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Ken Grobe / The Ask.com Blog:
Introducing Ask3D - A Truly New Way to Search — For the past several years, we have been innovating furiously to provide people with a faster, easier, and richer search experience. We've created products that go some way towards this - Smart Answers, Zoom related search, Binoculars, AskCity, and ExpertRank (aka Teoma) to name a few.
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Ask Relaunches: Now "Ask 3D" — Chris Sherman once compared Ask.com to Apple. Ask CEO Jim Lanzone remarked to me that he liked the comparison because it spoke to quality and innovativeness. Indeed, among the top-tier search engines Ask has arguably been the most innovative. In one sense it has to be.
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ResourceShelf:
Ask.com Debuts Ask 3D: Say Hello to Morph Technology — Some major news from Ask.com today. Because Gary is a member of the Ask.com team, like we've done in previous situations our overview post is available by clicking the link below. — Ask.Com Launches Ask 3D: A Users Guide and a Few Thoughts
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:Ask.com redesign brings new features, integration
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Good Morning Silicon Valley
Kate / Google LatLong:
Hop on the bus, Gus. Or the train. Or the subway. — For some time now we have been "painting" icons for transit stops into our maps. While it was helpful to be able to see where to catch a train or bus, it left a lot of people wishing they could click on the icon to get more information about a specific station.
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CNET News.com, Search Engine Land, Mashable!, Google Earth Blog, WebProNews, rexblog.com, The Praized Blog and SEO by the SEA
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Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
GOOGLE MAPS JOINS THE MILE HIGH CLUB — Google Maps is just so hot right now, we couldn't resist giving it yet another nod this morning. On Tuesday, the low-cost U.S. airline JetBlue Airways announced that real-time flight tracking on Google Maps will be available on its in-seat TVs soon.
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Jeremy Faludi / WorldChanging:Google Transit 2.0 — Google Transit was already the best thing …
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Google Operating System
Apple:
Apple Updates MacBook Pro — Latest Intel Core 2 Duo Processors, Memory Up to 4GB and Higher Performance Graphics Across the Line — Apple® today updated its MacBook® Pro line of notebooks with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, memory up to 4GB, and high-speed graphics in a stunning …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Movable Type 4.0 Announced - Becomes Social Media Platform — Six Apart is announcing today the beta release of Movable Type 4, a much anticipated upgrade to a blog platform that has two distinct user bases nowadays - consumer base (like R/WW, which uses MT) and Enterprise.
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Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Listen to Music Free, but Pay to Carry — The music industry is so desperate for new ways to make money that a Silicon Valley start-up is trying a counterintuitive approach: giving the music away as a way to jump-start sales. — Starting today, visitors to Palo Alto-based Lala Media Inc …
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Robert Levine / New York Times:Warner Group in Deal to Offer Free Music via Internet Site
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IP Democracy, David Card, hypebot, GigaOM, MacUser, Portfolio.com, Tech Shout! and Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer
www.htc.com:
HTC Touch™ Delivers New Touch Screen Experience — HTC Device Signals New Direction In Finger Touch Navigation — HTC Corp. (TAIEX:2498; "HTC"), the world's leading provider of Microsoft® Windows Mobile®-based smart devices, today announced the global launch of the HTC Touch&trade …
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Google and Salesforce Tightly Integrate Adwords Products — There's been a lot of speculation about Salesforce and Google lately. Tomorrow the two companies will announce a marketing and distribution alliance that will tightly bind Google Adwords to existing Salesforce tools that track sales from online advertising.
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Digital Markets, Software as services, paidContent.org, HipMojo.com, VentureBeat, Office Evolution and The Next Net
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Ex-Cisco Executive to Lead Joost, Internet TV Provider — Michelangelo Volpi spent 5 of his 13 years at Cisco Systems selling networking equipment to the companies like Comcast and Time Warner Cable that bring television into living rooms. — Now he is trying to do an end run around those same companies.
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BoomTown, GigaOM, Global Neighbourhoods, rexduffdixon.com, paidContent.org and NewTeeVee
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Gizmodo:
Exclusive: iPhone Data to be Boosted by AT&T's Operation "Fine Edge" — An AT&T employee who works on Operations tells us that the carrier ordered a last-minute beefing up of its EDGE throughput, latency and coverage in anticipation of the iPhone. The operation, internally referenced as …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Local TV in five cities goes online through YouTube — YouTube announced a partnership with an independently-owned TV broadcast network yesterday that will enable five stations to begin monetizing their content online. The agreement with Hearst-Argyle Television will put local TV programming …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Lawyer ratings site not without objections — A venture-capital backed Web site called Avvo.com that launches Tuesday claims to offer a "game-changing" alternative to the Yellow Pages for anyone interested in hiring a lawyer. — Avvo's plan is ambitious: to award a numeric score …
CNN:
UPDATE: Blinkx Strikes Ask.com Video Search-Engine Deal — LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Video search engine company Blinkx PLC (BLNX.LN) Tuesday signed its largest deal to date, with Ask.com (IACI), one of the world's largest internet search engine firms. — Ask.com, a subsidiary …
Kikizo.com Videogames Website XML Feed:
Rockstar Dismisses Talk of GTA IV Delay — Analyst speculation turns out to be ... speculation. — Two of of the biggest games due in 2007 are Halo 3 and Grand Theft Auto IV. As luck would have it, they're coming out within a couple weeks of one another - despite what you may have heard to the contrary.
