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Shuffler: Like StumbleUpon & Pandora for Music Blogs
We don’t know about you, but whether it’s asking friends, reading music blogs, or surfing music recommendation systems like Pandora or Last.fm, we’re always on the search for new music.
Today, one of the founders of Twones – a service we called a “Delicious for streaming music” – is launching a new music discovery service called Shuffler that we’ll be adding to our list of music recommendation services.
The service is part StumbleUpon for music blogs and part Pandora, helping users to not only discover new music, but also new music blogs that they can continue to frequent in their unending search for music. The service streams music without requiring you to do any more than pick the genre, but also takes you to the originating music blog, which means you automatically get a bit more information …
Vimeo Releases Embeddable HTML5 Video Player
Vimeo is releasing a “universal player” today that allows user to watch embedded Vimeo videos on mobile devices including the iPhone and iPad using the video playback capability built into the new HTML5 standard.
Vimeo will deliver the optimal player – Flash, HMTL5 or native – based on a user’s browser, as well as the appropriate video definition (HD, SD, mobile) and compression standard (H.264 or WebM, an open format developed for use with HTML5) …
Microsoft and Salesforce.com Patent Dispute – a Sign of Battles to Come?
The story about Microsoft and Salesforce.com’s patent dispute is far from over for the enterprise market.
According to eWeek, the settlement may signal coming turf battles. SaaS companies are developing technologies that overlap with existing on-premise vendors. That may create more patent disputes like the one between Microsoft and Salesforce.com …
Google Launches Blog For Small Businesses
In its latest move targeting small to medium-sized businesses, Google launched a new blog yesterday called the Google Small Business Blog, which promises to offer tips and tools for SMB’s.
This latest addition to Google’s massive arsenal of company and product blogs comes after a series of small-business-oriented posts on the Official Google Blog over the last few months. Historically, these posts have covered small business-friendly Google products like Apps, AdWords and Places, as well as other company news that may be relevant to entrepreneurs. Some posts profile small or medium-sized companies who have used Google products to grow their business. Presumably, the new blog will be an continuation of this type of content …
Using Light, Intel Confirms Data Will Be Sent Wayyy Faster in the Near Future
Intel announced a prototype technology today capable of moving data at 50 Gbps, comparable to sending an entire HD movie in one second – foreshadowing faster, longer data connections that could be revolutionary for consumers and data center users.
The prototype represents an important advance in Intel’s research into silicon photonics – using lasers instead of electrons to send data – which the company has been working on for years. Intel hopes to scale up the technology until it reaches speeds close to a terabit per second – fast enough to transfer a copy of the entire contents of a typical laptop in one second, the company said …
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PostRank Live with Google Buzz Firehose
Before now, PostRank, the popular social media analytics service, had to manually crawl all Google Buzz accounts and subscribe to the public feeds it found separately prior to meshing that information with the rest of its data. It was unlikely that all the public feeds made it into PostRank and the process “imposed a high server tax for both sides.”
Now, however, with the Google Buzz firehose, PostRank subscribes to one real-time PubSubHubbub feed of all publicly-available Google info. PostRank’s users, the company says, will notice a big difference in the amount and depth of Buzz content …
Google Image Search Gets a Redesign and New Search Ads
With more than 10 billion images indexed, Google Image Search has become the visual reference source to beat. Google’s VP Marissa Mayer took the stage at a press conference today to announce the company’s latest image search redesign. the company released a significantly new iteration of its current interface alongside the launch of Google Image Search Ads.
The new ad product allows marketers to place the image of their choice next to their text advertisement. This feature lets product-based vendors offer images of their offerings based on the relevancy of the ad to image search results. So if the user is searching for a specific phone image and specs, it makes sense that commercial offerings for accessories and cases would co-exist in the commercial header …
70,000 Blogs Shut Down by U.S. Law Enforcement
Blogetery, a Wordpress platform, has seen its entire community shut down by its host, BurstNET. Subsequent statements by BurstNET indicated that the service was suspended at the request of an unidentified law enforcement agency …
BQE Software Releases ArchiOffice 2010 From the Ground-Up, Smarter, Simpler and Secure
Torrance, CA, June 30, 2010: BQE Software Inc., the leading provider of business management software, announced today the release of ArchiOffice2010. Available immediately, this software is the next generation, utilizing leading edge technologies to deliver over 150 new and enhanced features designed to help architects and engineers better manage their businesses.
Among the new features are customizable dashboards, put-it-anywhere document management, intelligent folder synching, and enhanced integration with Microsoft Outlook®, Entourage®, Apple Mail, Address Book and iCal. ArchiOffice 2010 also added the ability for users to customize reports and invoices and drill-down into projects and costs for precise budgeting and invoicing.
“This is by far the best upgrade,” said Steven Burns, FAIA, Director of Product Strategy and Innovations at BQE Software. “We‟ve clearly been listening to our customers and that resulted in robust capabilities like zero-deployment across multiple operating systems. Customers can now access ArchiOffice anywhere, anytime and at a significantly lower cost of ownership.”
Other prominent enhancements include 128-bit SSL encryption and the option for a business to use its own SSL certificate. ArchiOffice utilizes Java Web Start technology to deliver robust capabilities with a small memory footprint. This new technology in ArchiOffice eliminates manual software installation, replacing this costly job with single-click deployment over any network.
“ArchiOffice embodies BQE‟s „designed for my business‟ strategy.” said Shafat Qazi, CEO and Founder of BQE. “The future depends on us listening to our customers, utilizing in-house architectural, engineering and other professional experience, and delivering innovative, smart technology that simplifies our software. With the new release, our customers will spend less time on managing and more on growing their business. When our customers are successful, we are successful.”
About BQE Software: BQE Software’s time tracking, billing and project management solutions create competitive advantage for professional service providers such as Architects, Engineers, Business Consultants and IT Consultants. BQE’s flagship products, ArchiOffice®, EngineerOffice® and BillQuick®, combines precision time tracking and intelligent invoicing with powerful project management and reporting tools –together delivering a complete solution that is priced to deliver quick return on investment.
For more information: Angelo Lillo, Marketing Director, BQE Software Inc., angelo@bqe.com, 310-602-4010 Videos, Screen Shots and Company Logos at www.bqe.com