losing sight of the big picture.

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Related Topix: Marketing, Family, Kids, Social Software, Google, Startups, Emerging Technology

San Jose Mercury News

Google, others Silicon Valley firms nurture app developers

They crowd the lobby of Google's Building 42 one evening a month, waiting to climb the wide stairway under a mock-up of the world's first private spacecraft, SpaceShipOne, prepared to delve deep into the Internet giant's brain.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Social Software, Startups, PayPal, iPhone, San Francisco Metro, Science / Technology

PR-inside.com

SEOCompany launches SEO-in-a-Box - A revolutionary hosted website platform

SEOCompany launches SEO-in-a-Box - A revolutionary hosted website platform Dallas, Texas a ' Dallas SEO Company, a Dallas based website development and search engine optimization company announced the launch of their new, cutting-edge hosted website platform called SEO-in-a-Box. This platform will help business owners not only create a powerful web ...

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX, Internet, Science / Technology, Marketing

Fri Nov 27, 2009

Customer Interaction Solutions

Insurance : EmailWire NewsWire SEO Press Release Distribution...

Houston, TX i 1 2 EmailWire.com , a global newswire with SEO press release distribution services, presents free magazines on Insurance related in the following areas: annuities, asset, business insurance, compliance, funds, health insurance, investment advisors, reinsurance, remediation and risk.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Science / Technology, Internet, Marketing

People's Daily Online

Negotiation between Chinese writers and Google at a standstill

On November 20, Erik Hartmann, head of Google Book Search Strategic Partnership Development for Southeast Asia, came to China for the second round of talks with China Written Works Copyright Society .

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Customer Interaction Solutions

Search Engine Strategies (SES) London 2010 Conference & Expo Announces New Keynote Speaker

Incisive Media today announced that Avinash Kaushik, author of Web Analytics 2.0, co-founder of Market Motive Inc and analytics evangelist for Google will be a keynote speaker at the London SES Conference and Expo 2010.

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Related Topix: Internet, Science / Technology, Media, IT Services, Marketing, Emerging Technology

Hampton Roads Daily Press

Sina raises $180 million in sale of shares to holding company controlled by Sina CEO

Sina Corp., an operator of Chinese language Web sites, said Friday it has completed the sale of 5.6 million shares for $180 million to a Virgin Islands holding company.

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Related Topix: Media, Computers, Sina, World News, British Virgin Islands, Central America

901am

Google New Search Experiment, Voice Search in Times Square

By Arnold Zafra Posted on November 26, 2009 If you are anywhere in Times Square A on Black Friday, perhaps after long hours of digging through those electronic stores in search of the best Black Friday deal, you might want to check Google's latest search experiment - Google search by voice .

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Software, Life, Holidays, Day after Thanksgiving

Detroit News

Google apologizes for offensive Michelle Obama image

Google Inc. is apologizing for a racially offensive image of the first lady that appears at the top of the list when users search for pictures of Michelle Obama on its site.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Michelle Obama, Mountain View, CA

Thu Nov 26, 2009

SF Gate

Google teams with TiVo for viewer data

Google Inc. will use viewer data from digital video recorder pioneer TiVo Inc. to help measure audiences for its TV advertising business.

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Related Topix: Digital Video Recorders, Google, Startups, Electronics, Emerging Technology, Business News

Mad.co.uk

Google pledges support for Front Foot project

Google has given support to the Advertising Associationa s Front Foot foundation which aims to rebuild public trust in the UK ad industry.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

WEBSPHERE Journal

Chairman of the Web Analytics Association to Speak About SES

Incisive Media today announced that Jim Sterne, producer of the eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit and chairman of the Web Analytics Association will be a keynote speaker at the London SES Conference and Expo 2010.

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Related Topix: Marketing, Media, IT Services, Emerging Technology, Internet, Science / Technology

NBC Bay Area

Is Yahoo Leaving Sunnyvale?

Even though Yahoo has been cutting costs and jobs over the past few years and losing some of its hold on the Internet search market to Google and Microsoft, it looks like they're moving forward with a plan to develop a massive campus in Santa Clara.

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Related Topix: Startups, Media, Yahoo!, Computers, Sunnyvale, CA, Emerging Technology, Santa Clara, CA

New York Times

Butterballs or Cheese Balls, an Online Barometer

If you are in Oregon this Thanksgiving , you stand a better than average chance of encountering Tofurkey.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Recipes, Food, Turkey, Meat, Emerging Technology, Potatoes, Vegetables, Panama, NY

News.com.au

Google executives face jail over video

Google workers could be liable for content uploaded to their websites. Picture: AFP.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Software, Education Etc., Internet, Science / Technology

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Wireless Week

Google,Virgin Media deals command TiVo spotlight

Deals with Google and Virgin Media took the spotlight away from TiVo's fiscal third-quarter loss Wednesday, as analysts said the company stands to benefit from the new agreements.

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Related Topix: Digital Video Recorders, Electronics, Startups, TiVo, Emerging Technology

Ubergizmo

Movie Trailers On Google Mobile Search

Google has just launched a mobile version of its Google Search results for movies.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Gadgets

Yankee Group

Murdoch's Bing bluster will hurt News Corp, not Google

Note to Rupert Murdoch: Jerry McGuire notwithstanding, yelling "Show me the money" is a loser as an Anywhere media strategy.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Science / Technology, Internet

EDGEboston.com Entertainment Feed

Gael Garcia Bernal's new role is 'provocative'

For the past two years Jack Donahue has been chosen Best Male Jazz Artist by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs , putting him in the forefront of leading cabaret performers.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Michael Martine

When You Should Fire Your Web Designer

Is your existing web designer also a competent blog designer? Did you know it takes special skills to effectively design a business blog? When you're having a blog created for your website, it may not be in your business's best interest to use the same web designer that did your original site.

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Related Topix: Blog News, Web Design, Arts, Marketing, Emerging Technology

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Netimperitive

It's official: Twitter to launch commercial accounts next year

Twitter has confirmed it will be rolling out paid-for business accounts next year, as the micro-blogging service looks for new ways to monetise its service.

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Related Topix: Twitter, Blog News, Science / Technology, Internet, Emerging Technology

MarketWatch

Microsoft, Yahoo pact cleared in Canada, Australia

Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday that their high-profile, proposed search and advertising partnership has been cleared by antitrust officials in Canada and Australia, positive developments for the companies as they await a related decision from U.S. regulators.

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Related Topix: Media, Yahoo!, Computers, Startups, Microsoft, Software, Google

KBCI CBS 2

Facebook creates dual-class stock structure

Facebook has created a dual-class stock structure designed to give founder Mark Zuckerberg and other existing shareholders control over the company.

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Social Software, Google, Emerging Technology, Software

Editor & Publisher

MediaNews Group, A.H. Belo Following Murdoch Out the Door at Google?

CHICAGO Two more newspaper chains are echoing News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch's rumblings about blocking content from Google's search index.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Science / Technology, Internet

National Ledger

Tesla IPO on Deck - Electric Carmaker Tesla Motors Going Public?

Cue the rep: "We don't comment on rumor and speculation," said company spokesman Ricardo Reyes, according to Wired.Com. Inside Line asks, "Is a Tesla IPO Imminent? writing, "Tesla's financial prospects have greatly improved this year.

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Related Topix: Tesla Roadster, Emerging Technology, Google, Startups, Software

Network World NetFlash

Microsoft begins paving path for IT, cloud integration

Microsoft last week launched its first serious effort to build IT into its cloud plans by introducing technologies that help connect existing corporate networks and cloud services to make them look like a single infrastructure.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science, Emerging Technology

Mon Nov 23, 2009

PhysOrg Weblog

Friends go online at Foursquare to meet offline

Laura Fitton's ascent has been staggering: In less than a year, she's become mayor of nine different places in several different states, all without giving any speeches or kissing any babies.

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Related Topix: Cellphones, Emerging Technology, New York

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The Times

Google says PC will start i...

Comment about "Google says PC will start in seven seconds or less" Phone Name Comment 0 Monday, 23rd November 2009 Google says PC will start in seven seconds or less Reuters New Google Inc.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, PC, Computers

Network World NetFlash

Google adding IPv6 to YouTube

Google plans to upgrade its YouTube video streaming Web site to provide support for IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Science / Technology, Wi-Fi

MarketWatch

European Stocks to Watch: TomTom stock loses its way

TomTom shares have lost their sense of direction over the last month, with the stock down by more than a third, as worries about competition and third-quarter earnings lead the stock off route.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Internet, Science / Technology, 9

NewsFactor

Android Powers New Acer Hardware

PC maker Acer has switched to Google's Android portable operating system for a new Acer Liquid smartphone and a new netbook version of the Aspire One laptop, the D250.

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Related Topix: Laptops/Notebooks, PC, Emerging Technology, Microsoft Windows, Science / Technology, Cellphones, Open Source Software, Linux

PR-inside.com

SEO Company based in India offers consistent & dependable SEO Services

As leading a Search Engine Optimization and PR experts, the SEO services offered by ExcelFish are just the right dispensation for B2B and B2C sites that go along with appropriate social media marketing campaigns and link building services.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Marketing, Science / Technology, Internet

Sun Nov 22, 2009

Ubergizmo

Google To Add Sidebar

While Google is doing quite well with its search business, it's great to see that Google is still paying attention to details and willing to try out new stuff.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Gadgets

PR-inside.com

Seo Indore Netgurusolution Is Seo Company In Indore

Netgurusolution indore is the one and only one seo company in indore which can provide this service in low cost.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Web Design, Arts, World News, India, Asia, Internet, Science / Technology, Marketing,

CNET News.com

Microsoft's embrace of MySQL could kill it

For those who have fret about Microsoft fighting against open source, I have news for you: Microsoft's impact on open source may be worse as a friend than as an enemy.

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Related Topix: Startups, MySQL, Open Source Software, Science / Technology, Emerging Technology, Linux

CIOL

Google phone strategy takes off

Google phone strategy takes off, challenges ahead Two years after the Web search leader announced its plan to barge into the market, a dozen phones are using Google's Android mobile operating software Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Google Inc has won a seat at the smartphone table.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, iPhone

Business

Writer asks if Google is force for evil

Sergey Brin wanted to test a job applicant, so he gave her a snap assignment, writes Ken Auletta in his new book, Googled .

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Software, Internet, Science / Technology, Mountain View, CA, Stanford University

Sat Nov 21, 2009

VentureBeat

Twitter COO Dick Costolo: Revenue is on and advertising is coming soon

Twitter COO Dick Costolo is on-stage at the Real-Time CrunchUp in San Francisco.

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Related Topix: Twitter, Emerging Technology

EContent

Perfect Search Corporation Announces One Box Extender Model

At KMWorld's Enterprise Search Summit West conference, Perfect Search Corporation announced the release of their One Box Extender Model OBX-1B, featuring the ability to index and search over 1 billion database records.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

WisInfo

Search-engine keywords suit tries new angle

MILWAUKEE - A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company's link over a rival's. The practice has occasionally prompted a rival to file legal challenges alleging trademark infringement.

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Related Topix: Internet, Science / Technology, Milwaukee, WI, Milwaukee Metro, Emerging Technology, Privacy

CBS2

Feds: Columbia College Prof. Had Child Porn

Share + Nov 20, 2009 12:01 pm US/Central CHICAGO A Columbia College Chicago professor was arrested and charged Thursday after federal agents conducting a search warrant allegedly found child pornography on a computer in his west suburban home.

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Related Topix: Sport Movies, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, College, Columbia College Chicago, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Emerging Technology

Reuters Video

Twitter to follow Google's lead

Nov 20 - The co-founder of the popular microblogging service Biz Stone tells Reuters TV that the company will eventually emulate the search company's lucrative ad model, but profit is not the priority at present.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Twitter, Video, Business News

Arizona Daily Star

Saturday Reader: Books about the people behind technology we can't live without

By Michael Liedtke THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: 11.21.2009 Your holiday shopping list probably includes gadgets, games and gizmos that illustrate how technology is changing the way we work, play and communicate.

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Related Topix: Gadgets, Stanford University, Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Software, Twitter

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Ventura County Star

Google, Yahoo zero in on Internet freedom' bill

Google Inc. and other Internet companies have zeroed in on a resilient effort by a Republican lawmaker to pass legislation that could restrict their ability to take a nuanced approach to operating in "repressive" foreign countries, according to third-quarter lobbying reports.

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Related Topix: Media, Yahoo!, Computers, Startups, Emerging Technology, US News, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Christopher Smith, Lamar Smith

WNDY-TV Indianapolis

A home is for sale by owner is seen in Clarence, N.Y.

Selling a home without a real estate agent can save thousands of dollars in commission fees, but it can also be a painstaking, confusing task.

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Related Topix: Clarence, NY, Home Listing, Home, Home Selling, Real Estate, Housing, Emerging Technology, Entertainment

ComputerWorld

Judge sets schedule for Google book search case

The judge in the copyright infringement case pitting the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers against Google and its book search program has set a date for the final hearing on the parties' controversial settlement proposal.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, US News

Irish Examiner

Google blow for Infoserve

British online marketing firm Infoserve today revealed it is to lose a reselling deal with internet giant Google.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Marketing

Guardian Unlimited

Twitter chief attacks Murdoch paywall

Charging to read news content is like 'putting genie back in bottle', says Twitter co-founder Biz Stone Rupert Murdoch plans to charge for online news and prevent stories being linked to by sites such as Google.

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Related Topix: Twitter, Emerging Technology, Social Software

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Southland Times On Line.

Bebo to shut down in Australia: report

The Facebook juggernaut has claimed the scalp of AOL Time Warner's US$850 million acquisition of Bebo, with the social media site tipped to close its Australian operation before Christmas as part of a global retreat and rethink.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Emerging Technology, Nielsen, Classical

WLS

Firm sues rival over search-engine keywords

A person searching online for a specific Wisconsin law firm will likely see a rival's sponsored link at the top of the list.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Internet, Privacy, Emerging Technology

Mashable

Twitter Fever! Yahoo Search Adds Twitter News Content

Great to see how far twitter is reaching in scope! EntrepreNerd And sad to see how far our beloved Yahoo! has fallen.

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Related Topix: Twitter, Emerging Technology

National Post

Top 10 Internet moments of the decade

For a decade that started with the dot com crash, it's been a pretty good 10 years for the Internet.

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Related Topix: Best of 2007, Startups, Local Search, Craigslist, Emerging Technology, Online Music, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

Market Wire

Ikalia Launches Bazibaza Media, the First Search Engine Designed Specifically for TV Professionals

A global internet is a good thing until the first time consumers try to search for a general service, product or piece of media information on the web and have to wade through hundreds of pages to find what they need.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Internet, Emerging Technology

Lawsites

Google Gets into Legal Research

In a post earlier today at Legal Blog Watch, The Google Gorilla Enters the Research Game , I wrote about Google's announcement yesterday that Google Scholar now allows users to search full-text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state appellate and trial courts.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Law

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Macworld UK

Google ready to demo Chrome operating system

Google set to show off Chrome OS to journalists tomorrow Nancy Gohring Google is getting ready to shed a little more light on its Chrome OS .

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Mountain View, CA, Science / Technology, CPU

Netimperative News and Analysis

Survey uncovers the nation's favourite websites

Connected Life' study, which asked 2,000 UK internet users about their favourite services, found 60% of music users stream music directly from the internet.

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Related Topix: Online Music, Emerging Technology, Social Software

Silicon Alley Insider

Why Apple Considered Buying AdMob

Why Apple Considered Buying AdMob Nov. 16, 2009, 10:55 AM 166 Why? Apple is trying to figure out new ways to make money off its iPhone app platform -- and potentially from future devices, like the highly anticipated Apple tablet .

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, iPhone, Emerging Technology, Sales

ComputerUser

ABConsulting of Raleigh NC Adds Web Design and Hosting to Affordable SEO Consulting and Marketing Of

The company will now build affordable web sites and includes free hosting for the first year.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Marketing, Arts, Web Design, Fuquay Varina, NC

TulsaWorld.com - Consumer Awareness

Old scam uses new online trappings

Dear Action Line: I am getting these Internet popup ads: "Google is revolutionizing online advertising and making gobs of money in the process - both for itself and its shareholders," and, "All you need is a computer and an Internet connection to make money with the Internet." It says it can make you $300 a day just by placing an ad.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Tulsa Metro, Tulsa, OK

Payments News

Google Scholar Adds US Legal Opinions

Google Scholar now includes the ability to search for and read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Opinion

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Read/Write Web

Google Image Swirl Brings the Wonder Wheel to Photo Search

Google just announced a new product in Google Labs: Google Image Swirl . Image Swirl introduces a Wonder Wheel-like user interface for Google Images.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Top stories from Times Online

Google opens new chapter as millions of books go into its online library

Controversial plans by Google to digitise millions of out-of-print books to create the world's biggest online library have been approved by British publishing groups and authors.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Clover Herald

Correction: Internet conference story

In a Nov. 15 story about Egypt's plan to apply for the first Internet domain name written in Arabic, The Associated Press incorrectly quoted Yahoo Inc.

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Related Topix: Computers, Media, Yahoo!, Startups

Daily Journal

Clicker.com hopes to be TV guide for Internet

SAN FRANCISCO -- Web surfing is becoming more like channel surfing as television shows, movies and music videos pour onto the Internet.

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Related Topix: Retail, Apparel, InterActiveCorp, Media, Ask Jeeves, Inc., Yahoo!, Computers, Startups, Emerging Technology

Hotel Online

How to Get More Sales from Your Public Relations and Marketing Dollars / Julie Keyser-Squires

Hotels Corporation, suggested at the 2009 ALIS Hotel Leader's Outlook panel that the rebound would not be immediate because "the psychological impact was too great," we agreed.

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Related Topix: Public Relations, Marketing, Internet, Science / Technology, Blog News, Emerging Technology, Twitter

Silicon Alley Insider

Yahoo Rebrands Its Right Media Exchange As A "Premium Exchange"

Yahoo's latest brand overhaul? Taking its ad exchange up market. Today the online portal will start to reposition Right Media Exchange to agencies and ad networks as a "premium exchange" in the hope that major advertisers will feel safe buying inventory.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Mon Nov 16, 2009

All Things Digital

ComScorea s October 2009 Search Data: Google and Microsoft Up. Yahoo Down. [Digital Daily]

ComScorea s October 2009 Search Data: Google and Microsoft Up. Yahoo Down. ComScorea s October search market analysis is in and it's good news for two out of the big three search engines.

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Related Topix: Startups, Media, Yahoo!, Computers, Google, Emerging Technology, Microsoft, Software

Data Storage Today

Swiss Privacy Watchdog To Sue Google Street View

The case illustrates a clash of cultures between Switzerland's legal system -- which places a heavy emphasis on protecting privacy best illustrated by its strict banking secrecy laws -- and the increasing use of new technology to gather and distribute information and pictures online.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Privacy, Science / Technology, Internet

Silicon Alley Insider

Hey Microsoft, Thanks For Pushing Me To Google

Hey Microsoft, Thanks For Pushing Me To Google [Ed. Laid off by Microsoft, developer evangelist Don Dodge joined Google today.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Microsoft, Software, Blog News, Science / Technology, Microsoft Office

PR-inside.com

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Marketing, Pharmaceuticals, Internet, Science / Technology

NewsFactor Network

Techdirt: Newspaper Industry Lawyers Attack Fair Use, Claim Google Is Illegal

Hmm. So, on Monday Rupert Murdoch suggests that the courts would reject fair use as a concept, and by Friday two newspaper industry lawyers just happen to have an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal explaining how Google violates copyright law by caching the websites it indexes.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Sun Nov 15, 2009

Xinhuanet

Google to talk with Chinese authors over copyrights

Search engine giant Google is to send a representative to China next week to talk with the country's copyright watchdog to cool down Chinese authors' heated complaints against the company over copyright violations, said a Google senior executive Sunday.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, China, Asia, World News, Science / Technology, Internet

MSNBC

Egypt to apply for first Arabic domain name

Police patrolling Facebook Nov. 13: The Medina, Ohio, police department is posting pictures of wanted criminals on Facebook in an effort to get the public's help in tracking them down.

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Related Topix: Medina, OH, Media, Yahoo!, Computers, Startups

Guardian Unlimited

Fake payslips in mortgage fraud scam

All it took was a few clicks of the mouse and a payment of A 35 for an Observer reporter to obtain a counterfeit payslip over the internet which would allow her to commit mortgage fraud worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Emerging Technology, Prison

Joho the Blog

Google Books Settlement 2.0?

Here's a summary of the summary Google provides [ pdf ], although IANAL and I encourage you to read the summary, which is written in non-legal language and is only 2 pages long: 1. The agreement now has been narrowed to books registered for copyright in the US, or published in the UK, Australia or Canada.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Reno Gazette-Journal

Travelers being wooed with free Wi-Fi

NEW YORK -- Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, competitors on the Web, all have the same idea for marketing themselves this holiday season: temporarily providing free Wi-Fi access in airports, airplanes and public places.

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Related Topix: Wireless, Emerging Technology, eBay, Startups, Microsoft, Software, Las Vegas, NV

CBS 2 - KCAL 9

Cal Poly Pomona Applicants' Info Put Online

The personal information of 355 Cal Poly Pomona applicants in 2003 were inadvertently disclosed online, according to the university.

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Related Topix: Cal State Poly Pomona, Social Security, Personal Finance, Emerging Technology, Internet, Science / Technology

Sat Nov 14, 2009

The Straits Times

All eyes on Murdoch

IS RUPET Murdoch bluffing? Making a bold high-stakes gamble that will save the troubled newspaper industry? Or pursuing a pipe dream that can only end in failure? The News Corp.

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Cooee Search

Google, Plaintiffs Submit Revised Book Search Settlement

Right up against a deadline to submit a revised settlement agreement to a judge overseeing a lawsuit filed against Google by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, the parties filed their second take near midnight on Friday.

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TamsPalm-the Palm OS Blog

WebOS 1.3.1 hits the road

Rumors of Palm's webOS 1.3.1 have been dime-a-dozen - all those of you who have a Sprint Pre can now get their fix.

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VentureBeat

5 Oa Clock Roundup: Murdoch threatens Google again, Craig joins Wikipedia

Rupert Murdoch plans to remove News Corp's content from Google within a few months - - News Corp's chief digital officer, Jonathan Miller, says the media mogul's plan to charge for content and remove The Wall Street Journal, the Times of London, and other publications from Google's index is real and will happen in "months and quarters - not weeks." ...

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PR-inside.com

EnergyIndustry.Net and EmailWire.Com SEO Press Release Distribution...

SEO Press release Service - EmailWire.Com 2009-11-14 00:39:18 - Posted by EmailWire.Com - a press release distribution service.

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Fri Nov 13, 2009

I4U Future Technology News

Samsung Behold II Oled Android Phone Launches Nov. 18th on T-Mobile

Samsung and T-Mobile unveiled the Behold II OLED Android phone in early October.

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ComputerWorld

AMD and Intel patch things up, HP buys 3Com

We had a blockbuster deal this week, with Hewlett-Packard saying it plans to buy 3Com, and a blockbuster settlement, with Advanced Micro Devices and Intel ending a long-running legal dispute.

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MediaPost Publications

Google Acquires Gizmo5

Google said Thursday that it had acquired Gizmo5 Technologies, a startup offering Internet telephony software for mobile phones and computers.

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KVAL - News - Tech

Microsoft brings more Web data to Bing results

Traditionally, search engines from Google Inc. and others respond to users' queries by offering links to other sites that Web surfers can go to for information.

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The Cyprus Weekly

Google Street View sued in Switzerland...

Google's unstoppable drive to map and photograph the world has run into an immovable object - Switzerland's strict tradition of personal privacy.

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ResourceShelf

Google Adds New Features to Movie Listings

A brief post to alert you that the movie listings Google provides and the way they're provided has been enhanced.

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Thu Nov 12, 2009

Southwest Community Connection

Where can you get a flu shot? Check here

Google has launched a new version of a map Web site to help you find the closest place to get shots for both the seasonal flu and the H1N1 flu.

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NewsChannel 8

Web-based e-mail features come to desktop software

Over the years, Web-based e-mail services have gotten much better, sporting many features once available only with the e-mail programs that reside on the computer desktop.

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Fox Charlotte

Facebook, Wikipedia Execs Brief Vatican

Executives from Facebook, Wikipedia and Google are attending a Vatican meeting to brief officials and Catholic bishops about the Internet and digital youth culture.

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PhysOrg Weblog

Clicker.com aims to become Internet's TV guide

Web surfing is becoming more like channel surfing as television shows, movies and music videos pour onto the Internet.

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The Globe and Mail

Google eyes China as Baidu fumbles

Technology Google eyes China as Baidu fumbles Google CEO Eric Schmidt gestures as he tries a puzzle to change the name 'Google' to Chinese charactars at a press conference in 2006 Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images Internet search giant intensifies push for market share Alexei Oreskovic and Melanie Lee San Francisco and Shanghai - Reuters Published on ...

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Associated Content

What Good is Google If You Don't Own a Computer ?

Google search engine is used for searching out information on your computer . In a split second your search will provide the answer to your question.

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Wed Nov 11, 2009

Raw Story

Google routes World Bank data to fact seekers

Google is adding World Bank figures to Internet results in a bid to make hard facts about countries worldwide easier to find.

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Betanews

Bing vs. Google rematch on video search

We've known that Microsoft still has work remaining in its itinerary to build Bing into a more competitive search engine -- we knew at launch time that not every feature would compete on an absolute par against Google.

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2NEWS.TV

Drug industry presses FDA to allow more online ads

As federal regulators take their first tentative steps toward policing the wild west of medical information online, pharmaceutical companies are pressing their case to market drugs via Google, Twitter and other Web sites.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Conservation doodle wins Google prize

Winning image: Jessie Du's Doodle 4 Google. Map: Sydney 2000 Artwork by a New South Wales schoolgirl will be transmitted to the world on Australia Day by one of the internet's most viewed websites, Google.

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Reuters Video

Google eyes Baidu, China

Nov 11 - The world's top Internet search player, Google, but looks to make inroads on local rival Baidu.

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Tue Nov 10, 2009

Drug Store News

Google launches 'flu shot finder'

MOUNTAIN VIEW,A Calif. Google on Tuesday unveiled a new feature that allows people in search of either an H1N1 flu vaccine or seasonal flu vaccine to easily find nearby locations offering the vaccines.

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Gadgetell

Your flight is delayed but WiFi is free, thanks Google

This holiday season, Google is stepping up and covering the WiFi fees in airports across the country as part of a marketing push.

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Gouverneur Times

Wi-Fi for travelers becomes Web marketing lure

Google Inc. announced Tuesday that it would provide free Wi-Fi access in 47 airports across the country, including Boston, Houston and Seattle, through Jan.

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KTXL-TV Sacramento

Yahoo CEO pledges to boost profit margins, calls this year's performance "terrible"

Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Carol Bartz promised Tuesday to turn around the struggling Internet company after this year's "terrible" performance.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Google Caffeine ready for roll out

Google Caffeine, the project name for the newest reincarnation of the search engine, is launching imminently.

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Mashable

Twitter and LinkedIn Status Updates Are Now Synced

Twitter's spree of partnerships isn't stopping anytime soon. Late last month, Microsoft and Twitter struck a search deal to integrate Twitter within Bing.

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Mon Nov 09, 2009

Market Wire

Calgary Based Social Media Company Hosts 1st Annual Social Media Innovation Summit

West17Media , a social media consultancy based in Calgary, Alberta, prides itself on providing accountable and creative solutions to company's social media marketing.

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Press Release News From 24-7 Press Re...

Worldwide Revenue Solutions Announce "Turnkey Package" to Assist...

DALLAS, TX, November 09, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Worldwide Revenue Solutions , a hotel Internet marketing company, has announced a "Turnkey Package" developed to provide expedited online marketing and support for hotels going through Flag Loss or Brand Change.

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NewsFactor Network

Google Blog: Google Apps highlights

This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks.

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Macworld UK

Yahoo follows Google onto China's porn offense list

A Chinese government watchdog has ordered Yahoo China to clean pornographic content from a photo-sharing site it hosted, a reminder of the regulatory challenges often faced by foreign Internet companies in China.

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Technoccult

Murdoch: Wea ll probably remove our sites from Googlea s index

Rupert Murdoch has suggested that News Corporation is likely to make its content unfindable to users on Google when it launches its paid content starategy .

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Sales & Marketing Management

Multilingual Marketing: A Guide to Website Localization

By Christian Arno After graduating with a degree in French and Italian in 2001, I launched translation company Lingo24 , which now operates across four continents with more than 100 employees worldwide and a network of 4,000 freelance translators.

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Sun Nov 08, 2009

Customer Interaction Solutions

Biotech: EmailWire.Com Press Release Distribution Services Present Free Biotechnology Magazines

Posted by EmailWire.Com - a press release distribution service. Houston, TX i 1 2 Today, EmailWire.com, a online press release distribution and newswire services recommend free subscription to Biotechnology Magazines: http://groupweb.tradepub.com/?pt=cat&page=Biop . Bio-IT World - Indispensable Technologies Driving Drug Discovery, Development, and ...

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News.com.au

Apple's Jobs the 'CEO of the Decade'

FORTUNE magazine has crowned Apple top dog Steve Jobs "CEO of the Decade" in its newest edition.

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Donna's SecurityFlash

Vint Cerf: 'Google doesn't know who you are'

Interwebs founding father and Google evangelist Vint Cerf has insisted that when you search Google, the company doesn't know who you are.

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News.com.au

Checks 'missed doctor's fraud charge'

Queensland Health on Wednesday stood down Zimbabwe-trained Dr John Chibanda over concerns he was working outside the scope of his credentials at Emerald Hospital.

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NewsFactor

Software Development Kit Released for Android 2.0

Google has released a software development kit for Android 2.0, code-named Eclair.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Cameras, Keyboards, iPhone, Science / Technology, Apple, Cellphones

Sat Nov 07, 2009

The Independent

Google's lobbying spend passes $1m mark

Google's quarterly lobbying expenses eclipsed $1 million for the first time during the summer as the company tried to build on its dominance of internet search and expand into other markets.

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TechWeb.com

InformationWeek Analytics Research: Federated Search

Organizations are slow to adopt enterprise search systems that empower users to find data on the desktop, the network, and the Internet.

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PR-inside.com

Yahoo! to Participate at Upcoming Investor Conference

Yahoo! Inc. today announced that Dev Patel, vice president of Custom Solutions for the North America region, and David Kopp, senior director, Ad Products, will participate in a question and answer session at the Piper Jaffray Global Internet Summit.

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The Press On-Line

Dinner doodle gets girl on Google

SEARCH IS OVER: Amelia Abbott, 8, celebrates winning the New Zealand Doodle 4 Google competition, with Google webmaster Dennis Hwang.

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ComputerWorld

Q&A: isoHunt founder says P2P can help create post-piracy world

Gary Fung founded BitTorrent search engine isoHunt.com in 2003 when he was a 19-year-old student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

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The Courier Mail

Users spend most time at Microsoft sites

INDUSTRY tracker comScore today released a study showing that internet users in September spent more time at Microsoft websites that at any other online properties.

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Fri Nov 06, 2009

TechWhack News

MySpace continues to struggle against Facebook

Facebook opened up their network to anyone online a few years ago and they have been dominating ever since.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Will Google Books Settlement 2.0 quell concerns?

Monday is the deadline for Google Inc. and other parties in the landmark books lawsuit to submit a revised settlement proposal, but some already say it won't be enough to satisfy critics.

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ComputerWorld

The search market created Microsoft's worst enemy

Throughout its history, Microsoft has earned a reputation for tenacity when entering markets created, and initially dominated, by innovative startups.

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ComputerWorld

Palm shows Ares WebOS development tool

Coming by year's end, it's designed for easy application development for Pre and Pixi in a Web browser Palm will introduce a Web-based development environment for WebOS applications, called Ares, by the end of this year.

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TechCrunch

Google Has Music Search. Yahoo Responds By Searching YouTube For Music Videos.

Last week Google launched the Music Onebox - a special new music search product that lets users stream songs in their entirety for free.

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Hotel News Resource

VIZERGY(R) Webinars - Internet Marketing and Social Media

VIZERGY will present two free Webinars before years end on Internet marketing and social media for hoteliers.

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Thu Nov 05, 2009

Sunday Times

Internet censorship liable to WTO challenge: Study

Censorship of the Internet is open to challenge at the World Trade Organisation as it can restrict trade in services delivered online, a forthcoming study says.

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CNN

Google tries its hand at customer service

Known for its complex algorithms, Google is learning how to add live human support behind its walls.

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Mediabistro.com

Auletta: Google Considered Buying the New York Times

About two years ago, the mediaosphere was all abuzz with wonderings about whether Google was going to buy the New York Times .

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WPMT-TV York

Microsoft CEO: Windows 7 sales 'fantastic' in Japan so far, but new computers are key

Sales of Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows 7 operating system have been "fantastic" in Japan since its launch last month, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Google launches Dashboard privacy controls

Google has created a new 'dashboard' control panel to enable people to more easily adjust their privacy settings.

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MarketWatch

On the verge of independence, AOL weighs on parent

Media giant Time Warner Inc. disclosed Wednesday that it's on track to spin off AOL as an independent entity, even as the Internet unit's finances continue to sour.

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Wed Nov 04, 2009

MSNBC

Review: Motorola's Droid a serious smartphone

Since its debut in 2007, millions of people have gravitated toward Apple's iPhone, wooed by its sleek hardware, simple user interface and abundance of applications.

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China Daily

Writers stuck on apology over Google copyright dispute

BEIJING: Chinese writers Wednesday said they appreciated search engine firm Google's move to talk with them, but maintained their demand for an apology for copyright violation.

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Sunday Times

Yahoo teams with OneRiot on real-time search

Yahoo Inc, looking to match rivals in providing up-to-the-minute Internet search results, is running tests with several real-time search partners, sources familiar with the matter say.

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VentureBeat

Googlea s music search gets exclusive songs

Just in case Lala and MySpace's partnership with Google isn't doing enough to boost the music services, the company is announcing that quite a few musicians and record labels are offering exclusive content through Google's new music search to promote the new feature.

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InternetNews

Google Helps With the Password Juggle

Search giant joins Facebook and Plaxo in rolling out new technology aimed at decreasing password rage among users.

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Tue Nov 03, 2009

ABC News - Brian Ross

Microsoft Redesigns MSN, Adds Twitter, Facebook

Microsoft Corp. is giving its MSN Web portal a long-overdue makeover and says it hopes the new site will funnel more people to Bing, the software maker's search engine.

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Adotas

Turkey smacks Google with huge fine for unpaid taxes

Ouch - did it leave a mark when they slapped that fine on you? After a year-long investigation, the Turkish government has charged Google the equivalent of $47 million for dodging national taxes.

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The Dispatch

It Knows Where You Are, and What Youa re Looking For

Big Web companies and start-ups alike are scrambling to create the best applications to allow users to search for surrounding businesses and events from a mobile phone.

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Related Topix: Startups, Loopt, Cellphones, Internet, Science / Technology, iPhone, Emerging Technology, Local Search

San Jose Mercury News

Wolverton: Droid good but not great

Motorola's new Droid smartphone has attracted a fair amount of attention as quite possibly the toughest challenger yet for the iPhone.

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MacNN

Apple expands anti-Windows 7 campaign to Google search

Apple has turned to Google advertising in order to undermine Windows 7, observers note.

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MyFox St. Louis

Free song download service Qtrax to get traffic from China's Baidu.com in anti-piracy bid

A music service that plans to offer free song downloads said Monday that China's largest search engine will send users to the service in a deal that could cut online music piracy.

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Mon Nov 02, 2009

TechCrunch

Yahoo Gets A Mobile Search Deal In Germany. Google Shrugs.

Let's just check that again. What has happened is that Yahoo has entered into an exclusive, multi-year, partnership with O2 Germany to become the preferred partner for mobile search and services.

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Allaboutsymbian.com

Google Mobile Search adds voice, and multi-language too

Google's S60 'portal' search utility, 'Google Mobile App' just got itself an update to v2.03 , bringing voice searching - and it works rather impressively.

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680News

Ken Auletta's book tells story of Google and its many media rivals

Hill, Michael - "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It," by Ken Auletta is shown.

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Bizcommunity

New Yahoo! homepage lets people make the Web their own

Consumers can now personalise their Yahoo! experience with the best of the Web; customisable apps stay with you when you're mobile.

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Express India

Google world's most attractive employer

Stockholm/New Delhi: Internet search giant Google has emerged as the most sought after company for business as well as engineering graduates, according to two surveys, which term the company as the world's 'most attractive employer' followed closely by rival, Microsoft.

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The Auto Channel

Automotive Dealers Learn How to Leverage Google's Secrets to Achieve...

Optimizing relevance for consumers has been the key to success for Google and now executives at FirstLook, the pioneer in automotive retail performance solutions, are illustrating how this model can be the key to success for automotive dealers in their online vehicle advertising.

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Sun Nov 01, 2009

Mashable

4 Emerging Trends of the Real-Time Web

Bernard Moon is Managing Director of the Lunsford Group, which is a private holding company consisting of entities in technology, media, research & consulting, health care, and real estate.

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Stories

Resnikoff's Parting Shot: Want a Google Deal? Then Pay for It...

Who are the biggest winners in the Google music search partnership?A Well, Google is one clear-cut winner, and so are music fans.A But for the partners powering the content - MySpace Music, Lala, Imeem, Rhapsody, and others - the economics get complicated very quickly.A And over the long-run, it remains unclear if these partners will ultimately ...

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PR-inside.com

EmailWire.Com SEO Press Release Distribution Services on how to...

Posted by EmailWire.Com - a press release distribution service. Houston, TX - " EmailWire.Com, a Web 2.0 press release distribution services with SEO press releases today presents "Simplify the Complexity of your Data Center:" groupweb.tradepub.com/free/w_juni14/ - a white paper survival guide from Juniper Networks.

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Vnunet

Yahoo plans 42-acre campus in Santa Clara

Yahoo has shed staff and products in an effort to cut costs this year, but news has emerged that the firm is now planning to build a huge campus in Santa Clara, California.

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Viewpoint West Partners

Is Googlea s Behavioral Targeting A Bust? Only 25 Percent Of AdSense Publishers Use It

For advertisers on the Web, behavioral targeting is held out as the nirvana theya ve been waiting for: the ability to show ads only to those people most likely to be interested in them based on their past behavior.

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Related Topix: Privacy, Emerging Technology, Media, Yahoo!, Computers

New York Times

In China, Objections To Google's Book Scans

A long-running dispute over Google 's efforts to digitize books has spread this month to China, where authors have banded together to demand that their works be protected from what they call unauthorized copying.

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