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27 March 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has just launched a new MSN service to enable users to stay on top of what is happening around them.
Dubbed msnNOW, the new service can be accessed today at now.msn.com, enabling users to easily stay informed on the things people are talking about, as well as on what is being searched and shared the most... |
16 February 2012
08:23 GMT |
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When it comes to news, the web is an important source, but it's not the biggest one, at least not in the UK. TV still takes the crown, but the gap is getting smaller. In fact, given the current trends, the web will become the primary source of news for most people within a couple of years.
The Oliver & Ohlbaum ... |
29 December 2011
08:51 GMT |
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Having access to the latest news through feeds is very important if you want to be an informed person without visiting hundreds of websites. In order to browse and manage your feeds with ease you can use RSSOwl, a powerful, Java based RSS reader.
Working with RSSOwl is very easy, since the application is small, sim... |
18 November 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Scribd, the online document repository, is launching a new brand and product, Float, an all-in-one reader app which will enable you to read articles that are of interest to you, follow up on links from your friends, catch up to your favorite blogs and so on.
The site will later also enable you to read all the arti... |
19 July 2011
10:32 GMT |
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Facebook is enjoying a very solid position as the largest social network in the world and one of the biggest sites online. But it still wants people to spend more on the site and one way it's doing this is by having more and more content inside. We already knew that it's working with media companies, music ... |
16 July 2011
05:41 GMT |
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Google has debuted a useful search feature, it's now displaying the latest story titles for news-related websites instead of the regular text snippets. Titles are listed along with an approximation of how fresh they are. Google hasn't said anything about the change, but it rarely does when it comes to small... |
6 May 2011
09:40 GMT |
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It's been a long time coming, Google has finally revealed One Pass, a flexible payments system for publishers. The appeal of One Pass is that it enables users to access content they pay for on any platform they choose, hassle-free, while also providing a number of ways to pay for it and taking the effort of buil... |
16 February 2011
11:58 GMT |
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According to a new poll, it would appear that the Internet has finally moved ahead of the television set as the main source of information for young adults. TV still leads the way for adults and seniors, but the Internet is making considerable headway in these subgroups as well. The investigation that arrived at this... |
5 January 2011
05:57 GMT |
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Most celebrities are now on Twitter and on other social networks too, but there are also some of them who are serial tweeters – like Britney Spears, Stephen Fry or Sarah Brown, so an entire study from the University of Leicester will be dedicated to them and all the social media intense users.This new study wil... |
13 October 2010
02:55 GMT |
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Google News, one of the earliest signs that news is changing, is turning 8. While the service has been controversial at times and it may even be regarded as a bit outdated, it was one of the first popular and efficient news aggregators and its influence can't be denied. News, just like pretty much everything els... |
22 September 2010
12:14 GMT |
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Associated Press, known for its strong stance against competitors, especially online, has revised its policy on crediting other organizations and even bloggers when due.The news association has been wary of crediting sources that are not part of AP not to mention pure online sources like blogs. This has now changed a... |
7 September 2010
08:21 GMT |
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YouTube may not be replacing your television anytime soon, but it is slowly evolving towards that. One area on which YouTube is focusing is news content or, rather, citizen journalism. The nature of the site makes it ideal for someone with footage from a developing story or even people venturing out and making their ... |
15 June 2010
08:41 GMT |
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Just like with almost everything, the Internet has had quite an effect on the way people consume news. And it's not just that they have another avenue for news, the very way people get their news has changed in the past years. The latest Pew Research Center Internet study shows that US consumers get their news f... |
1 March 2010
09:21 GMT |
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The Associated Press has announced plans to launch an iPad subscription app, via a strategic business unit aimed at seeking and developing new business opportunities for its multimedia news. The unit is called the AP Gateway and it will facilitate development of fresh news for multiple platforms, including e-readers ... |
1 March 2010
03:18 GMT |
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Google has been experimenting with various ways for users to consume news stories that sway from the traditional approach and generally feel more native to the web rather than an application of the print model online. One interesting experiment was Living Stories, in which the company partnered with reputable publica... |
18 February 2010
10:23 GMT |
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It looks like Google and the AP(Associated Press) are on speaking terms again though none of them are what you'd call 'talkative'. AP news stories have started showing up on Google News again after seven weeks of radio silence. Google has had an agreement with AP to host news stories on Google News its... |
10 February 2010
06:05 GMT |
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The Google - Associated Press 'saga' drags on, but the story got an interesting twist as Yahoo announced a new agreement with the news wire agency which will allow it to host AP content on its sites under new terms for an unspecified period of time. The new deal was rumored to be coming for a couple of wee... |
2 February 2010
06:30 GMT |
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Google News may be a great target for disgruntled news publishers looking for someone to blame, but the service can be a great tool for readers and news sources alike. It's not perfect, but it does have some unique advantages and today it can add a new tool to its arsenal. Interesting stories can now be 's... |
2 February 2010
05:39 GMT |
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Vienna is a popular RSS / Atom news feeder for Mac OS X. The people maintaining the software bug-free have released a new version to address a number of issues emerged since the last update, as well as to include a few enhancements. Read on for the full scoop. A true Mac app, Vienna features an intuitive interface a... |
14 January 2010
08:30 GMT |
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Much of the old guard news and publishing industry has been critical of the Internet, bloggers, search engines, news aggregators and pretty much anyone else they can point their finger at for, allegedly, creating the financial problems most of those organizations find themselves in. Looking at their own organization... |
14 January 2010
06:56 GMT |
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As AOL nears its spin off from Time Warner, which will be in a little over a week now, it's talking more and more about the future. So far, most plans haven't really been all that groundbreaking and the company has been saying for a while now that it wants to become a content powerhouse reaching into any n... |
30 November 2009
05:40 GMT |
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Google has released a brand-new, mobile-formatted version of its Google News homepage for iPhone and iPod touch users. To access the mobile Google News site, simply point your browser to news.google.com from Safari on your device. Google News for iPhone and iPod touch is the same for Android and Palm Pre users, and ... |
20 November 2009
10:35 GMT |
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The future is looking bright at Digg, or at least that's what cofounder and CEO Jay Adelson is claiming. The social news aggregator has been trying a lot of things lately to spur growth and, more importantly, revenue and it's clear that at least some of them are working; the CEO especially notes Digg Ads. ... |
18 November 2009
07:01 GMT |
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News Corp isn't doing very well lately, posting a $3.4 billion loss in the final fiscal quarter of 2009. After a $5.5 billion net income in 2008 it's easy to see why CEO Rupert Murdoch is upset and, apparently, isn't having it any more, as the media mogul has announced that all of News Corp's onli... |
6 August 2009
11:51 GMT |
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The popular RSS / Atom news feeder for Mac OS X known as Vienna has been updated to version 2.3.4 (Build 2305). The new release is recommended to all users, as it fixes a General Preferences pane crash when trying to set the default RSS reader or Download folder. Vienna is designed to be simple and easy to use, offe... |
3 August 2009
06:34 GMT |
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With most of the old media outlets, at best, reluctant about the Internet or, more specifically, about the need to change their ways to survive, it’s good to see that some, albeit publicly funded ones, are actually embracing the web and are looking at ways to supplement their coverage with the fresh medium. The... |
27 July 2009
11:08 GMT |
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A new research shows that mass-media has a tendency of coating most of its stories regarding the perils of global warming – increased floods and droughts, higher temperatures, and glacier meltdown – into a “doomsday cloak,” enticing either panic, or a sensation of disbelief among the viewers, ... |
9 July 2009
20:21 GMT |
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A new research from the University of Missouri School of Journalism shows that traditional media still holds a better position than citizen journalism, in professionalism, comprehensiveness, as well as in broadcast and distribution technology.Over the recent months, the deteriorating financial condition in which news... |
9 April 2009
03:42 GMT |
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Over recent months, the search engine giant Google has come under increased attacks from news agencies and newspapers, which wonder if the company's news aggregator is not a breach of copyright, and if the company has the right to take all of its materials and index them in its engine. They are also pondering th... |
8 April 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Despite being the leading such structure in the world, the American space agency currently finds itself in a very awkward position, mostly because 80 percent of its workforce is comprised of people who are over the age of 40. And while this is normal, up to a certain point, because older individuals have accumulated ... |
17 March 2009
04:37 GMT |
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Leading journalism experts are currently trying to alienate fears that professional coverage of significant events is about to disappear. Many people fear that the downfall of newspapers, caused by both a massive surge in Internet user numbers and the current economic crisis, will mean a complete re-shifting in the ... |
15 March 2009
06:17 GMT |
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The inevitable downfall of newspapers in the US should come as a surprise to no one, especially given the fact that most major publications are already struggling to cope with the effects of the global financial crisis, while smaller ones have already filed for bankruptcy. Low advertising revenues registered over the... |
16 January 2009
10:45 GMT |
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In about a year, the Internet has overtaken newspapers as the second most important news sources in the US, both regarding national and international news, a recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center in December shows. Approximately 40 percent of the interviewed participants said that they used the Internet, w... |
30 December 2008
05:28 GMT |
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A new iPhone app is available, this time aimed at more serious users. USA Today's official iPhone application is currently ready for free download on the App Store, leveraging the familiar look and feel that readers trust and expect from the publication. According to the official announcement, users will be offe... |
23 December 2008
08:38 GMT |
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A new research, published on December 16th, 2008, in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, shows that most families of critically-ill patients would rather find out their loved ones' real medical conditions, than be deceived by doctors with more optimistic prognosis and life expectancy. The study, conducted b... |
16 December 2008
05:50 GMT |
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It displays the contents of a newspaper, it's almost as thin and flexible as a sheet of paper, but it's far better than one. It is the e-paper, developed in Britain and produced in Germany.Regular newspapers will most definitely become extinct as early as next year. A credit card-thin plastic displaying dev... |
17 October 2008
04:30 GMT |
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The owner of the only news portal in Ingushetia, a Russian province bordering Chechnya, was killed while in police arrest. After getting off the plane that was bringing him home, he was detained by the police and, as he was escorted to a waiting car, he was shot in the head. Despite being driven as soon as possi... |
1 September 2008
03:28 GMT |
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Following the recent integration of the New York Times layer into Google Earth, an addition which allows users to read news straight from the mapping application, the Mountain View-based company has made another move to bring even more news to Google Earth fans: a brand new layer providing content powered by the Aust... |
2 June 2008
14:37 GMT |
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When you turn to the standard Google search page, you are faced with the already famous simple format, on top of which you can see several links. Those links are meant to direct the user to a specialized part of the Google search engine. Among them, you can also find "News", which will forward you to a Google page fe... |
14 May 2008
07:06 GMT |
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Samsung, the South Korean manufacturer, and CNN International have reached an agreement according to which CNN's new mobile news application will be pre-installed on future released Samsung handsets, starting June 2008. For a period of six months, Samsung will be the only mobile phone producer to include the CNN... |
11 April 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Google Earth has received lots of updates lately and the Mountain View company seems to enjoy this campaign of improvement so, today, it offers us one new thing: the possibility to read news in Google Earth thanks to a partnership with the New York Times. What's interesting is that the two companies aimed to pro... |
8 April 2008
03:17 GMT |
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The Comments feature that Google added to its News service was launched a couple of months back, and allows people mentioned in a particular story to comment on the respective articles. That's basically giving a voice to anybody worth hearing and making every version of the story very easily accessible. There�... |
24 March 2008
09:38 GMT |
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Compromise is all this life is about for most people. Meeting your better half mid-way in every crisis that might result in tension between you two is the way to resolve everything, and the same goes for any negotiations being held between two companies, when one doesn't have the upper hand. There's only on... |
21 March 2008
04:41 GMT |
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You probably know that gaming magazine PC Gamer UK has a huge Sims 3 feature this month and it will soon be available on the market. However, since many people would love to hear these details and they probably have no way to buy the magazine, computerandvideogames.com decided to give everybody a small preview on wha... |
12 March 2008
05:58 GMT |
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The Google News team always hurried with their predictions about features being implemented and mostly they were right. Some minor exceptions don't count, like the fact that they won't check for updates if they are included in the same article and will only present the original story, no matter how many add... |
7 February 2008
16:41 GMT |
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The news service and site from Ask.com has a pretty original approach to the old-time, old-school, traditional maybe, view of news. It has something out of Google News, but it also has a Digg spin, with people being able to vote the stories they like most and propel them higher in the rankings.BigFactor is what the c... |
7 February 2008
04:59 GMT |
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Most of you still remember the fact that GTA IV was initially scheduled for an October release but, unlike any other Grand Theft Auto game, it got delayed. Until the 29th of April, as we reported earlier. And now, Rockstar Games' Vice President of Product Development, Jeronimo Barrera, declared that part of the ... |
25 January 2008
02:37 GMT |
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Around Christmas, Google was all gleaming with pride at their recently (at the time) released algorithm that was supposedly the best ever, analyzing sources and organizing them in order of importance: the closer they were to the place where the actual event that created the news happened, the bigger the chances it ha... |
16 January 2008
10:40 GMT |
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