MICROSOFT DISAPPOINTS WITH ITS NEW SEARCH ENGINE AND INTERFACE PLUG-IN Recently, Microsoft launched a new search engine named TAFITI. According to site, Tafiti is an experimentel search front-end from Microsoft, designed to help people use web for research projects that span multiple search queries and sessions by helping visualize, store, and share research results. The…
BELIEVE IT OR NOT: THERE ARE SUBSTITUTES BETTER THAN YouTube The Times Magazine Person of the Year 2006: YouTube, is just going to get stiff competition from very new startups. There are five of them worth mentioning: The superiority of these ventures comes from the technological breakthroughs and added functions which YouTube either does not…
Information, beautiful-looking images of galaxies far, far away and celestial constellations such as Andromeda and Cassiopeia are now available for free on your computer, thanks to Google. The latest version of Google Earth was launched today. Google Earth + Sky lets you look out from Earth into space, as well as the other way around,…
STUDY FINDS YAHOO SATISFY CUSTOMERS MORE ” rel=”external”>http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/3305/yahoogooglecustomersatiwk0.jpg[/img] While Google may be the numero uno in terms of Web search, Yahoo! is a few notches ahead when it comes to consumer satisfaction… Or so reveals data from the University of Michigan’s American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The survey found Yahoo! to have risen by 3.9…
Hotmail passes Gmail in webmail storage race ” rel=”external”>http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/7989/hotmailstoragett5.jpg[/img] Now, Windows Live Hotmail users are offered increased mail storage of 5GB from 2GB for free accounts and 10GB for paid professional accounts that cost $15 per user.The bar in free web-based email has just been raised – this time by Microsoft. The storage race may…