Natali Del Conte: Google wants to launch a Twitter search, Amazon has to pay out to Toys R Us, and Microsoft wants to be your new fashion stylist. It’s Monday June 5th, I’m Natali Del Conte coming to you from San Francisco this week. It’s time to get loaded.
Microsoft has decided it will sell Windows 07 in Europe without a browser. The company has been under attack for prepackaging Internet Explorer with Windows for so long that they’ve decided to pull it to rather a bratty move of just the leading net from the operating system which launches on October 22nd. So you get your new operating system, you try to get online, how do you do that?
Two, you can choose any browser now. But how do you install a browser without a browser. Microsoft will probably does a bundle of physical CD with the operating system which is a big waste of resources. I don’t think this the final packaging solution for Windows 07 but if it is what a pain.
Speaking of Microsoft, the company has applied for a rather unusual patent called Online Personal Appearance Adviser. The application describes it as a program in which the contributor uploads self images for viewing and rating or voting by viewers who choose to provide an opinion on different fashion and/or cosmetic looks of the contributor. You might be thinking why does Microsoft care if my shoes matched my outfit. The only thing I could come up with was that perhaps this would be for in it at all, after all the marketing video did show a teenybooper trying on prom dresses.
One last Microsoft story, it has to do with Bing. Microsoft new search engine now filter out porn. Being came under fire for not doing this since its launch a few short weeks ago, a revision of the program allows parents to block or monitor what their kids are viewing. According to the post explicit images and video content will now be coming from a separate single domain explicit.bing.net. This is invisible to the end customer but allows for filtering of that content by domain which makes it much easier for customers at all levels to block this content regardless of what the safe search study it might be.
Amazon has been ordered to pay Toys R Us $51 million to settle a five-year lawsuit. The suit was over a deal between the two retailers which would have made Toys R Us the exclusive toy provider for Amazon. After this deal was made in 2000, Amazon began using other toy retailers because they claim that Toys R Us could not keep up with inventory. This partnership was supposed to last through 2010. Toys R Us wanted $93 million but instead they get $51 million payable in Q3 which start on July 1st.
Google is making some changes to the way they do Street View in Europe following many privacy complaints by the EU. One changes that they have to give communities advance notice when the camera equipped vans are coming through. That’s how Google captures images for Street View and Europeans do not want to be caught with their pants down literally. European regulators also want Google to set a time limit for how long the raw images are held on Google servers. Google blurs out faces and other sensitive information but those unblurred images still reside with Google, the EU doesn’t like that. The Google has not agreed to a time limit yet.
Another Google news, the company is said to be working on a microblogging search engine, so basically Twitter search. When blogging took off Google launched Google blog search, this would be a natural extension of that. Of course, Twitter does have its own search engine but it’s just limited to Twitter and its sorts results by date not keywords. Google is reported microblog search with sort by relevancy and be integrated with Googles web search.
You don’t have to have fancy equipment to Twitter. A man named Johan Van den Brande is doing it from a Commodore 64. In this YouTube video he can be seen twittering so slowly from his 1982 machine connected to a TV. But don’t send them any links or videos. I don’t think he’ll be clicking through anytime the URLs been there.
So are all your headlines for today but I will see you tomorrow with more. Thank you for watching. I’m Natali Del Conte with CNET TV and you’ve just been loaded.
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