Archive for March, 2008
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While we are supposed to be under embargo on this until later today, we wanted to be the first to show you the latest breakthrough to be offered by Google. The Google Watch, or GWatch for short. The Google USB Search Watch (Model #8002RPA10; estimated retail $89) will bring Google’s popular search engine technology to a wristwatch. Apparently users will be able to use a modified Google API to view search results on your wrist. At launch, the “GWatch” will be limited to local search results–you
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Youtube has been at the centre of attraction lately where its been making one interesting announcement after another and with each one taking its video platform to another level. So if you thought that the traction at youtube and the zest for more innovation would have stopped with a 1.65 billion dollar acquisition by big bro Google? Think again.. Youtube which started as a web-only platform was bought to mobile phones with amazing viewing quality by Apple’s iPhone. Now another company whic
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Wrote about this a few months back, and here is the update: Airtel has launched Airtellive.com, a co-branded effort that will allow Google to distribute it’s Apps to Airtel broadband customers. Airtel broadband customers will get access to Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and a customizable start page- i.e. iGoogle. My first feel about the site- Airtel has surely sold it’s soul to Google. The site, except for Airtel header is completely taken over by iGoogle and hats off to Google team fo
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New Mobile Phone Application Available to Wireless Carriers Features Navigation, Local Search, Traffic, Movie/Event Times, Weather Forecast and 3D Maps
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Opening Communication with Front Porch Forum Sometimes it’s the little things that open up communication among neighbors. Here’s a message from Linda and George that was just posted on an until-now-sleepy Essex Junction, VT, neighborhood forum… “Many thanks to all of our neighbors for helping with the search for our indoor black cat. So many of you called to say you had seen him or would look out for him. Cindy Smith on Villa Drive had been working with us to capture a very scared black cat t
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Garmin Comes to Samsung, Mobile Gets a Nuvi and Google Local Search Upgrade [Cellphones] Monday, 31 March 2008 5:47 P GMT-06 Two bits of news have come out of the Garmin camp today—the first of which involves Samsung phones getting their own navigation software based on the Garmin Mobile(TM) XT platform. The software will be available on smartphones like the i780 in Europe and elsewhere starting sometime in the next few months. Futhermore, Garmin Mobile users will be treated to upgrades includ
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Two bits of news have come out of the Garmin camp today—the first of which involves Samsung phones getting their own navigation software based on the Garmin Mobile(TM) XT platform. The software will be available on smartphones like the i780 in Europe and elsewhere starting sometime in the next few months. Futhermore, Garmin Mobile users will be treated to upgrades including a new Nuvi-like interface and the addition of Google Local search starting in July. Press releases are available after the
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Local Search platform provider Local Matters has announced that it will acquire Mobile search platform provider MobilePeople for a combination of cash and stock. In a nutshell, this will extend Local Matters’ publisher partners’ ability to sell mobile and DA-delivered voice advertising in addition to print, IYP and a growing media bundle. We’re seeing lots of talk and lots of development of the mobile industry on the consumer side, as the iPhone and other factors are bringing advanced mobil
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Web, user generated content, Boston Wade Roush wrote: Mix one cup of Wikipedia with one cup of Google Maps, add a generous dollop of MIT-bred geekdom, and bake for about 14 months. Serves 600,000. The confection in question is Povo.com, a user-editable online community directory that debuted in Boston last week. A project of Boston-based Arts Alliance Labs, a combination venture capital firm and technology platform company led by MIT Media Lab alum Mex Metral, Povo is essentially a giant, geo
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The neglected part of the local story is about products. Often local search is discussed exclusively in terms of finding service businesses or small businesses in one's own area. But an equally important, if less obvious, part of the "local search" phenomenon is shopping in the more traditional sense. I've written previous Locals Only columns about the widespread -- indeed dominant -- consumer phenomenon of research online-buy offline. Now a new study by Krillion and the E-Tailing Group sheds
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