Google is expanding the business opportunities for local search by offering a suggestion technology for Google Local. For users in Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, United States, and United Kingdom–and in eight languages will see suggested search results highlighted below the search input above just above the interactive mapping view in [...]

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The iPhone prototype that was lost in a Redwood City, Calif bar by a mid-level Apple developer was later purchased by a tech blog, Gizmodo.com ( part of Gawker Media’s blog network ). Silicon Valley police are investigating the transaction, which may have violated criminal laws. The investigation is being conducted supposedly by a computer [...]

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An executive vice president of digital for Interscop, Geffen, a music label owned by Universal Music Group, stated in a press conference that Lady Gaga accounts for about one quarter of the website traffic for Vevo–a web service created by three of the largest record companies. Comscore reported that Vevo had 35 million unique visitors [...]

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A new service called Business Productivity Online Suite Federal was implemented for the Federal Government by Microsoft. The goal of the project was to achieve better security than the traditional cloud infrastructure by Microsoft such as fingerprinting as part of background checks and biometric access control. This cloud service by Microsoft is becoming an attractive [...]

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Google founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have filed plans with the SEC to sell a portion of their stock, which would reduce their combined share to just below majority. After the deal, their ownership total would fall below 48%. Many are not worried however about the loss of majority control by the founders, since [...]

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Only cable companies are distributing set-top boxes that can access all of the digital cable and video on-demand services available through their networks. Consumers can access the internet through many possible devices, yet MVPD’s services are only available through the set-top boxes distributed by cable companies. The FCC may potentially rule against the cable companies [...]

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A recent settlement over the Google Books program will limit the scope of out-of-print works to English-speaking countries. The settlement will also limit the way Google can make money from digitizing out-of-print works. This forces the registry to actively seek out copyright holders who do not initially come forward to gain permission. This settlement only [...]

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Cisco, EMC, and VMW have formed a partnership to create corporate-focused product called V-Block. Essentially the partnership will sell and provide maintenance for a new integrated data center that uses the capabilities of the three companies combined. The cloud infrastructure for the product will be built by all three companies. (Background information: EMC owns almost [...]

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AT&T is now changing it’s mind about VOIP applications. It will now allow applications such as Skype and Vonage to run on it’s 3G wireless network. Consumers will rejoice at this decision, which will tax AT&T’s system resources. Recently the Federal Communications Commission has been investigating both Apple and AT&T on how it treats VoIP [...]

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Time, place and message are three vital components to match a need with a product. Apple may be able apply some innovative thinking and help transform the newspaper, magazine and textbook industry with a new product. Apple is planning on placing a multitouch tablet on the market. With it’s ever popular iTunes store to distribute [...]

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