If Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s
crystal ball is good enough to predict the future five years out, here’s what we could be looking at, news delivery-wise, a scant half-decade from now.
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Bing a Better Way to Search from MicrosoftPerhaps the best thing we can say about
Bing,
Microsoft’s new foray into the search arena, is that it might just be . . . well, pretty good. ...
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Traditional brick-and-mortar businesses, those old-fashioned businesses with a physical address, now have even more reason to like
Google: free analytics. As reports
TechCrunch, by claiming their listing profiles on
Google Local, businesses now will ...
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Have you ever Googled yourself to see what is out there about you? Or maybe someone you're dating to get some background info that maybe they're not telling you (dating 101)? Well now Google is allowing you to control what ...
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Two days after
Google rolled out additional features for its
Google App Engine,
Yahoo has announced additional tools for
Yahoo Search BOSS, reports
eWeek. BOSS, or Build Your Own Search ...
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Online digital heath records—the kind controlled by patients—have been available for years, but the trick is to get people to use them in the first place, reports the
New York Times. And aside from concerns about privacy—a significant ...
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Not content in doing practically everything there is to do online,
Google has now branched out into the venture capital business with
Google Ventures, a venture capital arm of parent company Google charged with the broad-reaching ...
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Two
Google engineers, T.V. Raman and Charles Chen developed an app for the
T-Mobile G1 the device can be used eyes free, reported the
New York Times. T.V. Raman, who is blind, says the app is not ...
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YouTube and
Disney have announced a partnership that will smooth the way for
ABC and
ESPN content to appear on YouTube, the number one online video site. But don’t look for any full-length ...
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Google is developing technology that would connect its TV advertising business to
YouTube, giving marketers a seamless way to buy advertising space on both venues, as well as additional websites, reports the
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Not so long ago, you could have collected enough of those “Try
AOL for Free” installation disks to shoot skeet—for free—for the rest of your life. The move may have backfired for AOL, but in the Great Recession ...
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In what appears to be a direct shot at the
Amazon Kindle,
Sony and
Google are teaming up to give users of the
Sony Reader access to more than 500,000 public domain ...
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Decreasing the total cost of development and deployment . . . lowering the complexity . . . leveraging standard technologies and tools. With hundreds of mobile phone service providers, thousands of devices, and scores of operating systems to choose from, ...
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Long a sideline sitter on the behavioral advertising playing field, web giant
Google will now start selling display and text ads using behavioral advertising, reports the
Wall Street Journal. The practice, which places advertising on the ...
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Internet search ad behemoth
Google and advertising communications giant
WPP announced a $4.6 million, three year program to study the interplay between advertisements in traditional media and digital media in influencing consumer decisions, reports the ...
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Google acquired GrandCentral in July 2007 and has been quiet about it since, until now.
Google has created a new and improved service,
Google Voice, that was available to existing GrandCentral customers last Thursay. The GrandCentral technology ...
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Beyond the web’s surface level lies a seemingly inexhaustible wealth of data that, if tapped properly by search engines, could transform the internet as we know it,
speculates Alex Wright in the New York Times. Tapping into this ...
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A recent two-hour
Google mail outage is raising some concerns about Software As a Service’s reliability, reports the
Wall Street Journal.
“Any time there is a failure it creates concern,” said John Dohm, vice president of information ...
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In a keynote address at a conference today in Orlando, FL,
Yahoo executives Joanne Bradford, senior vice president of US revenue and market development, and Michael Walrath, senior vice president, encouraged marketers to stop thinking about search and ...
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On January 15, 2009, the
European Commission sent a
Statement of Objections (SO) to
Microsoft outlining the Commission’s preliminary view that Microsoft’s tying of
Internet Explorer to its
Windows operating ...
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Google’s G1 smart phone, the first phone to carry Google’s
Android mobile operating system, made a big
splash when it was released last year, but now some consumer advocates are wondering whether ...
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Google rocked the newspaper industry when it announced it would not be selling any more paper ads. The Google Print Ads program will be terminated on February 28, 2009 after a two year run. Google no longer sees the ...
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This week,
Google released data indicating its data centers are getting
greener.
Urs Hölzle, Google's senior vice president of operations,
announced that the average power and cooling overhead in any Google-designed data center with an ...
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Google watchers everywhere are abuzz that the long-rumored GDrive—an online storage arrangement that could store all of a user’s data—may indeed become a reality, sooner rather than later.
Igniting the current flare-up of rumors was a discovery by Google watcher ...
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Tuesday
Google announced
Gmail is now available offline, reported the
New York Times. My first thought was, "How is this possible?".
Apparently a "downfall" of email is the fact that documents aren't available when you don't have an ...
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The
Wall Street Journal reports that hard economic times might be giving online advertisers the upper hand when it comes to forcing online sites to overlook the unwritten standards that govern what’s proper when it comes to online ...
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Every second of every day,
Google searches are answering people’s queries, whether those questions be who won the best actress award at the Golden Globes, or how much does and elephant weigh. Google serves up answers to those burning ...
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Microsoft announced a five year deal with
Verizon Wireless at the Consumer Electronics Show Wednesday. Internet Explorer will be the default search engine on Verizon cell phones as opposed to Microsoft's rival
Google. This news comes at ...
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Long the dominant web browser for
Microsoft Windows users, Microsoft’s flagship
Internet Explorer web browser saw erosion in total users during the last half of 2008, reports the
Wall Street Journal.
According to ...
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Google is the most popular search engine in the United States, accounting for a little more than 61% of all online searches. (
Nielsen Online). Capitalizing on the success of its search service, Google launched AdWords in 2000, giving advertisers ...
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