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Get your mind out of the gutter. This isn't about distributing your crude weekend photography, it's about being able to upload content outside the parameters of basic community categories. While we all know that YouTube is for video, Redux is for entertainment and LinkedIn is for ...
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During a ceremony in Iraq's National Museum in Bagdad today, Google's CEO Eric Schmidt announced that the company will digitize the museum's collections. By early next year, all of these images will be available online for free. The museum lost a large part of its collection to looting in 2003. ...
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Eric Schmidt
Scott Lockhart used to tell his co-workers in the real estate industry that there was a lot of valuable information to be found by reading blogs. They, like all of us, would try blog search engines and end up frustrated with spam, abandoned blogs and low-quality content. So Lockhart quit his ...
iPhone
iPhone
Google Apps is making it a bit more enticing for companies of all sizes to adopt its service for the Blackberry smart phone.
In a post this morning on the Google Enterprise blog , the group announced Google Apps Connector for Blackberry Enterprise Server has doubled the number of Blackberry ...
Mobile
BlackBerry
Last night we wrote about Forrester's prediction that online holiday retail sales will grow 8% this year to $44.7 billion. comScore had similar numbers about the growth of online retail - toy web sites grew 9% in October, as did the retail apparel segment. Online personal finance service ...
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Mint.com
Best Buy
It's no secret that most magazines are struggling to hold on to their subscribers. Just like the newspaper industry is under a lot of pressure from the Internet, magazines are also having a hard time adjusting to the reality of the Internet. Now, Time Inc., Condé Nast and Hearst are planning to ...
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iTunes
Microsoft announced Internet Explorer 9 at its Professional Developers Conference earlier this month. One of the unique features of IE9 that Microsoft announced at that time was hardware acceleration for its browser. Thanks to technologies like Direct2D and Direct Write that are available for ...
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Mozilla
Firefox
Chrome
According to a statement made today by Twitter's co-founder Biz Stone, the company is interested in acquiring more companies to expand upon their current core set of features. At a news conference held in Tel Aviv, Stone was quoted as saying that acquisitions are "something we are definitely ...
Online
Feedly , the magazine style feed reader we first covered back in August of last year , is now available for the Google Chrome web browser. As with the Firefox implementation of the service, the Chrome version also uses a browser plugin to offer an alternative user interface to Google Reader. ...
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Chrome
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As we approach 2010, a number of new efforts are underway to make documents more social. One consultant told us how recently a client tried to turn Sharepoint into a Twitter client. That's a monster!
But we have to give SAP credit for developing a more innovative way to add social elements ...
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When Bing debuted a feature called Cashback , the product was intended to save users money while they shopped from online retailers.
As we told you last month when discussing the program's early successes , Cashback works by giving users a certain amount of money back every time they search ...
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Bing
At the White House today, President Obama talked robots, hung out with the guys from MythBusters, and launched a campaign designed to create smarter, techier American kids.
"Reaffirming and strengthening America's role as the world's engine of scientific discovery and technological ...
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Barack Obama
Yesterday we reviewed the past decade in online retailing . Today we look at some forward-looking statistics about e-commerce. In particular we analyze the upcoming holiday season and how online retailers can expect to fare.
Amazon.com was founded in 1995, but it famously didn't make its ...
Online
Google has announced today that, just in time for holiday shopping, they are enabling local retailers to display coupons for in-store use on mobile devices of Google-searching users.
Any business using Google Local Business Center can upload mobile coupon offers, and any user searching on ...
Online
Google Chrome has begun taking submissions from third party developers. In a blog post written earlier today, Google is asking developers to contribute to the Chrome extensions gallery - an act that will put 3rd party applications on both the Chrome browser and eventually the operating system. ...
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Chrome
If your job requires you to have your finger on the pulse of an industry, then you should take note. Curated feed community Collected offers users a great option for aggregating the latest info from their favorite sites. First developed by Stockholm-based new media agency Great Works , ...
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If your job requires you to have your finger on the pulse of an industry, then you should take note. Curated feed community, Collected offers users a great option for aggregating the latest info from their favorite sites. First developed by Stockholm-based new media agency Great Works , ...
Online
Two years and a month after announcing that it would launch a more professional-looking developer platform than the wildly successful one at Facebook, LinkedIn today finally opened up a series of application programming interfaces for other companies to build on top of. Make no mistake about ...
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Two years and a month after announcing that it would launch a more professional-looking developer platform than the wildly successful one at Facebook, LinkedIn today finally opened up a series of application programming interfaces for other companies to build on top of. Make no mistake about ...
