Tech giants offer ideas on charging readers online

NEW YORK — Some of the world's most prominent technology companies are offering suggestions to publishers on how they can charge readers for news online.

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Even if the opposite poles - Google and Facebook join hands for an Android app, the cold war between the two Silicon Valley giants continue. This time Google is going the social networking way, writing on the wall against Facebook. Setting its foot into social networking, Google released two new features called Friends and Updates. The updated features would allow Google users to share their activities with other friends. Clearly, it seems Goolge is copying Facebook's style of sharing what on your mind. Facebook and Twitter have gained popularity at least to some extent by letting users make updates about what they are doing. Twitter allows updates of short messages, where as Facebook offers an update stream of various activities. This move by Google is a direct challenge to Facebook.

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SAN FRANCISCO - It's the ultimate showdown in the technology world, the clash of giants that has been eagerly awaited for years. Web giant Google is taking its clearest aim yet at Microsoft with its plan to produce its own operating system that would optimise the way computers work on the Internet.

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With iPhone turning out to be a phenomenal success, the telecom majors are eager to cram the share of smartphone markets. T-Mobile USA will be selling a new smartphone using Google Inc's Android operating software from this August onwards. The high-end device has to directly face off the smartphone giants iPhone and Palm Pre. The NO. 4 mobile service in US, T-mobile myTouch 3G phone would be a slimmer and more advanced version of G1 manufactured by HTC Corp, based-on Google's Android technology. The smartphone would carry the same price tag - $199, as that of 16 GB Apple iPhone and Palm Pre, expect a rebate for two-year service contract. MyTouch's biggest claim is its across-the-board personalization.  Let's dig out its features to know whether the newbie stands a chance in the smartphone war.
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With IT giants Google, Microsoft and Yahoo into cloud computing, Opera seems to follow the suite, but with a different approach. Opera Software ASA on Tuesday launched a new technology that would allow the Web browser to double up as a Web server. The new feature in the Internet browser will allow the users to share photos, music and files directly with one another, without accessing outside services such as Facebook and Flickr. The new feature would be a part of beta for Opera 10.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Five years after it was founded in a Harvard dorm room, the online social networking site Facebook has registered its 200 millionth user, the site confirmed Thursday.

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With iPhone wave sweeping across the continents the mobile phone giants are with one-upping. The furor over Japanese iPhone killer seems to have sedimented. The much written about Japanese challenger to iPhone, Sophia Mobile's NANI is written off. Although the NANI has a significant presence in Japan. In a recent event even world's largest mobile manufacturer Nokia had to hang up its boots struggling with limited presence in Japan. Is that a conservative Japanese market ardent on eschewing the benefits of susceptibility to the Global market? Full article (377 words) »

The war of the technology giants (Microsoft and Google) have now reached office too. No, I am not talking about Mountain view or Redmond literally. But about office applications, more precisely, web based office application.

On November 17, Microsoft is launching one component of its Software + Service strategy this week: the final versions of its Microsoft-hosted versions of Exchange and SharePoint. Microsoft is launching two of its growing family of Microsoft Online services at an event in San Francisco, according to company officials.

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When tech giants like Google and Apple work on a collaborative project, the whole speculation around it goes hyper. We knew that Google was working on some Apple app. Now let’s spill the bin, which is quite tasty too.

Google has created an iPhone App, that will let you search via voice on the iPhone.

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With blogs proliferating at breakneck speed, it's no wonder that a market is emerging for developers of search engines that find and aggregate all of this fringe content. But just like any other Jacks climbing the beanstalk of an untapped business opportunity, these aggregators of Really Simple Syndication feeds are sure to wake the giants of Internet search.

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