Google pays $120k to Android music developer
Steve Oldmeadow has never set foot in Silicon Valley, but this month the software developer became one of a select few to be handed a $120,000 cheque from Google.
Steve Oldmeadow has never set foot in Silicon Valley, but this month the software developer became one of a select few to be handed a $120,000 cheque from Google.
Looks like Google has rolled out another PageRank update. Some sites have faired better than others, there has been a shift of 1 or 2 points for most sites, but there seems to be a higher page rank assigned to pages deeper within the hierarchy; giving more power to pages that really matter. […]
The first complete, open, and free mobile platform is going to be used by the US mobile giant T-Mobile, who plan to show off the first wireless phone powered by Google’s much-anticipated Android software system at a September 23 news conference.
Google and Yahoo are about to join forces in a unusual advertising search deal; Microsoft duly worried, have been trying to disrupt the union of the two Search Engine giants - it’s not the first time Microsoft have used these techniques, according to CEO Eric Schmidt
The way it works is through basic speech recognition technology which crawls through audio and video segments and makes all audio content searchable!!, just like text.
Scott Hanselman, a senior programming manager for Microsoft, found that Googles new ‘open source’ browser uses a chunk of Microsoft code. Google also apparently used an undocumented interface from Microsoft to get the feature working in Windows XP SP2.
For those of you not yet aware or totally missed it again (like we did) as of July 27th 2008, Google is updating its toolbar PageRank.