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Microsoft Could Pay More to Be on More Phones
9 days ago
Deals are in the works to make Microsoft the default search and advertising provider for Verizon mobile phones, one of the biggest carrier networks in the US. That would mean Redmond replacing Goog .......
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Romanes Eunt Domus: Ancient Rome Comes to Google Earth
9 days ago
For a lot of students, the history of ancient Rome is not exactly a gripping subject. Google, together with the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) .......
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AdaptiveBlue: "How and Why We Made Glue"
9 days ago
_ Editor's note: we're currently running a series of 'Sponsor Posts', focused on use cases and technology background. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want them to .......
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What's Hot on the Web Right Now? OneRiot Aims to Tell You
9 days ago
What am I missing? And more importantly, what am I missing that other people are seeing? It's those kinds of questions that drive millions of people to the Web - and to social news sites - on a dai .......
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Local News Service Near.ly Shows Off Outside.in's New API
9 days ago
A newly launched service called near.ly sends you links to news and blogs posts that are happening in your area. The news items ("nearlies") are sent to you via a Twitter direct message that consi .......
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Two Mobile Operating Systems, One Phone
9 days ago
VMware Brings Virtualization To Mobile Phones VMware , a company known for their virtualization software for the desktop and datacenter, recently announced their plans to bring that software to .......
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Google Flu Trends: A Glimpse into the Future of Google Health
9 days ago
It stands to reason that people who are "starting to come down with something" often take the opportunity to search for information on what ails them, even before they discuss their symptoms with a .......
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Would You Manage Your Money Through The Newspaper?
9 days ago
Wesabe and the UK Telegraph Think You Might Online money management service Wesabe and the UK newspaper giant The Telegraph have entered a partnership to offer co-branded tools on the Telegrap .......
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Google Launches Video and Voice Chat for Gmail
9 days ago
Google today announced a major update for Gmail: video and voice chat. To make this work, users only have to install a small browser plugin . Google will start enabling these new features for all G .......
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Explore the Smart Companies That Sponsor ReadWriteWeb
9 days ago
At ReadWriteWeb we work hard to provide you with the smartest Internet news and reviews each and every day. The sponsors that give us the opportunity to spend our time writing are companies that a .......
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NYT's Vivian Schiller Leaves to Become New CEO of NPR: Sam Whitmore Responds
9 days ago
What do you get when you move the head of digital media at one of the world's leading old-school press outfits into the CEO's office of an even hipper large music and news organization? We don't kn .......
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VideoSurf Adds Film Strips to Videos in Your Search Results
9 days ago
Search engines are great at retrieving textual information, but even though a lot of search results today are actually videos, most search engines still only display a text link to those videos. A .......
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DeepDyve: Indexing the Deep Web
10 days ago
DeepDyve is a new search engine that is aimed at students, academics, and knowledge workers. DeepDyve's mission is to index the 'deep web ' that is hidden behind pay walls and subscription fees. W .......
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Facebook Mobile Sees 3X Growth to 15 Million Users This Year
10 days ago
Facebook announced last night that the company has seen users of its mobile site, m.facebook.com , jump from 5 million to 15 million this year. The most recent change made to the site, allowing co .......
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Google Maps Now Available For Blackberry Enterprise Server Distribution
10 days ago
The iPhone may have outsold RIM's Blackberry devices here in the U.S., but Google knows that getting their software in the hands of business execs still means building Blackberry apps. The company .......
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Google, If Built By Librarians
10 days ago
What would Google look like if it was built by librarians? We're about to find out. A project called "Reference Extract ," has a goal of building a web search engine where the weight of the search .......
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Opera Mini 4.2 Beta Promises Faster Mobile Browsing
10 days ago
With the release of Google Chrome and the continued popularity of Mozilla Firefox, the browser wars are seeing a bit of a renaissance. But as interesting as the renewed battle for the desktop may b .......
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The New MySpace Profiles: Granular Privacy, W3C Compliance
11 days ago
MySpace launched "Profile version 2.0" late last night and a number of the changes are quite significant. The two biggest in our minds are the ability to set different privacy controls for differe .......
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New Version Of OrbLive iPhone App Streams Live TV Over 3G
11 days ago
In the past, any iPhone apps that streamed live video were restricted by Apple. The apps could only use Wi-Fi or EDGE, and not AT&T's 3G network, if they wanted App Store approval. Yesterday, thoug .......
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Coming Soon To Chrome: Google Bookmarks?
11 days ago
Is Google finally going to do something with their bookmarking tool, Google Bookmarks ? It's possible. In the latest builds of the Chromium project , the open source implementation of the Google Ch .......
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