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Facebook cleans up its privacy controls

News Social networking site will transition users to new settings through use of opt-in tool, as it works to make more profile content public and do away with regional networks.

Thursday, July 02 2009 09:14 AM

Tags: Web sites, Privacy, Twitter, IP Address, Advertisement, social networking, New York, product manager, Facebook, network

Pushing the Vista compatibility story

News Months after releasing the OS, Microsoft finds it needs to offer a tool to vet whether software and hardware are Vista-ready.

Wednesday, July 09 2008 07:59 AM

Tags: Windows Vista, Software, Business applications, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Small Business, operating system, Hardware, product manager, software product

Google-backed project aims to give 3 billion more people Net access

News Google, Liberty Global and HSBC are working to build a satellite system to help bring Internet access to those lacking first-world network infrastructure.

Wednesday, September 10 2008 06:17 AM

Tags: Mobile/Wireless, WiMax, Networking technology, Advertising, Satellite, Mobile, Google Inc., Internet Access, Advertisement, municipal Wi-Fi

Adobe's next Lightroom to forsake PowerPC Macs

News As with Adobe's Creative Suite applications, the future version of Lightroom for the Mac will work only on Intel-based machines.

Tuesday, August 18 2009 10:15 AM

Tags: Business applications, Digital media, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Apple Macintosh, Adobe Creative Suite, Digital media, product manager, blog

New filters in Google search for speed, news

News Google adds several new filters to its search options panel unveiled in May, letting searchers find results from just the last hour, or results from within Google News and Books.

Friday, October 02 2009 10:08 AM

Tags: Search, Web sites, Web 2.0, Google Inc., advertisement, Web sites, Web Page, search engine company, product manager, Search Result

Google gadget translates sites into 51 languages

News Gadget, which is powered by Google Translate, allows any website to be automatically translated into the language of the viewer's choice.

Friday, October 02 2009 11:01 AM

Tags: Web 2.0, Data Management, Gadget, Google Inc., Language, automated translation, authentication system, Web Browser, Tool, product manager

Google strikes a Twitter search deal, too

News Mere hours after a deal with Microsoft was announced to index real-time 'tweets' in Bing, Google posted on its blog that it has reached an agreement with Twitter, too.

Thursday, October 22 2009 10:38 AM

Tags: Search, Web 2.0, Web logs, Facebook, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0, social search, product manager

Google links apps with Groups for quicker sharing

News Documents, calendars and other items can now be shared among a defined group of people, removing the need to give access to individuals one by one.

Wednesday, August 19 2009 09:58 AM

Tags: Web 2.0, Web services, E-mail Address, Video, GROUP, e-mail, product manager, blog, Google Apps, online application

Google wants to know if you're sick

News A temporary project from Google Health attempts to figure out how many people are searching for health-related terms because they are seeking remedy.

Thursday, May 14 2009 08:28 AM

Tags: Search, Google Inc., Internet Search, product manager, Search Result, Internet, health care, Search

LinkedIn unveils new search platform

News The business social-networking site says it examined more than a billion search queries executed by members to create new productivity tools.

Tuesday, November 25 2008 11:29 AM

Tags: Search, Domain names, HR policies and procedures, Workforce, Tool, Platform, Amazon.com Inc., e-mail, product manager, spell checker

Office 2007 adds Open Document support

News Microsoft is releasing the second service pack for Office 2007, adding various stability and performance updates along with support for Open Document Format and PDF files.

Wednesday, April 29 2009 10:48 AM

Tags: Business applications, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Service Pack, performance, Microsoft Office 2007, product manager, Microsoft Office, managing director, open standard

Google squares up to complex searches

News Google Squared, now available for public evaluation, is a Labs project that presents results in a new, spreadsheet-like format.

Friday, June 05 2009 10:45 AM

Tags: Web sites, Google Inc., Tool, Grid, Environment, product manager, Search Result, search tool, Internet, blog

Opera extends support to Gears

News Company will incorporate Google Gears as part of its Web browser, even on its mobile version, within the year.

Monday, June 02 2008 10:14 AM

Tags: Mobile applications, Web 2.0, Web services, Browser, Web browsers, Mobile, Google Inc., Web Application, Environment, product manager

Microsoft promises new search 'instant answers'

News Live Search cuts to the chase with answers to various questions, not just links to other sites with the answers. Microsoft is expanding this "instant answer" feature.

Monday, November 03 2008 10:56 AM

Tags: Search, Microsoft Corp., Instant, Microsoft Live Search, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Search Engine, product manager, Search Result, News.com