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New iButton Helps People Deal with Air Travel
Virgin Atlantic Airways has launched a new iPhone application that would help people deal with their phobia in flying by just pressing the “iButton.” The new iButton application, according to Virgin, has over 98 percent success rate in helping people to overcome their fear in flying. The App was... 
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Social Networking Costs Add Burden to UK Business
Some 1.38 billion UK pound were lost every year due to workers’ low productivity brought by the excessive use of social networking websites like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter during working hours, a new study showed on Thursday. Based on the study commissioned by the IT services and technology company... 
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Music Labels, Google Join Force on Music Search – Sources
The world’s biggest online search engine Google Inc will join forces with leading record companies for the launching of its newest feature that is specially designed for music search, sources said on Friday. According to sources, the new feature in Google’s search engine will help users to browse... 
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Advertising Agencies Pushed For DOJ’s Approval on Yahoo, Microsoft Deal
Advertising Agencies in the US on Monday urged the Justice Department to finally approve the merger deal between online giant Yahoo and software manufacturer Microsoft Corp, citing that benefits it would bring among advertisers in the country. In a letter to the DOJ, the American Association of Advertising... 
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Comcast Enforces Pop-up Alerts to Fight “Botnets”
The largest Internet Service Provider (ISP) and high-speed Internet provider in the United States, Comcast Corp., on Friday announced plans to enforce pop-up message service to its customers in a bid to fight the growing problem of “botnets” in its system. In an interview, Comcast executives said... 
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Web Pages Comments Now Possible with SideWiki
World’s largest search engine provider Google Inc. has launched on Wednesday an added feature to its toolbar, called the SideWiki. The innovative feature would allow online users to input comments on any webpage they are viewed. According to Google Lab executives, the new SideWiki feature of the website... 
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US Justice Department Tells NY Court to Reject Google Book Deal
The United States Justice Department on Friday told the New York District Court to reject the proposed settlement of the controversial book deal of Google Inc. with authors and publishers in Europe, which would allow the Internet giant to create digitized copies of books that were already out-of-prints. In... 
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Google to use Carnegie Mellon University’s Anti-Fraud Program
World’s most dominant search engine website Google Inc. announced on Wednesday that it has acquired a anti-fraud and spam program developed by Carnegie Mellon University called ReCAPTCHA, which would allow them to cut down unwanted spam while it digitize copies of books. The ReCAPTCHA program works... 
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Google Launches Fast Flip News-Reading Service
Google Inc., the world’s largest search engine provider, on Monday launched an “experimental” news-reading hub called Fast Flip, which allows online users to browse news and feature stories from dozens of sources like newspapers and magazines. It will be recalled that Google earned the ire... 
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Google Increases Size of its Search Box
The world’s most popular Internet search engine Google.com has got a new facelift as the company introduced a much bigger search box on its home page (http://www.google.com). Google Inc., which is based in Mountain View, California, said that it has decided to remove the cluttered look of the search...