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Google Rolls Out Its Realtime Search for the Realtime Web
Google on Monday, 7th of December rolled out realtime search for the realtime web. After announcing partnerships with Twitter and and Facebook over a month ago, Google has finally launched a realtime search for the web.
At Google’s Search Event, Google Fellow Amit Singhal described it as “It’s Google’s relevance technology meeting the realtime web”.
Google has been internally testing this for a while now. Realtime search is what is required today and Google hits the nail on its head.
A search for Google at the time of posting revealed the following ‘latest’ search results:
The realtime search will auto update itself as new updates appear in the world wide web. Unless you choose to stop the auto update it will show you the latest update as soon as its made available.
Google will offer realtime trends and this new realtime search will work on both Android devices and iPhones immediately. Google plans to include tweets, blog posts and also information from sources like MySpace apart from FaceBook and Twitter tweets.
MySpace to Lay Off 30 Percent of Staff
MySpace, the social network owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, said it will cut 30 percent of its staff to lower costs as it struggles to stay popular in the face of rising competition. MySpace will be left with about 1,000 employees, it said in a statement released on Tuesday. The company declined to say how many people work at the service, but the percentage suggests that about 400 people will lose their jobs.
The cuts, which were presaged in several blog reports in recent weeks, are the biggest move so far by new management at the social network and an attempt, it said, to return the service to a “start-up culture.” “Simply put, our staffing levels were bloated and hindered by our ability to be an efficient and nimble team-oriented company,” MySpace’s new chief executive, Owen Van Natta, said in the statement. “I understand that these changes are painful for many. They are also necessary for the long-term health and culture of MySpace.” News Corp named Van Natta as CEO in April. He replaced Chris DeWolfe, one of MySpace’s co-founders. News Corp’s new digital media chief, Jonathan Miller, said MySpace “grew too big considering the realities of today’s marketplace.” The layoffs will happen across MySpace’s operations, though many of its employees are based in Los Angeles. A company spokeswoman declined to say when employees will learn that they are losing their jobs.
MySpace is facing increasing competition from social network Facebook. Facebook and Twitter, a website that lets people tell others what they’re doing, are surpassing MySpace in buzz and popularity in the technology and media worlds. The job cuts came the same week as the number of Facebook users in the United States surpassed those of MySpace for the first time, according to Web measurement company comScore. Facebook’s edge was narrow, with 70,278,000 unique visitors to its website in May versus MySpace’s 70,237,000. Still, the change marks a key triumph for Facebook. MySpace’s U.S. user numbers have fallen since October 2008. Worldwide, Facebook had more than 307 million unique visitors in April, according to comScore, the latest month for which data was available. MySpace had more than 123 million. MySpace forms a large part of Fox Interactive Media, a News Corp unit that houses several of the company’s digital operations. The unit, which people in the media business call “FIM,” recently called off a move into a large office building in Playa Vista in Los Angeles. MySpace also is facing the likelihood that an advertising deal with Google Inc that brought it $300 million a year over three years will be renegotiated on terms that will be far less lucrative to the social network when the original contract expires in 2010.
Samsung Officially Launches the Monte
Samsung Electronics has officially launched the Monte (GT – S5620).
The Monte combines a smooth curvy design with the intuitive TouchWiz 2.0 Plus User interface and features a suite of social network applications including Facebook and MySpace, allowing users to access their profiles whenever and wherever they choose. The phone comes with a Multi Instant Chat Messenger a universal Instant Messenger. In addition Monte users can enjoy full internet browsing, with an accelerometer sensor allowing the onscreen image to automatically adjust as you rotate the phone.
Users of Samsung Monte can push their e-mail, calendar, and contacts from their Google accounts to their phone through Google Active Sync technology. The phone is also equipped with navigation features with GPS supported by Google Latitude with a built-in version of the most advanced Google Maps Version 3.0. With this GPS support users will always know where they are and can keep their friends updated on their location at all times. With a Geo-tagging capability, users can imprint their photos with geographic tags to share their experiences with friends.
The Samsung Monte is a future ready phone with hi speed connectivity features like 3G and Wi-fi and comes with a 220MB internal memory which is expandable upto 16GB .
The phone offers a touch experience with a 3.0-inch WQVGA LCD screen and advanced imaging features like smile shot, panorama shot, photo slide show and image motion view with a 3.2-mega pixel camera. The phone also supports 3D sound effects. In addition, the handset features an embedded music search service, Find Music, which allows users to identify their favorite bands and download music direct to their phone – which they can listen to at any time using a host of enhanced multimedia features. For convenience, the phone also supports Smart Unlock and One finger zoom.
the Samsung Monte also offers users access to richer content through customized software applications developed by Samsung Electronics. The application store is hosted on Samsung Fun Club, and users can download a variety of content which range from Maps on Mobile, Mobile shopping experience, Cricket and to social network communities. Users can also read newspapers in 9 Indian languages through specialized software.
Samsung Monte is attractively priced at Rs 12,390.