NOKIA: RoboXpress Latest - Google boosts image search with ’swirl’ category group tool

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

RoboXpress Latest - Google boosts image search with ’swirl’ category group tool

Google boosts image search with ’swirl’ category group tool
IE9 will close performance gap, Microsoft says
YouTube’s Vevo Music Service Going Live Dec. 8
Sony PS3 Firmware Update 3.10 Adds Facebook
Google Updates Google Earth iPhone App

Google boosts image search with ’swirl’ category group tool

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 09:29 PM PST

Google Labs on Tuesday brought more focus to finding pictures online, adding a "Swirl" tool that automatically groups similar images into categories presented on results pages. "What Image Swirl does is it really organizes automatically image search results into groups and sub-groups," Google product manager Aparna Chennapragada told AFP. "It’s not just the face, the color, the [...]

IE9 will close performance gap, Microsoft says

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 09:17 PM PST

Microsoft today claimed that its next browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), has nearly closed the JavaScript performance gap between itself and rivals made by Mozilla and Google, even though the browser has been in development only a few weeks. Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft’s president of Windows and Windows Live, acknowledged that Microsoft had catching up to do. [...]

YouTube’s Vevo Music Service Going Live Dec. 8

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 09:03 PM PST

Music service Vevo will launch on December 8, the site announced in a Wednesday e-mail. “We’ve been working night and day for months to bring you the best music video and entertainment experience we can dream up, and in just about three weeks you can see it online for yourself,” Vevo said. Vevo is a music service [...]

Sony PS3 Firmware Update 3.10 Adds Facebook

Posted: 17 Nov 2009 10:44 PM PST

Sony has announced latest update to their PS3 firmware, version 3.10 which will bring a range of new features to the PlayStation 3, one of which is Facebook. The Facebook feature on the PS3 will let you link your PlayStation network account to your Facebook account, and you can even set it up so that your [...]

Google Updates Google Earth iPhone App

Posted: 17 Nov 2009 10:35 PM PST

Google has updated their Google Earth iPhone app, the updates comes just over a year after the original Google Earth iPhone App was released. Google Earth 2.0 is compatible with the iPhone and iPod Touch, and the new version has a range of new features, which include the ability to view maps that you create on [...]