Archive for April, 2007

Innovative search interfaces

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

The innovation in the search technology is predominantly being done in the UI side. Will it really increase the user adoption? Emre Sokullu on ReadWriteWeb has this to say:
“ Like Quintura, Snap relies heavily on UI innovations. The problem with relying on UI innovation is that the barrier to entry is too low. The […]

Mapunity - A web 2.0 GIS solution

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

Webyantra posted an interesting blog on Mapunity.
Mapunity is a Geographic Information System (GIS) solution. GIS is -
“In a more generic sense, GIS is a tool that allows users to create interactive queries (user created searches), analyze the spatial information, edit data, maps, and present the results of all these operations.”
There are couple of […]

Symantec, McAfee to beef up mobile security tools

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Symantec and McAfee are working hard to beef up their mobile solutions.
McAfee announced solutions to screen mobile content. The news mentions:
“The service, called McAfee OK, works at the provider level and inspects all mobile content such as ring tones, images, video, and even applications that may be uploaded by subscribers onto the network.”
Similarly, […]

Nokia files a patent for semantic visual search engine

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Nokia filed a new patent about semantic visual search engine. Om Malik reported this on GigaOM.
Nokia is already experimenting with mobile ads and it is interesting to see Google and Nokia competing in mobile space.
Talking about mobile ads, according to this article :
“A surprising 35 percent of adult cell phone users […]

Apple working with Amazon, Google on new iReader

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Scobleizer has a very interesting post. It claims Apple is collaborating with Amazon,Google for a new device-iReader
The idea sounds quite romantic. The convenience of reading books, blogs and other articles from a mobile device is indeed fascinating. If the Scobleizer tip is right, it will give some serious competition to other mobile readers.
For me, […]

Google launches GMail Paper!

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Google continues to surprise me. Google launched GMail Paper. You can order print outs of your emails (GMail emails) and Google will post the print outs to you for free! The paper is environmental friendly and the GMail Paper service costs nothing as the cost will be offset by the advertisements on the back.
“The cost […]

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