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RSS mobile searchOrange gets its woman with £95m Ananova acquisition
News But the 100 or so staff that come with the deal, as well as the search and text-to-voice technology which underpins Ananova, will add to Orange's armoury as it tries to diversify its operations. Dale Vile, analyst with... [06 Jul 2000]
Ananova out of sync with the future of the web?
Comment Orange's release trumpets that our lovely newscaster is "the world's first digitally-rendered, fully-animated internet newscaster and information provider, exploiting sophisticated text-to-speech technology, and providing advanced... [06 Jul 2000]
The Electronic B@zaar: Part 2 - the four hinges
Comment The second hinge is a series of mechanisms (email, the website, the multi-user domain (MUD) or community, and the search engine) by which electronic interaction occurs in the electronic economy. Finally, websites like... [28 Jun 2000]
ebookers offers flights to Wanadoo users
News The French telecom's mobile phone users will also be able to access the services through WAP capabilities or the Voila search engine. Online travel company ebookers has formed an alliance with France... [24 May 2000]
London hit by US stock free-fall
News Over the weekend, Web search engine AltaVista decided to postpone its Initial Public Offering (IPO) citing the volatile markets as the cause. The effect was felt across all market sectors, but technology stocks suffered... [17 Apr 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: How to do WAP, the death of the PC, and Baan's troubled times
Comment But how do mobile users search for information that can be accessed through WAP? Conventional search engines do not discriminate in this way, and will present a huge amount of redundant... [05 Mar 2000]
Mobile Intranet gives boost to corporate communication
News The product uses intelligent agents to search for out-of-date information held on the mobile workers' laptops, then provides them with the updated information automatically. Mobile... [17 Feb 2000]
AltaVista searches out territory in Europe
News AltaVista is to launch a French language search engine as the company continues to move into Europe. He said the influx of free ISPs, which account for 25 to 30 per cent of French access to the Internet, as well as... [08 Feb 2000]
Laptops get strip search from Customs and Excise
News It emerged today that Customs and Excise routinely checks mobile computers for illegal images. Officers at ports and air terminals target laptop computers, CD-Roms and floppy disks. It uses a variety of scanning... [14 Aug 1998]
Mobile ban highlights radio pollution danger
News Scientists at the Labs - which is currently involved in the search for extraterrestrial life - are worried that electrical activity will corrupt the results of their research, and radio activity near the site is... [27 Jul 1998]
