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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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I'm already tired of all the products coming out on the market in order to get a slice of the election cash pie. I wish that they would just have a meeting and come together one day and decide something like "a week from now, at 12 o'clock, we'll all release our election gadgets, pages and anything els... |
27 December 2007
04:43 GMT |
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All right, old chaps! Time to gather round ye old Internet and jot down the scores ye find there, be it that you will not miss one single run. Or, however they might have said it back in the days, I wasn't there to listen to it, so I'm just guessing.This is a 20 percent project, meaning that it has been wo... |
21 December 2007
03:12 GMT |
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The News from Google are quite interesting to follow. Not because of the information provided, which is top notch and I just had to mention it, but because of the constant updates that are being made by the dev team in order to optimize the algorithm, the search modality, the updating of the sources and so on and so... |
18 December 2007
03:31 GMT |
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It's not been a week since I talked about the all new all improved Google News Algorithm that was supposed to make the reading news experience a lot more closer and intense with the latest updates on all the stories that might have caught your fancy.I'm not sure why a story about "Grasshopper Chocolate Chun... |
13 December 2007
07:03 GMT |
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There are some news about Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, but the most important would be the one regarding online play: the game will only ship with offline racing! But don't get mad, it's probably just a measure against piracy (because it's hard to find other explanations). Actually, the online mode will be... |
11 December 2007
05:19 GMT |
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Surprising as it might sound, that's not true, at least not according to Google News. I might beg to differ, as I have learned that information is never enough to spare, even if it is on little trivial things, like the latest gossip about a TV star dating who he/she shouldn't. It greatly enhances your image... |
10 December 2007
06:01 GMT |
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There have been rumors about talks being had by News Corp and LinkedIn, concerning a possible takeover by the first of the latter. Basically, they turned out to be bogus, the only issues brought into conversation being future partnerships. (Yawns) Booooring! That's too bad, too, because, as Duncan Riley of TechC... |
4 December 2007
04:47 GMT |
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It's very good to know that some things work exactly as they should and are not corrupted or surpassed by the technological evolution we have going on at the moment. It's a sight for sore eyes and when a simple Captcha manages to fool the great Google, it sort of fills my heart with joy. Not because I have ... |
27 November 2007
13:51 GMT |
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Why bother coming up with something new and attractive when you could as well take it from your rival? This is what MySpace seems to be hinting at. Facebook's "news feeds" about those people important to a user are the main issue at hand.Peter Levinsohn, President of News Corporation's Fox Interactive Media... |
27 November 2007
09:46 GMT |
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I don't pay attention to links on the sides, I don't really care about anything else except for what truly interests me, the rest might as well not exist. I guess it goes without saying that I'm not much into clicking on ads or choosing fancy skins for winamp. I like it Spartan, no extra words and no e... |
26 November 2007
03:02 GMT |
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News is very sought after because news mean information and information is 'gold' nowadays. Everything might come in useful, if not state affairs you might get ganked over, at the very least the small social gossip you would do well to know in order to understand what your friends/ female colleagues are tal... |
23 November 2007
02:49 GMT |
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The Mountain View based company has had it with inexperienced users that don't know their way around the many and vast opportunities presented to them. It started hinting at creating accounts and signing in and cooing over the many advantages presented to the user. The example presented by Google was that of the... |
16 November 2007
03:40 GMT |
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Launched a few months ago, MySpace News was described as a potential rival for Google News, the service owned by the search company which is currently one of the top players on the news market. Yesterday, the rivalry between MySpace and Google got enhanced by an announcement of the social networking service that plan... |
6 November 2007
15:06 GMT |
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In case you're one of the iGoogle fans out there, I'm sure you strive to set up your Personalized Homepage in order to get more information in no time. That's why I recommend you to install the recently released Google News gadgets which is supposed to bring you the articles you want straight on iGoogl... |
30 October 2007
05:54 GMT |
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Following last week's release of Google Maps Profiles, the Mountain View company gets more social by designing Facebook applications which are meant to integrate the giant's technology into users' profiles. Today's utility is intuitively named 'Google News Application for Facebook', all... |
22 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Although there is nothing confirmed yet, it seems like Google News was down in several countries. Actually, it doesn't work at all because it shows an empty page to all the visitors of the website. According to Google Blogoscoped, the problems started on Sunday when some users reported difficulties encountered w... |
22 October 2007
10:19 GMT |
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Peter Bale who is the executive producer of MSN UK and former online editorial director of The Times and the Sunday Times, talked about the recent changes made in the Google policies which are now promoting the original content published by some agencies and avoid driving traffic to websites offering similar articles... |
3 October 2007
08:32 GMT |
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In case you've ever wanted to monitor a certain story, a blog or to find out the latest news concerning your favorite celebrity as it happens, Google Alerts is the perfect solution for you. This new beta service was especially designed for those looking for a simple product which would be able to keep them up to... |
26 September 2007
14:31 GMT |
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Google News is one of the largest news services on the web, receiving articles from approximately 4.500 sources from all around the world. Obviously, because Google News is accessible for free, you would expect to see only free material available at one-click distance. But in case you didn't know, Google News al... |
21 September 2007
15:06 GMT |
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Google News is one of the best news sources on the Internet but somehow, you need a little bit more than such a service. In order to read the information right when you need it, you have to find a better way to receive the articles published on Google News instead of visiting the official page of the product. Obvious... |
17 September 2007
02:32 GMT |
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The Sunnyvale company just bought BuzzTracker, a news technology which receives the information from numerous web sources and publishes it on a single page. Although it was not yet confirmed, it seems like Yahoo paid no less than $5 million for the service that could increase the super giant's presence into the ... |
14 September 2007
09:09 GMT |
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The news technology powered by Google receives a new and long-awaited feature that will surely bring more readers: duplicate detection. The new function of Google News is meant to reduce the amount of duplicate articles, giving the possibility to find only the original authors of the stories such as the top Internet ... |
3 September 2007
04:34 GMT |
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Well, it happened again and I bet I'm not the only one who saw this error: "Your search - google - did not match any documents. Suggestions: Make sure all words are spelled correctly; Try different keywords; Try more general keywords; Try Google Blog Search; Also, you can browse today's headlines on the Goo... |
27 August 2007
11:05 GMT |
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