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Nokia profits take a big hit

Having once dominated the global cell phone market, Nokia Corp on Thursday posted a fourth-quarter net loss of €1.07 billion (

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Google launches Public Alerts

Maps just got smarter, as Mountain View announced the launch of Google Public Alerts. Google Maps users will now be able to see relevant ‘Public Alerts’ when using the popular tool, getting warning of weather, public safety and earthquake alerts. “Today marks the launch of a new Google Crisis Response project: Google Public Alerts, a platform designed to bring you relevant emergency alerts when and where you’re searching for them,” Public alerts engineer Steve Hakusa wrote on the Google blog . The tool is designed to alert users to things that might be happening in their area – tornado warnings, for example – and provide information about where and when the disaster might occur, as well as how severe the storm is expected to be and where resources can be found to help. “The Google Crisis Response team works on providing critical emergency information during crises. Our goal is to surface emergency information through the online tools you use everyday, when that information is relevant and useful,” Hakusa said. Users can search directly on Google maps for specific warnings in their area, or alternatively, can go directly to the Public Alerts Page, where users can find a list of current emergency warnings from around the world. Warnings are displayed as hotspots which users can hover over or click to view more information. “We’re learning as we go and we’re working hard to continuously improve the range and relevance of the content you see,” Hakusa said of the newly-launched service

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Ordnance Surveyors use Twitter to share progress

In a bid to get the general public on their side, Ordnance Surveyors are now using Twitter to detail their day to day activities. Paul Beauchamp of the Ordnance Survey team said he hopes that by using the microblogging site, surveyors will face less resistance from the public and “help people understand better the role they play”. A lack of general understanding surrounding the role Ordnance Surveyors has encouraged the team to embrace social media and reach out to the public. For the first time, fourteen surveyors across the country will tweet as they go about recording and measuring changes for the map. The Twittermap allows users to find out what the surveyors in their area are up to and gain insight into the role of the Ordnance Surveyor’s office. Work is constantly underway on the OS Mastermap as surveyors up and down the UK record the ever-changing landscape of the country, with up to 5,000 alterations every day. The map is used for everything from directing ambulances to planning bus routes or feeding GPS systems, which can be accurate to a couple of centimetres. Beachamp said: “Working in a range of roles, from surveyors mapping the outer reaches of Scotland and inner city London to a member of Ordnance Survey’s Flying Unity, each will be tweeting as they go about their work and providing an insight into modern mapmaking.” Though the prospect of tweets about recording where houses have been put up or taken down, where roads are built or streets renamed may not exactly seem riveting, Beauchamp detailed some of the more hair-raising exploits of the surveyors. “I was told recently about a surveyor and his boss who had to ask a landlord for permission to measure on his land.

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Google Blogger Template Designer Available to Public

Google announced today that the Blogger Template Designer — a tool that allows users to customize the look and layout of their blog without knowing HTML or CSS — is now available to the public by default.

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Google Faces Class Action Lawsuit on Buzz Privacy Issues

The reaction from the public and industry insiders to Google Buzz — the search giant’s latest attempt at social media networking — has been decidedly mixed. But while much of the discussion has revolved around the usability and usefulness of Google Buzz, Computerworld reports that this has led to the first piece of legal action, as a Florida woman has filed a class action lawsuit against Google for adding Buzz to the company’s Gmail service.

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Report: Yelp Walks Away from $550 Million Google Deal

Tech Crunch is reporting that Yelp has walked away from a proposed deal to be acquired by Google – a deal that many people had assumed was all but signed just days earlier. Yelp is a review site currently operating in almost every major metropolitan area of the country that lets the public vote and gives their feedback on a wide range of stores and services within a local area. For example, a person could go to the local Yelp site for Portland and search to find different listings for Indian restaurants.

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DART Search Supports Bid Management Tracking

Deeper integration via the ASL API, will be the order of the day for the public launch of DART Search’s bid management and conversion tracking.

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Google Collaborates with Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland Clinic Academic medical institution and health information technology firm, is collaborating with Google, to provide patients with broader access to medical records.

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Google Focus of Patent Growth Study

Answers.com has been named a finalist in the the Webware 100 Awards by CNET Webware Editors and the Web 2.0 user community online voting poll, which is open to the public.

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PBS Chooses blinkx Video Search Engine

The Public Broadcasting System (PBS), has chosen video search engine, blinkx, to index varied streaming video content, so that it may be searchable at www.blinkx.com.

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