Cisco Aquires Pure Digital
Cisco aquires Pure Digital, well-known for its simple camcorder for digital video: Flip; http://tr.im/hAFn
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Glasshouse: Inside Charts
Glasshouse, an interactive data mining gateway application, lets anyone get inside 3D-charts; http://tr.im/hAEf
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Sony Gains Access to Google’s Library
Sony announced a deal with Google making half a million copyright-free eBooks available for its eReader; http://tr.im/hxQ7
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Newssift
The Financial Times launches http://Newssift.com, a semantic search engine for business news; http://tr.im/hxOR
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Flepia
Fujitsu announced Flepia: the eReader offers an 8 inch colour display, runs Windows CE 5.0; http://tr.im/hxMw
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Fennec Beta
Fennec, the mobile version of the Firefox browser, is now officially in beta; http://tr.im/hwmm
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Mozilla: “Fennec will bring a true Web experience to mobile phones and other non-PC devices, yet take advantage of the specific opportunities for new and useful user experiences enabled by mobility and telephony. Fennec will do what users need out of the box, enabling access to their favorite content and rich internet applications. It will integrate smoothly with device features, including easy initiation of phone calls from Web pages, access to local search, maps and directions. It will solve basic usability challenges have generally prevented the mobile Web experience from being pleasant and enjoyable, even though people have a critical need for data when on the go.”
Pavlov: “Fennec 1.0 Beta 1 includes lots of great improvements, especially around performance. Starting with this beta, I’m able to use Fennec as the primary browser on my N810. We’ve done heavy optimizations to our frontend code and made a number of optimizations to the platform, resulting in greatly increasing zooming speed and making panning pretty smooth. We’ve also been able to improve startup performance by reducing a good bit of unnecessary work. We’ve enabled TraceMonkey bringing to mobile the huge JavaScript speed improvements the JIT has brought to Firefox 3.1 betas. A number of performance hotspots have been identified that we’ll continue to focus on until we ship final – in fact, we have fixed number of issues already for the next beta.”
TC: “We’ve seen what competition has done for browsers on the PC. Today, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and IE are all trying to leapfrog one another (well, at least the first three are). Efforts like Fennec, mobile Safari for the iPhone, the Android Web browser, Opera Mini, Skyfire, and others are injecting the same healthy competition into mobile browsers. I can’t wait to be able to try out Fennec on my mobile phone (if Apple or Google let me).”
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WikiMatrix: Find and Compare Wiki Engines
http://WikiMatrix.org is one of the best places to find and compare wiki engines: check out the Wiki Choice Wizard.
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Study on Online Donating
Online donors – donating to charity for the first time – often do not return says a Blackbaud study; http://tr.im/hv6N
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MySpaceID Offers Syndication
MySpaceID now offers syndication of activity feed items to 3rd party sites (vice versa soon); http://tr.im/hv5Z
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TC: “The upgrades are sure to be a welcome addition to the product, but I can’t help but wonder if MySpace has already missed the boat on this one. Despite announcing its Facebook Connect product a day after MySpace first announced MySpaceID (which was formerly called Data Availability), Facebook still beat MySpace to the punch by months, rolling out Connect in early December. Reception has generally been very positive, with Facebook Connect now supported by a number of popular iPhone applications and thousands of websites.”
Mashable: “Based on what I’ve seen of the new MySpaceID, that logic is pretty genius. MySpace members are a very desirable crowd and website owners can now integrate with one of the most popular websites to convert users to members, keep them on site, and make them happy. In return, MySpace knows that users will share more items across the Web, continue to build out their activity stream, and beef up their overall MySpace presence. We think it’s a big win for everyone.”
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Google News: More Hosted News Partners
Google News gains 8 more news agencies, members of the EPA, extending its Hosted News partners; http://tr.im/huZU
FT Search: “Newssift is a unique search tool for business professionals offering access to a comprehensive database, indexing millions of articles from thousands of global business news sources. A next generation vertical search tool, searches are based on meaning and relationships, moving beyond traditional keyword search. Newssift is from FT Search Inc., an independent entity within the Financial Times Group.”
TC: “Searches can be saved, creating an interesting prospective news search tool. You can create your own memetracker for any industry or topic. I am not sure I would use Newssift every day to stay on top of the latest news, but I can see it as a useful research tool when I have to really dig deep into a topic. It does better with business news than technology. Still, it is worth checking out in that it employs several subtle navigational techniques that make it more of a discovery engine than a search engine.”
SEL: “A team of editors helps choose and aggregate the sources that Newssift crawls, but Johnson says the engine gives no preference to Financial Times news articles. Indeed, on a purely anecdotal level, I rarely saw Financial Times articles appearing in the results of the dozen or so queries I did. … With Newssift now in its public beta, the creators are looking for user feedback and say they’re planning to expand the source list by crawling more online news sites, including blogs.”