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Archive for May, 2010

Google gives customers faster Site Search service

27 May 2010

Google has launched a feature called On-Demand Indexing that lets customers of its Google Site Search service more rapidly include new pages in search results.

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On-demand indexing lets Google Site Search customers tell the search engine when to update its index. (Click to enlarge.)

The move extends the greater customer control Google began offering in June [...]

Webware Radar Truphone adds AIM to iPhone VoIP ap

24 May 2010

Netbiscuits, a company that provides a Web software platform for mobile development and advertising, announced Monday that it has partnered with AdMob, the world’s largest mobile-advertising service, to provide users with the advertising firm’s ad placement tools. According to Netbiscuits, its software will offer users the option to integrate ads in mobile video and other [...]

Nokia announces Ovi Application store

20 May 2010

Niklas Savander, executive vice president of services and software for Nokia, talks about the new Ovi application store at a press conference in Barcelona.
But Niklas Savander, executive vice president of services and software for Nokia, said at a press conference here Monday that the Ovi application store is different from the others.
The store will [...]

Don’t confuse the economy with data privacy

18 May 2010

OK, I read the papers and see what’s going on. Yes, the economy is a mess and it ain’t gonna get much better between now and May. While I understand why my state government blinked, I don’t like the precedent this sets at all. May I point out that:

2. The number of malicious code [...]

TSMC follows Intel with profit plummet

15 May 2010

TSMC CEO Rick Tsai, however, said he is seeing some signs of a bottoming out. “There is some indication that we may be bottoming out in the first quarter (of 2009). The numbers are still not good. I do not want to mislead you. But we believe we are seeing a bottom. But we will [...]

Hulu We’re evil, and proud of it

03 May 2010

The thinking, per Baldwin’s monologue, is that if there’s loads and loads of TV content available on the Web, you can’t possibly escape it (”I mean, what’re you going to do? Turn off your TV and your computer?”) And Hulu, he says, was created with sordid ulterior motives: “Once your brain is reduced to a cottage cheese-like mush, we’ll scoop them out with a melon baller and gobble them right on up.”

Google’s “don’t be evil” motto has been the target of the occasional criti