The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But judging from the video, Google refers to this as “streaming” search. As you key new characters into the search box – or remove characters – the entire search results page changes accordingly. “You don’t even need to hit the ‘Search’ button anymore,” says the SEO, Rob Ousbey. “Google updates the results for you while you’re typing.”

Basically, Google is taking its “Suggest” tool a step further. Rather than just suggesting possible searches as you type, it’s suggesting entire results pages. This is yet another way that Google is trying to give you information before you ask for it. “I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” CEO Eric Schmidt recently told The Wall Street Journal. “They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.”

But again, “streaming” search is – at this point – only a test. “At any given time we are running between 50-200 search experiments,” a company spokesman told TechCrunch. ®

Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer-A poses as a harmless media player application and has already infected a number of mobile devices, Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab warns. Prospective marks are prompted to install a “media player file” of just over 13 KB with the standard Android .APK extension.

Once installed, the Trojan begins sending SMS messages to premium-rate numbers without the owner’s knowledge or consent. Victims wind up with a huge bill while the cybercrooks behind the scheme earn a slice of the income. There have been isolated cases of devices running Android getting infected with spyware since last year, but this is the first occasion that an SMS-spewing Trojan, common in the world of mobile malware, has affected devices running Google’s operating system.

Finally after a lot of searching on the internet about registry changes, Problems with Windows 7 64bit etc I found a post that solved the problem of connecting your HTC HD2 to active sync.

What worked: on phone, go to: Start -> Tools -> Active Sync -> Menu -> connections and deselect “when in cradle [x] all pcs … and then reselect it.

All started working fine! now just going to try a ROM update then going to load Android.

For such a rich trove of information to be presented with such a clunky UI is strange and frustrating, and very un-Googley. Happily, at SIGGRAPH this week Microsoft Research presented a new form of presenting street view imagery, and it’s well worth a look.

The “Street Slide” project presents seamless, uninterrupted perspectives as you navigate. Here’s what it looks like in action:

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Microsoft Street Slide: Street View done properly

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Posted in Music and Media, 30th July 2010 16:03 GMT

Ofcom has called for the way broadband speeds are advertised to be overhauled.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is currently undertaking a review of the way broadband speeds are advertised, and Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards has called for stricter rules.

The call comes after Ofcom’s latest research found that customers typically receive less than half the headline speed.

Richards wants ISPs to be banned from advertising “up to” speeds that are based on theoretical maximums rather than the actual speed customers can receive. BT, for example, caps “up to 8Mbits/sec” lines at 7.2Mbits/sec to ensure connections are stable.

“We want to see clearer advertising,” Richards told journalists. “Speeds should only be advertised if they’re actually achievable by some customers.”

Ofcom is also calling for ISPs to include a “typical speed range” in their adverts, so that customers receive a more realistic picture of the speeds they’re likely to receive.

Court documents released after a $100 million antitrust settlement have shown how Dell’s operating income was propped up by Intel for years.

Dell is one of a few PC makers that received payouts from Intel to keep them from using chips from AMD. Intel has since offered its smaller rival $1.25 billion, after being fined $1.45 billion by the European Union.

According to documents from the US Security and Exchange Commission, Dell received payments to “remain monogamous” with Intel. Part of its so-called Meet Competition Programme (MCP), those payments were used to set up “cookie jar” reserves and make up for shortfalls in quarterly results.

“Dell would often seek additional rebates from Intel in order to close a gap between its forecasted results and its earnings targets,” the SEC said. “Dell was quite open with Intel about the reasons it was requesting additional money.”

Google has given its Street View cars the green light to hit the streets and start snapping photos again, after spending the past few months parked over the Wi-Fi data debacle.

In May, Google admitted its camera cars were collecting Wi-Fi data as they drove around cities taking snaps for the Street View photo service in Google Maps. Along with that Wi-Fi data, Google also picked up personal information from unsecured connections, which the firm claims was unintentional.

The Street View cars are now back in business, but without any Wi-Fi detection equipment on board. “Our cars will no longer collect any Wi-Fi information at all, but will continue to collect photos and 3D imagery as they did before,” said Brian McClendon, vice president of engineering for Google Geo, in a blog post, taking care to stress that Microsoft’s Bing is also collecting such photos for its mapping service.

“We recognise that serious mistakes were made in the collection of Wi-Fi payload data, and we have worked to quickly rectify them,” he added.

Starting next week, the cars will first head to Ireland, Norway, South Africa and Sweden.

Alongside an increase in VAT to 20% in today’s budget, Chancellor George Osborne ditched the proposed 50p broadband tax, calling it “archaic”.

Proposed by Labour last year, the tax would have charged everyone with a landline an extra 50p a month to help fund the roll out of universal broadband across the UK.

Keeping with previously made promises to scrap the tax, Osborne said the “landline duty is an archaic way of doing this”.

Instead, the coalition government will look to support private firms in their broadband deployments, and use funds from the BBC licence fee where necessary.

Osborne also said the Government would not go ahead with £1 billion in “poorly targeted” tax relief for the video games industry.

The “carpet bomb” vulnerability was publicly disclosed in May 2008 after members of Apple’s security team said they didn’t consider the quirk a security issue. After Microsoft took the unusual step of advising its customers to stop using Safari, Apple issued a patch Windows versions but not for OS X.

Dhanjani said he discovered a separate, high-risk vulnerability that can be used to remotely steal local files from the user’s hard drive, and the company has acknowledged the bug and promised to fix it.

The vulnerability lies in the Windows Canonical Display Driver (cdd.dll) for the 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

“If exploited, it would likely cause the affected system to stop responding and restart,” Jerry Bryant, group manager of response communications warns on the Microsoft Security Response Center blog.

Microsoft claims that the vulnerability only affects machines running the Aero graphics interface, and advises that customers “may choose to disable Windows Aero as a workaround to protect against potential threats” until the company releases a fix.

Microsoft also claims that the chances of the flaw being exploited in the wild are low, and have awarded the bug the lowest possible score on its Exploitability Index.