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Microsoft Turns Searches into Web Albums

A new Web app from Microsoft can bring life to your Web searches by using them to build customizable news-oriented Web albums. Demoed at Le Web conference last week, Microsoft's Montage can take virtually any topic or keyword that you enter and create a Web page filled with articles and photographs grabbed from news sites, Twitter, YouTube, and a variety of other sources. Montage was designed at Microsoft's Fuse Labs, a new initiative launched last year to focus on social computing projects.

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Google

New Android Market For The Galaxy Tab

Google will be updating the Android Market on devices running Android 1.6 or higher to introduce a number of changes that will affect users and developers alike. The biggest change in the new Android Market isn’t necessarily in the look and feel, but in the new policy that only allows refunds within a 15-minute time limit rather than the previous 24 hour window for refunds.

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Google Instant For Mobile In 40 Countries And 28 Languages

Google announced that it's finally bringing Google Instant for mobile to iOS and Android users around the globe. Back in November, Google unveiled Google Instant beta for mobile just for the US, but finally the moment is there and it now supports 40 countries and 28 different languages.

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General

YouTube Makes Video Length Unlimited For Some Users

YouTube has begun lifting the previously-enforced 15-minute video length limit for some users. The limit had been raised to 15 minutes for all users (up from 10 minutes prior to that) back in July. As of today, users "with a history of complying with the YouTube Community Guidelines" and the copyright rules that YouTube enforces will be able to upload videos of unlimited length.

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Microsoft

Internet Explorer 9 Gets New Anti-tracking Privacy Feature

Microsoft has revealed a new feature that will ship with Internet Explorer 9 to help users avoid the online tracking that is now widespread on the Web and is used to power behavioral advertising. The new Tracking Protection Lists will tell the browser which third-party content to permit and which to prohibit.

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Google

An Update on Chrome, the Web Store and Chrome OS

Google unveiled new features for its Chrome browser and offered a sneak peek at what’s coming with Chrome OS, a new Web-only operating system that was first announced last year and will be launched in notebooks from Acer and Samsung by mid-next year.

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Adobe

Adobe Announces Adoption of eBook DRM by Google

Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that Google has licensed Adobe Content Server 4 software as its ebook content protection solution for Google eBooks. With the addition of Google, more than 200 publishers and distributors worldwide have now deployed Adobe Content Server, making it the most pervasive Digital Rights Management (DRM) solution for ebooks and other digital publications.

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Android 2.3 Gingerbread Tour In Screenshots

Android 2.3, codenamed Gingerbread, was revealed by Google this morning. It will ship first on the upcoming Nexus S smartphone, which was built by Google in collaboration with Samsung. According to an Android developer it is an update for Nexus One handsets and will be released in America in the next few weeks.

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Social Networking

Facebook Redesigns the Profile Page

Facebook announced a redesign of the user profile pages. Some changes include a new introduction at the top of the page that tells viewers where you’re from, where you went to school, and where you work.

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Google

Google Is Said To Be Poised To Buy Groupon

Google is near a deal to acquire Groupon, the pioneering online discounter, for as much as $6 billion, people with direct knowledge of the matter. A deal, in the $5 billion to $6 billion range, could be struck as soon as this week.
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