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...could not come at a more critical time. Only about 40% of Japanese households currently have high-speed Internet access, meaning an all-out battle is being fought for the fast-growing market. Leading the charge has been Softbank, which initiated a broadband ADSL service in 2001 under the Yahoo! BB logo at rates that far undercut anything then on the market. In December that same year, it added VOIP (voice over Internet protocol)?telephony delivered over the Internet?at deep discounts to NTT's fixed-line phone fees. And in July 2003 it rolled out BBTV, a selection...
...think of your computer as a digital version of the couch that swallowed your car keys - with photos, songs and travel plans all buried in hard-to-reach places - a new breed of software known as desktop search can help. The big names in Internet search - Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, AOL - have released, or will release early this year, a desktop-search tool for consumers, making it as easy to search your PC's hard drive as it is to search the Web. (Existing search tools built into Windows are too cumbersome to compare, says Dave Goebel, president...
That transformation is just one example of a realignment by U.S. and European companies that is turning India from a distant satellite of Silicon Valley into one of the inner hubs of global technology. Since 2003, Yahoo's software-development center has been nestling up to the pizza joints and blue-jean shops on Bangalore's swank Mahatma Gandhi Road. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin visited their company's R.-and- D. center in Bangalore last October and said they plan to create a mirror image of Google's U.S. research team in India. Microsoft CEO Steve...
...That transformation is just one example of a realignment by U.S. and European companies that is turning India from a distant satellite of Silicon Valley into one of the inner hubs of global technology. Since 2003, Yahoo's software-development center has been nestling up to the pizza joints and blue-jean shops on Bangalore's swank Mahatma Gandhi Road. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin visited their company's R&D center in Bangalore last October and said they plan to create a mirror image of Google's U.S. research team in India. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer...
...special feature of the Ask Jeeves desktop-search program askjeeves.com is a separate window for previewing files before opening them. Yahoo's software, which may be released as early as next week, will offer similar functionality. AOL Desktop Search, part of an upcoming AOL browser aol.com) will be free to members and nonmembers alike. Newcomer Blinkx blinkx.com has a unique approach: it automatically refers you to files that are relevant to what you're doing on your computer at that moment. The links blink in the corner of your screen...