Google Launches Japanese Mobile Phone Portal

Google Inc, the world's No.1 Web search engine, has started a free Japanese-language news site for mobile phones, to expand in a market where more people access the Web via handsets than PCs.

The service shows a list of headlines and links to news sites that are also designed for cell phones.

"People want to check the news all the time," Angela Lee, Google's senior product manager in Tokyo told a briefing earlier this week. "We've created something that's easy to use and view on handsets."

The service challenges existing news distribution sites for cell phones in Japan, which typically charge users monthly fees.

Google Japan already offers a news Web site for PCs, which displays reports from more than 600 news organizations.

Mountain View, California-based Google has also tied up with Japan's second-biggest phone carrier KDDI Corp. (9433.T) to offer search engines on mobile phones.

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What is Windows Vista?

by: Amanda Bode

What is Windows Vista? I have been getting this a lot lately with all of the buzz and hype on the Internet. Windows Vista is the newest PC Operating System to be launched in November 2006.
The system has already been sent out to over 2 million users for beta testing and has got
huge reviews! Windows Vista improves application quality, enables developers to create
richer, easier-to-use applications, and adds comprehensive APIs for accessing connectivity
infrastructure.

1. Find and Use Information - Increasing user productivity by making it easier to find and use information.

2. Enable Mobile Workforce - Enabling a better connected more collaborative and more secure mobile workforce.

3. Improve Security and Compliance - Helping protect your data, secure your environment, and make it easier to achieve compliance with regulations and policies.

4. Optimize Desktop Infrastructure - Reducing cost and complexity of deploying, managing, and supporting your company PCs.

With the advances in Windows Vista™, Microsoft enables the Windows platform to deliver on three key essentials:
> Helping people to be more confident by making the operating system safer, more reliable, and more responsive
> Helping people gain clarity by removing clutter and improving organization
> Helping people connect with others easily and securely by improving network security and integration collaboration

Windows Vista empowers developers to create software that embodies these three essentials.

Windows Vista makes it easy to connect to information, connect to systems, and connect to customers. Using the Windows Communication Foundation Web services infrastructure, developers can create applications that communicate seamlessly across a wide range of hardware and software. Additionally, Windows Vista provides RSS support to enable developers to create experiences that aggregate information from multiple sources.


About The Author
Amanda Bode is Co-Owner and Managing Director of Select Networks, LLC, which specializes in Computer Network Support for the small-medium business located in the metro Kansas City area, other services include Website/email hosting and Website design solutions. http://www.selectkc.com.

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Logitech ChillStream for PS3

Coming up is the Logitech ChillStream for PS3, Sony’s Playstation 3 will launch soon.

The gamepad has a built-in 40mm fan that will cool down your palm while playing, the fan can circulate up to 3.41 cubic feet of air every minute, but it generates little noise or vibration. On each side there are three vents that will keep your fingers cool and dry.

The fan has three settings, the off, low and high. So, to all the playstation fanatics this is something new that you are waiting for.

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