free city-wide Wi-Fi
Google Inc wants to connect all of San Francisco to the Internet with a free wireless service creating a springboard for the online search engine leader to leap into the telecommunications industry
The Mountain View Califbased company filed an application late Friday to provide a wireless or WiFi service that would enable anyone in San Francisco to connect to the Internet
Google submitted its 100page bid in response to a request from Mayor Gavin Newsom who is looking for a company to finance a free wireless network to lower the financial barriers to Internet access in his city...
Y!Q Beta FAQ
lets you search from any web page youre on so you dont have to interrupt your workflow to find more information Traditional web searches force you to go to a specific search page and type in a query
A regular web search only uses your search term or query to find what youre looking for uses both your query and information you highlight on a webpage to determine the context of your search Using this context provides exactly the type of information youre looking for A traditional search does not utilize context and isnt a contextual search
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Infotoday.com News Story
October 3 amp What a great idea Why didnamprsquot we think of that Google Printamprsquos ambitious effort to digitize the worldamprsquos book literature has inspired others to initiate their own effort And with the Google Print program caught in the snag of a copyright lawsuit the sight of a relay race handoff keeps hope burning for a brighter digital future The just announced Open Content Alliance httpwwwopencontentalliance...
Web titans race to put books on-line
The goal is to share use and expand all human knowledge said David Mandelbrot vicepresident of search content at Yahoo
The Sunnyvale Califbased company together with several archive organizations technology firms and academic institutions has created a international consortium called Open Content Alliance that is working to expand the reaches of the Web
Last year Yahoos nemesis Google Inc began scanning books as part of a massive effort to create its own searchable and freely accessible global electronic library...
Technology - The Detroit News Online - 10/4/05
Digital music now 6 percent of global market
The digital music market has more than tripled in a year and that has helped offset a continuing decline in sales of s and other physical formats
New version of Office will let users save documents as s
Wash The new version of Microsoft Corps Office software will let users save documents in the popular format as part of efforts to broaden the appeal of the new Office product and get people to upgrade...