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Google Improves Its Translation Tool

The company is using its network to push the limits of translation technology; its free service has become the favored source for millions.In a meeting at Google in 2004, the discussion turned to an e-mail message the company had received from a fan in South Korea. Sergey Brin, a Google founder, ran the message through [...]

Motorola Android phone launches with Yahoo search

AT T launched its first Android phone, the Motorola Backflip, for $100 after rebate — and with Yahoo as the default search engine. Meanwhile, at our sister publication, eWEEK, analysts sort through the impact of Apple’s Android-related patent lawsuit against HTC, suggesting Palm or even Microsoft could be the next targets.Motorola introduced its Android-based Backflip [...]

AT&T Offering Its First Android-Powered Smartphone, Motorola Backflip

AT&T has gotten on the Android bandwagon by releasing the Motorola Backflip. This inexpensive smartphone has an unusual reverse-flip keyboard with an HVGA touchscreen and an large trackpad. It also sports 3G, Wi-Fi, and a 5 MPx camera. It has a clamshell design, but not the usual one. Instead, has a reverse flip keyboard, so that [...]

Apple iPad Won’t Be Able to Get Internet Access through an iPhone

A question many potential Apple iPad buyers have been asking now has an answer: this upcoming tablet computer will not be able to tether to an iPhone. Many had hoped these two mobile computers would be able to share a single Internet connection, but it won’t be possible. One version of the iPad will be able [...]

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Ads Posted on Facebook Strike Some as Off-Key

Advertisers on Facebook are a motley bunch. Some are Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble. Others are “not only creepy but off-putting,” says a media consultant. But the site’s pages are also home to countless ads from smaller companies that can be funny, weird or just plain creepy - those suggesting you are, say, eligible to get [...]

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Majority of Smartphone Users Upset with Service, Survey Finds

More than half of smartphone users are disappointed with the performance of their devices, citing issues with streaming media, web browsers, and social networking apps, according to a new survey.About 57% of smartphone users are disappointed with the performance of their devices, citing issues with streaming media, web browsers, and social networking apps, according to [...]

Apple: HTC Phones Caused ‘Irreparable Injury’

A lawsuit seeks to bar importation of iPhone competitors into the United States. While Apple’s marketing machine generally downplays the threat to the iPhone posed by Google’s new Nexus One mobile device, the company’s lawyers see it differently. The Nexus One, as well as other touch-screen phones manufactured by HTC for Google and other third parties, has [...]

Iceberg Collision in Antarctica

An oblong iceberg roughly as big as Rhode Island called B-09B (center right in this image) collided with the edge of the Mertz Glacier in eastern Antarctica this month breaking away a new iceberg (top left) that is nearly as large at B-09B. This image from Feb. 20, 2010, is one of a series of [...]

Robot vs. Robot: Live In Washington and Across the Nation

NASA, in cooperation with local technology firms and sponsors, launches a nationwide series of high school robotics competitions that begin March 5 and 6 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place N.W., in Washington. The two-day event runs daily from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST. It is free and open [...]

Dell netbook gets accelerated video

Dell announced an & Performance Plus& version of its Inspiron Mini 10 netbook, including a 1366 x 768 display, a Broadcom & Crystal HD& media accelerator, and a six-cell battery. The Ubuntu-ready Mini 10 also gets up to 9.5 hours of battery life, the company says.Dell’s first Mini 10 ran on Intel’s “Silverthorne” Atoms, [...]