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New Google Chrome Beta Instantly Translates Web Pages
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PC Magazine
Google on Tuesday introduced new language translation and privacy tools for its Chrome browser. Chrome now includes a beta feature that will instantly translate Web pages that are in a language different from your preferred language setting. “Chrome will display a prompt asking if you'd like the page to be translated for you using Google Translate," Wieland Holfelder, engineering director at Google Munich, wrote in a blog post. The idea is to “help make all the world's information universally acceptable ...
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Apple Fires at HTC but the Target is Google
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All About Jazz
Apple on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against HTC, alleging that the Taiwanese smartphone maker has violated several patents related to the iPhone hardware and interface. But the salvo is as much a shot across the bow of Google, Apples increasingly competitive rival. We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a press release. Weve decided to do something about it. We think competition is ...
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Google Secures Patent to Use Location Data in Ads
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Michael Ricci
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Google a patent that will allow the company to use location information in advertisements. Google's patent could have far-reaching effects on both Web-based and mobile advertising efforts. “The usefulness, and consequently the performance, of advertisements are improved by allowing businesses to better target their ads to a responsive audience, “ Google wrote in its patent application. The company went on to describe several ways that location information could achieve such results, including ...
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Creditors Set to Gain Panavision
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Michael Ricci
Ronald O. Perelman is handing over Panavision Inc., the debt-laden camera rental company that is suffering from a steep downturn in movie and TV production, to its creditors. Perelman's holding company, MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc., has reached an agreement in principle with a group of creditors -- including Cerberus Capital Management, the former owner of Chrysler -- for the billionaire investor to give up his controlling stake in the camera maker that has been a fixture on movie sets ...
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Microsoft CEO: Google Merits Regulatory Scrutiny
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All About Jazz
Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer intends to keep the regulatory heat on Google as his company strives to lessen its rival's dominance of Internet search. In an appearance Tuesday at a search engine conference, Ballmer said Microsoft believes Google Inc. has done things to gain an unfair advantage in the Internet's lucrative search advertising market. He didn't specify the alleged misconduct. “We are expressing some of the issues and frustrations we see" with antitrust regulators, Ballmer said. “Sometimes (it's) unsolicited, ...
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Microsoft Forced to Offer Users a Choice of Web Browsers
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All About Jazz
A new era in web browsing was kicked off by the European Commission on Monday, as Microsoft was forced to allow users of its Windows operating system to choose different programs to surf the internet. The effect will certainly be to broaden competition in the market which should boost innovation, says Opera, the Norwegian company which filed the original complaint that led to the action. From this week, users in the UK and the rest of Europe who use ...
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Virtual Musicians, Real Performances: How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Music
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All About Jazz
Ever wonder how Jimi Hendrix would cover Lady Gaga? The day is approaching when you should be able to find out. Musicians opportunities to sell their recordings may be drying up due to cultural shifts brought on by changing technology, but other aspects of technology are creating a promising new market for music: the licensing of the musical style or personality of recording artists. The concept goes well beyond basing the avatars in guitar-based videogames on famous performers, although the ...
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Microsoft to Double Down on HTML5 with Internet Explorer 9
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All About Jazz
With the latest releases of Opera, Google Chrome and Firefox continuing to push the boundaries of the web, the once-dominant Internet Explorer is looking less and less relevant every day. But we should expect Microsoft to go on the offensive at its upcoming MIX 2010 developer conference in Las Vegas, where, it has been speculated, the company will demonstrate the first beta builds of Internet Explorer 9 and possibly offer a preview release of the browser to developers. Several clues ...
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