Archive for February, 2007
At the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft announced the official release of a client application for Windows Mobile devices as well as compatible J2ME capable devices in the US and UK. Some new features have been added, since the beta started back in November. The main features of Live Search for Mobile are:
Category-based local searching - Search businesses and restaurants through the Live.com category system.
Maps and Directions - Get maps of your area and directions to your destination. Hook up a GPS unit to search around and track your current position.
Traffic - View real-time traffic in selected US cities.
The Windows Mobile version also comes with a Contacts list integration and a SMS feature, that allows you to send a text message with a business adress and phone number.
February 16th, 2007
Yahoo! announced a new feature called “Suggestion Board” to Yahoo! Autos and 14Â other properties.
“We call it a Suggestion Board — you can browse suggestions from other site visitors or post your own. Digg-style voting means we can quickly discover what’s most important to users. In addition to reading feedback from other users, you’ll find responses from Yahoo! employees about the issues. Product teams regularly read and take action on your feedback.”
You can read the official announcement on the official Yahoo! Blog.
February 15th, 2007
Google’s Webmaster Central is out of beta, since today. The service was first introduced as “Google Sitemaps” in June 2005, but since Google has expanded the functionality of Google Sitemaps within the time, it was renamed to Webmaster Central. More than a million webmasters, worldwide, are using the Webmaster Central at this time.
February 14th, 2007
LG Electronics and Yahoo! today announced a new strategic global partnership to distribute Yahoo!’s services on tens of millions of LG mobile phones in more than 70 countries around the world. Beginning later in 2007, LG will pre-load Yahoo! services, including Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0, Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger on many of its mobile phones. The recently launched Yahoo! oneSearch, will also be available.
February 13th, 2007
A Belgian court ruled today that Google may not reproduce extracts from a variety of Belgian newspapers. Copiepresse, a copyright protection group representing 18 mostly French-language newspapers, had complained, that the Google’s cached links offered free access to archived articles that the papers usually sell on a subscription basis.
The court ordered Google to remove all articles, photos or links from Google News, that it displays without the newspapers permission.
In the future, it said it would be up to the copyright owners to get in touch with Google, to complain if the site was posting content that belonged to them. Google then has to remove the content within 24 hours or face a fine of 1,000 Euros ($1,300) daily.
February 13th, 2007
Yahoo! today launched a new gamma version of Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0, a month after the new service initially launched in beta. The new gamma version features the ability for consumers to search directly from maps and share oneSearch results, news articles and the service directly with friends.
The new gamma version of Yahoo! Go 2.0 also includes display ads from major global advertisers. The advertisements will run in several of the Widgets, near the top of the page. Consumers will be able to click on these interactive ads to directly call the advertiser or to learn more information about the advertiser’s offer.
February 13th, 2007
Google has announced a Photo Contest on their AdWords site:
“We’re redecorating here at Google AdWords and have decided on a theme: you! We’re looking for photos that feature our advertisers and the unique nature of their businesses. If you’re interested in having your photos displayed here at AdWords, send them along to adwords-photos@google.com.”
All Photos need to be submitted by February 28, 2007.
February 12th, 2007
Google today announced an update of the Google Docs & Spreadsheets service at the Official Google Blog. The online editor now comes in 12 more languages. The new added languages are French, Italian, German, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Turkish, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil) and Russian.
And there is even more, the Google Toolbar 3 for Firefox is now out of beta and available in all the languages mentioned above.
February 8th, 2007
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