Saturday, November 21, 2009

Google takes the wraps off its Chrome OS

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 Google this week invited much of the technology press to an event at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters to demonstrate Chrome OS, which it is developing for Netbooks as a new type of operating system.     It was the first time the company has displayed the OS to the public. The good news? It's a lot like the Chrome browser as we know it. The bad news? Unless you speak code, you're going to have to wait awhile to use it.
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November 21, 2009
Google's Chrome OS gets unveiled

Google this week invited much of the technology press to an event at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters to demonstrate Chrome OS, which it is developing for Netbooks as a new type of operating system.

It was the first time the company has displayed the OS to the public. The good news? It's a lot like the Chrome browser as we know it. The bad news? Unless you speak code, you're going to have to wait awhile to use it.


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Yahoo adds photos, tweets to news search
Posted by Tom Krazit
Yahoo this week added more context to news searches, bringing photos, videos, and even tweets into its search results page. Users have long been able to find links to news stories about a given search query through the shortcut, but you can now find other ways of telling the story with the new tabs.  Read more 
Six Apart releases tiny blog tool, TypePad Micro
Posted by Rafe Needleman
Blog platform company Six Apart is adding a free, miniaturized blogging service to its paid blog-hosting service TypePad. The new TypePad Micro service is essentially a simplified template, called Chroma, for unpaid users on the TypePad service. It will likely be compared with Posterous and Tumblr.  Read more 
Adobe releases new Flash, AIR betas
Posted by Stephen Shankland
Adobe Labs this week released test versions of two closely related foundations for Net-based applications, Flash Player 10.1 and AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) 2. Flash is widely used to bring streaming video, interactive graphics, and games to browsers; AIR, with Flash built in, is a foundation for other desktop applications.  Read more 
Woot launches site for Web deals
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
Popular online shopping site Woot is set to expand its network of sites into new territory: deal hunting. Unlike some of the site's other properties, which offer a new item for purchase either on a daily or weekly basis (be it gadgets, wine, T-shirts, or kids toys), the new Deals.Woot service gets a steady stream of things to buy throughout the day. It's also run almost entirely by Woot's community. There are sponsored deals that have been hand-picked by Woot's editors, but users do the rest.  Read more 
Browser security features compared
Posted by Dennis O'Reilly
Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3, Google Chrome 4, Apple's Safari 4, and Opera 10 include features that block sites known to host malware and malicious downloads. All but Opera also let you browse without leaving any tracks. But just as important as these protections is ensuring that whichever browser you use is thoroughly patched.  Read more 
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Firefox-syncing Weave updates to beta
Posted by Seth Rosenblatt
Mozilla's homegrown tool for synchronizing Firefox across computers and devices graduates to beta and introduces incremental syncing and a more streamlined, less obtrusive experience. Mozilla Weave 1.0 beta 1 looks and feels far more polished than its predecessors.  Read more 
With IE 9, Microsoft fights back in browser wars
Posted by Stephen Shankland
With this week's unveiling of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft showed it's trying to retake the browser initiative. IE remains the Net's dominant browser. But perversely, it became something of a technology underdog after Microsoft vanquished Netscape in the browser wars of the 1990s and scaled back its browser effort.  Read more 

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Week in review: Browser breakthroughs

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From Azure to Windows 7 to Firefox, operating systems and browsers grabbed headlines this week as Google proved, with its unveiling of Chrome OS, how interrelated they are.
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Week in review: Browser breakthroughs

From Azure to Windows 7 to Firefox, operating systems and browsers grabbed headlines this week as Google proved, with its unveiling of Chrome OS, how interrelated they are.

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5.  Mozilla not interested in building a Firefox OS
6.  Feds: Top e-tailers profit from billion-dollar Web scam
7.  AT&T loses first legal battle against Verizon ads
8.  AOL: We need to fire 2,500 'volunteers'
9.  Antitrust concerns linger in Google Books deal
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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Week in review: Pre-holiday buying spree

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Lots of big tech players go shopping, while Intel closes antitrust deal. Also: Windows 7 inspired by Mac OS?
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Week in review: Pre-holiday buying spree

Lots of big tech players go shopping, while Intel closes antitrust deal. Also: Windows 7 inspired by Mac OS?

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2.  Google to acquire AdMob for $750 million
3.  EA picks up Playfish for social gaming push
4.  Intel to pay AMD $1.25 billion in antitrust settlement
5.  Windows 7 use continues to climb
6.  Microsoft bans 1 million Xbox Live players
7.  Google hopes to remake programming with Go
8.  Research: Twitter has yet to grow into valuation
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10.  Verizon tests sending RIAA copyright notices



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Smartphone users, keep complaining
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Bing gets a fall refresh

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 This week Microsoft added several new features to its Bing service, the most noticeable being "hover," which lets you see what Web pages look like before you click on them.     The update also includes the first fruits of a deal with Wolfram Alpha. As part of that arrangement, certain health related searches, such as "how many calories in a hamburger" will now feature information from Alpha. Bing will also rely on Alpha for some math calculations.    Other changes to Bing include improved local results for topics such as weather and events.  The company also announced some enhancements to Bing Maps, including the ability to use the mouse to alter a suggested route and have one's directions re-calculated.
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Microsoft's Bing gets a fall refresh

This week Microsoft added several new features to its Bing service, the most noticeable being "hover," which lets you see what Web pages look like before you click on them.

The update also includes the first fruits of a deal with Wolfram Alpha. As part of that arrangement, certain health related searches, such as "how many calories in a hamburger" will now feature information from Alpha. Bing will also rely on Alpha for some math calculations.

Other changes to Bing include improved local results for topics such as weather and events. The company also announced some enhancements to Bing Maps, including the ability to use the mouse to alter a suggested route and have one's directions re-calculated.


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Google hopes Go will give a browser boost
Posted by Stephen Shankland
Google, ever eager to renovate the computing industry for the benefit of the Web and its own business, is working to link two nascent but potentially significant projects, its experimental Go programming language and its Chrome Web browser. Specifically, the company is building a foundation to let programs written in Go run directly within a Web browser endowed with Google's Native Client software.  Read more 
Twitter issues mulligan on new 'retweet' feature
Posted by Caroline McCarthy
It was a controversial new addition: Twitter had just started rolling out a new feature that built "retweets," a user-created way to quote other tweets, into the main Twitter application. But on Wednesday, plagued by errors, Twitter appears to have pulled the feature for further maintenance.  Read more 
Clicker launches for all--watch it
Posted by Rafe Needleman
The online video directory service Clicker launched this week. If you watch TV, you will love this site. Clicker is not a full-on video search engine like Bing or Google, and it's not a video-viewing site like Hulu. It is, instead, a carefully curated directory of full-length video content, with several extremely nice features and user interface flourishes that make it a good first stop online if you're looking for an episode of your favorite show to watch.  Read more 
Google cuts Picasa photo storage prices
Posted by Stephen Shankland
Google has cut the price to store photos at its Picasa Web Albums site by a factor of eight. The photo-sharing site offers 1GB of photo and video storage for free, but now going beyond that limit costs less. The options now range from $5 a year for 20GB to $4,096 a year for a whopping 16 terabytes.  Read more 
Two new remote Webcams: Mole and Vue
Posted by Rafe Needleman
The entry hall in my house has been a test bed for home monitoring cameras for years. I like to be able to record people coming into the house and see what's going on around the front door. Anyone with a family and occasional babysitters will understand. So I continue to look for simple, robust video-monitoring solutions, and vendors keep obliging by improving the state of the art in home remote cameras. The latest: Two interesting and very different products...  Read more 
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Google launches Maps tool for finding flu vaccine
Posted by Don Reisinger
Google this week announced a new Maps feature to help make it easier to determine the availability of flu vaccine. Users can now visit Google's new flu shot Google Maps page to find out if there is any vaccine available in their area. The tool will also be made available on the U.S. government's flu page, as well as the American Lung Association's site.  Read more 
Facebook photo tagging gets automated
Posted by Matthew Fitzgerald
After a trial release in July, Face.com this week, launched Photo Tagger to the public. Photo Tagger is a free third-party application for Facebook that uses facial recognition technology to automatically tag photos of people. Facebook users can use Photo Tagger to automatically tag their photos, it uses facial recognition software to tag all of the photos in an album.  Read more 

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Firefox's first 3.6 beta arrives

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 Those keen to try out Mozilla's latest browser--and its new process to update the software more frequently--now can try Firefox 3.6 beta 1 for Windows, Mac, or Linux.    New features in 3.6 include personas, which let people customize the browser appearance; faster execution of Web-based JavaScript programs; better browser responsiveness; and faster start-up time.     Firefox is at the vanguard of the second generation of browser wars. Although it competes with Google's Chrome, Apple's Safari, and Opera, all those browsers are also allied in a way against Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which though dominant is relatively slow at some tasks and only now complying more fully with Web page standards of yesteryear. The rivals, meanwhile, are pushing ahead with new features...
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Mozilla releases first beta of Firefox 3.6

Those keen to try out Mozilla's latest browser--and its new process to update the software more frequently--now can try Firefox 3.6 beta 1 for Windows, Mac, or Linux.

New features in 3.6 include personas, which let people customize the browser appearance; faster execution of Web-based JavaScript programs; better browser responsiveness; and faster start-up time.

Firefox is at the vanguard of the second generation of browser wars. Although it competes with Google's Chrome, Apple's Safari, and Opera, all those browsers are also allied in a way against Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which though dominant is relatively slow at some tasks and only now complying more fully with Web page standards of yesteryear. The rivals, meanwhile, are pushing ahead with new features...


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Google Dashboard lifts curtain on stored data
Posted by Tom Krazit
Google is launching Google Dashboard, a service that lets you log into a console and see all the personal data that the company maintains on a Google Account user across all its products, from Gmail and YouTube to Blogger and Picasa. It allows users to log into the settings page of their Google account and review links to the personal data stored by Google across many of its products from a single Web page.  Read more 
Integrated retweet on its way to Twitter
Posted by Don Reisinger
Retweeting has become such an important part of Twitter use that the social network announced that its rollout of integrated retweeting has finally begun. In essence, the new retweet button will work much in the same way the "reply" option works on the site already. Users will need only to click the retweet button and their status-update box will be populated with the desired tweet.  Read more 
An unofficial way to 'dislike' things on Facebook
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
Facebook's "like" feature has been around since February, but the massive social network never provided users with a way to quickly voice their opinions going the other way. Want to add it anyway? We've got a Firefox extension for you that does just that.  Read more 
How-to: Preview search results in Google, Bing
Posted by Jessica Dolcourt
If you browse the Web with Firefox, free extension SearchPreview breaks up text blocks by inserting thumbnail images of the site's homepage to the left of the text, where your eye naturally goes. If you're unsure which of the many returned links you really want, a glance at the thumbnails could settle the dispute.  Read more 
Amazon gets social with Twitter integration
Posted by Dave Rosenberg
Amazon.com this week rolled out an interesting new feature that allows Amazon Associate members to broadcast links to Amazon products via their Twitter accounts. Associates can now simply click a link in the toolbar to send a link (replete with sales-y text) to Twitter as part of their shopping and selling experience. Amazon gets a sale, Twitter gets traffic, and the associate gets revenue share. What could possibly go wrong?  Read more 
All about Google Voice
BT's Ribbit releasing Google Voice competitor
Posted by Rafe Needleman
Sure, Google Voice is cool, but it's not necessarily the best Web-meets-phone service one can imagine, is it? The field is still open, and switchboard-in-the-cloud company Ribbit (a division of BT) will stir things up when users get their hands on Ribbit Mobile, a new telephony service for consumers.  Read more 
Your best 'worst' Google Voice transcription errors
Posted by Jessica Dolcourt
Last week, we shared three of our wackiest mistranscribed voice messages from Google Voice and asked you to pass along the funniest flubs from your own in-box. Your hilarious samples poured in through comments and e-mails. We've rounded up some fine specimens of voice mail meanings that were definitely lost in translation in our gallery.  Read more 

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Week in review: Microsoft getting lucky with 7?

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Sales and usage of new OS are up, while Intel attracts additional antitrust attention. Also: AT&T has a lawyer for that app ad.
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Week in review: Microsoft getting lucky with 7?

Sales and usage of new OS are up, while Intel attracts additional antitrust attention. Also: AT&T has a lawyer for that app ad.

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