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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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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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Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
Yahoo! Satellite Maps: Good for Pilots — When Google first launched their maps with satellite imagery, I immediately began using it as a tool for examining airports and non-airport landing spots. — It turns out that I wasn't alone. The aviation community at large has been all over Google Maps.
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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Fpullen / Fred Pullen's Blog:
Windows Vista Product Guide Preview Was Available! — The Windows Vista Product Guide provides a comprehensive overview of the innovative features and functions that make Microsoft® Windows Vista™ the next-generation Windows client operating system and successor to Windows XP.
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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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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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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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Richard Water / MSNBC:
ABC experiment faces infrastructure problems — Internet not designed for mass-market streaming video, analysts say — SAN FRANCISCO - The design of the Internet is unsuited to the sort of "live" online television services announced this week by Walt Disney, according to analysts and Internet executives.
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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 …
Associated Press:
Bloggers Join the Mainstream — A syndication service that delivers commentary from 600 bloggers for use by newspaper publishers is set to launch on Tuesday, further blurring the lines that divide blogs and mainstream media. — BlogBurst, as the service from blog technology company Pluck Corp. is known …
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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.
Peter Cohen / Macworld:
Blizzard reassures Mac gamers following Boot Camp — Game publisher Blizzard Entertainment has updated two frequently asked questions (FAQ) lists associated with World of Warcraft with information about Apple's recent release of Boot Camp, software that lets Intel-based Macs run Mac OS X and Windows XP.
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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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PR Newswire:
Xero Mobile Announces Reverse Merger With OTCB Company and Forward Stock Split — LOS ANGELES, April 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Xero Mobile, Inc. today confirmed the completion of a reverse merger with publicly traded Desi TV, Inc., and further announced that the merged entity would operate under …
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Microsoft creates academic search site to rival Google's — Microsoft Corp. is courting researchers and other academics with a specialized Web search service, its latest effort to catch up to market leader Google. — Windows Live Academic Search was launched in preliminary form Tuesday night.
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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