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Google Learns To Crawl Flash

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Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, they have improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe's Flash Player technology. Click Here To Know More

Google To Offer Audience Measures For Advertisers

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Google Inc (GOOG.O) will offer advertisers a free media planning tool to help them locate target audiences on the Web, posing a challenge to existing Web measurement firms. Click Here To Know More

First Glimpse Of Mars Pole

A NASA probe sent back never-before-seen pictures of Mars' north pole Monday, in the most ambitious mission to date to find life-sustaining minerals on the Red Planet. Click Here To Know More

Scientists Witness Start Of Star's Explosive Death

In a stroke of cosmic luck, astronomers for the first time witnessed the start of one of the universe's most fiery events: the end of a star's life as it exploded into a supernova. Click Here To Know More

Universe Suddenly Twice As Bright

The universe is twice as bright as it appears, astronomers now suggest.The light bulb went on when they calculated that dust blocks about the half the light emitted from stars and galaxies. Click Here To Know More

AOL To Buy Bebo Social Network For $850 Mln

Time Warner Inc's AOL Internet division will buy social network Bebo for $850 million in cash, bolstering its consumer Web offerings even as the media conglomerate mulls splitting off the business. Click Here To Know More

Missile Hits Dying US Spy Satellite

Navy missile soaring 130 miles above the Pacific smashed a dying and potentially deadly U.S. spy satellite Wednesday and probably destroyed a tank carrying 1,000 pounds of toxic fuel. Click Here To Know More

Microsoft Eyes Yahoo To Topple Google

Unable to topple Google Inc. on its own, Microsoft Corp. is trying to force crippled rival Yahoo Inc. into a shotgun marriage, with a wager worth nearly $42 billion that the two companies together will have a better chance of tackling the Internet search leader. Click Here To Know More

Oracle To Buy BEA For $8.5 Billion

Notching another conquest in its push to create a one-stop shop for business software, Oracle Corp. is snapping up rival BEA Systems Inc. for $8.5 billion in a deal culminated after several months of acrimony. Click Here To Know More

Facebook Hack Fuels Web 2.0 Concerns

San Francisco - Researchers at security gateway vendor Fortinet have uncovered an adware-distribution scheme being carried out on the Facebook social networking site considered to be the first attack propagated on the wildly popular online portal. Click Here To Know More

IBM To Buy Israeli Startup For $300 Million

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N) is in advanced talks to buy Israeli start-up XIV Information Systems for $300 million to $350 million. Click Here To Know More

52-Inch Multi-Touch Display Unveiled

LG.Philips LCD on Monday said it will unveil at the Consumer Electronics Show a 52-inch multi-touch screen designed for advertising and other commercial uses. Click Here To Know More

Google Siphons Searchers From Yahoo, Microsoft

Google increased its share of the U.S. Internet search engine market in October, taking share away from rivals Yahoo and Microsoft, according to market researcher ComScore. Click Here To Know More

Architecture's Space In The Sun

Paris's newest museum opened to little fanfare in September this year. The Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, which wraps around the shadow of the Eiffel Tower across the Seine, is the world's biggest, and arguably its only serious, museum of architecture. Click Here To Know More

Apple Unleashes Leopard Operating System

Apple Inc.'s delayed update to the Mac OS X operating system is hitting store shelves as consumers are increasingly snapping up Macintosh computers to complement their iPods and iPhones. Click Here To Know More

Nokia To Launch Touch-Screen Version Of S60 Software

Nokia (NOK1V.HE), the world's largest cellphone maker, said on Tuesday a touch-screen version of its popular S60 smartphone software would be ready in 2008. Click Here To Know More

Vodafone Tech Change Stings Mobile Web Designers

Mobile developers around the world are in an uproar over a change Vodafone Group PLC has made in the U.K. that dramatically decreases the quality of their products and that they fear could prevent new and innovative mobile services from reaching the market. Click Here To Know More

First Look: 16GB iPod Touch

This beautifully designed media player is like a slim iPhone sans phone--but it's marred by some early hardware and software issues. Click Here To Know More

Yahoo To Sell Ads For Social Network Bebo

Yahoo will sell display advertising for Bebo, the first such deal Yahoo has secured with a social networking site. Click Here To Know More

Yahoo Buying Ad Network For $300 Million

Yahoo Inc. is buying online advertising network BlueLithium for $300 million in cash, building upon an expansion aimed at ending a financial malaise that has ravaged the Internet pioneer's stock price. Click Here To Know More