Mobile handset maker Nokia stated this Wednesday that it has extended its partnership with Yahoo to include the search giant's services on a few selected set of Nokia phones. The company would also begin rolling out the new Yahoo options with the Nokia 6300, 5200, and 5300 XpressMusic phones. The handsets would let users synchronize Yahoo available contacts, tasks, and calendar items, and will also connect to Yahoo Mail and Messenger. |
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Yahoo had recently launched an experimental site, which offers mobile phone subscribers the power to send any text messages and also share videos and pictures with their friends. The service of Yahoo still follows the trend among Internet portals to offer mobile social networking services. The service is basically centered on making it easy for friends group to use text messaging as a way to organize a party, meet in a restaurant, attend a football game or may be to arrange any other social activity. |
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Bharti Airtel and Google had recently announced a strategic partnership to offer wider mobile search. According to a release issued by Bharti to the BSE, Airtel would bring Google search to the Airtel Live mobile with WAP portal. "Google would also include advertising through its Mobile Ads product on the Airtel Live mobile portal", the release added. |
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Google search engine has been focusing its attention on the mobile market from past few years. Google had come up with the new services designed exclusively for the small screen. Last January, it released the Google Personalized Home Page that lets people access Gmail, news, RSS feeds and much other information from their personalized Google home page on mobile phones and PDAs. This specific service is free for US and it also work with any phone that has an XHTML- capable web browser. "Google sees great prospective for extending its presence throughout the world using the mobile platform", said Deep Nishar, director of product management for Google. |
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As it's the time for holidays, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) is now promoting a camera finder on its most preferred Flicker photo sharing site. This lets the users sort snapshots by the digital cameras that were used. The site is able to spot the camera used as the photographs are uploaded, and that in turn opens the door for the company to graph the usage and as well to create camera specific groups for users.
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Google is up with the fire of free schwag engine for the holiday season. Last year Google had sent out a potpourri of items including a wireless mini mouse, 4 port USB hubs, USB charger for mouse, headset with retractable cord, USB LED light and many more. However this year the gift is much cooler - a digital picture frame. It's really good that Google takes out time to thank their publishers with cool and attractive gifts. |
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People who are interested in giving back during the holidays, donations to eight global charities could now be possible with Google Checkout login. Google plans to add $10 to every user's first donation of $30 or more. Shoppers could donate to these charities and do their shopping from their preferred Google Checkout merchants by new site http://checkout.google.com/holiday/. This site has popular gift item from Google Checkout merchants, in fact everything from coffee to cameras. |
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Google has recently launched a holiday site marking retailers who are using its Checkout payment service and then expose the money back promotion to attract its customers. Google Checkout provides a single avenue for making purchases on multiple retail sites. Google is now looking to add customers through promotions, which include $10 off on purchase of $30 or more through this year Dec. 26. For example, if shoppers visited five participating merchants and spent between $30 and $49 on every site, they will get back a total of $50. |
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Mountain View-based Google closed at $509.65 last Tuesday, giving the search engine turned media long lasting a market capitalization of $156 billion and also making the eight year old firm, which is more valuable than Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Coca-Cola, Mitsubishi, Chevron and AT&T. An investor who bought 10 shares of stock in the company's during August 2004 Dutch auction style first public offering will now have turned his $850 into $5,040.80, a return of 493 percent on paper in little more than two years. |
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Until recently, it was difficult to find news archives on the web more than 30 days old. That's changed in a big way with the advent of Google's News Archive search. This News Archives search screens for news archive, which is virtually the same as the regular Google News search; but with a difference that the Archive search includes the option to limit the results to free articles, or for articles that are costing less than $5, $10, or $50. |
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LONDON - MSN is to launch a film website, which is featuring reviews, listings and exclusive clips aiming youngsters in the age bracket of 16 to 24. MSN has brought in a number of partners to give content for the website including editorial column and recent trailers from independent film site MyMovies, listings and daily news from the Press Association, DVD data from Muze, actor/director data from French company Allocine and even from DVD rental from Lovefilm. |
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Yahoo's new ad platform, dubbed Panama, looks like making good progress, according to a report by UBS analyst Benjamin Schachter. In a research note, Schachter said "Yahoo is rapidly ramping up efforts to migrate advertisers to the new user line (campaign management application). Contacts point out that over the next coming weeks more and more advertisers would migrate. There is even a Website to let advertisers to request an early migration. However, as predictable, the complete migration is still not planned and is to be complete until early '07." |
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Major Internet sites are now showing a strong and popular growing interest in the advertising business, and traditional ad. Google has been leading all through the way, building on its online ad strength by striking deals to sell advertising in the traditional media like newspapers and radio as well. Meanwhile, eBay is growing an ad-buying system for TV spots for a set of large advertisers like Wal-Mart. Yahoo recently announced a deal with 176 newspapers, which did not include offline ad sales, even though newspaper executives did not rule that out. |
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Search engine giant Yahoo has bought a website, which would helps individuals and sponsor companies to host online talent shows, adding more content created by users. Bix, founded in January, holds online contests for featuring karaoke, dance, comedy, beauty, photography and for writing; Yahoo said this at the weekend on its website. People will compete by posting photos, audio and videos and other users will rate. |
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A group of seven newspaper chains representing 176 daily papers throughout the country has announced a broad partnership with Yahoo to share content, advertising and technology, another sign that wary newspaper business is rapidly increasing and willing to shake hands with the technology companies they once saw as a threat. In the first phase of the deal, the newspaper companies would start posting their employment classified ads on Yahoo's classified jobs site, HotJobs, and start using HotJobs technology to run their own online business ads. |
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MarketLive, Inc., the market giant of e-commerce retail technology and the services for Intelligent Selling ® on the Web, announced that the MarketLive platform would be delivering full integration with the recently announced Google Checkout (http://checkout.google.com). This would enable MarketLive customers to quickly and simply take advantage of the new checkout choice without any additional programming effort. For its part, Google planned this new ability to make online shopping faster and more convenient for its users.
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A new Australian study recommended doctors to use Google to diagnose difficult cases even though the results are only 60% accurate. The published work by British Medical Journal, suggested using Google because it is now a source of three billion journal articles, more effective than any specialist search engine. |
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The CIT310 (Linksys) is a cordless phone, which lets you make unlimited free PC-to-PC calls using your Yahoo Messenger with Voice based account. The phone then also supports Yahoo Phone Out (which allows you to make calls to any phone number with rates, which start at $0.2 cents) and Yahoo Phone In (which for $29/year let you assign a phone number to your PC).
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Yahoo! India has recently got permission from the Indian Government to offer Internet telephony services across the country. The clearance would now allow Yahoo! to offer voice services for users of its instant messenger in India, according to a Yahoo! India spokesperson.
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Yahoo! is now jumping on the food bandwagon by launching the "Yahoo! Food website". It is building a Web-based portal for food, as it already has for finance, sports, news, pets and a myriad of other subjects. Yahoo's food portal carries experts such as Martha Stewart, Wolfgang Puck and Rachael Ray. It would also offer content from Epicurious.com, Food & Wine's Allrecipes.com, cook's Illustrated, EatingWell, Taste of Home, Reader's Digest and few others as well. |
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Google is now with the idea of hiring scores of radio sales and also spending heavily in a bid to expand its place in the $US20 billion ($NZ30.2 billion) radio industry. Advertisers will now be able to go online and sign up for targeted radio ads with the help of same AdWords system they use to buy web search ads.
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For those using Orkut, Google's social networking website, you may notice new Google Talk integration next time you sign in. Orkut user can now notice a new Google Talk integration in the website next time you log in. First thing user can notice is the online status of members, one can also send scraps to those contact and that will be displayed in their instant messenger. |
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San Francisco - Microsoft Corp. has improved its online mapping service that consists of three-dimensional protrusion of 15 U.S. cities to obtain an aerial view of their homes and neighborhoods. Later in months, Microsoft is expected to include more upcoming cities. A convenience that Google Earth doesn't offer currently is the Virtual Earth Service which provides "Photorealistic" images, at Microsoft's live.com site.
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Google has officially announced their idea to enhance product search in their web search engine before end of this year. This happened during professional eBay seller alliance summit in San Francisco last month. This is a big move by Google and very soon it will be visible, and will substantially improve its entire product searching experience (Froogle).
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JotSpot is a wiki hosting company, which lets businesses or groups to create collaborative web sites without dealing directly with the actual hosting, programming, etc. This could be a nice fit for the growing Google Office which now consists of Docs and Spreadsheets.
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Google is coming up with the idea of releasing a new feature, which allows offline messages to be sent. Now when you send message to someone not signed in, an error is displayed " |
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