Better than Google? Creator thinks so
Google is keeping a close eye on a small, suburban Melbourne start-up that claims to be developing a search engine that improves on the world leader.
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Mozilla Give $100,000 to Democracy Player
I am absolutely thrilled to announce today that we’ve received a grant from Mozilla, creators of Firefox.
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12 Essential Greasemonkey Hacks for YouTube
There’s a killer feature that YouTube lacks, and you’d love to have it, but it’s just not happening? Hold on to your horses; maybe the feature is already available, in the form of a Greasemonkey script. We’ve dug up 12 great ones which you should definitely try out.
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Venzero improves upon its mini with the SLICKR
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Because no one except for the biggest spendthrift wants a 2GB flash video player with a sub-two-inch screen, Venzero has revealed a pocketable new PMP called the SLICKR that basically takes its recently-announced mini and tacks on a miniSD slot along with a full inch to the now-2.8-inch screen. Other than that, this clix-like device with the MOTO naming convention offers the usual menagerie of extras — FM tuner, voice recorder, pre-installed games — with one important exception being the included MusicMarker functionality, which lets you handily record audio snippets from the radio for identification upon the next sync. File compatibility is slim but acceptable — like the mini, MP3, WMA, WAV, and AVI are the only supported codecs — and also like the mini, we’ve got no inkling on a price or release date here, so you’ll have to stay tuned for further details.
[Via DAPreview]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
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Silicon Valley Watcher: Susie Wee
Susie Wee has a great job — she’s the director of the HP Labs Mobile and Media Systems Lab, which means she works on gaming and entertainment systems. I spoke with Ms. Wee in San Francisco, at an HP Gaming event at which the company showed off several of its research projects. One of those [...]
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EU questioning Google's stranglehold on search - Blogging Stocks
| EU questioning Google's stranglehold on search Blogging Stocks - In the latest salvo of bitterness from the European Union's front lines, the commission has advised Google that it wants a full explanation of the search… |
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Microsoft to unveil ‘PlayTable’ gesture-based interface at D?
Filed under: Peripherals
If ZDnet staple Mary Jo Foley (or more specifically, her source) is right, we may be seeing Microsoft take the next big step in device interaction at tomorrow’s D: All Things Digital Conference, with the perennial Redmond watcher predicting an official unveiling of the company’s PlayTable / Project Milan multi-touch, gesture-based input technology. PlayTable, which combines elements we’ve seen in the iPhone, from NYU’s Jeff Han, in various prototype devices, and from Microsoft’s own, recently-demo’ed DigiDesk, is envisioned as a multi-purpose interface that can be employed in anything from a DAP (Zune) to a cellphone (WinMo handsets) to a gaming console (Xbox) — so it’s no coincidence that the project is being developed by the same Mobile and Entertainment division that’s also in charge of these categories. All in all, tomorrow promises to be a big day: not only is Palm making a potentially breakthrough announcement, and the faces of Apple and Microsoft scheduled to appear together on the same stage, but we may also get to witness computing history to boot; man, if we had real jobs, we’d be calling in sick in a heartbeat.
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
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Manish Arora of Kincafe
Manish Arora is the founder of Kincafe, a Silicon Valley-based social networking and Web 2.0 company. Kincafe is focused on connecting and cherishing your family connections by sharing photos, videos and other files in a secure environment. I caught up with Manish at TiECon 2007, where we spoke about Kincafe and the new face of [...]
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FTC wants more facts on Google-DoubleClick deal - AZ Central.com
| FTC wants more facts on Google-DoubleClick deal AZ Central.com, AZ - Last week, a European Union panel began an investigation into whether Google's search engine violates European privacy regulations. |
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Link Bait is the New Reciprocal Link - Internet Search Engine Database
| Link Bait is the New Reciprocal Link Internet Search Engine Database - Stoney deGeyter leads a spectacular team of seasoned marketing experts at Pole Position Marketing, a search engine marketing company. … |
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Copywriting Makeover: Value vs. Vision - Part 2 of 2 - Internet Search Engine Database
| Copywriting Makeover: Value vs. Vision - Part 2 of 2 Internet Search Engine Database - Karon Thackston is President of Marketing Words, Inc. a full-service copywriting agency specializing in search engine copywriting. … |
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FEATURE-Soy boom brings wealth to Paraguay, at a price - Reuters AlertNet
| FEATURE-Soy boom brings wealth to Paraguay, at a price Reuters AlertNet, UK - Big producers herald it as Paraguay's best engine for development; critics say it threatens the environment and the livelihood of thousands of small farmers … |
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Free Will Astrology - Minneapolis City Pages
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Free Will Astrology Minneapolis City Pages, MN - 23-Oct. 22): Do you think you could arrange to drive a car equipped with a jet engine through desert salt flats at 200 miles per hour? … |
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