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The Opera Web browser has taken a big step forward with the release of version 10.50, a significant update that brings some nice new features and a number of radical improvements under the hood. Opera Software contends that it has taken the lead in perfor...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 hour 26 minutes ago.
Technology that could see an end to the bane of many commuters - people talking loudly on their mobile phones - has been shown off by researchers. The prototype device could allow people to conduct silent phone conversations. The technology measures the t...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 1 hour 36 minutes ago.
Speech technology on cell phones getting better but still not perfectYouTube said Thursday that it will start automatically captioning videos on its site, opening up a huge share of its content to people who are hearing-impaired, and a first step in creat...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 6 hours 25 minutes ago.
When Google recently launched the Apps Marketplace, some wondered just how useful it would be for businesses. Google has historically provided services that appeal to both consumers and the enterprise, but for the most part, its focus has been on more con...
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Peter Norvig - current Google Research head and the company's former director of search quality - is exploring some sort of new-age search engine aimed specifically for students. Wednesday, at the search-obsessed SMX West conference in Silicon Valley, Nor...
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Now the focus is on social. Think about it: In 2010, social networks are central in our lives. Our networks have been redefined based on our voice power -- it's not about whom we can seek advice from over coffee but about whom we can influence online. The...
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The Apple iPad will arrive in U.S. stores April 3, Apple reveals, after having kept the Apple faithful guessing since the iPad's late-January introduction. Both WiFi and WiFi-plus-3G models will be available.
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 days 1 hour ago.
Not only will the next version of Microsoft Exchange transcribe telephone calls, it'll go one step further: Microsoft is also trying to translate telephone calls in real time. You're speaking English, she's speaking Russian -- but you can both understand ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 days 1 hour ago.
Earlier this week, Google expanded its cloud computing empire through the acquisition of popular photo-editing site Picnik. Moments after the news was announced on both the Google Photo blog and Picnik’s blog, users of both applications were asking one ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 days 1 hour ago.
Google Wave is particularly useful for organising events, preparing meeting agendas, brainstorming sessions and many other activities used in website marketing. Google is all set to roll-out its Google Wave collaboration tool to website promotion business...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 days 1 hour ago.
As we creep on toward the iPad launch, developers are scurrying about getting their apps ship-shape, consumers are twiddling their thumbs waiting for pre-orders to be announced, and print publishers are making preparations. Apple, of course, announced tha...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 days 1 hour ago.
Just a couple of weeks ago, Google released Buzz, a social networking tool integrated into its e-mail service, Gmail. Google Buzz, designed to complement existing web services, merges features from both Twitter and Facebook, allowing users to communicate ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 days 1 hour ago.
...it's driven by the same old media love affair with distribution lock in. I've been on about this ever since I studied Google in 2001: Media traditionally has gained its profits by owning distribution. Cable carriage, network airwaves, newsstand distrib...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 4 days 1 hour ago.
In the last decade there's been a technology revolution in schools. Billions have been spent on computers for teachers and pupils, on installing wireless networks, on putting electronic whiteboards in just about every classroom - and on the IT suppliers w...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 4 days 1 hour ago.
HTC was the first manufacturer to use Android in its phones Apple's legal action against HTC may have "wider implications" for all phone makers using Google's Android operating system, an analyst has warned. Ian Fogg of Forrester Research said that the ca...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 4 days 1 hour ago.
In the March issue of Popular Photography magazine, the editor’s note, by Miriam Leuchter, is called “What Is a Photograph” You’d think that, after 73 years, a magazine called Popular Photography would have figured that out. (Ba-da-bump!) Actuall...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 5 days 1 hour ago.
This might go a little far in terms of PR gimmicks. And I highly doubt you'll see any Seattle politicians follow suit. But you've got to give the mayor of Topeka, Kansas some credit for creative thinking. According to the Topeka Capital-Journal, Mayor Bil...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 5 days 1 hour ago.
Apple could lower the price of the next version of the iPhone, according to a Morgan Stanley analyst, who also suggested in a widely publicized research note that the iPad tablet PC would begin selling in late March, a timeline already alluded to by Apple...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 5 days 1 hour ago.
Internet security techniques must adapt to keep up with the rising tide of net attacks say officials. The issue is top of the agenda at the world's biggest security conference hosted by vendor RSA.
Posted by Techno-News Blog 6 days 1 hour ago.
A report from the Pew Research Center found Americans are most likely to get their news online as opposed to reading a newspaper and the overwhelming majority of Americans (92 percent) use multiple platforms to get news on a typical day, including nationa...
Spfldbloggers is a collection of blogs from the Springfield, Illinois area. Every ten minutes the site fetches RSS feeds from blogs in the blog roll and then stores a summary of blog posts.
If you are from the Springfield area, have a blog, and want to be included go to the Sign Up page.
If you are from the Springfield area, have a blog, and want to be included go to the Sign Up page.
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