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Nearly a year ago, we looked at what Dmoz (aka: The Open Directory Project) was up to, and if it still had a place in search. The directory was talking about how it was looking for “a little respect” as it prepared to celebrate its 11th birthday (on June 5).
Dmoz has been brought back into [...]
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said today it is considering requiring mobile carriers to alert consumers about excessive wireless charges in order to avoid “bill shock.”
“We are hearing from consumers about unpleasant surprises on their bills,” said Joel Gurin, Chief of the FCC’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau.
“We’ve gotten hundreds of complaints about bill [...]
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Even as word that Android devices have outsold the iPhone in the U.S. is still bouncing around the Web, Google gave college students, couriers, and exercise enthusiasts another reason to side with it this afternoon, adding biking directions (along with a couple other tweaks) to Google Maps 4.2 for Android.
The biking directions should prove to [...]
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Google Maps Engineering Manager Paul Rademacher recently launched a page that shows how big the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico in comparison to different metropolitan areas. For example, you can see how the size of it compares to New York City, by seeing an overlay overtop of the city.
You can browse the cities [...]
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Google Maps Tool Compares Gulf Oil Spill to Size of Your City
As enterprise users of Microsoft Office prepare to upgrade, Google has a message for them, and that message is “upgrade with Google.” The company posted the message on its Enterprise blog today.
“This week Microsoft will take its Office 2010 suite out of beta,” says Google Enterprise Product Management Director Matthew Glotzbach. “If you’re considering upgrading [...]
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Facebook launched its new social plug-ins at its F8 developer conference last month, as part of the company’s Open Graph initiative. It was no surprise that so many sites rushed to implement them.
“It’s only been two and a half weeks since f8 and in that time more than 100,000 sites have tapped into the social [...]
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One of the popular features of Google Translate is the ability to hear translations spoken out loud (”text-to-speech”) by clicking the speaker icon beside some translations, like the one below.
We rolled this feature out for English and Haitian Creole translations a few months ago and added French, Italian, German, Hindi and Spanish a couple of [...]
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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have announced the creation of a high-level Broadband Commission for Digital Development aimed at speeding the roll out of high speed broadband globally.
The new Commission consists of 30 representatives from around the world, representing a wide range of business and [...]
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If privacy concerns weren’t enough to get people thinking about deleting their Facebook accounts, they also have security concerns to consider. As Facebook takes over the web, user information goes with it. One can only imagine the potential threats that are lurking around the corner.
An exploit was discovered on Yelp, one of Facebook’s preliminary partners [...]
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Doxo, a Seattle based start-up focused on helping people and businesses go paperless, said today it has received $5.25 million in funding.
The funding was led by Mohr Davidow Ventures and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Bezos Expeditions.
Doxo said the funding is aiding the company’s expansion and private trials with some of the largest U.S. utility, insurance, [...]
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It’s time for another personnel-related announcement, and this morning, Yahoo and Microsoft are off the hook. Instead, it’s Google that someone is quitting, as a longtime employee of the company has decided to leave it in favor of a newly created position at Quantcast.
Julio Pekarovic most recently held the title of “Vice President, Global Sales [...]
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Google’s Chrome browser has received a lot of buzz lately as it has showcased its efforts in speed testing using potato guns, paint, a pirate ship, lightning, etc. Meanwhile, Chrome has been creeping up steadily in web browser market share.
Perhaps in an effort to keep users from switching to Chrome, Mozilla wants it to be [...]
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Businesses have been waiting for Twitter to launch some business features fore quite some time. While the company did finally launch its ad platform in the form of Promoted Tweets last month, businesses have still had to turn to third-party apps for many of the functionalities they have been looking for.
Twitter has now reportedly begun [...]
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Consumers, looking for deals and discounts on food purchases, are increasingly turning to online tools to save money on groceries, according to Deloitte’s “2010 Consumer Food Safety Survey.”
The survey found 33 percent of respondents subscribed to receive emails/recipes/coupons directly from food manufacturers/companies, a six percent increase from 2008.
“Today’s consumers are using the Internet to [...]
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While you can use images of virtually any size as backgrounds for your mobile phone or your computer desktop, it’s always a good idea to download wallpapers that exactly match the screen resolution as then the screen won’t cut any parts of you beautiful wallpaper nor the image will be stretched to fit the screen.
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