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Tue 09 February, 2010

Click here to bookmark this link.Channel Image01:45 Google Prepping Twitter, Facebook Rival - Techtree.com Sci/Tech - Google News

TG Daily

Google Prepping Twitter, Facebook Rival
Techtree.com
Later today, Google is due to launch a social product that will compete with the currently popular social networks - Facebook and Twitter. As Wall Street Journal reported, Gmail will get a new module that will stream media and status updates of online ...
Google Making Gmail Into a Communications HubWired News
Google transforming Gmail into an all-encompassing 'communications hub'TopNews United States
Google to make Gmail a little more socialCNET
PC World -New York Post -InformationWeek
all 144 news articles »
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Reuters

China Web Operator Shut for Suspected Online Hacking, WSJ Says
BusinessWeek
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- China closed a local Internet operator on suspicion of supplying malicious software used for computer hacking, Wall Street Journal reported today. Three people at Black Hawk Safety Net, an alleged distributor of ...
Beijing Heralds Bust of Major Hacker RingWall Street Journal
China says it shut down online academy for hackersLos Angeles Times
China Closes Hacker Training SiteInformationWeek
PC World -TechNewsWorld -DailyTech
all 534 news articles »
Click here to bookmark this link.Channel Image01:11 Unfriendly voices BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
The many different faces of cyber-bullying

Mon 08 February, 2010

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TG Daily

Google launches Nexus One phone support
CNET
More than a month after officially unveiling the new Android-based phone, the search giant on Monday launched a phone support line specifically to answer the questions of Nexus One owners. Phone owners can call (888) 48NEXUS (63987) ...
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 09, @02:31AMSlashdot
Google Lowers Nexus One Termination FeeWall Street Journal
Google Slashes Nexus One Termination Fee by $200MobileGuerilla.com
PC Magazine -ABC News -ChannelWeb
all 282 news articles »
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Sydney Morning Herald

BioShock 2 Review
GameSpot
When the city of Rapture was first unveiled, it was an underwater dystopia ravaged by civil war and self-destructive genetic manipulation. This strange and unforgettable world was also one of awe and wonder. Set nearly a decade after the events of its ...
Review: Daddy-Daughter Killing Sprees Power 'BioShock 2'Wired News
BioShock 2: A Sequel that Surpasses the OriginalPC World
2K Marin: Console wars 'drown out creative discourse'Game Daily
MarketWatch -G4 TV -The Daily Titan
all 110 news articles »
Click here to bookmark this link.Channel Image21:12 Six Great iPhone Apps Flying Under the Radar - San Francisco Chronicle Sci/Tech - Google News

PRLog.Org (press release)

Six Great iPhone Apps Flying Under the Radar
San Francisco Chronicle
Some 150000 apps line the App Store's virtual shelves, yet there's not yet a good way to shop for them. The App Store's oft-criticized search offers little assistance unless you know exactly what you're seeking. Marketers have been accused of gaming ...
Apple's Bans Go Way Too FarPC World
Geolocation, And Finding A Better AppChannelWeb
So many apps, so little timeSan Jose Mercury News
TMC Net -InfoWorld -MacNN
all 190 news articles »
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Globe and Mail

Touchdown! Google's Top Super Bowl Searches
PC World
Was your smartphone or notebook by your side during the Super Bowl? And were you tweeting your reactions to the TV ads, or trying to pull up Drew Brees' season completion percentage? Google on Monday posted its game-day search stats to show what ...
In Super Bowl ads, laughs beat out sexMiamiHerald.com
Super Bowl ads hit highs, lowsThe News Journal
Snickers, Doritos score extra points at Super BowlReuters
CNNMoney.com -Wall Street Journal -Mediapost.com
all 1,669 news articles »
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Times Online

Astronauts giving shuttle a post-launch scan
msnbc.com
Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavour will scan their spacecraft overnight to search for any signs of heat shield damage from their early Monday launch. The shuttle blasted off Monday at 4:14 am ET from NASA's Kennedy Space ...
Space Shuttle Lights Up Night SkyInformationWeek
Astronauts to give Endeavour full post-launch inspectionSpaceflight Now
NASA's Endeavour launches 'complicated' missionComputerworld
ABH News -TheNewsTribune.com -The Tech Herald
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Click here to bookmark this link.Channel Image19:47 Survey tries quantifying iPad hype, suggests interest waning - Ars Technica Sci/Tech - Google News

CNET

Survey tries quantifying iPad hype, suggests interest waning
Ars Technica
"iPad hoopla" has passed, according to a survey by electronics shopping site Retrevo, and consumers have lost interest after the product's unveiling less than two weeks ago. ...
Apple iPad Price Cut: Blunder or Brilliance?PC World
Apple's iPad and the Evolution of BooksWall Street Journal
Fence-sitters beware: Apple already considering iPad price dropThe Tech Herald
Slippery Brick -CNET -PC Magazine
all 194 news articles »
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UberGizmo (blog)

Windows 7 Just Being Honest About Battery Life
PC World
Last week I wrote about reports that some Windows 7 users are experiencing anomalies with battery life, or at least how Windows 7 reports remaining battery life. The issue seemed worthy of exploring, but not big enough to cause any ...
Microsoft: your battery is the problem, not Windows 7Ars Technica
Microsoft Says Windows 7 Battery Issues Are Batteries' FaulteWeek
Microsoft: Battery Issues Not Windows 7's FaultChannelWeb
Register -CNET -Computerworld
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Click here to bookmark this link.Channel Image18:04 Smartphone keys get quantum trick BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
A quantum physics trick is set to give smartphones and hand-held devices pressure-sensitive switches and touchscreens.
Click here to bookmark this link.Channel Image17:58 Online safety for five-year-olds BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
Children as young as five are being targeted in a safety campaign launched as part of EU Internet Safety Day.
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HispanicBusiness.com

Publishers Win a Bout in E-Book Price Fight
New York Times
The enTourage eDGe, shown at a trade show in Las Vegas last month, combines an e-book with several other functions. With the impending arrival of digital books on the Apple iPad and feverish negotiations with Amazon.com over e-book ...
Why e-Books Must Cost MorePC World
E-Book Prices Ratchet UpInformationWeek
A page is turnedFinancial Times
Ars Technica -Macworld -Death + Taxes Magazine
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Click here to bookmark this link.Channel Image13:11 2010 Super Bowl: Some search touchdowns The Official Google Blog
While 106 American football players sought yardage in the 2010 Super Bowl, millions of people sought information related to the big game from Google search. We looked at some game-day search trends and data* to see what football fans were searching for this year.

Most searched-for team
To the victor of this year's big game went the search spoils: The New Orleans Saints captured both the NFL championship and the lion's share of Super Bowl team searches in 2010.

Most searched-for player
For leading the New Orleans Saints to their 31–17 win over the Indianapolis Colts — with 288 yards, two touchdowns and 32 of 39 passes completed — quarterback Drew Brees won the Most Valuable Player award. But Peyton Manning earned the status of the Super Bowl's most searched-for player, beating out some tough competition and followed by Drew Brees, Reggie Bush, Hank Baskett and Scott Fujita.

Many fans of Reggie Bush also expressed interest in his girlfriend Kim Kardashian; searches for her name, both on its own and linked with Reggie Bush's, spiked significantly during the game. Additionally, search volume for football great Walter Payton — after whom the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award was named — was as high as that for some of the game's top five most searched-for players.

Most searched-for coach
Behind every team is a great coach, and behind every coach is an engaged online community. This year, Sean Payton, who has coached the New Orleans Saints since 2006, was the most searched-for team leader.

Most searched-for party planning terms
Die-hard football fans and casual shindig hosts alike look forward to game day for its party planning possibilities. This year, people went online to find all the information they needed to watch the game and to make sure they were well-fed during the same. Some top rising recipe searches on game day included buffalo chicken dip, guacamole, 7-layer dip and pigs in a blanket.

People were also looking for information on how and when to watch the game; searches related to the start time of the game and watch Super Bowl 2010 online were both notably high.

Most searched-for advertisers
In addition to spotlighting some of the finest football teams in the U.S., the Super Bowl is a showcase for some of the funniest, coolest and most interesting creative advertisements each year. This year, the prospect of "free" dominated the searched-for ads. The offer of free pants from Dockers garnered a spike of queries which continued throughout the game. Twice, Denny's advertised free grand slam breakfasts, leading to two bumps in searches for Denny's free breakfast, Denny's locations and Denny's.

Searchers also enjoyed ads featuring celebrities — including Betty White, who played football and ate Snickers bars, and Megan Fox, who used a Motorola smartphone.

We told the story of an American who finds love in Paris — using search queries. Google Super Bowl commercial led searchers to the love story of a man who dutifully searched for information on how to impress a French girl, long distance relationship advice and how to assemble a crib. (Full disclosure: We work for this advertiser.)

Stay tuned
Which advertiser won the position of Favorite 2010 Super Bowl Ad, according to fans? Check out YouTube's Ad Blitz results on February 17 to see which Super Bowl ad received the greatest number of positive votes from the YouTube community. Until then, you can use Google Trends to see more Super Bowl-related queries.

*We used internal tools to quickly gather this data. All of the search queries we looked at were anonymous — no personal information was used.

Click here to bookmark this link.Channel Image05:12 China shuts down hacking website BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
Three people are arrested as China's largest training website for hackers is shut down, state media reports.
Click here to bookmark this link.Channel Image04:41 dot.Rory BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
Who else will use BT's broadband network?
Click here to bookmark this link.Channel Image02:17 Shuttle makes final night flight BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
The US space agency (Nasa) has launched its shuttle Endeavour on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

Sun 07 February, 2010

Click here to bookmark this link.Channel Image19:31 Love and the Super Bowl The Official Google Blog
If you watched the Super Bowl this evening you'll have seen a video from Google called "Parisian Love". In fact you might have watched it before, because it's been on YouTube for over three months. We didn't set out to do a Super Bowl ad, or even a TV ad for search. Our goal was simply to create a series of short online videos about our products and our users, and how they interact. But we liked this video so much, and it's had such a positive reaction on YouTube, that we decided to share it with a wider audience.

If you like it too, we hope you'll watch the others. Enjoy.

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Can 'well-behaved' robots make the battlefield safer?

Sat 06 February, 2010

Click here to bookmark this link.Channel Image10:45 Increase Website Speed & Cut Bandwidth Costs for FREE! mattheaton.com
Several months back I took my wife and five children on a 7 day Disney cruise (I *HIGHLY* recommend it by the way, and I’m a hard person to please ). Whenever I go on vacation the first thing I take care of is making sure that I have internet access. [...]
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Revenue staff tip off Radio 4's Money Box that there are more tax code problems than their bosses are admitting to.

Fri 05 February, 2010

Click here to bookmark this link.Channel Image19:29 This week in search 2/5/10 The Official Google Blog
This is part of a regular series of posts on search experience updates that runs weekly. Look for the label This week in search and subscribe to the series. - Ed.

In addition to language improvements this week, we released several other new features:

Haitian Creole translation
We've now added Haitian Creole (kreyòl ayisyen) translation to Google Translate, so that you can translate between Creole and 51 other languages, and also hear spoken versions of Creole translations. While this translation system is still evolving (when translating to/from Creole, English performs better than other languages), we hope it will help relief volunteers communicate better with Haitian earthquake victims, and serve as a useful resource for people in Haiti and elsewhere. To learn more about ways you can help with Haiti relief efforts, please visit our Crisis Response page.

Example translations: [Kijan ou ye ?] and [How can I help you?]

Improvement for Arabic searches
Sometimes when people conduct a search, they forget to separate words with spaces or mistakenly repeat a letter within a word. These types of errors are much more common in languages like Arabic, where some letters are considered word breaks. In other words, if the last letter of one word is a word break, the following word may not be separated with a space. To address issues like this, we recently developed a search ranking improvement that targets certain Arabic queries. Our algorithm employs rules of Arabic spelling and grammar and signals from historical search data to indicate when to leave out spaces between words or when to remove unnecessarily repeated letters. Now, when you type a query leaving out spaces or repeating a letter, you'll see better results based not only on what you typed, but also on what our algorithm understands is the "correct" query.

Example search: [التربيةوالتعلييم] Incorrectly typed, this Arabic query may not produce a relevant search result. With our algorithm change, the query returns better results for the correct meaning: "Ministry of Education."

Doodle 4 Google
This week marks our third annual Doodle 4 Google contest in the U.S. The competition gives K-12 kids the opportunity to design their own Google logo and the winner appears on Google.com for a day so that hundreds of millions of searchers can enjoy it as well. In addition to the bragging rights, there are a number of great prizes including a college scholarship and computers for the winner's school. If you or your child are interested in getting involved, check out our announcement or visit the Doodle 4 Google contest page for entry rules.

Stars in Google News
A couple of months back, we launched the Custom Sections Directory feature in Google News, enabling you to setup and share sections on topics of interest. Now there's an even easier way to keep up to date with particular news stories. Mark a story cluster by clicking on the star next to it — just like you do with messages in Gmail and items in Google Reader. Once you've starred a story in Google News, when there are significant updates, we'll alert you by putting the headline in boldface. You can also follow your most recent starred stories in the Starred section of Google News. Learn more about this, and get starring!

Thanks for following news of our search enhancements, and stay tuned for more.