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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bing's toolbar gets Facebook, face-lift]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has cooked up a new version of its Bing software toolbar that the company thinks can change the minds of toolbar haters. &quot;I know what you're saying to yourself--'really, a tool bar'&quot; Bing Director Stefan Weitz joked to me in an interview last week. Weitz mused that when he had first heard the pitch about it, his first response had been &quot;are we doing dial-up too&quot;But Weitz was pleasantly surprised with the results of the new version of the software, and so were the testers who tried it during the new version's development. &quot;People--when they saw what we built--even if they said they hated toolbars (myself being one of them) said 'hey this is actually remarkably useful.'&quot; That enjoyment, Weitz said, centered on taking some of the same ideas from Bing--things like bringing more tasks front and center--and making them take fewer steps to complete. One of the big targets for that goal ended up being Facebook, which users had wanted to keep an eye on while doing other things in the browser.&quot;Now, as you live more and more in the browser, actually pulling in all the disparate data sources that you have or want to use--your mail, or your Facebook status, and all these things across the Web--ends up actually making more sense,&quot; Weitz said.To that end, users are now able to grab information from a broader range of services without having to keep the extra tabs open, or save those pages to their favorites. That's been extended to e-mail as well, so instead of just offering up access to Hotmail, it works with Gmail and Yahoo Mail as well. Users are also able to add multiple accounts for each of these services, so they don't have to pick just one. Using Facebook from within the new version of the Bing toolbar.(Credit:CNET)One other change that's been brought over from the Bing side are deep links. These are things like the check-in page when searching for an airline, or the customer service page when doing a search for a retailer. &quot;Deep links are one of those things people love when they're looking at search results,&quot; Weitz said. &quot;Now we're pulling in deep links to any entity right here in the search bar.&quot; This is the seventh iteration of the Bing toolbar, which remains an add-on only for Internet Explorer users who are using version 7 or above. The newest version takes design cues from IE9, which had its first release candidate pushed out to users last week. Gone are the rounded corners and liquid-like exterior, replaced instead by an angular look that matches up with some of the company's other modular designs found on theXbox 360 andWindows Phone 7. There are also angled icons for each sub-tool like movies, stocks, and weather, which will be joined automatically by apps that Microsoft decides to push out in the future. The toolbar continues to be an important part of Microsoft's plan to increase Bing use, as well as improve its results with information like clickstream data, which captures information about what users are clicking on and sends it back to Microsoft anonymously. The feature requires that users first opt-in before it's sent.Earlier this month, that very habit became a point of concern by Google, which had pointed fingers at Microsoft for &quot;copying&quot; its results after it had a team of engineers seed the toolbar with synthetic queries. Microsoft sternly refuted the allegations, saying that clickstream data was just one of more than 1,000 signals the search engine was using at any given time to create and rank its results. Shortly thereafter, Weitz had told CNET that the whole incident had been &quot;insulting.&quot; During our interview his outlook seemed a bit rosier.&quot;Everyone always asks us, 'are you taking share from Google,' or 'are you taking share from Yahoo, or whoever else' And the answer is that you don't have to take share from anybody. You can actually grow the pie,&quot; Weitz said.The new version of the toolbar will arrive as an update within Windows Update to current Bing toolbar users. New users can grab it here.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[South Korea says Google Street View broke law]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Police in South Korea reportedly say Google broke the country's law when its Street View service captured personal data from unsecure Wi-Fi networks.The Korean Police Department will now send the case to prosecutors, who will decide whether to formally charge the search giant, says the Associated Press.Google has been accused of capturing personal information from wireless networks as its Street View service took photos of South Korean neighborhoods between October 2009 and May 2010. The case kicked off last August when South Korean police raided the local offices of Google in an attempt to determine whether the company had violated local laws.After examining hard drives collected during the raid, South Korean police found that the company had broken two laws--one concerning privacy over telecommunications networks and another designed to protect information about physical locations, Reuters reported. If charged, Google would face fines of up to 50 million won ($44,800) and 30 million won ($26,900), respectively, for breaking the two laws, added Reuters.In response to the latest news out of Korea, Google released the following statement, which was sent to CNET:&quot;As we have said before, we are profoundly sorry for having mistakenly collected payload data from unencrypted networks. As soon as we realized what had happened, we stopped collecting all Wi-Fi data from our Street Viewcars and immediately informed the authorities. While we have repeatedly acknowledged that this was a mistake, we believe Google did nothing illegal in Korea, and we are working with the relevant authorities to respond to their questions and concerns. We have been cooperating with the Korean Communications Commission and the police, and will continue to do so. Again, our ultimate objective remains to delete the data consistent with our legal obligations and in consultation with the appropriate authorities.&quot;Google has found itself up against a slew of lawsuits and government probes after it admitted that its Street View service had collected personal information from Wi-Fi networks as it went on photo tours of different countries. But the company has insisted that it did nothing illegal since the data collection was done accidentally and without its knowledge.Updated at 9:45 PT with a statement from Google.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[OnLive raises $40M from HTC, which will put game service on its phones]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Cloud-based game service OnLive has raised $40 million from Taiwan&amp;'s HTC, one of the fastest-growing makers of smartphones.The announcement is a huge boost for server-based gaming, which promises to disrupt traditional game retailers and game consoles. It also shows that it will be possible to play the highest-quality games on mobile devices.OnLive is engaged in a huge expansion onto many different platforms for its games-on-demand service. The company launched on the PC in June, spread to the TV screen via a MicroConsole adapter in December, and announced it would be built into Vizio TVs in January. Now the company says its games on demand will be available on HTC phones.The announcement was made by HTC in a filing with the Taiwan Stock  Exchange, where HTC said it would buy 5.33 million shares in privately  held OnLive at $7.50 a share.Palo Alto, Calif.-based OnLive was founded by serial entrepreneur Steve Perlman. He invested in the technology for nine years before launching the service last year using internet cloud technology. Perlman said that OnLive games will definitely be playable on HTC mobile devices. We hear that the HTC EVO (pictured below) will be able to play OnLive games.OnLive offers instant gratification with its games-on-demand service. Users log into OnLive and immediately play games  that are computed and stored on OnLivea4a4s data centers. Users dona4a4t have  to download anything and dona4a4t need a high-end computer to play high-end  games. So far, OnLive has been offering a la carte game sales and game  rentals. Since OnLive focuses on digital distribution of games, it can  disrupt retailers such as GameStop and put more profits in the hands of  game publishers.&amp;''In a world of mobile internet ubiquity, content is king, but it&amp;'s not all created equal,&amp;'' said Peter Chou, chief executive of HTC. He said that he and OnLive share a goal of creating connected, cloud-based gaming that can be wireless and location independent. That means they want to create the ability to play games anywhere, anytime.OnLive&amp;'s other investors include Warner Bros., Autodesk, Maverick Capital,  AT&amp;amp'T, British Telecommunications and The Belgacom Group. The company  was founded nine years ago and has 200 employees. Because its  technology is potentially disruptive to traditional game retailers,  investors valued the company last year at $1.1 billion. It isn&amp;'t immediately clear how much OnLive&amp;'s value is now, after the HTC investment.Next Story: What&amp;'s good for GM is &amp;8230' good for the environment Previous Story: Meraki raises $15M for wireless network deployment and managementPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: games on demand, server gamingCompanies: HTC, OnLivePeople: Peter Chou, Steve Perlman          Tags: games on demand, server gamingCompanies: HTC, OnLivePeople: Peter Chou, Steve PerlmanDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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