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Nintendo Wii Goes with Opera Browser for Internet Surfing

The Opera Web browser will be available for Nintendo’s Wii starting on Friday, putting the Internet onto a TV screen so that families can share the browsing experience. With the motion-sensor capabilities of the Wii controller, users can click on links or to zoom into any part of the screen. The remote also can be […]

Zoho Goes Wiki

Zoho’s still at work, quietly … but certainly, release new features and services to its online product base; this week it’s Zoho Wiki.
Read more on TechCrunch.

Google Audio / Radio on Hold

Well as I reported a week ago and expressed my thoughts on this new radio ad program of Google, it turns out I was just blowing smoke. I read on TechCrunch today that Google Audio has hit a snag and may be on “significantly delayed“.
Who knows if this will even turn into anything substantial for […]

iPhone Introduced today, but not by Apple

Linksys, a Cisco owned company, introduced their new wireless internet phone today, iPhone, to the surprise i’m sure of many Apple lovers who were anticipating the release of an Apple iPhone after the success of the iPod.

If Apple is even considering this, I guess they better come up with another name.
Read more.

Voting News Site Digg.com Launches New Features

Digg is announcing (and releasing) today new features on its site. Some of the new features will include more than just news, now in fact users will be able to digg their favorite blog site, podcast and videos (yep, digg too is going for video). It also sports a brand new design layout with more […]

Google Acquires Internet Mapping Company Endoxon

Today Google announced the acquisition of Endoxon, an Internet mapping solutions company based in Lucerne, Switzerland.
About Endoxon
Endoxon is a developer of internet mapping solutions, mobile services, data processing, cartography, direct marketing and the Trinity software suite. Since 1988, Endoxon and its 75 employees have created ground-breaking solutions for a wide variety of geographic needs. Endoxon […]

Google’s New Patent Search

This thing is cool. I’ve used the official US Patent search site for years, but since Google just launched their beta version with images, I’ll be saying “So Long” to the USPTO (well maybe just to the Patent search part, it doesn’t look like Google has a Trademark search yet … so I can’t completely […]

Google Partners with GoDaddy for Domains

Google has teamed up with domain name registrar GoDaddy and eNom to offer custom domain names to those that don’t have one and want to use their new Google Apps for Your Domain services (which by the way I’ve tested and is really cool … plus it’s FREE).
You can read the official post on their […]

Google Letting Workers Sell Stock Options

(the above pic is an oldie, but goodie - and not related to the following story)
Internet search powerhouse Google says it will let employees sell their stock options in online auctions.
The program was an innovative way for Google to lure talented workers because it gave them a new way to cash in on discounted stock-buying […]

IBM and Yahoo try to take on Google

Yahoo and IBM announced today that they will officially be challenging Google in the enterprise search and appliances arena.
Here’s the scoop:
IBM Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are teaming up to offer a free data-search tool for businesses, a quirky move challenging Google Inc. and other corporate-search specialists in a blossoming market.
IBM already sells a business-focused search […]