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IBM takes on Google with LotusLive iNotes
News IBM's cloud-based email and calendar service is more than 10 percent cheaper than the rival Google Apps Premier.
Tags: Cloud computing, IBM Corp., Google Inc., Online Collaboration, contact management, Cloud computing, ZDNet, vice president, Google Apps, Google Gmail
Did Viacom find smoking gun in YouTube case?
News YouTube's internal e-mail indicate employees and managers knew about copyright content, sources say, but chose to leave the material on the site. What are the DMCA ramifications?
Tags: Web 2.0, Digital rights management (DRM), Google Inc., Viacom Inc., TV, Entertainment Company, Web 2.0, Matz, Entertainment Industry, Video
Google PowerMeter energy tracker works without smart meter
News Google connects its PowerMeter Web-based energy tool to a monitoring device, which means that consumers don't need to have smart meters for real-time energy tracking.
Tags: Green IT, Web 2.0, Google Inc., Phone, Smart Phone, Web 2.0, Green IT, Web Browser, Tool, monitoring
Mozilla releases first beta of Firefox 3.6
News "Namoroka" beta brings performance improvements, Personas, and several abilities Web developers should notice. With it, Mozilla is trying to move faster.
Tags: Web browsers, Google Inc., Web Page, Personas, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Mozilla Corp., Beta, Mozilla Firefox, performance
Europe urged to hasten book digitization
News Europe could pull ahead of Google in the digitization of books as long as it acts swiftly, information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding has said.
Tags: Web 2.0, Data Management, Digital rights management (DRM), Commission, Google Inc., Books Digitization, European Commission, Web 2.0, Copyright Protection, Europe
Search ad spending improves--and boosts Google shares
News With Google set to report earnings Thursday, two search marketing firms said U.S. text-ad spending improved for the second straight quarter.
Tags: Internet advertising, Business Strategies & Functions, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Live Search, advertisement, U.S., Business Strategies & Functions, Internet Search Advertising, Web company
Google Docs adds live sharing to folders
News Two features added to the productivity suite, multiple-file uploading and folder sharing, bring functionality found in other Google products.
Tags: E-mail servers, E-mail clients, Google Inc., shared folder, hard drive, Google Docs, Google Gmail, spreadsheet, Benefit, E-mail clients
FCC looking into Google Voice and rural calls
News After AT&T complained that Google Voice is allowed to skirt rules that require it to connect expensive calls to rural areas, agency is reportedly planning to probe the matter.
Tags: VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, Skype Technologies S.A., Google Inc., Phone, landline phone company, network, Net Neutrality, Voice, Associated Press
Google Squared gets more data, better filters
News Google Labs project in presenting structured data has been given a few refinements, but it still can't figure out where Yankee Stadium is located.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web services, Google Inc., Milwaukee, Google Squared, U.S., Web sites, Web 2.0, Tool
Search leaders debate semantics
News Everyone agrees that semantic search technology--the notion of correctly assessing a searcher's intent--holds promise, and maybe money.
Tags: Search, Web services, Search, Ask.com, W3C, Internet search, Search Engine, Web services, leader, Web
Google: We've got cool search, too
News Google adds a link to its home page describing how to search for interesting results on Google. It's long offered such capabilities, but Bing's bump could have prompted a reminder.
Tags: Search, Web services, Stock, Microsoft Corp., search bar, Google Search, Internet search, search technology, Search Engine, Search
Will new browsers really upgrade the Web?
News The latest browsers sport many hot new features. But the avant-garde must reckon with inconsistent standards and slow adoption.
Tags: Web browsers, Web Browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Web Application, Adobe Systems Inc., Web Developer, video, Web browsers, HTML 5, HTML
Android gets voice search in Google Maps
News The search-engine company adds voice search to Google Maps on its Linux-based Android software platform
Tags: Linux, Netbook, Dell Latitude, Voice, hardware maker, Linux, software, Google Maps, New York, Google Inc.
Twitter on the verge of big search deals?
News Microsoft and Google are separately talking to the company about potentially licensing its massive amounts of real-time data to supplement search results, new report says.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Data Management, Data mining & analysis, Facebook, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., search engine, Microsoft Corp., revenue
November deadline for new Google Books deal
News Google and books groups hashing out the terms of a revised settlement will have until November 9 to submit a new deal to the judge overseeing the case.
Tags: Web 2.0, Data Management, Digital rights management (DRM), Google Inc., revenue, Web 2.0, U.S. Department Of Justice, Settlement, Associated Press, New York
