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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Coming soon: Google Voice Search — The master of text-based search is looking to lend a lend a voice to Internet users everywhere, or so it appears based on Google's latest patent. Patent #7,027,987 issued today by the US Patent and Trademark Office covers a "Voice interface for a search engine," which is described as:
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Is Mobile Voice Search Hot? — If you have tried to do search on non-qwerty mobile phones, then you are all too familiar with the frustrations that go along with it. Piper Jaffray projects the global mobile search revenues will generate $11 billion by 2008.
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The Pondering Primate
Yahoo! Search blog:
Mo' Beta Maps — Today we added global satellite imagery to Yahoo! Maps beta. The new satellite imagery will help people visualize maps, driving directions, and local search, and is available across Yahoo! and to developers through our APIs. — Here are the highlights:
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Michael Bazeley / SiliconBeat:Yahoo maps to finally offer satellite images
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Search Engine Watch Blog
Richard MacManus / Web 2.0 Explorer:
Live.com to be homepage of Vista, IE7 — Microsoft's new hire, Niall Kennedy (formally of Technorati), wrote in his blog today that Live.com will be the default homepage for Vista and IE7: … This is something I've been predicting for a while, but until now Microsoft hadn't confirmed it.
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Alec Saunders .LOG, Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, Nick Bradbury and Microsoft Team RSS Blog
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Fpullen / Fred Pullen's Blog:Windows Vista Product Guide Preview Was Available!
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Ed Bott's Microsoft Report
Guy Kawasaki / Bona tempora volvantur:
The First 100 Days: Observations of a Nouveau Blogger — I've been a blogger for a whopping 100 days, and it's been a delightful and educational experience. Some readers (Omer Trajman, in particular) asked me share my observations about my blogging experience, so here goes:
Edo / Pink Tentacle:
ROBO-ONE SETS 2010 DATE FOR SPACE ROBOT BATTLES — At the ROBO-ONE competition held in Tokyo in March, organizers announced plans to begin holding its robot competition in space in the year 2010. According to the recently launched "ROBO-ONE in the Space" official website …
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THE RAW FEED
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Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment:
Tie me Webaroo down, sport — Is it a bubble yet? There's no way to be sure, but one telltale sign of irrational exuberance the last time around was the proliferation of companies based on ideas that simply made no sense. — The portents are beginning to loom once more.
Robert Plummer / BBC:
Business bites the blogging bullet — For the average business trying to protect and enhance its reputation, the prospect of having its actions scrutinised by an army of online commentators can feel like a threat. — After all, the last thing a firm wants, after spending years burnishing …
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Investor Relations Blog
Associated Press:
IRS seeks PayPal's aid finding hidden cash — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service won approval from a federal court to ask PayPal to turn over information about people who might be evading taxes by hiding income in other countries, officials said Tuesday.
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Digital Inspiration
Claire Atkinson / AdAge:
News Corp. Has New Pitch: Generation Fox — Reorganizes Sales Force to Sell 12- to 24-Year-Old Demo Across Platforms — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Move over MTV. News Corp. is making an early grab for ad dollars aimed at the 12- to 24-year-old demographic and is retooling its sales operation …
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Maria Newman / New York Times:
MySpace.com Hires Official to Oversee Users' Safety — MySpace.com, the social networking Internet site popular with young people that has alarmed some parents and law enforcement officials concerned about sexual predators, announced yesterday that it was hiring a former federal prosecutor to be its first chief security officer.
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Lost Remote TV Blog
Matt Mower / Curiouser and Curiouser!:
Combining OPML and RSS to create an export format for a blog — Marc Canter links to Joe Brockmeier's post about weblogs having a shared format. Timely. — I've been thinking about this myself because I want such a format too. Although I have written a tool to serve my own needs …
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USA Today:
Ad money lures established media into uncharted waters — So I ask Mark Cuban — a man who enjoys disrupting the establishment as much as any billionaire around — why the media industry seems to have gone insane lately. — Press releases about deals that would've defied belief just a couple …
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Techdirt
Globe and Mail:
China's got RedBerry — Cheaper rival hits the market on eve of RIM's long-delayed debut — BEIJING and TORONTO — On the eve of its long-delayed China launch, BlackBerry is facing a sudden challenge from a cheaper Chinese rival called, unapologetically, RedBerry.
Ashlee Vance / The Register:
'Red Hat wraps Linux in sh*t,' says new exec — With the sale of his company JBoss to Red Hat, Marc Fleury will be going to work for an open source pretender that has never done much in the way of innovation. Or, at least that's what Fleury used to think.
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tecosystems, Yet Another Software Blog, JD on EP, James Governor's MonkChips and Feld Thoughts
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google Audio calls for talent — While browsing through the jobs at Google I stumbled across something new — postings targeted at future "Google Audio" employees. Some of the positions they are looking to fill are: Customer Support Technician, Senior Sales Technical Support, Provisioning Manager …
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InsideGoogle
