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Google Suggest Search Localized in San Francisco, Other Cities

April 17th, 2010 | No Comments

Google April 16 made Google Suggest more local by tailoring results by the cities users are in when they’re searching. For example, a user based in San Francisco who searches for Bart will see the suggestion for Bay Area Rapid Transit. Google also said it is getting better at suggesting corrections for searches users mistype. Finally, Google added auto-correction to its spelling system in 31 languages across 180 domains. By narrowing the error margin, Google will help users find what they’re looking for faster.
– Google April 16 improved the efficiency of its search engine by refining
Google Suggest and spell correction and adding auto-correction for different
languages.
Google Suggest offers users queries in a pull-down menu when users begin
typing in searches into the search box on Google.com. The sear…


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Seattle Tops Symantec List of Riskiest Online Cities

March 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

In a joint study with Sperling’s BestPlaces, Symantec has come up with a list of the 50 riskiest places in America to be online. At the top of the list are some of the country’s major tech hubs, including Seattle, San Francisco and Boston.
– Recent statistics from the

Internet
Crime
Complaint Centerput the amount of losses Americans suffered in 2009 due to online fraud at close to $560 million. But what cities are the most dangerous pound-for-pound?
According to an analysis by Symantec and research firm Sperlings BestPlaces,
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Google Broadband Test Has U.S. Cities Vying for High-Speed Internet

March 21st, 2010 | No Comments

When Google said that it will build broadband networks that zip 1 gigabit of data per second to users’ computers in a handful of regions in the United States, the search engine touched off quite the competition for its experiment. Google asked communities interested in being its guinea pigs for the test to volunteer for the test by March 26. With that deadline hurtling near, counties are ratcheting up the rhetoric, making their cases for why they should be among the chosen few. Mayors in Sarasota, Fla. and Topeka, Kansas renamed their cities Google and pulled wacky stunts to draw attention. Others just built Web sites. Check them out.
– When Google last month
pledged to build and test ultra high speed broadband networks, it touched off
quite a competition among city leaders from the East coast to the West coast who
want their municipalities to be among those to go Google.
Google Feb. 10 said that it will build broadband netw…


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Lilith Fair 2010: Artists Announced For 8 Cities

March 17th, 2010 | No Comments

DETAILS FOR PORTLAND, SEATTLE, CHICAGO AND MORE

“Lilith Fair: Seriously, you might wanna go to this…” – USA Today

Sarah McLachlan

The 2010 Lilith Fair Tour has officially announced dates, venues and artists for eight of the 36 North American cities the summer festival will hit this summer. At the same time, Las Vegas, Cleveland and Kansas City were revealed as the final three additions to the 36-city run. Tickets for initial shows will go on-sale to the general public beginning Saturday, March 27.

Much like the original Lilith Fair, there will be 11 artists on each date, with only two consistencies per show: the Lilith Local Talent Search Ourstage.com winner who starts the day and headliner Sarah McLachlan. The remaining acts on the line-up are constantly rotating from among more than 80 acts.

The following is the list of dates that go on-sale on Saturday, March 27. For the specific lineup at each of the eight announced dates go to Lilith Fair website.

Lilith Fair 2010 Dates with Lineup/Venue Details

Fri, Jul 2 Portland, OR The Amphitheatre at Clark County
Sat, Jul 3 George, WA The Gorge Amphitheatre
Sat, Jul 17 Chicago, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
Tues, July 20 Indianapolis, IN Verizon Wireless Music Center
Sat, Jul 24 Toronto, ON Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
Tues, July 27 Cleveland, OH Blossom Music Center **
Sun, Aug 8 Atlanta, GA Aaron’s Amphitheatre
Tues, Aug 10 W. Palm Beach, FL Cruzan Amphitheatre

(**Tickets go on-sale April 3)

Full list of artists announced so far:
A Fine Frenzy, Anjulie, Ann Atomic, Anya Marina, Ash Koley, The Bangles, Beth Orton, Brandi Carlile, Butterfly Boucher, Cat Power, Ceci Bastida, Chairlift, Chantal Kreviazuk, Colbie Caillat, Corinne Bailey Rae, Court Yard Hounds, Donna Delory, Elizaveta, Emmylou Harris, Erin McCarley, Erykah Badu, Frazey Ford, The Go-Go’s, Gossip, Grace Potter and The Nocturnals, Heart, Ima, Indigo Girls, Ingrid Michaelson, Janelle Monae, Jennifer Knapp, Jesca Hoop, Jill Hennessy, Jill Scott, Julia Othmer, Kate Miller-Heidke, Kate Nash Katzenjammer, Kelly Clarkson, Ke$ha, La Roux, Lights, Lissie, Loretta Lynn, Lucy Schwartz, Marina & The Diamonds, Martina McBride, Mary J. Blige, Meaghan Smith, Melissa McClelland, Metric, Miranda Lambert, Miranda Lee Richards, Missy Higgins, Nikki Jean, Nneka, Norah Jones, Priscilla Renea, The Rescues, Rosie Thomas, Sara Bareilles, Sarah McLachlan, Serena Ryder, Sheryl Crow, Sia, Sugarland, Susan Justice, Suzanne Vega, Tara MacLean, Tegan and Sara, Toby Lightman, Vedera, Vita Chambers, The Submarines, The Weepies, Ximena Sarinana, Zee Avi

Full list of cities revealed so far:
Atlanta, Austin*, Birmingham, Boston, Calgary, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Edmonton, Hartford, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City*, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, Minneapolis*, Montreal, Nashville*, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Raleigh, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa, Toronto, Vancouver, DC and West Palm Beach


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Google Broadband Sought by Topeka, Boulder, Other U.S. Cities

March 4th, 2010 | No Comments

Google plans on testing one or more high-speed broadband networks in a select number of midsized U.S. cities, and has asked interested municipalities to provide information about their communities that will allow Google to make its decision. That has led Topeka, Kan., to change its name temporarily to Google, and other towns such as Grand Rapids, Mich., to launch massive social networking campaigns. Google, however, is choosing to keep its decision-making process under wraps.
– Pop quiz: What do the cities of Topeka, Kan.,
Boulder, Colo.,
Aspen, Colo.,
Park City, Utah,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
and an increasing number of U.S.
cities have in common? They are all either competing or mulling over whether to
compete for a contract to test-market a Google broadband service. T…


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Twitter Local Trends Now Live in 15 Cities

January 28th, 2010 | No Comments

Twitter Local Trends feature launches to 13 cities in the United States, as well as in London and San Paulo. U.S. city coverage for Twitter’s new Local Trend feature includes: New York City, Atlanta, Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Seattle, Houston, San Antonio, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. Anyone confused as to why Twitter is doing this may not properly grok Twitter. The service has more than 60 million users, but like Google, Facebook and any service that adds users by the millions, it’s important to satisfy a broad cross-section of users.
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Twitter’s popular trends feature has gone local, tracking
tweets and conversations that are rising high in 15 cities.
U.S. city coverage for Twitter’s new Local Trend feature
includes: New York City, Atlanta, Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, Philadelphia,
Dallas-Ft. Worth, Seattle, Hou…


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IBM Predicts 5 Ways Cities Will Become Smarter in 5 Years

December 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

In this time of year-end speculation, IBM’s Next 5 in 5 offers a series of five predictions about how cities will grow smarter and what technologies will aid in that transformation over the next five years.
– In time for the spate of end-of-year speculation, IBM
on Dec. 17 offered a series of five predictions about how cities will grow
smarter and what technologies will aid in that transformation over the next
five years.
Indeed, with an estimated 60 million people around the world moving into
citi…


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Refugees and cities: Tents come down

December 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Tomorrow’s fugitive will live in a slum, not under canvas

SAY the word “refugee” and it still conjures up visions of uprooted families who live, for years, in vast camps where humanitarian agencies look after them and they remain largely separate from their so-called host countries.

That image is out of date and getting more so all the time, says UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency. Perhaps half the 10.5m people who fall directly under the organisation’s remit (in other words, those who have crossed borders, fearing death or persecution) now live in cities, cheek by jowl with other desperate folk. Refugees, it seems, are just like other human beings: they are trying their luck in the vast conurbations whose growth will continue to be a big social trend in the 21st century. …

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Major Asian cities face climate disaster: WWF

November 12th, 2009 | No Comments

Low-lying and impoverished Asian coastal cities such as Dhaka, Manila and Jakarta are vulnerable to “brutal” damage from climate change without global action, environmental group WWF warned Thursday. Energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions must be curtailed in “mega-cities” where

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Amazon Announces Same Day Delivery in Select Cities

October 16th, 2009 | No Comments

Last minute holiday shoppers might heave a sigh of relief over Amazon’s same-day deilvery option, though it’s currently limited to seven U.S. cities.
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Online retail giant Amazon.com announced plans to offer same
day delivery in seven major U.S. cities, as well as an expansion of Saturday
shipping options. The shipping option “Local Express
Delivery” allows customers in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Las
Vegas, Seatt…


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Comcast Offers High-Speed Internet for Business in the Twin Cities

September 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Comcast rolls out high-speed (up to 100 Megabits per second (Mbps) downloads and up to 15 Mbps uploads) Internet for businesses in the Twin Cities region of the Midwest.
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Communications giant Comcast
announced the launch of 100 Mbps high-speed Internet service to businesses in
the Twin Cities region. For the first time, Comcast is offering business
customers what it claims is one of the fastest broadband services available in
the U.S. today: up …


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Comcast Offers High-Speed Internet for Business in Twin Cities

September 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Comcast rolls out high-speed (up to 100M-bps downloads and 15M-bps uploads) Internet for businesses in the Twin Cities region of the Midwest.
– Communications giant Comcast announced the launch of 100M-bps high-speed
Internet service to businesses in the Twin Cities region which it claims is one
of the fastest broadband services available in the United
States today.
The service, which boasts up to 100M-bps downloads and 15M-bps uploads,…


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10 Best US Cities For Local Food (PHOTOS)

July 27th, 2009 | No Comments

We here at HuffPost Green think the local food movement is a thriving and exciting part of the discussion about sustainability. After researching the best local food in the United States, we compiled this slideshow of our discoveries, focusing…

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