Posts Tagged ‘technology-news’
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Can Cuil rival Google at search?
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Most talks in Tech town since yesterday are sure to include a mention to Cuil. Pronounced “cool”, a newly launched search engine, built and founded by former Google employees. Cuil claims to be indexing more of the web than any of its rivals, including Google. It also promises an innovative approach to searching, unlike any [...]
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The Internet is growing
Friday, June 27th, 2008
It is now official. Big changes are coming the Internet’s way, after ICANN the Internet’s regulatory authority has decided in a unanimous vote to expand the number of top-level domains (.com, .net, .org etc) to a potentially unlimited number. Among other decisions in a Paris, France meeting, is that the ICANN will consider and implement [...]
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Leave Yahoo Alone! Please?
Monday, February 4th, 2008
News of Microsoft’s unsolicited offer to buy Internet legend Yahoo at $44.6bn, caught me by surprise. I never though of Yahoo as something you can “buy”. Yes, it is a company, so certainly there must be someone out there with the cash to buy it.
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Jaiku goes to Googlewood
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Popular mini-blog service Jaiku, made an official announcement today, breaking the news of being acquired by Google. I cannot say this came as a surprised, considering the rate of Google and its rivals are buying everything new and promising on the Internet these days. First reading about it on the Ken McGuire blog, and [...]
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New Opera Mini, for better mobile web browsing
Friday, June 22nd, 2007
Have you ever used your mobile phone to surf the web? Web browsing on mobile phones has been made better and easier since the launch of the Opera Mini web browser in 2006 for the many users who use it. Opera Mini is a lightweight browser which in my honest opinion stands above and beyond [...]
