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News archives for the week of August 28, 2006

August 30, 2006
Apple's board appoints Google's CEO as new director
Before joining Sun in 1983, he was a member of the research staff at the Computer Science Lab at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and held positions at Bell Laboratories and ZiLOG. Eric has a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, and a master's and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California-Berkeley.

August 29, 2006
Flickr adds geo search functionality to its search engine
Flickr users can now search for photos by location in the Explore area. Set the map to a location (world down to street level) and type in a search query. Markers will appear on the map with photos that contain that query in the tags or description of the photo.

August 28, 2006
Google: TV and the Internet are complementary to each other
"There is a huge amount of user empowerment," Marissa Mayer said. "Like I said earlier, I think we are seeing something that is very much the equivalent of the printing press in our day and age." But she said that did not mean the end of traditional storytelling and information-sharing through television. Mayer said that Google actually sees the two media as complementary to each other.

August 28, 2006
Google's new click to call advertising system
As part of their deal, eBay and Google will build a click to call advertising system that will use both Skype and the much-smaller Google Talk. Ads on Google and products listed on eBay will have a click-to-call link that will allow users to have a conversation with the advertiser or product seller.