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Google Learns To Crawl Flash

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:51:00 +0000

Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, they have improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe's Flash Player technology. Click Here To Know More

Google To Offer Audience Measures For Advertisers

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:30:00 +0000

Google Inc (GOOG.O) will offer advertisers a free media planning tool to help them locate target audiences on the Web, posing a challenge to existing Web measurement firms. Click Here To Know More

First Glimpse Of Mars Pole

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:38:00 +0000

A NASA probe sent back never-before-seen pictures of Mars' north pole Monday, in the most ambitious mission to date to find life-sustaining minerals on the Red Planet.

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Scientists Witness Start Of Star's Explosive Death

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:03:00 +0000

In a stroke of cosmic luck, astronomers for the first time witnessed the start of one of the universe's most fiery events: the end of a star's life as it exploded into a supernova.

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Universe Suddenly Twice As Bright

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:13:00 +0000

The universe is twice as bright as it appears, astronomers now suggest.The light bulb went on when they calculated that dust blocks about the half the light emitted from stars and galaxies.

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AOL To Buy Bebo Social Network For $850 Mln

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:35:00 +0000

Time Warner Inc's AOL Internet division will buy social network Bebo for $850 million in cash, bolstering its consumer Web offerings even as the media conglomerate mulls splitting off the business.

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Missile Hits Dying US Spy Satellite

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:49:00 +0000

Navy missile soaring 130 miles above the Pacific smashed a dying and potentially deadly U.S. spy satellite Wednesday and probably destroyed a tank carrying 1,000 pounds of toxic fuel.

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Microsoft Eyes Yahoo To Topple Google

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:14:00 +0000

Unable to topple Google Inc. on its own, Microsoft Corp. is trying to force crippled rival Yahoo Inc. into a shotgun marriage, with a wager worth nearly $42 billion that the two companies together will have a better chance of tackling the Internet search leader.

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Oracle To Buy BEA For $8.5 Billion

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:34:00 +0000

Notching another conquest in its push to create a one-stop shop for business software, Oracle Corp. is snapping up rival BEA Systems Inc. for $8.5 billion in a deal culminated after several months of acrimony.

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Facebook Hack Fuels Web 2.0 Concerns

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:49:00 +0000

San Francisco - Researchers at security gateway vendor Fortinet have uncovered an adware-distribution scheme being carried out on the Facebook social networking site considered to be the first attack propagated on the wildly popular online portal.

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IBM To Buy Israeli Startup For $300 Million

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:56:00 +0000

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N) is in advanced talks to buy Israeli start-up XIV Information Systems for $300 million to $350 million.

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52-Inch Multi-Touch Display Unveiled

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:12:00 +0000

LG.Philips LCD on Monday said it will unveil at the Consumer Electronics Show a 52-inch multi-touch screen designed for advertising and other commercial uses.

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Google Siphons Searchers From Yahoo, Microsoft

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:17:00 +0000

Google increased its share of the U.S. Internet search engine market in October, taking share away from rivals Yahoo and Microsoft, according to market researcher ComScore.

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Architecture's Space In The Sun

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:13:00 +0000

Paris's newest museum opened to little fanfare in September this year. The Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, which wraps around the shadow of the Eiffel Tower across the Seine, is the world's biggest, and arguably its only serious, museum of architecture.

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Apple Unleashes Leopard Operating System

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:41:00 +0000

Apple Inc.'s delayed update to the Mac OS X operating system is hitting store shelves as consumers are increasingly snapping up Macintosh computers to complement their iPods and iPhones.

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Nokia To Launch Touch-Screen Version Of S60 Software

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:50:00 +0000

Nokia (NOK1V.HE), the world's largest cellphone maker, said on Tuesday a touch-screen version of its popular S60 smartphone software would be ready in 2008.

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Vodafone Tech Change Stings Mobile Web Designers

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:11:00 +0000

Mobile developers around the world are in an uproar over a change Vodafone Group PLC has made in the U.K. that dramatically decreases the quality of their products and that they fear could prevent new and innovative mobile services from reaching the market.

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First Look: 16GB iPod Touch

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:44:00 +0000

This beautifully designed media player is like a slim iPhone sans phone--but it's marred by some early hardware and software issues.

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Yahoo To Sell Ads For Social Network Bebo

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:15:00 +0000

Yahoo will sell display advertising for Bebo, the first such deal Yahoo has secured with a social networking site.

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Yahoo Buying Ad Network For $300 Million

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:21:00 +0000

Yahoo Inc. is buying online advertising network BlueLithium for $300 million in cash, building upon an expansion aimed at ending a financial malaise that has ravaged the Internet pioneer's stock price.

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Oracle To Buy Netsure Telecom

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:15:00 +0000

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Business software company Oracle Corp (ORCL.O) said it agreed to buy Netsure Telecom Ltd, a maker of network related software, for an undisclosed sum.

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Google Opens Click-Fraud Site

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:40:00 +0000

Google Inc. has unveiled a Web site "resource center" focused on the thorny issue of click fraud, which many consider a potential threat to the company's main source of revenue: pay-per-click advertising.

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Nokia Warns Consumers Of Battery Overheating Risks

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:01:00 +0000

Nokia (NOK1V.HE) warned consumers that 46 million batteries used in its mobile phones could overheat and offered to replace them for free while it negotiates with battery maker Matsushita (6752.T) over who would bear the costs.

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Google Joins Effort To Ward Off Patent Challenges To Linux

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:28:00 +0000

Google is joining IBM and Oracle in rallying around Linux. The company last week joined the Open Invention Network, a group that cross-licenses Linux patents as a means of discouraging infringement challenges to Linux.

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Google Charges For Extra E-Mail Storage

noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Sircar) — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:27:00 +0000

Forget the battle between Microsoft Word and Google Apps for a minute, and set aside the notion of search engine supremacy. Microsoft and Google are now battling for technology enthusiasts in yet another area: online storage.

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