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Google Talk For Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch

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I’m not particularly a part of the consolidated Google empire. I’ve got a Gmail account, but it’s relegated mainly to collecting spam, or messages from people who can’t remember my actual email address. But I know plenty of people who swear by Google's web-based email and its attendant calendar and chat programs.

And given that Google’s been making a habit of tuning its websites to be more iPhone friendly, it’s little surprise that they’ve created a new version of Google Talk, their instant messaging application, that’s specifically designed for the iPhone.

To access the new version, just surf to http://www.google.com/talk, and you’ll be launched into the stripped down interface. From there, you can view your contacts, send instant messages, and even set your status.

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Firefox 3 Boosts Browser's Market Share Over 19%

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Firefox 3 has experienced rapid market share gains since its release in mid-June, helping to push the Mozilla browser's overall share to more than 19%, a Web metrics firm said Wednesday.

Since its release June 17, Firefox 3's worldwide usage share has soared to more than 4%, Net Applications reported. In the first hour of its release, the latest version of the open source browser grabbed 1% of the global market.

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Viacom Wins Right to Cruise YouTube Records

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Google has been ordered to surrender the data of users that watch YouTube videos, including videos streamed on other websites, to Viacom.

The ruling (pdf) was made by Judge Stanton of the federal court for the Southern District of New York.

YouTube user data now available to Viacom includes usernames, videos viewed and IP addresses, which Viacom can use to identify some individuals through ISPs — making users potentially liable for copyrighted material they consumed, the same way the RIAA pursued peer-to-peer file sharers.

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Intel Bets on the Past and About Future of Chip Industry

Shakil published 01 Jul 08, 08:46 - 0 comments & 1 favs

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Intel’s 40th anniversary is July 18 and the world’s largest chipmaker is making a big bet on the past.

The Santa Clara, Calif., semiconductor maker would undoubtedly quibble with this characterization of its strategy for the next four decades. However, Patrick P. Gelsinger, an Intel senior vice president and one of the company’s leading technologists, stressed the crucial importance of the backward compatibility of the company’s future microprocessor chips during an informal press briefing he gave Monday to commemorate the company’s upcoming celebration.

The idea, according to Mr. Gelsinger, is that one of Intel’s chief advantages is that Microsoft’s MS-DOS operating system will be booting on the teraflop Intel microprocessor in the personal computer of the future.

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Free Album For First 100,000 Rhapsody MP3 Added

Shaon published 01 Jul 08, 08:22 - 0 comments & 1 favs

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RealNetworks opens its DRM-free music store with a bang

Heads up to all the music lovers out there: RealNetworks’ Rhapsody online music service opened up a new, DRM-free MP3 store, and it's giving away a free download of any $10 album to the first 100,000 people that sign up.

It’s important to note that at the time of this writing, it appears that the site is buckling under what I would hope to be a surge in traffic – most of my activities on the site generally result in a lengthy timeout followed by a black-text-on-white-background “Proxy Error”.

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Adobe Flash in Google and Yahoo! search

Morshad published 01 Jul 08, 06:59 - 0 comments & 1 favs

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Adobe Systems is working with Google and Yahoo! to improve the accuracy of searches for Flash ads and media by delivering an optimized version of its ubiquitous player.

Google is today expected to start offering searches of media content using a version of the player that'll help search engines index content using Adobe's Flash file format (SWF). Improved search from Yahoo! has been promised, although, as yet, there is no shipment date.

Adobe told The Register it's talked to different groups inside Microsoft to use the version of Flash Player with that company's struggling Live Search service. No agreement has been reached, and negotiations are no longer active, Adobe said.

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Google Media Server brings Google to your TV

Morshad published 28 Jun 08, 15:48 - 0 comments & 1 favs

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A new gadget for Google Desktop called Google Media Server allows you to take content found on your computer or online Google services like YouTube and Picasa Web Albums, and shares it with UPnP compatible devices like the PS3. Unfortunately, as explained in the discussion group, Google Media Server does not work with Xbox — they integrating is technically possible, but their legal department won’t let them do it.

Initial reviews aren’t spectacular, but the software is beta, and I think it’s a good start.

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Yahoo’s shares head for their lowest close since Microsoft

Morshad published 27 Jun 08, 20:48 - 0 comments & 1 favs

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As Yahoo’s shares head for their lowest close since Microsoft made public its takeover offer on February 1, it isn’t hard to find Yahoo critics both inside and outside the company.

We have heard from a number of employees and executives, not to mention shareholders, who have grown increasingly frustrated about the slow pace of change and the endless rounds of reorganizations, the latest of which was announced Thursday. (Of course, we also hear from people inside Yahoo who still back the current management and corporate strategy.)

Yahoo stock price over a six-month time frame.

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Bill Gates says does not think Yahoo deal easily

Shakil published 27 Jun 08, 17:46 - 0 comments & 1 favs

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NEW YORK - Microsoft's Bill Gates told journalist Tom Brokaw he does not think a deal with Yahoo Inc was likely, CNBC reported on Friday.

Microsoft had sought a tie-up with Yahoo for more than a year and by early May had offered up to $47.5 billion, or $33 per share, to buy the Internet company.

The software giant had hoped a Yahoo deal would accelerate its ability to capitalize on Web advertising growth and compete with Google Inc, which is increasingly fighting for the same Internet audience.

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Does Yahoo reorg signal cloud computing move?

Shaon published 27 Jun 08, 17:21 - 0 comments & 1 favs

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Announcement of a cloud computing and data infrastructure group has some wondering if Yahoo plans to enter the market for hosted IT services like Google and Amazon

Under fire from angry shareholders and rocked by a stream of high-profile executive departures, embattled Yahoo on Thursday announced another reorganization, one which includes the formation of a cloud computing and data infrastructure group. The move has some analysts speculating that Yahoo may have plans to enter the market for hosted IT services like Google and Amazon have done.

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