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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Google opens geographic search interface

BURLINGAME, Calif.--Google added a new element to its search interface that will let others' Web sites use geographically linked information.

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Your Car Gets an API

Dash Navigation has launched an API allowing third party services to build killer in-car experiences. Need to know the name of the song on the radio? Want to know what houses are for sale around you? What's the weather at your destination? Where are the speed traps are nearby? Dash's new platform applications answer these questions and more.

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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

New Google Service Turns Web Pages into Networking Sites

To socialize these days, hundreds of millions of people every month turn to social networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook.

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First look: Google's high-flying cloud for Python code

Google App Engine simplifies the problem of deploying and scaling Web applications, but not without a few wrinkles and question marks

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Monday, May 12, 2008

Where to for google?

This article covers some of the issues facing google and where should they be going next.

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Saturday, May 03, 2008

Digg makes official its adoption of Semantic Web standard

It could be the very thing the Web has lacked all these years, even with its wealth of intermingled hyperlinks: a markup language for conclusively identifying context. Now, Digg is making the bold attempt to be its biggest "beta tester."

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Google and IBM are bonding in a serious way

While Microsoft chases Yahoo, Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO and chairman is seeking a stronger relationship with IBM, something in which Big Blue's chairman and CEO, Sam Palmisano, appears very interested.

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MIT reinvents the Post-It note... with Post-It notes

They must be expensive, but what's cooler than RFID post-its?

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Monday, April 21, 2008

iGoogle: Google's New Social Network

Today, Google opened up a developer sandbox for iGoogle. The sandbox includes support for OpenSocial.

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How Big Is Google? Heres Another Measure

Google earned $803 million, about £407 million, in the United Kingdom in the first quarter. If you assume that rate won’t grow, that makes £1.6 billion for the year. And since Google’s British earnings are up 40 percent from a year ago, it is a safe bet it will grow.

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Friday, April 18, 2008

Man Spends 2 Hours Withdrawing £10000 at cash machine

CCTV shows the cashpoint thief who plundered £10,000 in just two hours using 49 cloned credit cards

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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Google Earth Adds Audio Tours

The addition of SkyScout Audio Tours will guide users through an interactive tour of the night sky that includes detailed information on all of the planets, stars, galaxies, clusters, nebulae, constellations, and asterisms that make up the universe.

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