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Roll your own search results with Google's new SearchWiki
Google's SearchWikithe feature that allows people to annotate, add, delete, and move around search resultswill soon be available to all users logged in with a Google account. The company's not sure yet what it plans to actually do with the data, though. Read More...
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Brightkite aggregates location content for businesses, fun
Location may be the next holy grail for social networking, and plenty of startups are already chasing it. Brightkite, a location-based social network focused on meeting friends and making new ones, has just introduced a new way to show off what everyone is doing in a particular location. Businesses, ...
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High-definition videos sneaking onto YouTube
YouTube is experimenting with high-definition videos on its site, and you can access the capability using a handy URL trick. If YouTube manages to score enough movie and TV content from its owners, then it might eventually give Hulu some competition.Read More...
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Yahoo introduces "Glue" visual search
Yahoo Glue combines search results into a single visual page. Ars takes a quick peek at this new service.Read More...
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EU opens digital library to public with over 2 million works
The EU has finally launched Europeana, a digital online library that hosts more than 2 million books, maps, recordings, photographs, paintings, and documents from cultural institutions in its 27 member states. The EU hopes to have 8 million more works added by 2010. Read More...
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Google to shut down Lively, its interactive 3D world
Google launched its Lively project in July as a customizable, interactive world that website owners could us to foster a new kind of interactivity with their visitors. Lively never received much adoption for a variety of reasons, though, and Google says it will shut down the service at the end of 20 ...
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Canadian regulators allow P2P throttling
Canada's telecom regulator won't stop Bell Canada from throttling P2P traffic on its retail and wholesale Internet services, but it will launch an entirely new inquiry into the big questions surrounding traffic management and network neutrality.Read More...
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Zune Pass subscribers get to keep 10 songs
Microsoft has struck deals with music labels in order to allow Zune Pass subscribers to keep up to 10 songs every month: $15 for up to 10 songs for keeps and unlimited access to the rest of the online music library. Not bad Microsoft, but not perfect.Read More...
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Zune Pass subscribers get to keep 10 songs, not yet perfect
Microsoft has struck deals with music labels in order to allow Zune Pass subscribers to keep up to 10 songs every month: $15 for up to 10 songs for keeps and unlimited access to the rest of the online music library. Not bad Microsoft, but not perfect.Read More...
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CTA bans violent game ads following GTA IV debacle
The Chicago Transit Authority, following the conclusion of a drawn-out law suit with Take-Two over Grand Theft Auto IV ads, has banned all ads for violent video games from its buses and facilities.Read More...
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Judge throws Comcast/NFL Network mess back at FCC
It's back to the original line of scrimmage for the great slugfest between Comcast and the NFL Network. An FCC administrative judge says the case needs more time to be resolved.Read More...
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IBM to buy Transitive
IBM has announced plans to acquire Transitive, the company that makes the code translation technology behind Apple's Rosetta. IBM says Transitive's software will enable x86 Linux applications to run on Power systems.Read More...
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DeFi will serve up VoIP over WiFi on iPhone
VoIP over WiFi with a flat-rate monthly charge for both calls and the network—what's the catch? Provider DeFi says they can deliver it all: now to Nokia S60 phones, and soon to iPhones.Read More...
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Semiconductor industry group predicts chip slump in 2009
The Semiconductor Industry Association is predicting a significant decline in industry earnings for Q4, with a following downturn in 2009. The good news is that we shouldn't see anything like the 2000-2001 plunge, but the tech industry's previously strong performance in 2008 may have unceremoniously ...
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The change we need: four ways to fix fcc.gov
The Bush administration is coming to an end, but the FCC web site is still stuck in the Clinton administration. We've got four suggestions on how to bring fcc.gov into a Web 2.0 world.Read More...
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Mozilla revenue $75 million in 2007, up 12 percent
Mozilla has published its financial statements for 2007, which reveal that the organization brought in $75 million. Mozilla chairperson Mitchell Baker says that Firefox's broader user base and expanded geographical reach are signs of success.Read More...
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It exists! Chinese Democracy launching on MySpace Music
In 1991, the original George Bush was midway through his term, music came on cassette or CD, and Guns 'N Roses released their last album of original material. That will change at midnight Thursday as Chinese Democracy, 17 years in the making, is streamed for free on MySpace Music.Read More...
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Xobni Outlook plug-in gets more social, integrated
Xobni made its public debut earlier this year as an Outlook plug-in that let users visualize e-mail habits and make better use of their contacts. Now, it's back with an update that offers integration of social networking tools and services like Skype, Facebook, Hoovers, and more.Read More...
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FCC inquiry on cable channel pricing heats up, then cools down
The Chair of the FCC has been offering hot words about Comcast's response to a channel pricing inquiry. Now everybody is trying to cool off. Read More...
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EPOXI spacecraft tests modified TCP/IP in outer space
What's cooler than the Internet and cooler than outer space? Why, the Internet in outer space, of course. This month, NASA is building on ten years of work by testing an Internet-esque communications protocol designed for data transmission in deep space.Read More...
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