WebbAlert - October 28, 2008

Published: Oct. 28, 2008, 9 a.m.

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Google has released an iPhone and iPod Touch version of its Google Earth application.\nTravel around the world, see the sights and make international dinner reservations all from the palm of your hand. Sweet deal.
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\nIf you're a Mac user and a Netflix subscriber, chances are you know that you aren't able to watch streaming video from the rental service's site. Looks like that's about to change thanks to Microsoft.
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\nAre you tired of having to sit through an entire YouTube video just to get to the good parts? Well, thanks to a new feature, you can now save everyone precious time and direct them to specific parts of videos.
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\nFor the first time, Microsoft has given a select group of developers access to the SDK for its multi-touch, multi-user display technology Surface. Hopefully, one of them uses it to built that interactive display from Minority Report.\nThat would be sweet.
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\nEngineers from Toyota and the University of Tokyo have developed a robot maid. I don't have anything else to say about it other than\nit's about time.
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\nUndeterred by or unaware of the world's economic collapse, Motorola reveals its new $2,000 Aura cell phone.




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