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Google launches music search
News Google Music allows a person to type in the name of a band, artist, album or song in the main Google search bar special, and results will appear at the top, accompanied by icons of music notes, said Marissa Mayer, vice-president of search products...
[December 16, 2005, 10:15]
Google's search for mobile goes east
News KDDI has more than 22 million mobile phone users, less than half of DoCoMo's, but its Au brand service is more popular among young Japanese people because of services such as music downloads. Earlier this month, DoCoMo partnered with Microsoft to...
[May 19, 2006, 9:35]
Gates: Restricting IP rights is tantamount to communism
News Its eyes ever set on the competition, Microsoft will continue to raise the stakes against Apple in the music industry and against Google and Yahoo in search. In the long run, there will be a lot of people making digital music players, and we think...
[January 6, 2005, 12:20]
Google exec plays Shakira mash-up to business leaders
News Speaking at the CBI conference in London the search giant's Nikesh Arora used a music video-mash-up of Colombian singer Shakira to illustrate the importance of new content types to traditional media business models.
[November 27, 2006, 16:41]
Find it fast: desktop search programs review
Reviews If you're like most people, you stuff your hard drive with more digital photos and ripped music files every day. Maybe you toss them willy-nilly into your My Documents folder in Windows, or -- if you're really organised -- you slip them into My...
[March 23, 2005, 15:35]
Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn
News But YouTube later cut a deal with NBC to allow YouTube users to post content from NBC programmes, and it has followed up that deal with others involving companies such as Warner Music and, on Monday, Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music...
[October 10, 2006, 8:35]
Keeping Microsoft ahead of the pack
News A: I'd say the most important step is that you use the cloud so that, if you have licensed a piece of music, if you buy a new phone, it's there; if you buy a new PC, it's there. Do we have to continue to work on our advertising scale and our search...
[January 9, 2008, 11:49]
Google's desktop search leaves beta
News The final version, which was in public beta for nearly five months, includes search capabilities for video and music files, full PDFs and Web surfing history in three Web browsers, including the fast-growing Firefox.
[March 7, 2005, 8:05]
MSN Search beta released
News MSN Music and Encarta, or its encyclopaedia service, will also play a role in the new search site. Also, people can search for the name of a musician like Madonna to call up clips of her music from MSN.
[November 11, 2004, 7:47]
MSN Search beta review
Reviews The beta version of MSN Search offers tighter integration with other Microsoft properties, drawing results from Encarta and MSN Music. In addition to standard Web search results, MSN Search will also query Microsoft Encarta and MSN Music databases.
[November 12, 2004, 10:45]
Movial brings browser-based UI kit to LiMo
News Rauste told ZDNet.co.uk last Tuesday that the browser-based UI approach would be attractive to operators, as it makes it easier and quicker for them to put their own services, such as online music stores or location-based services, onto handsets.
[August 4, 2008, 8:09]
Apple rings the changes with the iPhone
News The Mac OS X-based iPhone is most akin to an iPod in design, but allows users to listen to music, make phone calls, send text messages and email, surf the web, and take and upload photos, all using a wide touchscreen and a single button.
[January 10, 2007, 7:46]
Hot links, cool trends on the Web
News Anime, celebrities and music topped the wish list of Internet surfers in 2002, an indication that that young people are among the most active Web searchers. But the demise of Napster hasn't killed the public's taste for unauthorized music files...
[December 27, 2002, 9:26]
Adobe's Apollo platform goes beta
News Online music service Finetune, for example, streams music to a browser, but an AIR version allows people to store their music locally. Others include Microsoft's Silverlight and Google Gears. Google Gears, set for release later this year, offers a...
[June 11, 2007, 8:13]
Microsoft livens up instant messaging
News The instant messaging service also includes a Rhapsody icon that gives people the option of installing RealNetworks' music subscription service, Sohn said. Under the deal, Microsoft agreed to pay RealNetworks $460m (£248m) in cash, $301m to support...
[June 20, 2006, 10:05]
Google Desktop
Downloads Desktop makes searching your own email, files, music, photos, and more as easy as searching the web with Google. Google Desktop is a desktop search application that gives you easy access to information on your Mac and from the web.
[October 2, 2008, 16:55]
Google sells stake in Baidu
News According to the Government-approved China Internet Network Information Center, Google lags far behind Baidu in the most common search areas in China — music, pictures, and games. Google has unloaded its stake in Chinese Internet search company Baidu.
[June 23, 2006, 14:35]
Google Talk gets upgrade for first birthday
News Another new feature allows Google Talk users to indicate to their friends what music they are listening to via their status message. Google Talk, which is celebrating its first birthday with an upgrade, will let people easily transfer files and...
[August 16, 2006, 9:55]
Google Web Accelerator sparks privacy fears
Talkback Microsoft Media Player, Real player and others watch and report back on usage and also on things like ripping and burning music and video. It is not just Google that does this. I don't think people realise just how many programs record information...
[May 8, 2005, 20:06]
Google searches for personal connection
News Surfers can request a search on "bass" and then specify "fish" so that they do not get results related to music, for example. As the search wars intensify, Google hopes that making a personal connection with its visitors will give it an edge.
[March 30, 2004, 15:05]
