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PHOENIX--It could take 300 years to index all the world's information and make it searchable, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt predicted on Saturday at the Association of National Advertisers annual conference here. "We did a math exercise and the answer was 300 years," Schmidt said in response to an audience question asking for a projection of how long the company's mission will take. "The...

Google launched a test version of a new service on Friday that gathers reports from syndicated news sites and blogs across the Web. The program, called Google Reader, aggregates news and updates from selected sites. It lets users subscribe to material from the sites and create a reading list that they can sort and organize. Users can post news items to their blogs or send them to friends via e...

TOKYO, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Using newspaper articles on the Internet without permission is against the law, or so a Japanese court officially ruled Thursday. That finding may well have long-term consequences on how the news is distributed on the World Wide Web. The case against Digital Alliance, a small Web provider, was brought forward by the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's most widely-read newspaper, which...

Urban Indian net users are increasingly using digital means of entertainment and aspiring to upgrade to a lifestyle that is digitally driven. Not without reason, for consumers now do not buy products or brands � they buy lifestyles, asserts a report of Internet users in the country's urban areas. The digital way of life is increasingly dominating Net users’ choice of spending time at home. Net...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing more than 500,000 journalists in over 110 countries, has condemned the intentional neglect and mistreatment of an imprisoned Nepali journalist that lead to the journalist's death. On October 4, Nepali journalist Maheshwor Pahari, died from tuberculosis after authorities repeatedly refused Pahari’s pleas for...

Most executives in the beleagured newspaper industry tend to believe they have a product problem and not an image problem, and attempt to address it accordingly. Newspapers are pouring billions of dollars, euros, and yen into addressing the tangible with little to no results to show for it, according to a new report titled "Newspaper Outlook 2006: Managing Perceptions." What newspapers are not...

Terry Semel, Yahoo Inc.'s chief executive, fired a few salvos at high-flying Google Inc. Thursday, saying the rival Internet company has a scattered strategy and an array of products whose popularity lags behind those of his own Web portal. "So far, they don't seem to have a plan, but maybe they do," Semel said of Google at the Web 2.0 Internet conference in San Francisco. "Maybe magic will happen...

NEW YORK - The next Steven Spielberg could be your neighbor down the street. The next Madonna could be in the cube across the aisle. And the next Stephen King could be that guy in the bar--the one who won't stop talking about the novel he's been working on. That's long been the argument of Internet optimists, who have been predicting that the Web would let the masses distribute their work to...

To give Kashmiri language the place it deserves is not the concern of the intelligentsia only but demand comes form almost every section of the society. Of late the majority of those who speak and understand Kashmiri but unfortunately cannot read and write it have given vent to their demand that their mother tongue be given the status it deserves. It is now evident enough that different cultural...

The blogosphere was abuzz with surprise and cautious optimism Thursday with the news that a major blog network and a blog update notification service were being acquired by large media companies. America Online Inc. announced its acquisition of Weblogs Inc., and Verisign Inc. announced their acquisition of Weblogs.com. America Online's purchase was valued at approximately $25 million, and is...