Archive for October 16th, 2007
n Tuesday, Google made yet another move in mobile social networking. This time, the acquisition target was Finnish startup Jaiku, a company that develops a mobile phone application that lets people send messages, view Web feeds, and even blog. It’s what has come to be called a “microblogging” service.The way Google puts it, Jaiku has been hard at work developing useful and innovative applications for staying in touch with the people you care about most — regardless of whether you’re at a computer or on a mobile phone.
“Technology has made staying in touch with your friends and family both easier and harder: Living a fast-paced, on-the-go lifestyle is easier (and a lot of fun), but it’s more difficult to keep track of everyone when they’re running around at warp speed,” Product Manager Tony Hsieh wrote on the company’s blog.
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October 16th, 2007
Microsoft 
has fixed an embarrassing error in Excel 2007 — a major component of the Office 2007 productivity suite. The issue involves miscalculating numbers around 65,535.The first reported problem revolved around “77.1 x 850,” according to Microsoft. But the Excel team’s testing, along with additional reports from outsiders, soon revealed this was not the only instance where Excel 2007 would return a value of 100,000 instead of 65,535.
“We are in the process of adding this fix to Microsoft Update so that it will get automatically pushed to users running Excel 2007 or Excel Services 2007,” the officials wrote on an Excel developer team blog.
Excel users can download the fix manually or wait until it is released as part of the first service pack for Office 2007. Microsoft has not yet offered a release date for Office 2007 Service Pack 1.
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October 16th, 2007
Google retained its global search crown in August, but some smaller competitors in China and South Korea are giving the company a run for its money in Asia. So says comScore in its first-ever study of worldwide search activity.On the basis of data gathered for its qSearch 2.0 service, comScore reported on the top 50 worldwide Internet properties that use some form of search. The conclusion: More than 750 million people age 15 and older — or 95 percent of the worldwide Internet audience — conducted 61 billion searches worldwide in August, an average of more than 80 searches per searcher.
“With the tremendous volume of search activity occurring around the world, search continues to present an abundance of marketing opportunities to companies on both a global and local scale,” Bob Ivins, executive vice president of International Markets at comScore, said in a statement.
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October 16th, 2007
