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• Google Insights For Search, for advertisers and marketers

  Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

  Google launched a new product very useful for advertisers and marketers. It include a world heat map for the search volume and regional interest, the evolution for a specific search term and the top related and rising searches.
  With Google Insights For Search, it is possible to compare search volume trends across multiple [...]

• Delicious, version 2.0

  Friday, August 1st, 2008

  del.icio.us has just become Delicious. Faster and easier. And, I hope to be at least same useful as it was the previous version.
  Yahoo! blog lists some of the improved characteristics of the new web site: speed (new platform), search(faster, more powerful, smarter), design changed user interface, usability).
  They says that they [...]

• The digital Europe - i2010 Initiative

  Sunday, May 18th, 2008

  Preparing Europe’s digital future i2010 Mid-Term Review {SEC(2008) 470}
  INTRODUCTION

  Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) continue to be a major driver of economic and social modernisation. Today, businesses in the EU devote 20% of investment to ICTs, and the sector accounts for 26% of overall research expenditure. Moreover, 60% of basic public services [...]

• Google Friend Connect, rejected

  Saturday, May 17th, 2008

  Facebook doesn’t like Google Friend Connect, so it blocked this service from accessing Facebook members’ data.
  Charlie Cheever says the Friend Connect violates Facebook’s terms of service because it “redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge“. So, “we’ve reached out to Google several times about this issue, [...]

• Yahoo join the mobile market with oneConnect

  Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

  If I’d had enough money I’d invest it right now in the mobile industry. It is a real explosion, many of the biggest Internet companies are interested now in this market.
  Yahoo announced on Tuesday the launch of a new services called oneConnect that will aggregate mobile [...]

• MySpace between developers and angry users

  Thursday, January 31st, 2008

  MySpace tries to wake up and keep its leader position, by opening its doors to the developers, as did Facebook and many other social networks. Beginning with next week, on February 5, the site will become fully operational with documentation and API tools for developers to build and test applications [...]

• Microsoft to buy Calista Technologies and join Citrix Systems for virtualization

  Monday, January 21st, 2008

  Microsoft intends to develop in the virtualization field, with a more extensive strategy that includes the relaxing of the licensing for its virtualization software and lower prices.
  Virtualization is a technique for hiding the physical characteristics of computing resources from the way in which other systems, applications, or end users interact [...]

• Yahoo! web-based media player for your mp3 files

  Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

  Yahoo! just launched these days a beta version for a very interesting browser-based player. With just a line of Javascript code embedded in your web page it is possible to play any mp3 file from any web site. The documentation is a a public wiki.
  You can set the image Yahoo! uses [...]

• Recognizing text in images, patent by Google

  Friday, January 4th, 2008

  Time for patents. After Microsoft with the “Wish list“, now it’s time for Google to have published its patent, “Recognizing text in images”. The patent was filed by Google with the World Intellectual Property Organization in June 2007 and published on Thursday.
  The abstract of the patent describes it as “Methods, [...]

• Outsourcing predictions for the new year 2008

  Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

  A high importance is given to the IT outsourcing industry. From this point of view, there are two special “destinations” for the corporations: India, and Eastern Europe.

  Phil Fersht suggests some trends for the new year:

  Offshoring panic will continue, but will force providers to innovate
  The standardization of technology platforms within [...]

• My predictions for the new year 2008

  Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

  Due to the global warming with increased effects for this year, the developed states will change their national strategies by taking into account these aspects, and we will see important geopolitical changes.
  United States will try to overcome the economical crisis by extending its influence in new areas, but it will encounter a [...]

• Yahoo! in Romania

  Saturday, December 15th, 2007

  In accordance with the information published by the Romanian newspaper România Liberă, Yahoo! intends to open a center for software research and development in Romania, and a specific 100% Romanian portal.
  Zoltan Somodi, a state secretary at the Communication Minister, confirmed that a delegation of Yahoo! Europe came at Bucharest two weeks [...]