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		<title>Backgammon TVB  mobile DVD presents excellent</title>
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  Recently, the domestic DVD player industry leader in new product &#8212; backgammon backgammon TVB / mobile DVD DL379KB debut! According to backgammon that timely release a wireless mobile DVD DL379KB, not only to meet anytime and anywhere consumers watch television and enjoy movies, but also in [...]]]></description>
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<p>  Recently, the domestic DVD player industry leader in new product &#8212; backgammon backgammon TVB / mobile DVD DL379KB debut! According to backgammon that timely release a wireless mobile DVD DL379KB, not only to meet anytime and anywhere consumers watch television and enjoy movies, but also in the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, to satisfy the consumer demand for mobile watch Olympic Games . </p>
<p>TVB Mobile DVD wonderful event not to be missed </p>
<p>It is understood that backgammon TVB Mobile DVD DL379KB simple design with human nature. Like wireless cable TV program, only to closed-circuit television transmitter connection line and TVB, Cable TV signal will be converted to wireless signal transmission to a mobile DVD DL379KB on TVB received special transmitter to send high-definition audio and video signal. With 2.4G wireless audio and video transmission technology, with four selectable channels to enhance the signal reception sensitivity, effective against interference, to ensure that when you use the wireless television, sound, image stability and clarity. Backgammon Mobile DVD DL379KB TVB has auto search function, no interference with the main television channels, in an interview Cikuan model designers, reporters learned that DL379KB can be placed in the bedroom, study, garden, kitchen and other places, also has two television equivalent of a family can watch different programs simultaneously, harmonious. </p>
<p>DL379KB both media entertainment functions </p>
<p>Backgammon has been excellence in industrial modeling, this TVB Mobile DVD DL379KB is no exception. White sliding screen appearance can be realized three-dimensional, flat, conventional three kinds of ornamental patterns, to meet consumer needs in different occasions viewing. Pursuit of the perfect picture quality, backgammon TVB Mobile DVD DL379KB with 7-inch 16:9 widescreen Qing Liang, a low angle of radiation width, whether indoor or outdoor light, the sun, as clear and natural images. </p>
<p>According to the designer introduced, DL379KB not only TVB, also has a variety of multimedia entertainment. It built three in one card reader, both SD, MS, MMC memory card format, the three mainstream. Support USB2.0 (high-speed) high-speed connections to the U disk, MP3 and other equipment, compatibility with more. Both the disc memory function, memory can be broadcast. Super compatible with MPEG 4 format, &quot;network movie&quot; disc and DVD, VCD, SVCD, CD, MP3, JPEG and other standard format disc. Large-capacity solid-state lithium polymer battery, service life, longer. Mosaic cell design, combined with the body closer, more convenient access. </p>
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<p>Backgammon board backgammon Mobile DVD Mobile DVD is another star product. This series was tailor-made vehicle to use professional without modification car line will be able to use in the <a href="http://www.tamom.com/Car-DVD-Players/">car DVD</a>, using the standard configuration of the head-type vehicle frame, optional suction cup-style and back support rod, will be able to move the <a href="http://www.tamom.com/Car-DVD-Players/">car DVD</a> fixed in the car seat head restraints, seat, window glass, etc., both in the front row or back row, can get a good viewing angle. Car Mobile DVD DL339 with flat screen and touch keypad slider design than traditional clamshell mobile DVD, more suitable for vehicle use, single hand to operate. Car Mobile DVD DL389 has a 8.5-inch 180 ° clockwise rotation reversal of 90 ° Xuanliang widescreen, large-size brings great enjoyment to meet current consumer demand for the pursuit of large-size widescreen. </p>
<p>Reporter from the technical staff responsible for this series there understand that this series of high-fidelity sound quality with advanced wireless technology, you can play the audio signal through the car radio to set the FM band, in car audio amplification broadcast, instantly create a car theater, the scene felt like the shock effect. </p>
<p>Mobile DVD Car backgammon double seismic system to ensure that poor road conditions, the picture remains smooth, mellow sound quality remains. Built-in SD, MMC, MS card reader and USB port triple. Convenient and practical, always exciting! Especially with car power connector, as long as connected to the car&#8217;s cigarette lighter can be moved to a DVD-powered car, the car used to solve the problem of insufficient power. Backgammon Car Mobile DVD will become the new favorite fashion car owners. 
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		<title>Who is king  World&#8217;s smallest color display MP3 PK</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title of world&#8217;s smallest is not easily played! I remember greatly accelerates in September, when written an &#34;absolute Kanhua Yan! In 2006 the nine most anticipated MP3&#34;, which should be most concerned about the new generation ipod shuffle. The new shuffle when released in the United States, Apple&#8217;s CEO steve Jobs said: &#34;When you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The title of world&#8217;s smallest is not easily played! I remember greatly accelerates in September, when written an &quot;absolute Kanhua Yan! In 2006 the nine most anticipated MP3&quot;, which should be most concerned about the new generation ipod shuffle. The new shuffle when released in the United States, Apple&#8217;s CEO steve Jobs said: &quot;When you first see the new ipod shuffle, you can hardly believe this is a step in the new ipod digital music player really , but it really is true, and in an incredibly compact, easy to carry, weighs just half an ounce of design, it can be up to 240 songs, it is by far the world&#8217;s smallest MP3 player.</p>
<p> The new shuffle is expected in early November, global availability, but the location has yet to see the sight, some foreign media said the listing date to be rescheduled to early December, does Apple also playful bounce? No harm to ignore when listing products have been a foregone conclusion, but the time from college. Prior to October is also held in Beijing over New Apple Promotion Council at the meeting and the new shuffle is the first time up close and really and steve Jobs said, the new shuffle is the intention really is a digital music player less than device.</p>
<p>But in the new shuffle is not listed, another known as &quot;the world&#8217;s smallest color display MP3&quot; iriver S10 in lightning speed listed, and pay attention to see clearly that this is &quot;the world&#8217;s smallest color display MP3&quot; not mentioned above, the &quot;world&#8217;s smallest MP3&quot;.</p>
<p> This iriver S10 in the market until more confidential, leaked over the Internet with almost no relevant content. Iriver S10 may be secret and the new shuffle is faster than the right. MP3 market suddenly cropped up on two &quot;world&#8217;s smallest,&quot; but is the difference between the two, iriver S10 is a color screen MP3, and the ipod shuffle is the same as the previous generation, not equipped with the screen. Then, under the title with the smallest PK, who will be more advantage?</p>
<p> First of all, to show that the influence of ipod in the world larger, share very high, if the brand is concerned nothing is real meaning, at present we are mainly from these two products to compare.
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		<title>House bill aims to ban new cell phone taxes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8220;The Cell Tax Fairness Act will help ensure that consumers make choices about communications technology based on the merits of that technology, rather than on the rate of taxation,&#8221; Lofgren said. The legislation &#8220;does not take away any existing revenue for state or local governments.&#8221;


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> &#8220;The Cell Tax Fairness Act will help ensure that consumers make choices about communications technology based on the merits of that technology, rather than on the rate of taxation,&#8221; Lofgren said. The legislation &#8220;does not take away any existing revenue for state or local governments.&#8221;
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In a statement, Lofgren said that between January 2003 and July 2007, the taxation rate on wireless services increased four times faster than the rate for other taxable goods and services. As a result, consumers pay 15.19 percent in federal, state, and local taxes on their cell phone bill, compared with 7.07 percent in taxes for most other goods and services.</p>
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Cell phones taxes and fees have been the target of a few bills in Congress since the Democrats regained control of the House, but lawmakers and the CTIA haven&#8217;t always seen eye to eye. Separate bills in both the Senate and the House propose eliminating early termination fees and handset locking. The latter issue has become particularly controversial following AT&#038;T&#8217;s well-publicized lock on the iPhone, even though handset locking has been standard practice in the industry for years. Though the Senate bill won support from Senators in a hearing held in October, Largent and the CTIA have declined to support it, calling it &#8220;unnecessary.&#8221;
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The bill, which is similar to Senate legislation introduced last year, would not affect current taxes, nor does it call for a ban on any new federal taxes. Furthermore, the ban would not apply to fees meant to subsidize emergency 911 services nor the universal service charge, which funds telecommunications infrastructure for low-income and rural residents. The federal excise tax on phone services, which was originally created to support the Spanish-American War, was dropped by the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of the Treasury in August 2006.
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A bipartisan bill introduced Tuesday in the House of Representatives would ban new state or local takes on mobile phone services for a period of five years. Sponsored by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and five co-sponsors, the bill is known as the Cell Tax Fairness Act (HR 5793 ).
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The wireless industry&#8217;s lobbying arm, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA), is supporting the bill, calling it &#8220;a step in the right direction.&#8221; In its own statement, the association joined Lofgren in saying that a ban on new taxes would help encourage new innovation in the wireless sector. &#8220;We should do everything in our power to remove the roadblocks&#8211;such as excessive, discriminatory wireless taxes&#8211;that stand in the way of progress,&#8221; said<br />
CTIA President and CEO Steve Largent.</p>
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		<title>Verizon&#8217;s RIM BlackBerry Pearl now in pink</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pink RIM BlackBerry Pearl 8130
Just in time for Valentine&#8217;s Day, Verizon Wireless has released a pink version of the RIM BlackBerry Pearl 8130, making for a nice little mate to the silver model. We first caught wind of this blush-colored smartphone at CES 2008 when RIM, perhaps without Verizon&#8217;s knowledge, showed it off at their [...]]]></description>
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<p>Just in time for Valentine&#8217;s Day, Verizon Wireless has released a pink version of the RIM BlackBerry Pearl 8130, making for a nice little mate to the silver model. We first caught wind of this blush-colored smartphone at CES 2008 when RIM, perhaps without Verizon&#8217;s knowledge, showed it off at their booth, but all is rosy now. You can grab the pink Pearl starting today for $149.99 with a two-year contract and after discounts and rebates. We suspect Sprint&#8217;s red BlackBerry Pearl won&#8217;t be too far behind. </p>
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		<title>The Audacity of Hope, Ark.  The $20,000 Klipsch Pa</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul W. Klipsch founded the company that bears his name in Hope, Ark. in 1946. And incredibly enough, the Arkansas plant is still building the company&#8217;s higher-end speakers.
Klipsch may be one of the oldest American speaker companies, but that doesn&#8217;t stop it from manufacturing
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Paul W. Klipsch founded the company that bears his name in Hope, Ark. in 1946. And incredibly enough, the Arkansas plant is still building the company&#8217;s higher-end speakers.</p>
<p>Klipsch may be one of the oldest American speaker companies, but that doesn&#8217;t stop it from manufacturing<br />
iPod, computer, stereo and home theater speakers, along with a full line of professional cinema and music speakers. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s a serious rock and roll animal, built to handle dynamics and power like ultra high-end speakers that retail for many times the price of the P-39F. Bass is meaty and solid, yet as clear and concise as the mid-range and treble. Oh, and before you get the impression these bad boys have to be played at lease breaking volume to sound their best, I found them exceedingly accomplished at hushed, late night volume as well. </p>
<p>The 165-pound speaker rests on an aluminum and steel plinth/base; which reminds me, the P-39F&#8217;s speaker cable connectors are stealthily concealed within its bottom panel. </p>
<p>The Audiophiliac and the P-39F</p>
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I found the new boldly curved speaker&#8217;s &#8220;boat tail&#8221; shape distinctive as all get out and it&#8217;s not just for show, the rounded cabinet&#8217;s interior quells resonance that would muddy the sound. Those curved sides are made from seven ply, constrained layer, composite laminate wood panels, and the front baffle is reinforced with steel. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s a large speaker, 56 inches tall and 24.75 deep, but it doesn&#8217;t seem as imposing as some statement designs. The Palladium&#8217;s zebra grain veneers come in your choice of three finishes, natural, merlot, and espresso (the wood is sourced from protected forests). </p>
<p>I reviewed Klipsch&#8217;s new flagship speaker, the Palladium P-39F ($20,000/pair), for Home Entertainment magazine, and I had a blast. The new speaker forgoes Klipsch&#8217;s traditional, square-edged aesthetic; for the Palladium project the company enlisted the talents of BMW DesignworksUSA in Los Angeles, Calif. They did a great job.</p>
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When I reviewed the P-39F tower speaker it was the only Palladium available, but in New York last week Klipsch showed the P-17B bookshelf speaker ($4,000/pair), P-27C center channel ($3,500), P-27S surround speaker ($4,000/pr) and P-312W subwoofer ($4,000). Complete Palladium 5.1 channel systems start around $16,000. </p>
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		<title>Brightcove inks distribution deal with Bebo, other</title>
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Brightcove, the Internet-video syndication and services company, announced on Monday that video content from its customers will appear on social-networking sites: Bebo, Meebo, RockYou, Slide and Veoh. 

Brightcove helps media companies display their video over the Internet and offers varying services for managing video including publishing, distribution and advertising. 

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Brightcove, the Internet-video syndication and services company, announced on Monday that video content from its customers will appear on social-networking sites: Bebo, Meebo, RockYou, Slide and Veoh. </p>
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Brightcove helps media companies display their video over the Internet and offers varying services for managing video including publishing, distribution and advertising. </p>
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CEO Jeremy Allaire has amassed a customer list that reads like a who&#8217;s who of media conglomerates, such as CBS, HBO, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and 20th Century Fox. </p>
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The new deal means that Brightcove customers will have access to the combined 300 million monthly visitors of the social networks. </p>
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		<title>Forget Yahoo, Microsoft should acquire AOL</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this point, AOL looks far more attractive to Microsoft than some may believe. And although the chances of it acquiring the online firm are low, it wouldn&#8217;t be a bad idea and one that&#8217;s certainly worth considering.
That said, it&#8217;s still an attractive company from Microsoft&#8217;s standpoint and all of its properties account for a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At this point, AOL looks far more attractive to Microsoft than some may believe. And although the chances of it acquiring the online firm are low, it wouldn&#8217;t be a bad idea and one that&#8217;s certainly worth considering.</p>
<p>That said, it&#8217;s still an attractive company from Microsoft&#8217;s standpoint and all of its properties account for a boatload of pageviews each day, which could easily translate to an advertising revenue stream that is not only controlled by Microsoft and thus blocked from Google, but highly lucrative.</p>
<p>After today&#8217;s announcement that AOL has acquired Bebo for $850 million in the hopes that it will be able to capitalize on the upswing in social networking, I had a thought. Knowing that AOL is trying to get a deal done with Yahoo and the company owns some solid properties, why doesn&#8217;t Microsoft forget about Yahoo for a while and acquire AOL?</p>
<p>Now, I&#8217;m sure some would try to make the argument that Microsoft only wants Yahoo for search, but I&#8217;m not so quick to agree. If that&#8217;s true, is all of Yahoo&#8217;s &#8220;extras&#8221; just a bonus of acquiring the company? Microsoft has made a number of statements in the past saying that it wants to do more on the Internet and offer more compelling services and acquiring AOL is the first step in doing just that.</p>
<p>All the while, Ballmer and company could scheme to find ways to continue its proxy fight and install a board that&#8217;s far more likely to accept a sweetheart deal from Microsoft. In the process, Microsoft could walk away with both companies. Just don&#8217;t expect it to happen overnight. In fact, I would guess that an AOL deal would put Yahoo on the back burner for about a year.</p>
<p>Reason 1: Complementary services</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s face it &#8212; even though the company has the kind of cash to acquire Bebo for $850 million, AOL is in rough shape. It&#8217;s in a transitional phase that it&#8217;s having a hard time breaking out of and it has made a number of poor decisions that have hindered its growth.</p>
<p>As it stands, AOL now owns Weblogs, Inc.; TMZ.com; Bebo; Quigo, an advertising firm; Third Screen Media, a mobile advertising firm; and a slew of other advertising companies that could have a major impact on the business going forward.</p>
<p>And considering the fact that Microsoft would probably be willing to pay about half as much for AOL (about $22 billion), Yahoo would certainly worry that its time is up and it lost its chance to court a serious buyer.</p>
<p>The Microsoft-AOL deal would probably look quite similar to its pledge for Yahoo and an offer would be made where half of it is payable in cash and the other half would be offered up in Microsoft stock. And considering the fact that AOL is probably about half as valuable to Microsoft as Yahoo, there&#8217;s no reason to suggest it wouldn&#8217;t offer about half as much. Of course, that number would probably rise into the $30 billion to $35 billion after negotiations were complete. That said, that figure isn&#8217;t too bad of a deal for Microsoft and one that would conceivably bear fruit almost immediately given the fact all of AOL&#8217;s properties (aside from its advertising ventures) are running on all cylinders.</p>
<p>And although the company is operated by Time Warner, which has done all it can to make the merger worthwhile, the online firm is somewhat independent from its owners (Google also owns a small stake) and offers a wide array of services that have been neglected by Microsoft.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no debating the fact that Google will never acquire Yahoo and I&#8217;m of the opinion that Microsoft never will either. That said, Yahoo wants to be acquired by a company and although it has said numerous times that it actually feels quite opposite, I think it&#8217;s full of hot air.</p>
<p>Sound crazy? If so, consider the fact that AOL has quickly become one of the largest competitors to Microsoft in its attempt to acquire Yahoo and at the same time, it&#8217;s barely standing on the backs of sound editorial content from Weblogs, Inc. and now, social networking &#8212; two areas Microsoft currently has no influence in.</p>
<p>In essence, the deal for AOL would be a good one for Microsoft and could actually help it in its negotiations for Yahoo. Here&#8217;s why:</p>
<p>Reason 2: It makes Yahoo worry</p>
<p>For the first time, Microsoft could be a major player in the social networking space with Bebo and have sound editorial content turning a profit. Aside from that, AIM, which is the most popular IM&#8217;ing tool in the US, will be a great tool for Microsoft, considering MSN holds that title pretty much everywhere else in the world.</p>
<p>At face value, a deal between AOL and Microsoft may not look like the match made in Heaven some are calling the possible Yahoo deal. But when you take a slightly more comprehensive view of what&#8217;s really going on, your opinion might change.</p>
<p>A Microsoft acquisition of AOL would throw Yahoo off its mark and send panic through the entire company. In just one day, Yahoo&#8217;s stock price would sink to an unprecedented low and Jerry Yang would be forced to come out for damage control.</p>
<p>Reason 3: AOL will come cheap</p>
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		<title>Developer to Facebook  I got there first on friend</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I believe the outcome of this and similar moves without appropriate repercussions in giving credit to developers who are coming up with innovative ideas will ultimately result in the discouragement of such developers and a diminish(ed) effect on innovative thinking,&#8221; Ariana continued. &#8220;I know change cannot be stopped, but along the way giving credit to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I believe the outcome of this and similar moves without appropriate repercussions in giving credit to developers who are coming up with innovative ideas will ultimately result in the discouragement of such developers and a diminish(ed) effect on innovative thinking,&#8221; Ariana continued. &#8220;I know change cannot be stopped, but along the way giving credit to the little people underneath will be a key to success against competition.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This new feature and its functionality is suspiciously identical to the application I released for Facebook six months ago (albeit with limited resources),&#8221; developer Amin Ariana said in an e-mail to CNET News.com, &#8220;but it gives no credit to the original author.&#8221;</p>
<p>Update March 31, 5:07 AM PDT: The post now reflects additional commentary from Amin Ariana.</p>
<p>Friendmates isn&#8217;t exactly SuperPoke or Zombies. The application has only 238 daily active users, which amounts to 9 percent of those who have installed it.</p>
<p>But Ariana said in an e-mail that he&#8217;s not formally a Microsoft employee. &#8220;I only contract with them as a software design engineer to make money to support my own small projects, which are not supported by Microsoft in any way,&#8221; he wrote.</p>
<p>And here&#8217;s some irony: Ariana, as well as Friendmates co-creators Steve Dill and Sean Erle Johnson, are all members of the Microsoft network on Facebook. Microsoft, as you probably know already, has a $240 million stake in Facebook.</p>
<p>Additionally, business social-networking site LinkedIn has operated a feature similar to Facebook&#8217;s for months now.</p>
<p>The creator of a Facebook application called Friendmates doesn&#8217;t seem to be too thrilled with the social-networking site&#8217;s new &#8220;People You May Know&#8221; feature, which launched earlier this week.</p>
<p>Facebook has asserted that if developers apply to its FBFund grant program, there&#8217;s no guarantee Facebook won&#8217;t come up with something similar to their business plans. Ariana said that he did not apply for a FBFund grant for Friendmates. Facebook representatives could not comment on whether this also applies to existing platform applications.</p>
<p>It also doesn&#8217;t look that similar to &#8220;People You May Know.&#8221; Friendmates allows you to see which friends have the most friends in common with you, tag Facebook members whose faces you recognize, and hear from those who have recognized you. And it invites users to manually tag their friends with how well they know them in order to assess other members whom the users might know.</p>
<p>Amin Ariana maintained that he sees peculiar similarity in the two. &#8220;Essentially both apps are technically using common friends to extrapolate (or suggest) potential friends,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The &#8217;suggestion engine&#8217; behind them&#8230;is the exact same.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Wikia Search launches parasitic search bar</title>
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I admit this argument would hold more weight if Google and Yahoo allowed users to rate search results. But I believe that eventually they will (beyond current limited experiments), and then we&#8217;ll have another problem: feedback confusion. How will users determine which service they are rating a result for when they decide to provide feedback?

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I admit this argument would hold more weight if Google and Yahoo allowed users to rate search results. But I believe that eventually they will (beyond current limited experiments), and then we&#8217;ll have another problem: feedback confusion. How will users determine which service they are rating a result for when they decide to provide feedback?
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<p>Rating Google results for Wikia Search.</p>
<p> You can now get a browser search bar for the open-source Wikia Search engine: Wikia Evolution. A search bar is pretty much a requirement to put an engine in front of users&#8217; faces, so this is an expected move by the Wikia Search project. But Wikia Evolution moves the concept into new territory.
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(By the way, Wikia Search is really improving. I&#8217;m not using the Evolution toolbar, but I have added Wikia Search as an option to my<br />
Firefox drop-down list of search boxes. I like it.)
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Another example of this is Twinkle, which is building its own social network, in part on Twitter; if you to use the Twinkle<br />
iPhone app as a Twitter client, you must also get a Twinkle account. And as much as I like it, I feel FriendFeed also skims the cream off the top of the networks that feed it (again, Twitter, but also blogs).
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Mashing sites and content together is the grist for a lot of Web innovation. But taking results from one service and building a direct competitor out of them is not quite kosher, in my book.
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Via the Evolution toolbar, Wikia adds a feature to Google and Yahoo searches: It displays rating stars and an &#8220;add&#8221; button after each result. Clicking on these links adds info into the Wikia Search index, to refine its searches when you use that engine.
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As in evolution, parasites can, over time, strengthen their hosts&#8211;or lead to very interesting and robust cooperatives. But they do run the risk of being squashed before they do very much.
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It smells. Wikia&#8217;s Jimmy Wales makes a big deal about how his rating system and open engine are superior to closed systems like Google. Yet this tool asks users to rate Google&#8217;s own results in order to improve Wikia&#8217;s. It works, and it&#8217;s a very clever way to build on the work of others, but it essentially appropriates Google&#8217;s crawler results for another engine.
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<p> See previous review: Wikia Search launches the hackable search engine.
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		<title>Canon releases EOS 40D v1.0.8 firmware update</title>
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Canon has released a new firmware update to its EOS 40D 10.1MP DSLR. The firmware update, v1.0.8, fixes a phenomenon in which Image Stabilization operation emits a sound when certain buttons are pressed, with the EF-S 55mm-250mm f/4-f/5.6 IS lens attached to the camera. It also fixes a phenomenon in which the Image Stabilization [...]]]></description>
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<p>Canon has released a new firmware update to its EOS 40D 10.1MP DSLR. The firmware update, v1.0.8, fixes a phenomenon in which Image Stabilization operation emits a sound when certain buttons are pressed, with the EF-S 55mm-250mm f/4-f/5.6 IS lens attached to the camera. It also fixes a phenomenon in which the Image Stabilization operation emits a sound from the lens when IS lenses are attached to the camera, as well as remedying another in which a part of the image looks unnatural when reviewed on the LCD. Finally, tt also corrects errors in the Spanish and Norwegian menus.</p>
<p>We generally recommend installing the latest firmware updates for your camera, so you can get the most out of your gear. For more information on firmware updates for a specific camera, visit the manufacturer&#8217;s Web site. Before installing any firmware upgrade, always take the time to read through all of the documentation and follow the manufacturer&#8217;s instructions carefully.</p>
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