CNET - Flash has not been easily searchable until now, but Adobe Systems
is working with leading search engines Google and Yahoo to solve the
problem. CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber and reporter Elinor Mills
discuss the impact of making Flash pages more visible to search engines. One question is whether Microsoft, which developed Silverlight, a competitor to Flash, will also index Flash files in its search engine. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The famed astronaut says that if the next president does not make space exploration a priority, the United States will lag behind other countries in the space race for the next century. -- read full article
Reuters - British singer Boy George has
canceled his North American tour after U.S. authorities refused
to issue him a visa because of legal trouble overseas, he said
in a posting on his Web site on Tuesday.
CNET - R.J. Pittman, Google's director of product management for Consumer Search Properties, shared some details of future versions of image search. In the interview with Beet.tv's Andy Plesser, Pittman said that Google is developing visual crawling software that can be used for facial recognition and scene analysis. In addition images can be matched with display ads and utilize geotagging information for various applications. -- read full article
Reuters - Microsoft Corp is preparing a new bid for Yahoo
Inc's search business and has approached other media companies
about joining it in a deal that would effectively lead to
Yahoo's breakup, the Wall Street Journal said. -- read full article
AP - Germany's annual Bayreuth opera festival is going digital, streaming video and audio of its opening performance of "Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg" live via the Internet. The catch is the price — $77.
AP - Marc Andreessen, an entrepreneur and software engineer behind the Web's earliest browsers, has joined the board of the online hangout Facebook. -- read full article
PC World - One of China's most popular online video sites received a US$30 million investment despite its failure so far to receive... -- read full article
PC World - Only 59.1 percent of people use up-to-date, fully patched Web browsers, putting the remainder at risk of attacks from hackers... -- read full article
NewsFactor - Adobe Systems on Tuesday announced a new initiative with Google and Yahoo to improve search results for dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs). -- read full article
CNET - Internet calling provider Skype said Tuesday that it has hired Scott Durchslag, a former Motorola executive, to become its chief operating officer. -- read full article
AP - A Chinese investment fund manager's bid for the chance to have lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett was the largest ever in a charity auction on eBay and surprised even Buffett.
