Tag: REUTERS

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer is not known for a lack of enthusiasm or hyperbole. It's surprising, then, to see him downplaying the expected effect of Windows 7's release on new system sales. Reuters quoted Ballmer on Wednesday at a news conference in Munich as saying "There will be a surge of PCs but it will probably not be huge." Certainly this is not a doom and gloom statement, but considering ...

Blogsmith : brad.linder@weblogsinc.com When we first heard about Viewdle yesterday we dismissed the company as yet another online video search and indexing system. But now that we've played with Reuters' new "Face Search" powered by Viewdle, we have to say, we're impressed. Here's how it works. You type in a name, like Britney Spears or George Bush. Viewdle searches through an index of Reuters ...

In the early days of the web, before high-fallutin' content-management systems, document control, and database-driven blogs, web authors were for the most part forced to stage their content in a clumsy, time-consuming way. Manually uploading and resizing graphics and hand-writing HTML in an early web editor like "HotDog" or "HotMetal" (remember those?) was how we all did our first web authoring, ...

Lots of news on the CNN corporate front this week. First the media giant announced that they were dumping Yahoo in favor of Google ads, now they are saying no more Reuters. CNN said on Thursday that they would be terminating their 27 year relationship in order to cut costs. The Time Warner owned company said that they had not wanted to rely on outside sources as much as they currently do, and ...

Microsoft is tapping the social network phenomenon by starting up one of their own. This financial social network will focus on finance professionals, and be targeted towards career roles. By the sounds of things, this financial site could be based of the current Microsoft Live pages idea where users get their own personal blog area with the addition of forums, and on Microsoft Dynamics Live. I ...

First Reuters announces that it'll be launching a social news service similar to MySpace. Now it turns out MySpace is rumored to be working on a news service (that probably won't really compete head to head with Reuters). The upcoming MySpace news venture will allow users to post news clips on their personal pages, share those clips with others, and rate and comment on others' news items. We're ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2007/03/06/who-needs-another-myspace-reuters-does/'; With MySpace being a successful proven social network and many other niche networks sprouting up everywhere, who would have ever thought that Reuters would jump on board? Reuters is planning on launching their own social network this year that will be aimed at fund managers, traders, and ...

Yahoo! and Reuters started accepting photos and videos of news events from users all over the internet to use in related online news articles this week. Both companies plan on taking advantage of the many people worldwide that use mobile devices and digital cameras to take shots of breaking news, aka crowdsourcing. This new program will be called You Witness News, with Reuters planning on ...

Sun's CIO dropped the news today that Google is using open source implementations of Solaris. Google is currently running Solaris in its data centers, but is looking forward to installing more Sun servers because of the open source Solaris. Given that they have hired on a list of previous Sun employees, it only looks promising for Google to test its own modified versions of Open Solaris. eBay, ...

Today iMesh will launch BearShare 6.0, which is a long-standing p2p file sharing client many people us to download copyrighted music. Apparently, this edition of BearShare is a legalized edition. It sounds like iMeshToGo and BearShareToGo will offer a long awaited solution to the problem of illegal file-sharing, and the other problem of no way for people to buy music in an effective way that is ...