Google Maps Are Now With Draggable Support
Google has just given the functionality of their online Maps product a real boost. You can now drag a route on a map to change the streets it takes. They’ve also added the ability to add a destination anywhere on a map just by right-clicking or by dragging an existing place marker to a new [...]
Google Asks Court To Extend Monitoring for Microsoft
Google yesterday urged a federal court to extend its supervision of Microsoft to ensure that it complies with a 2002 antitrust consent decree, arguing that Microsoft has not done enough to make sure its new desktop search product leaves room for competitors.
“Given Microsoft’s history of aggressively minimizing the impact of court-ordered relief,
European Union Probe to Look at All Search Engines
BRUSSELS, Belgium — A European Union probe triggered by concerns over how long Google Inc. stores user information has widened to include all Internet search engines.
The EU’s panel of national data protection officers said it’s now concerned over the retention of data that the companies use to deliver more relevant search results and advertising. Some [...]
Apple says iPhone will play Youtube videos
BEIJING, June 21 (Xinhuanet) — Apple Inc. announced Wednesday the iPhone will play Youtube videos when it ships next week.
Apple said in a release that about 10,000 Youtube videos will be available in time for iPhone’s launch. YouTube, a subsidiary of Google Inc., will be recoding the rest of [...]
YouTube released its mobile portal
YouTube released its mobile portal which is available now for all WAP 2.0 devices with an included 3GPP video player. Unlike the web version, which is using Flash videos, the mobile version encodes videos in the 3GPP standard.
While mostly all 3G/UMTS devices supports 3GPP as well as 3GPP is the standard for video MMS, [...]
Adobe sees Google Gears as a complement to AIR,Flex and CS3
Adobe reported strong fiscal second quarter results and gave some color on Creative Suite 3 demand, which is strong, and AIR’s role in the jam-packed rich internet application space.
Fueled by Creative Suite 3 sales–the product launched in April–Adobe reported record revenue of $745.6 million, up 17 percent from a year ago. Excluding charges, Adobe reported [...]



