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06/24/2009:
HTC Hero running the Android OS features new intuitive interface dubbed HTC Sense, 3.2-inch HVGA (320x480) TFT-LCD touchscreen, runs on Qualcomm's 528MHz MSM7200A processor and has 512MB ROM with 228MB RAM, microSD memory expansion slot, 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, digital compass, gravity sensor, built-in internal GPS antenna, Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, Bluetooth 2.0, first Android OS based phone that brings Adobe Flash support for web browsing, HTC Hero will be available for Europe in July 2009, Asia in late summer 2009 and North American version will arrive in late 2009.

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06/24/2009:
Nokia’s touch screen multimedia N97 smartphone was introduced in India last week through Vodafone and is being dubbed as yet another iPhone killer. The new N97 comes with a large 3.5-inch touch screen, slide out Qwerty keyboard, be able to play the Flash videos (which the Apple iPhone currently is unable to do so), supports instant-messaging and email on the go, five megapixel camera, and 48GB of memory, with one button, ‘always-on’ access to social networking sites such as Facebook, built-in GPS and cost of around Rs. 37000.

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06/08/2009:
At the World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Apple introduced the next generation iPhone . The new iPhone will be known as iPhone 3GS and includes features such as more speed, 3 megapixel camera with autofocus and white balancing, ability to record and edit videos on the handset, built in voice controls for hands free operation, cut, copy, and paste capabilities, device tethering, HTTP streaming, auto-fill, multi language support, and built in compass. The new iPhone 3GS will be available on June 19 for $199 for the 16 GB version, and the 32 GB version will cost $299 with a new contract. And the iPhone 3G, 8 GB version now costs $99 with a new two year contract.

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05/18/2009:
Sony unveiled a 9.9mm Bravia ZX1 a slim LCD TV in the Indian market. The new Bravia ZX1 is being touted as the thinnest range of LCD TVs, thinner than a CD case. The TV comes with the Bravia Engine 2 technology for crystal clear picture in both standard definition and full HD, HD display with 1920 X 1080 resolution, integrated speakers and a woofer, voice zoom, dolby digital plus, digital amplifier and S Force Surround, boasts of Xross media bar in the ZX1 hood, Bravia Theatre Sync, Live Color Creation, and 24p Cinema, Bravia 1080 high speed wireless connection and RF technology allows users to view HD pictures without cables and wires via HD media receiver, four independent HDMI inputs, RBG compatible SCART input, component inputs, PC input, composite inputs and USB connection.

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05/11/2009:
Palm, Inc., smartphone manufacturer, will offer a wireless cellphone charging pad, called the Touchstone. The accessory will be for the upcoming Palm Pre. The technology uses electromagnetic induction to supply the Pre’s battery with energy and was first announced by Palm at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January.

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05/04/2009:
Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the popular BlackBerry has nannounced a strategic tie up with Hewlett Packard (HP). HP will provide "a portfolio of solution" to businesses on its smartphones. Hewlett Packard will unveil HP CloudPrint which will enable BlackBerry users to print emails, photos, web pages and other documents from their smartphones to the nearest printer; at home, in the office or on the road.

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03/11/2009:
Apple today announced the availability of a new iPod Shuffle . It has been redesigned and provides more capability and functionality. It's half the size of the last generation but with twice the capacity, the latest Shuffle provides a way of letting you know what track you're listening to: It talks. It's available now for $79, the new Shuffle is billed as the "world's smallest music player," and indeed, it looks tiny just 1.8 by 0.7 by 0.3 inches, a little smaller than a AA battery. It also comes with new in line remote on the earphone cord, from which you can adjust the volume, pause and skip tracks. This also is its drawback since third party earphones won't work.

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03/09/2009:
Here are some of the things that the Palm Pre bring to the table: Multitouch Portrait Screen and Slide-Down Keyboard, Design, Size and Form Factor smaller then iPhone and BlackBerry Bold, Speed : new webOS and high end processor makes web browser easier and faster, Multitasking, Built In WiFi, GPS, EvDO Rev. A, 8GB Storage, 3.0 Megapixel Camera with Built In LED Flash and Large Back Speaker, 3.5mm Stereo Headphone Jack, Removable Battery, Ambient Light, Accelerometer and Proximity Sensors.

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03/09/2009:
Long Term Evolution (LTE) is the next big thing in mobile wireless broadband. While WiMAX is being driven mostly by computer industry players, LTE is the leading edge broadband technology of the cellphone service providers. In some sense WiMAX and LTE are similar in that they both use technologies such as OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) signal types and MIMO (multiple-input, multiple-output) signal processing algorithms. WiMAX and LTE are both IP (Internet Protocol) based technologies.

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01/09/2009:
At the 2009 International CES many vendors annoucned new products, but no other was much liked like the new Palm Pre using the webOS which was built from the ground up. The new Palm Pre could provide some challenge to the iPhone and gPhone. The Palm Pre offers some great new features and with the new OS will be constantly connected to the web. The Palm Pre will be available exclusively from Sprint in the first half of 2009. The Palm Pre features High speed connectivity (EVDO Rev. A or UMTS HSDPA), Wi-Fi 802.11, 3MP camera, 3.5mm headset jack, Integrated GPS, Large 3.1-inch touch screen with a vibrant 24 bit color 320x480 resolution HVGA display, Slide out QWERTY keyboard, High performance, desktop class web browser, Bluetooth 2.1 EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support, 8GB of internal user storage, MicroUSB connector, Light sensor, Accelerometer, Ringer switch, Removable, rechargeable battery plus many more.

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01/05/2009:
Lenovo will formally unveil it's all in one PC the IdeaCentre A600 at CES this week. The product is due to be on the market in April 2009 and features 21.5 inch screen, thickness of just 27mm, face recognition security, Dolby-certified audio, touch sensitive controls, remote control doubles as a wireless VOIP handset for making Internet phone calls, Blu ray drive and a TV tuner.

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12/18/2008:
With the U.S. economy officially in recession and consumers clamping down on spending, the market of the so called Netbooks is looking promising. A Netbook features are light weight, low cost, energy efficient, highly portable laptop suitable for web browsing, email and general purpose applications along with being smaller in size. Asus introduced the tiny Atom powered Eee PC in late 2007, with HP following up with HP Mini Note and then Acer unleashed its Aspire One. Then it was Dell with Dell Inspiron Mini 9 and the Mini 12. Now we will have to wait and see how the Netbook market does in 2009.

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12/15/2008:
2008 has brought many new gadgets to the market like the new version of the iPhone, the gPhone, Blackberry Storm (the first touch screen Blackberry) just to mention a few. Sony Xperia X1 was first announced earlier this year at the 2008 Mobile World Congress. The Sony Xperia X1 was introduced in the UK by Vodafone on October 27, 2008 and it released in North America on November 28, 2008 for $799 (unlocked). Sony Xperia X1 features a 3" touchscreen with a resolution of 800x480 pixels (WVGA) with a QWERTY keypad which emerges when the user slides the touchscreen face upward, 3G broadband, WiFi, Bluetooth, and comes with Opera Mobile installed and Java virtual machine (JBed) and supports JavaME.

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11/10/2008:
The much awaited BlackBerry Storm has been delayed and will not probably arrive the stores on its expected date of Nov 14, 2008. Due to last minute software glitch, the phone launch has been delayed. The new smartphone will be the first to have touch screen interface for a BlackBerry and should give the iPhone and TMobile's G1 a run for money. Verzion Wireless will be the exclusively service provide for the BlackBerry Storm and could be priced around $200.

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10/30/2008:
Mitsubishi Digital Electronics announced the availability of the world's first, laser powered television. The Mitsubishi LaserVue 65 inch model will be sold for $6999 at specialty retailers across the US. The LaserVue line has been introduced as the most energy efficient large format, high definition television on the market today. LaserVue promises to provide two times the color of many of today's HDTVs and will use less power than LCD and plasma TVs. The LaserVue TV is designed for both wall mount as well as floor stand with a full stereo range of sound capabilities with integrated speakers. Mitsubishi L65A90 LaserVue is offered with a 65 inch screen diagonal with a 73 inch model to be coming later this year. The LaserVue works with a resolution of 1080p and is equipped with 4 HDMI connections.

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09/17/2008:
Intel announces new chip series called Dunnington. The Dunnington was fully designed from scratch by I ntel engineers in Bangalore. The Dunnington is the Xeon 7400 series of server chips marks Intel's first 'true' quad-core processors and is produced on a single piece of silicon. The Bangalore design center also become the first team from Intel outside of the US to complete the design of the 45-nanometer processor. With the release of Dunnington, Intel marked a technical milestone by using a monolithic die, putting all of the cores on a single piece of silicon.

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09/01/2008:
Google launches its own browser on Labor Day holiday. The much anticipated browser is called, called "Chrome" was announced over the holidays with downloads available as early as Tuesday 02 September 2008. The browser will run on Microsoft's Windows operating system and efforts by Google are still underway to also offer the browser in compatible with Apple Inc.'s Mac computer and the Linux operating system. The download is going to be available in more then 100 countries. This will put the new browser against MicroSoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla's free browser Firefox.

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07/28/2008:
Yet another search engine has been launched to compete for your searches. Online ad revenues is huge with a big marketplace and hence everyone wants the piece of the pie. Now, a group of former Google employees have launched to compete against their previous employer. The new search engine called Cuil , which is pronounced 'cool', claims to provide a more comprehensive guide to the web. Cuil claims to have indexed more then 120 billion web pages with which they have to search against to provide better results in a new way. Now online time will tell if Cuil will overcome Google, or maybe can instead overcome Yahoo and MSN?.

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07/22/2008:
Sony Corp: has announced the availibility of a new multimedia notebook notebook. The new Vaio FW notebook, is also the first 16.4 inch laptop to hit the market and promises to enable consumers to view High Definition, Blu ray Disc, movies in a manner they are meant to be seen. The notebooks LCD is constructed with a 16:9 aspect ratio, which is standard used while shooting HD movies. The notebook will be powered by new Intel Centrino 2 technology, with more energy efficiency and performance, along with a HDMI output connector to allow users to connect the laptop to the TV for viewing watch movies on a television set. The packaged Vaio Media software is DLNA enabled and hence allows users to wirelessly stream content stored on laptop throughout their home network. Other features include multiple ports and jacks including Memory Stick media/SD card slot, three USB ports, an i.Link Ieee-1394 port, microphone and headphone jack, and a 34mm ExpressCard slot. The Vaio FW notebook is an eco-friendly product with Energy Star 4.0 compliant. The retail unit will start at $1,000 with the premium edition going upto $1,750.

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06/10/2008:
Apple recently announced their next version of the iPhone , it's a 3G version with features like global positioning technology, support for Microsoft Exchange Server, geotagging, video playback, audio playback, view PowerPoint attachments, bulk move and delete, a scientific calculator, parental controls, support for 16 languages, and some update to it's look. The other major change will be the price, it's lower. iPhone 3G 8 Giga Byte model will cost $199 while the 16 Giga Byte model will retail for $299. The new iPhone will go on sale July 11.

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05/20/2008:
On Monday 19 May 2008, Nintendo Co Ltd launched it's long awaited "Wii Fit" exercise game within the United States. The new game hopes to get the couch potatoes and women to join in on the gaming fun. The Wii gaming console has already become a great hit with kids and man. The new game will cost $90 and comes with balance board that will senses shifts in posture. The Wii Fit will offer over 40 activities in four categories including aerobics, strength training, balance and yoga. It will also track users Body Mass Index and weight and provide nice charts of their progress and provide fitness tips. While Microsoft and Sony have put their focus on high definition, ultra realistic games, Nintendo instead choose the other route of trageting more interactive games, which has been an great nice surprise by the industry and consumer.

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05/19/2008:
Last week a project was started in Abu Dhabi on building a city that is suppose to create zero emissions. The city will house 50,000 people and 1,500 businesses with a goal of using extremely little energy. The city is expected to cost around $22 billion, of which $4 billion will be provide by the Abu Dhabi government for the infrastructure. Electric transports will provide door to door service using battery powered vehicles with renewable energy and stored onboard in batteries.

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05/19/2008:
IBM has developed a way to make concentrated photovoltaic cells that are more efficient in converting the sun's energy into electricity. The technology is based on the on technology used to cool computer chips. The main principle behind the technology is to use a large lens to focus light onto a relatively small piece of photovoltaic semiconductor material and thus using only fraction of the semiconductor material. The solution involves placing an ultrathin layer of liquid metal, a compound of gallium and indium, between the two surfaces.

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05/13/2008:
Yahoo introduces a new way to look at search results, the concept is called Glue. The product is in Beta stage and is a Yahoo product that is developed at the Yahoo India development center and is currently available in India. The search for a given term will display the traditional search results, and now will add search from the Image, Video, Yahoo Answers, and other resources within the same page for more information for the user.

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05/06/2008:
Google annouced the launch of a way to transalte websites to Hindi using its popular Google translate application. This shows the importance and the expansion of the India online market. Other innovations targeted to the Indian market include Google Local Search and Google Local Business Centre.

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05/06/2008:
Vodafone announced that it has been selected to provide the Apple's iPhone in ten new countries. The list of the countries are Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey. Vodafone will start to sell the Apple iPhone as early as later this year.

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04/21/2008:
The LCD monitors and TV are getting thinner by the day. When plasma TV first came to the market, people were left wondering where did the big caboose behind the screen go? Sony now has introduced the Sony XEL 1 OLED TV . A 11 inch widescreen television which is wafer thin with 1/8th of an inch deep. The model uses new panel technology called OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) and hence is priced at $2,500.

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04/01/2008:
Today at the CTIA, Samsung introduced the Instinct . The Instinct looks and may feel much Apple's iPhone but comes with many of the features missing from iPhone. The phone will release in mid-June and be avaliable for Sprint users. Some of the new features are 3G access, replaceable battery, expandable memory, a 2MP camera, stereo Bluetooth and feedback for the touchscreen. The Instinct measures 4.6" by 2.2" by 0.49" and weighs 4.4 ounces.

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03/27/2008:
Comcast and BitTorrent have agreed to become collaborators. A while back Comcast admitted to disrupting file sharing traffic based on the BitTorrent protocol which has caused some stir in what constitutes appropriate "network management" by Internet service providers. Comcast will no reconfiguring its networks to be manage data in a "protocol agnostic" manner.

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03/24/2008:
Blackberry service providers must work with licensor Research in Motion (RIM) of Canada to provide full proof security system in the country by March 31, 2008 or must stop the services. The Blackberry service is currently being used by over four lakh users and stopping the service will not allow these users to access email in form of SMS. The service is currently provided by AirTel, Reliance and Vodafone. The major issue seems to be that the encryption process applied to email utilizes servers that are located in Russia, United States or Canada, but no servers in India. The Indian security agencies feels that messages through the service cannot be accessed by local security authorities and hence may affect the national security of India.

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03/21/2008:
Microsoft's Open XML document standard not approved by Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). ISO member-countries had eceived request for recommendation from ECMA six months ago and ISO will take a final decision based on global response on March 29. Given that more than 95% of Office applications are Microsoft products, this will be a big blow to Microsoft. Now will have to see how this effects the rival ODF format has been developed by a consortium called the Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) which has been supported by IBM, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems and others.

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03/14/2008:
Acer announced the avaliability of Acer Aspire 5315 in India. The new laptop will be priced at Rs 22,219 and is powered by Intel Celeron M550 and comes with the features like Linux operating system, built-in CrystalEye Webcam, Intel Wireless WiFi, 3D Sonic Sound System, 15.4-inches WXGA Acer CrystalBrite TFT LCD display, 120GB HDD, 1GB RAM, DVD super multi 8x double layer and ePowerManagement.

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02/19/2008:
Has Sony finally won the much known DVD war? Today, Toshiba announced that it is dropping the high-definition DVD battle and hence will stop production of its HD DVD players and recorders. And this may signal a victory for Sony's Blu-ray format. Recently Warner Bros', WalMart, UK retailer Woolworths US chain Best Buy, and US online retailer Netflix have backed Sony's Blu-ray format and hence could have forced Toshiba into it's decision.
Blu-ray’s was backed by Sony and Philips while HD DVD was baked by Toshiba and Hitachi. This may be good news for consumers in that they have only one format to choose from, but it will also make consumers that bought the HD DVD players anger, since they will have less choice of films to watch on their player. What do you think?

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02/16/2008:
Will Apple be annoucing a new version of the MacBook soon? Many major reseller are showing back order of more then a week on the Apple's current MacBook Pros. Does this mean that production is slow for the current MacBook or a new Apple MacBook is around the cornor. Intel has recently announced a new chip called, Penryn, which has been used by large number of PC companies.

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02/11/2008:
SatNav introduces One India Integrated Map for GPS Systems for major cities in India. The new map includes 30 cities like Mumbai , Delhi, Bangalore , Chennai , Hyderabad , Pune , Ahmedabad and Kolkata (Calcutta) . The maps also include more Points of Interests (POIs).

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01/30/2008:
The demand and popularity of Social Networking is growing day by with new website promising more features and less ads. Only time will tell who will come out ahead. Recently a new social networking site, BigAdda, was launced packed with features like send friend requests on the wireless, have discussions in as many as eight different languages, plus more. Will BigAdda give a new challenge to already established social networking websites like Orkut and Facebook?

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01/27/2008:
BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd) has signed US firm SOMA Networks to deploy the world’s largest mobile WiMax network in India. It's a project with both parties will benefit from the revenues, SOMA has agreed to provide the technology to BSNL. Mobile WiMax will be rolled out in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh and make avaialble wireless broadband coverage to nearly 200 million people over the next 3 years. This will make it the first deployment of mobile WiMax per the 802.16e standard.

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01/22/2008:
Founder of Hotmail, Sabeer Bhatia, recently announced the launch of a new service within India called SabSeBolo.com . SabSeBolo.com will be India's first free audio conferencing reservation system. In order to use the service, a user will log on to SabSebolo.com and enter your email id and password and in return will be given a permanent conference id and a pin. Then user call +91 223980 4444 and using the conference id and pin can start the conference.

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01/15/2008:
Today at the annual Macworld Expo, Apple Inc's Chief Executive Steve Jobs introduced a Ultralight MacBook called MacBook Air. The MacBook Air is 0.76 inch thick at its widest point and comes with 1.6 or 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM, and an 80GB hard drive and just one USB port with prices to start at $1,799. He also announced that iTunes will allow users to download movies from all major studios for a charge of $3.99 for new releases and $2.99 for old titles. Once downloaded the movies can be watched on iPod/iPhone and your PC, the movies are valid for 30 days to start watching once downloaded and 24 hours after that to finish.

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01/11/2008:
Motorola will acquire Soundbuzz, Singapore based pan Asian music provider, which will add Motorola's MotoMusic service to India, South East Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. The MotoMusic service is currently being provided in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Soundbuzz provides consumer ability to downloads music to mobile device using the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) digital rights management (DRM) technology. Currently Soundbuzz has extensive music libraries and through licenses from Sony BMG, EMI, Warner Music International, and Universal Music Group and many others independent record labels within Asia, USA, and Europe.

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01/08/2008:
Microsoft has offered to buy Fast Search and Transfer (Fast), a Norwegian enterprise search company, for $1.2 billion. This will place Microsoft in a good position of enterprise as it try to become one stop shop for the enterprise with its wide range of products.

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01/07/2008:
Today at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Panasonic unveiled a 150 inch HD plasma TV, making it the world largest TV to date. Its screen is equivalent of nine 50 inch sets and features 8.84 million pixel image resolution. Panasonic has also has a 103 inch version, which cost $70,000 when it was launched. The price for the 150 inch has yet not been set. Panasonic also releaved a ultra thin 50 inch panel that is less then an inch thick. Panasonic also plans to intergrate Google Inc.'s YouTube and Google's Picasa, photo sharing site in future versions of it TVs.

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01/07/2008:
Today, marks the enterance of a new way of searching. Jimmy Wales, cofounder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, and his team have launched Wikia to give the online community a new way to search for information. Will this new search engine hurt the established search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN and the others? Only time will tell. It will take sometime for Wikia to reach the online community and enchance Wikia. The concept behind Wikia is similar to encyclopedia Wikipedia and hence will allow the online community to help better the search engine experince and put the results best suited for a given query in front of the searcher.
Wikia has been backed by the funding from Amazon.com, venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners, Netscape Communications cofounder Marc Andreesen, LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, and Lotus Development founder and Electronic Frontier Foundation cofounder Mitch Kapor.

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12/21/2007:
There is some news around the web that Google is preparing to launch a site called Knol. The new site would be a combination of Wikipedia and Squidoo and would allow users to post stuff to become a knowledgebase of everything. Google will probably intices users to post articles by giving them a share of the revenue that Google will generate from that page. With this people may question what Google is upto, until now Google was justing indexing page on the web, now it seems to be helping people create content on the web with tools like the Blogger and now Knol.

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12/19/2007:
The big three online advertisers, Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo were fined for allowing online gambling businesses to advertise online gambling using the three companies respectively ads mediums. The U.S. Department of Justice announced that the fines added to the over $40 million with Microsoft is to pay the largest penalty totaling $21 million. While Yahoo will pay $7.5 million and Google is to pay $3 million.

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12/12/2007:
Ask.com announced the availibility of AskEraser, a privacy control that erases information about users' search queries within a few hours. With AskEraser enabled for a given users, all Ask.com cookies including IP address, user ID and session ID cookies and complete text of search queries are erased across the Ask.com search areas but cannot delete it from from the servers of third-party companies. But the side effect of AskEraser being enabled is that some of the Ask.com personalization options will not function.

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12/07/2007:
Today Google announced that is has optimized the Google Search, Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Reader for the iPhone which builds upon other Google products like Maps and YouTube that are already available. When a iPhone user visits the Google main site, the iPhone is automatically detected and the apps are made avaialble to the user via iPhone's Safari browser. In other news, Google introduced the addition of AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) To Gmail.

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12/05/2007:
Yahoo's online photo sharing service Flickr, an online photo sharing website, today announced the introduction of new online digital imagee editing tools that can be used by members to edit photos. The tools suite will be provided by Picnik. Flickr was purchased by Yahoo back in 2005 at which time, Yahoo discontinued it's own Yahoo Photos service for Flickr.

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09/18/2007:
Vudu, Inc., in Santa Clara, California, will be introducing a new TV set top device called Vudu box. The Vudu box is scheduled to be launced later this year for around $300. The device will be directly connected to your TV via HDMI, component or composite video connections and will be capable of displaying DVD-quality movies instantaneously using a peer-to-peer technology. This means that the movie will not be downloaded from a central location but instead from other online Vudu box.

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08/27/2007:
US computer maker Gateway to be acquired by Taiwan personal computer supplier, Acer, for $710 million. This will put Acer past the Lenovo Group Ltd. as the world's third-biggest PC maker.

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08/27/2007:
Google maybe close to the launch of it's phone service. The mobile phone is called gPhone and is awaiting final ok and carrier agreement before it launch. Recently there was news that Google may be interested in bidding on spectrum. Lets see if Google will lauch the gPhone?

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06/29/2007:
The iPhone will launch today at 6:00PM all over the USA. The service for the phone will be exculsivly provided by AT\&T. The phone is marking the next big product from Apple after the much successful iPod. Hundreds of gadget fans have already lined up to get there hands on this new phone which mixes the regular phone with capabilities like playing music and video, Web browsing, and many more. It is priced at $499 (4GB model) and $599 (8GB), which does not include the phone plan to be provided by AT\&T from $60 to $100 a month.

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06/16/2007:
Apple's iPhone to be launched on Friday, June 29 at 6:00 pm Eastern time (2200 GMT). The new device from Apple promises to bring together mobile phone, camera, web browser, music and video player in a single pocket-sized personal unit. AT\&T is the sole telecoms carrier authorized to provide service for the iPhone. The iPhone will sell for $499 or $599 depending on the model.

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AMD launches a new processors that has eight cores. This chip is based on an architecture codenamed Barcelona and will be available laster this year.

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