With Google settlement, U.S. gets tough on privacy protection
A sweeping settlement puts the Internet industry on notice to safeguard users’ information. With social networking emerging as the most potent force on the Internet, federal regulators are moving to limit how companies can exploit personal information.
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Original article: Samsung Galaxy Tab gets a WiFi-only version
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Apple is facing increasing competition in the Tablet space and much of it is taking advantage of Apple’s absence from CES and using the show to make a play for market share. This even applies to old models as we can see Samsung promoting a WiFi-only version of the long-in-the-tooth Galaxy Tab.
The Galaxy’s high price (almost as expensive as the iPad!) may have motivated Samsung to offer a version for the wallet-concious that lacks the mobile connectivity and gains the WiFi instead.
The WiFi tablet will also support DLNA, allowing users to pipe content to their suitably equipped TVs.
Samsung’s tablet is not just the only manufacturer to compete with Apple’s iPad in terms of quality and support, its association with the Android OS (‘Samdroid’) is compared with the Wintel partnership in the desktop world. This bodes well for the company in an industry which saw almost 900% growth in mobile phone and tablet activations from in the year to 2010 and if that wasn’t enough Android was recently announced to have overtaken the iPhone platform as the dominant player in the sector.
The Galaxy Tab WiFi will be available in the US in the first quarter of 2011.
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Prince William and PM David Cameron will be part of England’s delegation for next month’s vote for the 2018 World Cup hosts.
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With more than 10 billion images indexed, Google Image Search has become the visual reference source to beat. Google’s VP Marissa Mayer took the stage at a press conference today to announce the company’s latest image search redesign. the company released a significantly new iteration of its current interface alongside the launch of Google Image Search Ads.
The new ad product allows marketers to place the image of their choice next to their text advertisement. This feature lets product-based vendors offer images of their offerings based on the relevancy of the ad to image search results. So if the user is searching for a specific phone image and specs, it makes sense that commercial offerings for accessories and cases would co-exist in the commercial header.
Apart from the AdWords release, Google’s Image Search redesign offers speed and a higher quantity of images to the user. The new design features a tiled look with the ability to show more than 1,000 photos on a single page. As users hover over the results of their search, the image thumbnail increases and details of that result are displayed. Below are a few photos of the new interface.
The company has rolled out the redesign to 10% of users and will continue to make it available in waves over the next month. To inquire about the image advertisement program, marketers can sign in to their regular AdWords account.
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Google is rolling out to all users today a number of substantial changes in the way it serves up search results. Search by content type (images, news, shopping, etc.) will now be highlighted in the left sidebar and users will be presented search options that are contextually relevant to the subject of their search.
Search for “shoes” and you’ll be offered links to search in maps, images and shopping. Search for “NFL Draft” and you’ll see options to search in blog posts and real-time updates highlighted. Search refinements like “less shopping,” features like the Google Wonder Wheel and search inside dynamically created timeframes will no longer be hidden out of sight but will be placed at the top of the user’s view by a dynamic relevance algorithm. Google says its internal testers have called the increase in their personal search efficiency “like night and day.” You’ll be able to judge for yourself sometime today.
Jon Wiley, Senior User Experience Designer for Google, told us by phone yesterday that the technology used to determine what kind of search is most relevant is the same that the company uses in Google Suggest and other existing search features, just applied now to a dynamic design of the user experience. The types of search questions users are presented with will change over time, based on aggregate query activity, types of content indexed and news events.
One brand new feature that’s included in the revisions today is the addition of a new related searches box in the sidebar. Whereas Google results have traditionally suggested more refined searches at the bottom of the page, you’ll now also be shown related but different searches. For example, a search for “Rolling Stones” has long resulted in suggestions like “Rolling Stones albums, Rolling Stones concerts” and those suggestions will now be supplemented with related searches like “Pink Floyd, Aerosmith” etc.
The changes all seem very smart, “why didn’t they think of that before” kinds of things. But for a battleship of a website, Google is remarkably adept at changing itself.
Google’s Wiley says a whole lot more change like this is coming, based on testing and user feedback. “Google is no longer just ten blue links on a page, those days are long gone,” he told us. “But this is just the beginning, a designer’s work is never done. It’s an evolution… It is definitely the early days of Google, this is not a solved problem.”
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