Xcavator, Photo Comparison Search June 26, 2007

Xcavator.net is an interesting stock photo search engine. Instead of just searching for tags, you can also select a color, or upload your own photo to get best matches returned. Results are already OK, and would probably be even better with a larger image database in the back-end (so that you would find more precise [...]

Plaxo 3 Beta Review June 26, 2007

Robert Scoble broke the news on Sunday night first as far as I can tell. The address book, calendar and task management and synchronization platform Plaxo opened their new version 3.0 beta to the public.
As a user and fan of Plaxo, did I go and tested it out right away of course. I had a [...]

Fauxto Online Photo Editor June 25, 2007

Fauxto*, released in late 2006, is a Photoshop-like online image editor that’s constantly growing its list of features. Once you edited a photo with brushes, layers, fill tools, eraser and so on, you can save it online – no need to go back to your hard disk (though you can do that, too).
This tool works [...]

Google wants U.S. help fighting censorship June 24, 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) — Once relatively indifferent to government affairs, Google Inc. is seeking help inside the Beltway to fight the rise of Web censorship worldwide.
The online search giant is taking a novel approach to the problem by asking U.S. trade officials to treat Internet restrictions as international trade barriers, similar to other hurdles to global [...]

Microsoft to Change Vista After Google Complaints June 23, 2007

A little background info is in order. A couple of months ago Google made a confidential complaint against Microsoft to the Justice department over Microsoft’s indexing software. Google’s complaint was that Microsoft doesn’t make it easy to turn off the default indexing software in Vista (“Instant Search,” which allows you to search your hard drive) [...]

LG’s Google Phone Coming to Europe June 23, 2007

The Korea Times is reporting that LG Electronics has unveiled their new cell phone which offers a full range of services provided by Google, or as us bloggers like to call it, the Google Phone.
The Google Phone (LG-KU580) is expected to hit the European markets this week and cost about $350.
The LG-KU580 will be the [...]

Mandriva: We Won’t Sign Microsoft Pact June 23, 2007

Mandriva has become the latest Linux vendor to publicly refute speculation that it will join Novell, Xandros and Linspire in signing a patent covenant with Microsoft, in which the Redmond company agrees not to sue for potential intellectual property infringement.
The statement from Mandriva CEO Francois Bancilhon follows a similar refusal from Canonical chief executive Mark [...]

Apple Posts 20-Minute iPhone Tour June 23, 2007

Apple on Friday provided the most in-depth look at the iPhone, one week before the device debuts at AT&T and Apple stores across the United States. A 20-minute guided tour posted to the company’s Web site showcases the various features of the iPhone and explains how to use the touch screen.
While the tour doesn’t disclose [...]

translate Words with Google’s Bilingual Dictionaries June 23, 2007

Google has a powerful translation tool that lets you translate a web page or a text, but that’s not very useful if you only need to translate a word or an expression. Without entering a context, Google shows the most plausible translation, but a word can have multiple translations.
To overcome this problem, Google launched a [...]

AMD to introduce 45nm process AM3 CPU family in 2H08 June 23, 2007

AMD schedules to launch its 45nm process socket AM3 family processors in the second half of 2008. The processors will support HyperTransport 3.0 and will have a built-in DDR2/DDR3 memory controller. The processors will be backward compatible with the previous AM2 and AM2+ socket motherboards, according to sources at motherboard makers.
AMD’s AM3 family will include [...]

Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 (1 Terabyte) Hard Drive review June 23, 2007

The terabyte race for consumer desktop hard drives has been on for a long time, now the first generation of drives is here. On April 25th, Hitachi announced that it would begin shipping the Deskstar 7K1000, their latest series of consumer hard drives, weighting in at 750GB and a monstrous 1000GB (1TB). The 1TB version [...]

New MacBook Pro Offers a Dazzling Display June 23, 2007

What a difference 540,000 pixels make.
I’m talking in this case about the latest MacBook Pro to grace my desk, the top-of-the-line 17-in. model with a glossy 1,920-by-1,200-pixel high-resolution screen tricked out with a 7,200-rpm 160GB hard drive and 4GB of RAM added post-purchase. Oh, and it uses Intel’s new 2.4-GHz Core 2 Duo with a [...]

YouTube Live on Apple TV, iPhone June 21, 2007

Apple said Wednesday that its update to Apple TV to allow viewing of YouTube videos was available, along with announcing similar functionality for iPhone. But the lack of 3G connectivity will limit the feature’s usefulness.
iPhone users will likely not be able to stream their videos across the mobile network as EDGE is often too slow [...]

Xerox tool analyzes text to improve search results June 21, 2007

Xerox researchers have developed a search tool that tries to understand documents, rather than looking for keywords, in order to provide better results.

The tool, FactSpotter, analyzes the underlying grammar of a text in order [...]

14 Google Products Won Webware 100 June 20, 2007

Rafe Needleman announced the Webware 100 winners.The list was compiled on votes cast by nearly 500,000 users, and Google is the biggest winner with 14 products on the list:
Browsing: Google Reader
Communication: Gmail
Data: Google
Media: YouTube
Mobile: Gmail Mobile, Google Maps Mobile, Google 411
Productivity and Commerce: Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Calendar, Google AdWords
Publishing: Blogger, Google Analytics, FeedBurner
Preference: [...]

Track Every Click with Crazy Egg’s “Confetti” June 19, 2007

Optimizing your website can be tough business since you can’t “see” your customers online. Analytics packages like Google analytics do a good job letting you see how many visitors are coming and going on your site by tracking every page request. However, another breed of analytics focuses on optimizing how they’re using it, by tracking [...]

No Microsoft-Ubuntu Deal in the Works June 19, 2007

Don’t expect a patent deal between Microsoft and Ubuntu Linux distributor Canonical anytime soon.
The company’s CEO said in a post on his personal Web log over the weekend that despite the rumors, there are no negotiations with the Redmond company. Furthermore, he took issue with Microsoft’s threats of patent lawsuits for unspecified patents.
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Google Takes YouTube Global June 19, 2007

YouTube launched nine localized versions of its popular social video site on Tuesday, which will at first only place navigation and functionality in the country’s native language.
Eventually, the site plans to offer localized content as well, with the featured pages targeted towards the individual tastes of consumers in each market. This would include ratings specific [...]

iPhone Delivers Up to Eight Hours of Talk Time June 19, 2007

Apple® today announced that iPhone™ will deliver significantly longer battery life when it ships on June 29 than was originally estimated when iPhone was unveiled in January. iPhone will feature up to 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback or 24 hours of audio playback.* In [...]

Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move June 17, 2007

So, you don’t mind being followed and tracked? You don’t care if your friends can see what websites you’ve been to lately, what software you’ve been running, or even what music you’ve been listening to? Then you’ll love the web’s trend towards extreme openness: sharing everything you do on your computer. Sometimes referred to as [...]

Sony Ericsson shows shake-to-shuffle Walkman phone June 17, 2007

Sony Ericsson’s been busy, busy, busy this week: in addition to announcing an upgraded Cyber-shot camera phone, it debuted a pair of new Walkman music phones – once controlled simply by shaking, rattling or rolling it.

Sony Ericsson’s W960: Symbian runner
What really makes the W960 stand out is its foundation on the Symbian operating system – [...]