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Websites Ally Against Google To Launch Program That Rivals Local Biz Tags
Watch out Google! A band of smaller Internet rivals are forging alliance in hopes of jump-starting online local ad sales in the face of global search engine leader Google Inc.’s growing clout in the market, the Wall Street Journal reports… |
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Skype Releases iPhone Video Calling Over 3G And Wi-Fi To Rival FaceTime
As it was touted, Skype has finally stepped up to the competition by adding two-way video chatting to its VoIP iPhone app! Skype has finally got the bells ringing in 2011 with the addition of video calling to its Skype for iPhone App including video calling and 3G access… |
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Google Woos Publishers To Digital Newsstand: Report
Think of it as an old-fashioned circulation war in the digital age, substituting tablets for tabloids. Global search engine leader Google Inc has approached several newspaper and magazine publishers to garner support from for creating its own digital newsstand, in a move that could open a new frontier in the Internet company’s rivalry with Apple Inc., which… |
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Microsoft Restores Hotmail Service After Outage Affected 17K Users Over New Year’s Weekend
Software monopolists Microsoft Corp.s Hotmail service, the world’s most-used online email system, suffered an outage that erased e-mail and folders, over New Year’s weekend, which affected more than 17,000 users, but on Monday insisted that the problem has since been resolved… |
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Intel, GE Healthcare In Joint Venture Opens “Care Innovations” For The Elderly
Remote health care is poised to become big business in the coming decade as baby boomers continue to age. Intel Corp., and General Electric Co., have joined forces to develop a health care alliance back in April of 2009. On Monday the duo officially announced the launch of “Care Innovations,” a joint venture focused on… |
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Google Formally Adds Vizio As New Google TV Partner
Sony and Logitech have been leading the Google TV charge up to this point, but from now onwards, the search engine behemoth has added another manufacturer from Irvine, California-based Vizio to its roster… |
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Amazon Preps Kindle Optimized For Android And Windows Phone 7
Undoubtedly, it is now crystal clear that following Amazon’s success with Kindle on the iPad, and besides some of its competitors have been doing pretty well too, Kindle was recently revealed to be Amazon’s best-selling product ever, on Tuesday, the etailer announced that it is now tailoring free Kindle to a slew of other devices… |
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Google Prepping In-House NFC Retail Mobile Payment Service: Report
According to reports swirling in BusinessWeek, says that Google is developing its own NFC-based wireless payment system that could go tête-à-tête with not just possible options from Apple but also upcoming industry standards, a pair of insiders said Tuesday… |
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Yahoo Targets Google’s Turf Via “Connected TV” With Leading TV Networks
The struggling, Sunnyvale, Calif.–based Web pioneer Yahoo! Inc., is staking a claim in interactive advertising, is out to build on its lead over Google and Apple in the emerging smart television market projected to prosper as televisions and set-top boxes offer Web connections, today announced that it is introducing an innovative consumer experience for TV… |
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Tivizen Brings Mobile Digital TV To iPhones, iPads And iPod Touch This Year: CES
At CES this week, things are kicking off here in Vegas. Looking for a little live TV on the go for your iPad? Well, the Open Mobile Video Coalition alliance is presenting a slew of new mobile TV devices, and as long as you stay in the right coverage area, you will be able to receive live broadcasts delivered directly to your Apple mobile device with the Tivizen iUS-100 receiver from Korea-based Valups… |
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Amazon Setting Up Android Application Store — Opens To Developers
With millions of applications flying off of the virtual shelves every day, Amazon.com on Wednesday officially disclosed that it has launched its own Appstore Developer Portal, aimed at enabling Android developers to submit their apps for the launch of the Amazon Appstore for Android that will open later this year. The date of this launch is still undetermined… |
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Google Dazzles CES With Android Honeycomb Demonstration
Relentlessly striving to keep its products in the limelight, search engine behemoth Google took to the stage to show off a preview of its hotly awaited, tablet-optimized Android 3.0, aka “Honeycomb,” during a keynote speech Thursday at the CES in Las Vegas… |
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Skype Gobbles Mobile Video Streaming Service “Qik” For $100 Million At CES
Skype, a powerhouse in the arena of voice and video chat over the Net has embarked on a shopping spree, said Thursday that it had agreed to acquire “Qik,” a California-based outfit offering mobile software and services that let you capture and share video across phones as well as desktops and the web, the company announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas… |
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Google Apps Ups Ante To Fight Against Spam With Auto Email Signing
Email spam is, of course, a dogging problem, even if the total amount has fallen recently. Now the search engine giant Google is claiming to be the first among major email vendors in responding by providing a digital signature option at no additional cost to its Google Apps for business customers, the technology that is designed to snuff out spam and… |
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Search Engine News Updates: January 01-07-2011
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