Archive for September 16th, 2009

Search-engine results, long dominated by stacks of blue hyperlinks, are getting more eye-catching. Bing’s new “visual search” function lets users troll through image catalogues, while Google is testing a “Fast Flip” application that lets users ‘flip” through digital pages of newspapers and magazines.
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  • The French National Assembly gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a measure that seeks to crack down on Internet piracy.
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  • Voice chat coming to Facebook

    Look out, Facebook users: Here comes voice chat. Sometime in the next few weeks, the social network’s tens of millions of users will begin to be able to have high-quality voice conversations, even as its third-party developers are able to start including voice in their applications.
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  • CNN talks with Andrew Gregory, of the sibling group behind the ‘Auto-Tune the News’ online video series. This has been the summer of Auto-Tune, with musicians, comedians and iPhone users taking advantage of the pitch-altering software that makes voices sound robotic.
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