Translate documents: sharing across languages and generations
My cousin is in first grade and sometimes she writes short stories for class. I try to share the stories with her grandparents, but because Japanese is their first language and they don’t speak English very well, it’s been tough. Today we’re releasing a feature for Google Docs to make this kind of multi-lingual sharing [...]
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Jessica Carries Honor, But She’s All Ready to Walk!
Jessica Alba had a playful looking Honor in her arms for lunch at Urth Cafe in LA on Friday. The family was in Austin recently while Jessica shot her part of Robert Rodriguez’s Machete. Cash twittered that they were happy to return to LA, and that Honor just took her first steps. The adorable one-year-old [...]
Mischa’s Life Is Beautiful Even in the Rain
Mischa Barton was still in her curlers as she walked to work on the set of The Beautiful Life in NYC on Friday. She smoked a cigarette despite the rain, but looked like she was in better spirits when the weather cleared up a bit. Earlier in the week Mischa opened up about what happened [...]
The New York Times Discovers Penis Pumps
While America’s medical debates rage on, many of its significant members, of all colors and sizes, limply, quietly weep to themselves: penises. But! This is one health care package making serious progress: flaccid penises demand innovation, as the Times discovered.
In tomorrow’s Health section will be an article by one Ms. Lesley Alderman, whose wide, circumspect [...]
Glenn Beck Finally Admits: “I’m Just A Fear Mongering Whatever.”
Calling Glenn Beck an easy target’s calling a spade out by its raw materials. Duck tests of his M.O. are so painfully obvious, even he’s openly talking about it now. Contained herein: Psychiatrists, bullies, his Heavenly Father, and attackers!
Consider this particular segment Glenn Beck’s victory lap. Via Media Matters, Beck, who’s kicking ass in the [...]
Ted Kennedy’s Funeral: Photos, Screengrabs, And Tweets
Ted Kennedy’s funeral is underway, and so is the full court press barrage of media. Obama’s delivering his remarks now. What do attendees, Twitter, Free Republic, and others have to say?
MSNBC is carrying the live feed of the funeral. [Top photo credit: CJ Gunther/Getty Images]
The nice thing about this photo? Ted Kennedy would’ve made a [...]
Facebook amends privacy policy
Facebook, the market-leading social networking site, has been forced to change its global privacy policy following negotiations with the privacy commissioner in Canada. A report by the BBC says that Facebook was recently found to breach Canadian law by holding on to users’ personal data indefinitely and has therefore agreed to make changes to the [...]
Broadband caps in Australia
An article from the Sydney Morning Herald considers the usage caps in the Australian broadband market which are potentially holding back Internet growth in the country and are an outdated system which is virtually non-existent in other countries.
All the main ISPs in Australia price on a monthly usage cap, which for the current web applications [...]
Facebook 3.0 for iPhone pours on the features
Facebook 3.0 introduces new navigation, notifications, events, and more.
(Credit: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET)
The third major edition of Facebook for iPhone has just crept into the iTunes App Store. It’s a huge update, with numerous advanced features that make Facebook more interactive than before and which bring the app as close to the desktop experience as [...]
Yelp app makes debut on BlackBerry, Palm Pre
Yelp 1.0 on the Palm Pre.
(Credit: Yelp)
Yelp has been pushing hard to make its presence on smartphones known. In the last seven days, it has released a major upgrade to its iPhone application and has debuted native versions of Yelp for BlackBerry and the Palm Pre (Palm WebOS.)
Yelp 1.0 for Palm Pre and Yelp [...]
It’s time for fantasy football: Tools to help
After several months of waiting, fantasy football is finally back. Football fans all over the U.S. are gearing up to take on friends as they compete to find out who has what it takes to capture this year’s crown.
To achieve that goal, you’ll need the right tools. That’s where we come in. [...]
Google could be adding mortgage info soon
Could Google be adding mortgage information to its real-estate search pages?
(Credit: Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET)
Add Google Mortgage to the list of potential services that might soon appear on Google’s Web site.
The New York Times noticed a lawsuit pending between LendingTree, an online mortgage quote service, and a company called Mortech, which helps LendingTree run its [...]
Google adds translation to Docs
Google continues to move language translation into more and more of its products. On Thursday, it became a feature of Google Docs, letting anyone do an on-the-spot translation into one of 42 languages.
The new feature, tucked away in a settings menu, has the smarts to automatically detect in which language the original document is written. [...]
iPhone Yelp gets happy hour deals, moving maps
Don’t worry, you can always write your own.
(Credit: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET)
The original Yelp for iPhone was a skeleton of its online self when it first debuted. Since then, Yelp has been layering on the muscle. The improvements in Yelp for iPhone 3.0 plump the app even more, bringing both important functionality from the Web [...]
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