Google announced its new service called Buzz, which will compete with Facebook and Twitter. “Today, with Google Buzz, we’re introducing a new way to share and communicate inside of Gmail. Buzz is like an entirely new world inside of Gmail,” said Todd Jackson, Google Buzz product manager. Try live blogging with Google Buzz and read
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Google has two extraordinary tools: a voice recognition and an automatic system for translating text. Right now the company is working on combining those two technologies to create software which will understand a caller’s voice and translate it into a synthetic equivalent in a foreign language. Just like a human interpreter. “We think speech-to-speech translation
Since the iPad was introduced by Apple on January 27, Apple shares are down about 5.5%. There are signs that if demand on iPad will not be satisfied for Apple, the company is considering lowering prices.
Monster Worldwide (the owner of monster.com) had agreed to buy Yahoo’s HotJobs site for $225 million. After this deal, Monster has only one major competitor careerbuilder.com. Monster controls about one-third of online jobs postings in the US. Under the terms of the deal, Monster Worldwide is going to pay Yahoo $20 million to $31 million
IBM has created a graphene-based processor. It can execute 100 billion cycles per second (100GHz). It is four times the speed of previous experimental graphene chips. “That makes graphene a promising material for high-speed or high-frequency electronic components,” Lin (the IBM researcher who led the work) said.
Facebook has been launched on February 4th, 2004 by 20-year old Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg.
According to a report from Pew Internet & American Life Project: 74 percent of all U.S. adult population go online. The most commonly-used online social network website is Facebook. 73% of adults have a profile on Facebook, 48% have a profile on MySpace and 14% have a LinkedIn profile. 8% of people who use internet
The new 3.2 version of SDK (Software Development Kit) provided by Apple to developers removes the restrictions on calling over 3G. According to a blog post on Skype website today, a version of Skype for iPhone which supports 3G calling will be release soon. Skype is working also on video chat capabilities. You can read
According to a new study from Gomez (the company which provides the industry’s leading platform of Web application experience management solutions) customers don’t have a patience for Internet stores, ebanks and travel sites that loads slow, act unsteadily or crash during transaction seasons. The survey shows that 78 percent of consumers go to a competitor’s
