Advanced Search: Is The Name A Problem?

When you’re preparing a newspaper for the world of on-line news, helping your audience find the information they need is paramount.

Anders M Olausson, CTO of hd.se (a local Swedish newspaper/site) ponders the problem.

Advanced Search: Is The Name A Problem?

According to Google only 1% of the searches uses “advanced search”. It’s a remarkable low figure if you think about how tough some people think it is to find what they are looking for. But then it struck me, is it advanced to use “Advanced search”? Not particularly.
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Palm Treo 500v Review: Smartphone (Part 3/3: 87%)

Palm Treo 500v Smartphone Review (Part 3: 87%)This is the last section of the review – check back on parts 1 and 2.

Camera and video
The onboard 2MP camera produced reasonable enough results although the accompanying thunderous shutter sound effect is likely to startle sleeping babies and send nearby cattle stampeding. We sure it’s in there somewhere, but we couldn’t find a way to turn the ruddy thing off.
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Palm Treo 500v Review: Smartphone (Part 2)

Palm Treo 500v Smartphone Review (Part 2: 87%)In part one we took a look at the Palm Treo 500v’s ergonomics and form factor, and in part two we’ll see how it shapes up as a phone.

Booting up the Treo for the first time took around 30 seconds, with a succession of logos appearing on screen: first the Palm logo, followed by Vodafone’s animated feast of redness and finally the Window Mobile branding.
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Motorola Announces MOTOLIVN D8/D7 Landline Handsets

Motorola Announces MOTOLIVN D8/D7 Landline HandsetsMotorola has announced its new range of of MOTOLIVN phones for folks that are still digging the landline action.

White, tall and slim like an Icelandic supermodel, the D8 phone comes with a location-free base so you can position the handset wherever there is a nearby power socket.
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Apple iPhone UK Announcement – At A Price

Apple iPhone UK Announcement - At A PriceAfter months of bedwetting anticipation for Apple fanboys around the UK, His Royal iHighness, Steve Jobs, has shuffled his rollneck personage into London to announce the first European carrier for the 8GB iPhone.

In a deal that one insider described as “madly money-losing,” O2 has secured exclusive UK rights to flog the innovative new phone, with a launch scheduled for November 9th.
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Microsoft European Anti-Trust Appeal: Actual Judgement Text

Microsoft European Anti-Trust Appeal: Actual Judgement TextWith the overview of Microsoft losing of their European appeal against the European court case completed, we thought you’d appreciate the actual judgement handed down.

1. Annuls Article 7 of Commission Decision 2007/53/EC of 24 March 2004 relating to a proceeding pursuant to Article 82 [EC] and Article 54 of the EEA Agreement against Microsoft Corp. (Case COMP/C-3/37.792 – Microsoft), in so far as:
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Microsoft Loses European Anti-Trust Appeal

Microsoft Loses European Anti-Trust AppealMicrosoft has lost its appeal against a court ruling that they abused their dominant position in Europe.

The judgement released today was handed down by the European Court of First Instance – following the hearings on 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 April 2006 – is huge, running to 1373 points.

In the courts words “The Court of First Instance essentially upholds the Commission’s decision finding that Microsoft abused its dominant position,” this is despite Microsoft providing their own shortlist of people they found acceptable to provide evident to the court and request to delay the hearing.
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Joost Re-reviewed

Joost Re-reviewedWe haven’t had a look at Joost for a long time, but following an email from them, we thought we’d take a look and give you a quick update.

URL To Programmes
Joost now has its own URL structure so you can blog/point to programmes that are on Joost to others. This works not only for the programme, but to the frame you happen to be watching at the time.
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