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Mobile app for iPhone now available
If you have an iPhone, you can now use the Google Mobile App to search
faster than ever - not only the web, but in your contacts as well. It
also integrates Google Suggest, meaning some of the most popular
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Share and gain knowledge using Knol
This month we launched a new service called Knol that makes it much
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authoritative articles (a.k.a. knols) on a subject you know about, and
then share your knowledge with everyone. Each knol identifies an
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and their credentials. You can also comment, rate, or review a knol.
Using a new feature called "moderated collaboration," readers can even
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suggestions into account.
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Elections Video Search gadget
Using our own state-of-the-art speech recognition technologies, videos
from politicians' YouTube channels are automatically transcribed from
speech to text and indexed. Using the gadget, you can search not only
the titles and descriptions of the videos, but also their spoken
content. And since speech recognition tells us exactly *when* words
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Get walking directions on Google Maps
You can now get walking directions on Google Maps that include the
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pathways. But you don't have to just be going on a walk to benefit
from this new service; it's also helpful if you're using Google Maps
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stop to another.
http://maps.google.com
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You can now (virtually) ride in the Tour de France using Street View
on Google Maps. If you're a sports fan, this is a great new way to
experience the famous race. If you enjoy nature and the outdoors, you
can explore France's scenic countryside. If you're curious about
French cities and cafes, here's an opportunity for you to see them up
close. Whatever your interest, this is guaranteed to be an exciting
ride!
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| TECHNOLOGY Demand Surges on Foreclosure Sites The housing bust is driving loads of traffic to related Web sites, from one that searches for foreclosure lawyers to others that give timely tips COMPANIES CEO and Chairman Out at Alcatel-Lucent Was the transatlantic merger even worth it? With Patricia Russo and Serge Tchuruk both stepping down, the company will have to convince investors BUYOUTS Gores' Siemens Buy: One Big Bet Buyout specialist Alec Gores sees promise in Siemens' troubled telecom business CONSUMER ELECTRONICS Cell Phones Hurt Sony Earnings Sony blamed mobile-phone unit Sony Ericcson, among other things, for its 39% decline in first-quarter operating profits THE TECH BEAT HP, Intel and Yahoo Team Up on Cloud Computing The three tech giants are building a global project for large-scale computing TECHNOLOGY For Corporate Boards, a Global Search Western companies, especially tech multinationals like SAP and Nokia, have begun looking to Asia's emerging markets for their next board leaders CEO GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY Public-Private Alliances to the Rescue Many companies are realizing that they can play a crucial role in helping communities recover from natural catastrophes CEO GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY Making Maps Work When Disaster Strikes GeoCommons, OpenStreetMap, and Mapufacture are three online hubs where people can collaboratively map areas, which could help in emergencies CEO GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY The Do-Good Imperative Some of the most innovative ideas today are coming from efforts to address the needs of those most in need SPECIAL REPORT Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech As the economy slumps, many entrepreneurs are looking past consumer Web sites to focus on products and services for companies SPECIAL REPORT The Power of Play Check out our special report on the current gaming industry, including an analysis of trends for 2008, profiles of radical innovators—and introducing the BusinessWeek Arcade, a celebration of some of the Web's best free games SUSTAINABLE TECH Special Report: Sustainable Tech Scientists are experimenting with viruses, salmon sperm DNA, potatoes, and more in making biomaterials for consumer electronics TECH HOMELAND SECURITY Homeland Insecurity The Homeland Security Dept.'s overreliance on outside contractors and insufficient management of them could leave the U.S. vulnerable TECH PIONEERS Meet This Year's Tech Pioneers The World Economic Forum has bestowed the coveted honor on 39 companies, which could become the Googles, a previous winner, of tomorrow BEST OF THE WEB Scaling the Social Web Move over, MySpace. Online players from media giant Viacom to auctioneer eBay are adding networking features for their users TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT Selling Computers to India With growth slowing in China, computer makers hope Asia's other big market will pick up the slack SPECIAL REPORT The Power of Gaming A recent report estimates that the video game market will increase to $48.9 billion in 2011. Our special report looks at some of the innovations sparking this growth SPECIAL REPORT The Future of Social Networking A rising tide of companies are tapping Semantic Web technologies to unearth hard-to-find connections between disparate pieces of online data CEO Guide to Green Computing As a threat to operations and the bottom line, corporate computing's fast-growing power consumption is forcing companies to adopt green energy VIRTUAL LIFE The Coming Virtual Web In the future, the Internet is almost certain to look more realistic, interactive, and social—a lot like a virtual world CEO GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY Taming the World Wide Web A rising tide of companies are tapping Semantic Web technologies to unearth hard-to-find connections between disparate pieces of online data SPECIAL REPORT Wireless World Ultrafast networks and whizzy features are about to turn your cellphone into—well, your right arm NEXT-GEN GAME CONSOLES Game Definitely Not Over On the eve of the launch of PS3 and Wii, stakes in the console tussle amid Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft have never been higher CEO Guide to Social Networks Networking technology gives companies a new set of tools for recruiting and customer service PREDICTION MARKETS CEO Guide to Technology -- Prediction Markets More corporations are setting up their own markets for economic forecasts, hoping to tap into the wisdom of employees WEB SERVICES The On-Demand Software Scrum Oracle, Microsoft, and SAP are battling each other—and smaller players—to gain a bigger slice of a fast-growing pie SPECIAL REPORT Computer Security Computer-based fraudsters are finding new ways to trick people—not technology—to get the information they seek SPECIAL REPORT Young Entrepreneurs of Tech We surveyed dozens of the country's biggest venture capitalists to come up with a short list of the 11 young people that are shaking up tech HEART HEALTH Heart, Heal Thyself? So far, stem cells have not delivered the results scientists hoped for. But excitement is still rising SPECIAL REPORT Open Source's New Frontiers How free software startups are challenging industry giants SPECIAL REPORT Eight Tech Trends for 2006 Tech Special Report on living-room wars, social search, wireless' new world, Web moviemakers—and lots more SPECIAL REPORT Computing's Next Generation For the first time in years, hardware startups are trying to break into the market. Their gambit: Inexpensive special-purpose machines SPECIAL REPORT TV Goes Broadband Name any gizmo. Chances are it's gotten more sophisticated since you last looked SPECIAL REPORT: YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS OF TECH Tech's Young Turks Are Back As Internet companies and the economy in general rebound, so has the college-age entrepreneur—but it's a tougher road today IT white papers, webcasts and reports for tech leaders and decision-makers
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Public-Private Alliances to the RescueMany companies are realizing that they can play a crucial role in helping communities recover from natural catastrophesThe Do-Good ImperativeMaking Maps Work When Disaster StrikesPodcast: Disaster TechBusiness's Role in Disaster PreventionAfter Fires, What Next for Businesses?A New Kind of First ResponderThe Read Disaster: Inadequate Preparation |
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| Inside: This Week In Managing
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| HARVARD BUSINESS ONLINE • From Harvard Business Do You Hide Your Inner Bruce Wayne? What masks do you wear at work? What would happen if you dropped them and let people see what's underneath? GE's Immelt: An Ever-Hotter Throne The pressure to lift the share price is building. But CEO Jeff Immelt's options are limited HEADHUNTERS CONFIDENTIAL How to Select an Executive Search Firm Conducting a search firm "shootout" is critical to realizing a substantial return on investment in management leadership HARVARD BUSINESS ONLINE • From Harvard Business Green Business Makes for Strange Bedfellows Unlikely partnerships, such as one between Greenpeace and McDonald's, are becoming the norm as special-interest groups become part of the business conversation on such key issues as climate change and water scarcity LIZ RYAN: THE WORKPLACE Your Best Hire: It May Surprise You It's tempting to hire people with personalities like yours, but the better move may be to find people with the strengths you lack GLOBAL Roche-Genentech: A Drug Powerhouse Given the biotech's promising pipeline, Roche's CEO may need to raise his $43.7 billion offer to buy out Genentech's minority investors DIRECTORSHIP • From Directorship Fraud's Red Flags Ten signs your company may be fostering a corporate culture conducive to wrongdoing HARVARD BUSINESS ONLINE • From Harvard Business A New Name for the Next Generation What to call the post-Y Generation? How about the Re-Gens? It works on a lot of levels: renew, rethink, re-generate, and, unfortunately, recession THE BOARDROOM When Your Company Outgrows Its Board The needs of an expanded organization differ from those of a startup. New CEOs often bristle at boards that micromanage rather than govern STARTING OUT Self-Assessment: Tell It Like It Is The benefits of—gasp!—being brutally honest about your strengths and flaws at performance-review time VIEWPOINT The Fireside Chat vs. the Podcast In today's troubled economy, government and corporations need to borrow FDR's playbook and truly connect with constituents through Web 2.0, say Peppercom's Steve Cody and Sam Ford HARVARD BUSINESS ONLINE • From Harvard Business Let's Hear it for B Players In a tough economy, it's your B players—competent, steady performers far from the limelight—who deserve your attention LIZ RYAN: THE WORKPLACE Out-of-Town Interview Etiquette Should interviewees assume all their time belongs to the company they're traveling to talk with? HARVARD BUSINESS ONLINE • From Harvard Business Blogging: A New Approach to Exec Recruiting Yes, we tried the traditional approaches when looking for a CEO for Adaptive Path. But we realized that social networking was a better way to go BW MALL SPONSORED LINKS
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