Google Street View Adds Chicago, Phoenix, Tucson…
There are a couple of new panorama views in (click on the “Street View” button and zoom in to see them).
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Microsoft rolls out new Zunes to take on iPod (+video)
Microsoft introduced on Tuesday three new models of its Zune digital media player that wirelessly and automatically update their music, photos and videos when placed near a user’s computer. The new Zunes will come in 4-gigabyte, 8-gigabyte and 80-gigabyte models.
Gadgets and Social Networks04 Oct 2007 06:18 am
Financial Times: content free but with limits
When the New York Times opened its archives and let receive by its contents, I thought that the following one in announcing something similar was going to be the Wall ßstreet Journal, but the Financial Times finishes advancing and announced that it will let receive by his contents but with a limit of 30 articles per month.
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Now there’s another Google brand rip-off, apparently from China: Google Eau de Toilette for Men.
Source: Blogoscoped
Gadgets28 Sep 2007 05:08 pm
In an special event (as it´s mentioned to be the first one), Barcamp Buenos Aires will be celebrated tomorrow in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Gadgets27 Sep 2007 10:31 am
Truphone to Demonstrate First VoIP-over-WiFi Call on Apple’s iPhone
According to a company called Truphone, they have unlocked the secret of IP telephony on the iPhone, and demonstrated said ability today at DEMOfall 07 in San Diego. Executing commands via the Terminal (i.e., on a phone which had been Jailbreak-ed), Truphone CEO James Tagg was able to call another mobile phone using only an IP connection — all without breaking the SIM lock.
Google will contract thousands of engineers in Europe
Of around 14,000 people who work in Google, around half they are engineers (7.000), and of these only a small percentage (500) works in Europe. This, according to Nelson Mattos (the new person in charge of engineering of the company in this continent), can cause that the users have the perception of which Google is a great American company that simply get at Europe to make money, sensation that for example has given to foot to the creation of projects ‘ purely europeos’ like e-Globe (to cometir with ‘ Google Earth’), Quaero (with the seeking Web of Google) or the attempt of a ‘ Google own Books‘, or like different sensitivity in privacy subjects.
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Gadgets27 Sep 2007 05:46 am
The DMOZ people in charge assure that the Directory is not dead
Although many think that free directory DMOZ (Open Directory Project) is dead, mainly after months without allowing discharges and the accusations of corruption, their people in charge think all the opposite and for that reason they have initiated this blog official.
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Another European project that it tries to compete with Google, this time with ‘ Google Earth’
Almost two years ago it arose, to initiative of several European public institutions, the Quaero finder with the objective “to resist the technological supremacy and the American influence, and to defend therefore the multiculturalidad”.
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The neat Google Alert service lets you subscribe to certain search queries to get updates emailed to you. For instance, you can subscribe to mentions of your website name in Google News.
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