Geeks are Sexy Technology News – By Mark O’Neill
Mr William Gates is probably cursing in his Cheerios at the moment. A company called Cemaphore Systems has announced the launch of a new product that will allow Gmail users to completely do away with their Microsoft Exchange servers and run their Microsoft Outlook email directly from Google servers instead. Called [...] read more
InternetDigital Inspiration – Blinkx, the largest and most innovative video search engine on the web, could be the next acquisition target of Google or NewsCorp according to Bloomberg and Reuters.
Blinkx is way ahead of other video search engines because it converts audio portion of the video into text using speech recognition technology and makes it searchable.
This will [...] read more
9 to 5 Mac – Apple and Google are testing a way to link YouTube with the iTunes Store, offering links to video available for sale on iTunes beside selected YouTube clips.
Apple has been experimenting with strategies to link iTunes up with social networking websites, and offers a referral scheme to those who want to link their sites up with the service [...] read more
Digital Inspiration – Yahoo launched Yahoo Desktop Search software in January 2005 using technology from X1.
Yahoo’s search program was definitely superior than competing products from Google or MSN because it supported many more file-types and would let you preview files even without the associated application.
Yahoo’s desktop tool was good enough that it won the editors’ choice award [...] read more
