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HTC’s Touch HD is arguably the best touch-screen Windows Mobile-based phones you can buy. In fact, even before the HTC Touch HD, I always felt HTC mobile phones were the best Windows Mobile phones you could buy. I own an older HTC-based “Apache” XV6700 Windows Mobile with a cooked ROM upgraded to Windows Mobile 6.1 and I’m still pretty happy using it. I still consider my xv6700 one of the top 5 Windows Mobile phones available. Installed on it I have a standalone Youtube player, TCPMP Media Player, Opera Mini, HTC Streaming Media Player, Java (Jbed), Skyfire browser, and more. It does the job and I especially like the slide-out keyboard. I’m not into the iPhone touch-screen’s keyboard or the new Blackberry Storm for that matter. I find tactile keyboards work best for typing lengthy emails.

Comparisons between the new HTC Touch HD and the Apple iPhone will no doubt be made, since they both offer large touch-screens. In fact, the Touch HD beats the iPhone’s screen with it’s 3.8″ WVGA (480 X 800 pixel) screen vs. 3.5″ (320 x 480) for the iPhone. It beats the iPhone in size and resolution! In addition, unlike the Apple iPhone, Windows Mobile apps can run in the background, which is important for IM & VoIP apps like Skype. You have to jailbreak your iPhone if you want to enable background processing. What’s up with Mr. Steve Jobs? He can be anally retentive sometimes when it comes to “controlling” Apple products.

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Original post by nafiz

Great new apps are coming through, despite T-Mobile’s uselessness.

Original post by Mike Slocombe

We discussed the advent of Google’s SearckWiki when it was introduced a few days back. Now Lauren Weinstein offers a thought experiment in transmitting coded messages using SearchWiki, with a working example encoded into the results of this Google search.

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Original post by kdawson

Apparently, scoring an interview with Google—and making all the way to final stages of the evaluation process—is enough to get some attention online. That’s what happened to erstwhile blogger Peteris Krumins, who summed up the challenging telephone and in-person questions and relatively posh life as a Google applicant like with “It was also nice that Google paid for my trip, hotel, cab and food. I had zero expenses!” and:

Overall the Google interviews were pure fun for me. The interview questions were technical but not very challenging or difficult.

Thanks for the opportunity Google!

Looks like Mr. Krumins didn’t get the job, being told that he needed more experience for such a “mission-critical” position. But his straightforward and clear narration is very worth the read for any Google fans out there, as it provides a sneak peek into a small facet of the company’s operations. At the very least, we know Google’s willing to pay for the Latvian’s round-trip, lodging and food while he was on-site! Also, the comments, divided between haters, encouragers, and neutral opiners, is also worth some attention

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Tags: Google, interview process, Peteris Krumins

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Original post by Rico

An anonymous reader noted that you can now see a Google Map of piracy. Not the pretend kind, the real kind with boats and stuff. Considering how much time we spend talking about the other kind, I think it’s worth paying attention to the real problems out there.

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Original post by CmdrTaco

krewemaynard writes “Google has announced that they were able to sort one petabyte of data in 6 hours and 2 minutes across 4,000 computers. According to the Google Blog, ‘… to put this amount in perspective, it is 12 times the amount of archived web data in the US Library of Congress as of May 2008. In comparison, consider that the aggregate size of data processed by all instances of MapReduce at Google was on average 20PB per day in January 2008.’ The technology making this possible is MapReduce ‘a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating large data sets.’ We discussed it a few months ago. Google has also posted a video from their Technology RoundTable discussing MapReduce.”

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Original post by Soulskill

Barence writes “Google has launched a new service that allows users to tailor to their own search results. Called SearchWiki, the service allows Google account holders to move results up or off the rankings, or even add their own choice of site to the top of the search results. Google claims that any changes a user makes will only affect their results, and not those of fellow surfers, although it’s difficult to believe that some of the feedback generated from the SearchWiki won’t be used to fine tune the Google search algorithm. Is this a cunning way to encourage people to sign in while they search, thus providing Google with a richer set of data that can be mapped to specific user accounts?”

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Original post by timothy

ruphus13 writes “In an effort to take on IE and make strong headway in its share of the browser market, Google is taking a page out of Microsoft’s playbook and working on deals with PC OEMs to include Chrome in their devices. From the article: ‘[Google] is likely to pursue deals with major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to put Chrome on their computers and devices. … If Mozilla could get aggressive about this too, we could see Internet Explorer facing more serious competition than ever. … Google, much more so than Mozilla, has enough global brand recognition, money, and savvy to make a big deal of this. … Microsoft wooed Dell, Compaq, HP, Gateway, Acer and many other companies into making its browser the default choice on Windows desktops. Chrome currently has just under one percent market share, according to NetApplications. That number could rise significantly through this effort. Mozilla doesn’t have the kind of money required to get the significant deals in this space, but Google definitely does.’”

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Original post by Soulskill

FornaxChemica writes “In a surprise move, Google announced today, both on-site and in its blog, that it will shut down permanently its 3D virtual world Lively by the end of the year, becoming one of Google’s few scrapped products and one of the most short-lived too, barely lasting 6 months. No official reason was given, only that Google wants to ‘prioritize his resources and focus more on his core search, ads and apps business.’ Lively might have taken too much and given back too little, even by Google’s standards.”

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Original post by CmdrTaco

CWmike and other readers alerted us to Google’s announcement that it was making available 10 million images from Life magazine’s archives dating back to the 1750s. (Most of the news accounts covering this announcement refer to Life’s “photos,” and none mention that photography wasn’t invented until early in the 19th century.) Only a small percentage of the images — including newly digitized images from photos and etchings — have even been published. The rest have been “sitting in dusty archives in the form of negatives, slides, glass plates, etchings, and prints.” At this point about 20% of Life’s archive is online; the rest is promised within months.

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Original post by kdawson

Innovative Android powered handset isn’t flying off the shelves - but who’s to blame?

Original post by Mike Slocombe

CWmike writes “Confirming recent comments by Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer, an independent report released Friday found that OpenOffice.org’s free office suite is five times more popular than Google Docs. This was according to a survey of 2,400 adult Internet users conducted between May and November. Microsoft’s share was 10 times that of OpenOffice.org. Microsoft hopes to cement that lead with its upcoming Office Web, as well as online versions of its Exchange and SharePoint products to be announced on Monday. OpenOffice.org may provide some resistance, however. The latest version, OpenOffice.org 3.0, had a strong first week in October, with more than 3 million downloads. After one month, OpenOffice.org 3.0 had been downloaded 10 million times.” And reader Peter Toi informs us of the open source release of yet another office suite, Softmaker Office. Its claimed advantages are its compactness and speed (making it suitable for netbooks), its excellent MS Office filters, and the fact that it can be installed to USB flash drives.

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Original post by kdawson

thefickler writes “Google Earth now includes ancient Rome circa 320 AD, thanks to Google, the University of Virginia, and Past Perfect Productions working together to bring the historical city to life. Clicking on Ancient Rome in 3D, users can revisit Rome from a bygone era and view highly detailed reconstructions of 250 buildings, as well as 5,000 other lesser detailed buildings. ‘Pop-up windows provide information on the monuments and visitors also can enter some of the most important sites, including the Senate and the Colosseum, to observe the architecture and marble decorations.’”

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Original post by Soulskill

The New York Times is reporting that Google has added a voice interface to their iPhone search software. Expected to make its debut as early as Friday, users will be able to speak into their phone and ask any question they could type into Google’s search engine. The audio will be digitized and results will be returned via the normal search interface. “Google is by no means the only company working toward more advanced speech recognition capabilities. So-called voice response technology is now routinely used in telephone answering systems and in other consumer services and products. These systems, however, often have trouble with the complexities of free-form language and usually offer only a limited range of responses to queries.”

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Original post by ScuttleMonkey

notthatwillsmith writes “We all know that Google purges known ‘attack sites — sites that deliver viruses, spyware, or other malware to visitors — from its index of searchable sites, but that doesn’t stop the text ad giant from happily selling ads linking to those sites. One wouldn’t think it would be any more difficult to cross-reference the list of purged sites with the list of advertisers than it was for the main search index, would it?” To be fair, the article says that Google shut down the ad when notified of it; and no other examples of linked malware are offered. Was this a one-time oversight?

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Original post by kdawson