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New search engine “Cuil”

What happens when an ex-Google employee creates a search engine, and has $33 million in venture capital to back it up?  Simply put, life gets “Cuil” (pronounced “cool”).  The website went live today, and is intended to rival Google in the search engine department.  The website is the product of former Google [...]

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Welcome to Knol

Announced back in December 2007, Google’s paid Wikipedia rival known as Knol has recently gone live for public beta testing. A Knol is a ‘unit of knowledge’, and in Google’s new project, each unit of knowledge will be authored by a person or group of persons. Authors may have their full name or [...]

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Bluetooth SIG has let the cat out of the bag and mentions a new device from HTC codenamed the Rose.  We don’t have much information except pure speculation that this could be the Android device we have all been waiting for.
Some things we do know are the device’s geographic availability, which includes North and South [...]

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Google Indexes O2 MMS messages

O2 have not been doing so well lately given their unique position in the UK phone market; the sole seller of the new 3G iPhone in the UK. Surely we should expect them to be on top of the world right now, with increased sales and 24 month contract lock downs. [...]

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Google’s web-based email application, GMail, now provides a reminder to users that forget to log-off when using the popular online client. For folks that use the GMail client at work, at school, or at a friend’s house, now will receive a courtesy notification letting them know they are still logged in with an active [...]

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Today Google has announced that it has agreed to extend its partnership with Tele Atlas for another five years and that now the Internet giant will now have access to maps worldwide for online, mobile, and desktop apps.
“Google’s innovation and leadership is undisputed, and we are proud to have the opportunity to be the map [...]

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Internet giant Google has stated that its Android mobile handsets are being delayed, according to The Wall Street Journal. Sources are saying that the new Android handsets are being pushed back until the fourth quarter of this year. Originally, the company had planned on bringing the new Android phones to market in the [...]

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Some of you may have noticed that Google has changed its favicon from a large “G” to a small, lower case ‘g’ recently. If you haven’t noticed just take a look up in the URL portion of your web browser. For those that need a definition of a favicon, it is a small [...]

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In a bold move aimed at knocking Google off its top position in online search, Microsoft is willing to pay its users to use its Windows Live Search engine when shopping online.
“2008 is the year that search got competitive,” said Bill Gates. Speaking at the company’s annual digital ad conference in Redmond, the company [...]

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Sick of world governments keeping you down?  Want a place to “express yourself” without worrying about the law?  Gather a bunch of nerds and a few more billionaires, maneuver around the pirates, and we’ll be set.  The Seasteading concept is certainly an interesting project; founded by PayPal’s Peter Thiel, and with the help of a [...]

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