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The show will start with images from the Slooh telescope in the Canary Island. For all the latecomers, another telescope in Arizona will start tracking the asteroid at around 8 p.m. Pacific (11 Eastern) as well. 

Software secretly installed on millions of mobile phones

The video shows the software logging Eckhart’s online search of “hello world.” That’s despite Eckhart using the HTTPS version of Google which is supposed to hide searches from those who would want to spy by intercepting the traffic between a user and Google.

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Netflix On Android

Some owners might have been irked out to find Windows Phone 7 getting its groove on with an official Netflix app before them, but after much wait, it’s finally here! However, you probably want to be just a little reserved for the moment since not all Android smartphones will be able to download the long time coming .

Specifically, if you happen to own with the HTC EVO 4G, T-Mobile G2, HTC Incredible, Google Nexus One, or the Google Nexus S, you’ll be happy to know that you can download the app right now through the Android Market. As for the rest of the bunch, it’s unknown at this point when it’ll be made available to other devices since they have to individually test each handset due to the lack of standard streaming playback features amongst Android devices.

According to Roma De, member of the app’s product team, the developers are able to provide a functional app–for now–only for Android phones that include playback support required for Netflix to run. Roma De explains that most Android devices lack standard features for playing back streaming videos. Such features are needed by the Netflix application to run on the device.
Because of the non-standard implementation of video playback features in Android phones, Netflix has to test each Android handset and create the app for handsets that do support playback. However, Netflix assures Android users that the list of supported phones will continue to grow in the next months so that the Netflix app can work in as many Android phones as there are existing.

Netflix justifies its price hike

Netflix abruptly jacked up its price for that deal by 60 percent. Now, if you want to check out one DVD-by-mail at a time, and enjoy unlimited streaming of Netflix’s 20,000 TV shows and (mostly older) movies to your computer, phone or Blu-ray player, you have to pay $16 a month instead of $10. (The price hike hits new customers immediately, and existing customers on Sept. 1.

“Why the changes? Last November, when we launched our $7.99 unlimited streaming plan, DVDs by mail was treated as a $2 add on to our unlimited streaming plan. At the time, we didn’t anticipate offering DVD only plans. Since then we have realized that there is still a very large continuing demand for DVDs both from our existing members as well as non-members. Given the long life we think DVDs by mail will have, treating DVDs as a $2 add on to our unlimited streaming plan neither makes great financial sense nor satisfies people who just want DVDs. Creating an unlimited DVDs by mail plan (no streaming) at our lowest price ever, $7.99, does make sense and will ensure a long life for our DVDs by mail offering.”

10 Things that you will Search in 2011

6: Quick Response codes to replace Search

Some time ago we started to see the advent of search based call to actions in ATL advertising, where an advert ends with the line “search widgets online” rather than a website address.

7: Android store beats Apple app store




Android market had the highest rate of overall growth, reaching 130,000 applications in the US by Dec 31, or more than six times the number at the end of 2009, Utrecht, Netherlands-based Distimo said in a report. Nokia's free applications surged 10-fold, helping its total US applications more than triple to 25,000, the third-biggest app lineup after Apple and Android.

8: Why Facebook eats most of your time

If you think that Facebook eats up most of your time, then it's only going to get worse, suggests a new study.
Researchers have suggested that users become more active in online social networks as they grow bigger, reports New Scientist.

The researchers considered behaviour in online networks site like a peer-to-peer file-sharing system

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10: MySpace lays off 47% staff

MySpace is cutting 47 per cent of its staff amid reports that owner News Corp is preparing the social-networking website for a possible sale.



MySpace is firing about 500 employees in a broad restructuring across all of its operations, according to an emailed statement from the Beverly Hills, California-based website. MySpace will enter into local partnerships in the UK, Germany and Australia to manage advertising and content.


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10 Things that you will Search in 2011

4: Web to get content- heavy




2010 saw Google implement its “May Day” algorithm update, part of which penalised cookie cutter content that is excessively template driven or syndicated to multiple sites in favour of more unique and valuable pages.

5: Massive growth in contextual PPC model

With the success of Google’s Content Network (now rebranded the Display Network), many publisher sites and shopping aggregators are following with similar paid for listings models, offering their real estate at a price. Although very early stages, none of them have quite mastered a ‘quality score’ of some type making the payment model very much a fixed cost per click (CPC) but still split by vertical.

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