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Thursday, 17th April 2008

Google News Becomes Near Real-Time Bartlett's

Just two days after Microsoft released a Google News competitor, Google has upped the ante by adding a useful new feature to their popular news site: Quotations. Google announced today that it is now augmenting searches for newsworthy names with recent quotes by those people. The quotes are pulled from news stories as quickly as Google News…

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Inbox 3.0 Brings Better RSS to Outlook

NewsGator is a company that develops RSS aggregators for individuals and businesses. It is the maker of the popular FeedDemon RSS Reader for Windows and NetNewsWire for Mac. Today, NewsGator has announced a new version of their RSS Reader, designed specifically for users of Microsoft Outlook. The new program, Inbox 3.0, offers several new…

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Amazon Gets Serious About AWS, Adds Premium Support

Amazon today announced premium for-pay support packages for some of its core infrastructure services. The Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and Simple Queue Service (SQS) each received the gold and silver level support treatment. The new support packages provide one-on-one support for AWS customers (24/7 via phone for gold…

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Wednesday, 16th April 2008

Competition: Win a Free Pass to Web 2.0 Expo

ReadWriteWeb has 2 tickets to next week's Web 2.0 Expo to give away, courtesy of Technorati. These are full conference passes, worth $1,895 each, so they will get you into every workshop and conference session. To be in with a chance to win one of these passes, all you have to do is enter a comment below telling us what web 2.0 apps most excite you…

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Product Reviews

Alexa Updates Its Web Rankings - Still Not Good Enough

Amazon-owned Alexa has announced a major update to its 10 year old web ranking system. Previously, Alexa's rankings were based solely on data collected from the downloadable Alexa Toolbar, but now the company is aggregating data from multiple sources. That's good news, but it may be too little, too late for a company whose rankings have faded…

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