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portal: search

AT&T Launches Video Search Website - Telco eyeballs delicious video content ad revenue

From the "we're terrified of becoming a dumb pipe" and "that content ad revenue sure looks tasty" departments comes news that AT&T has launched a new beta video search portal dubbed Videocrawler. According to the AT&T press release, the portal was developed in concert with Divvio, and is designed to index hundreds of millions of video clips from thousands of sites. According to AT&T, the new beta portal will be banner ad supported, while indexing content from existing Internet video websites like Hulu, blip.tv, MySpace Video, Google Video, and YouTube. The portal also allows searching for audio content (podcasts, ringtones, radio).

Strange Portal Connects Earth to Sun

This artist's concept shows a magnetic portal connecting Earth's magnetic field connecting to the sun's. The spacecraft is on hand to measure the high-energy particles and fields flowing through the portal. Credit: NASA

Virgin Mobile UK to Use Yahoo Search Portal

Internet search portal, Yahoo! has secured a deal to provide mobile search services for the UK based Virgin Mobile. The service will be launched on the MVNO from next week (8th Dec). Yahoo! and Virgin Media also plan to deliver mobile sponsored search results and contextually served sponsored listings within the Virgin Media mobile portal early 2009.

TSI to launch B2B portal www.tsi.travel by next month

New Delhi-based B2B travel agency, Travel Services International (TSI) will launch its B2B portal www.tsi.travel by next month. The B2B portal will allow TSI’s network of B2B agents to book travel related services like airline tickets, packages and a host of other products under one platform. The company is taking a phased approach to launch various products on the B2B website by introducing airline tickets in the first phase, which starts from next month. In early 2009, the second phase of the product launch, the company is slated to offer packages – both outbound and inbound along with travel insurance.

Yahoo to deliver search results on Virgin Media portal

The new Virgin Media mobile portal will be available to consumers Dec. 8. Additionally, Yahoo and Virgin Media plan to deliver mobile sponsored search results and contextually served sponsored listings within the Virgin Media mobile portal in early 2009.

Convergys Announces Intervoice Voice Portal 6 and Enables Mobile Self-Service

CINCINNATI --(Business Wire)-- Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG), a global leader in relationship management, announced today Intervoice (R) Voice Portal 6.0 (IVP 6) and the introduction of its next-generation application creation environment - Interaction Composer. With IVP 6, clients can now create highly personalized speech solutions, leveraging a set of rules and policies that can be easily constructed by integrating with the Convergys Dynamic Decisioning Solution. With this release, Convergys empowers enterprises to think differently about the customer experience by introducing a voice portal platform designed to facilitate the development of multimodal applications that enable mobile self-service.

NBC Universal set to launch 'Universal' branded mobile portal in Japan

London/Tokyo - 31 October 2008: NBC Universal has announced the launch of its new mobile portal in Japan. The portal will go live in October 2008 to coincide with the theatrical run, in Japan, of the major blockbuster movie ‘Wanted' starring Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman. It is set to offer downloadable content and services to mobile customers via a number of operators, including NTT Docomo, KDDI-au and SoftBank Mobile.

NBC Universal set to launch 'Universal' branded mobile portal in Japan

London/Tokyo - 31 October 2008: NBC Universal has announced the launch of its new mobile portal in Japan. The portal will go live in October 2008 to coincide with the theatrical run, in Japan, of the major blockbuster movie ‘Wanted' starring Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman. It is set to offer downloadable content and services to mobile customers via a number of operators, including NTT Docomo, KDDI-au and SoftBank Mobile.

Reliance money goes online; launches web portal for its customers

With an aim to further strengthen its distribution network, Reliance Money, part of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG), today announced the launch of its e-commerce web portal www.RelianceMoneyMall.com, offering online range of financial products to its customers. The portal is a strategic initiative by the company to strengthen its distribution network currently spread across over 10,000 physical outlets and more than 20,000 touchpoints by leveraging the online medium.

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Launches World's First Online Portal Profiling Human Rights Lawsuits Against Companies

(CSRwire) LONDON. - October 29, 2008 - Today the non-profit Business & Human Rights Resource Centre launches a free online portal – the first to bring together and demystify lawsuits from across the world alleging human rights abuses by companies. The portal summarises in non-legal language over 35 cases and the positions of each side, with more cases to be added soon. It also presents special commentaries by experts.

Yahoo! oneSearc Named as the Exclusive Search Service on Virgin Medis Mobile Portal in the UK

Virgin Media and Yahoo! today announced that Yahoo! oneSearc will power the Internet search experience on Virgin Medis new, enhanced mobile portal. The Virgin Media mobile portal will be available to consumers on the 8

Virgin Media Takes Yahoo oneSearch For New Mobile Portal

OneSearch, one product Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) keeps highlighting despite through its own troubled times, has got another deal. The web-based version of the mobile search app will power search for Virgin Media’s new mobile portal in the UK from December 8. OneSearch already this year inked similar partnerships with T-Mobile, by which Virgin’s own virtual network is supplied, so this was maybe an easy next deal to make. But it won’t extend to the desktop web, where virignmedia.com’s search is Google-powered. The hook-up will come with Yahoo serving up sponsored search results and sponsored listings on the portal by early 2009. OneSearch professes to offer a better mobile search experience than the likes of Google (NSDQ: GOOG), with info from a range of sources shrunk for contextual relevance in the palm, eg.

T-Mobile USA Relaunches T-Zones With Web Content And App Store

T-Mobile USA is unveiling its new portal strategy on Thursday, which integrates Yahoo! (NSDQ: YHOO) search, and an application storefront similar to the one found on the iPhone. We first reported on this in August. The new portal is being called web2go, and is replacing the company’s long-standing T-Zones experience. The portal will initially be rolled out to the company’s current line-up of handsets, excluding the T-Mobile G1 and the Sidekick, and then slowly to older phones.

Benefits portal at Vodafone

Vodafone has created a benefits portal to enable staff to access personalised information about all of their perks in one place.

New Internet portal facilitates searching for statistics

A new Internet portal comprising all Official Statistics of Finland, www. officialstatistics.fi, has been launched on Statistics Finland website.

E-commerce portal launched in Qatar

Doha Bank has launched a bilingual e-commerce portal, www.DBankSooq.com, that’s believed to be the first of its kind in Qatar.

Online payments portal opens Vietnam to e-commerce

Hanoi (ANTARA News/Asia Pulse) - A new online payment portal, PayNet, is set to open up the world of e-commerce in Vietnam after being launched at a ceremony on November 22.

New Customer Portal Offered by NTT Europe Online

NTT Europe Online a managed hosting specialist, has announced the availability of what it calls a groundbreaking virtualization customer portal. NTT claims it offers unprecedented levels of control and flexibility to companies deploying virtualized services in any of its European data centers.

Ministry of Commerce web portal inaugurated

TEHRAN, Oct. 29 (MNA) – Iran Ministry of Commerce web portal was inaugurated here on late Tuesday in the presence of Commerce Minister Mas’ud Mirkazemi and the officials of Majlis’ (Iran’s parliament) Industries and Mines Committee.

Sony launches web portal for PS3 Home

While Sony is remaining tight-lipped about the exact details of the launch of PS3 Home, the company has launched a brand new web portal for the PlayStation's much-anticipated 3D virtual social networking service.

Iran Ministry of Commerce web portal opened

LONDON, October 31 (IranMania) - Iran Ministry of Commerce web portal was inaugurated in the presence of Commerce Minister Mas?ud Mirkazemi and the officials of Majlis? (Iran?s parliament) Industries and Mines Committee, MNA reported.

openDesktop.org provides super-portal to free software sites

When users want the latest in free and open source software (FOSS), they are likely to think first of sites like freshmeat, or perhaps Softpedia or GnomeFiles. However, as the FOSS community has divided into specialized communities, sites for new releases have proliferated, to the point where it is difficult to keep track of them all. Since 2007, openDesktop.org has provided a portal for many of these specialized sites. Under the slogan "Let's build the desktop of the future," openDesktop.org provides a quick overview of new software that is independent of desktop or distribution.

Jewelplanet.com jewellery e-commerce portal launched in Dubai

Communication Crafts a Dubai based Web-Award Winning Company is pleased to announce the launch of its much anticipated jewellery portal www.jewelplanet.com at the 2008 Dubai International Jewellery Show.

UK's Virgin Media mobile portal chooses Yahoo's OneSearch

Yahoo OneSearch has been tapped as the default search engine for Virgin Media's mobile portal in the UK. The partnership will roll out on December 8.

New optimised Apple iPhone search portal from Google

Although Google has the Google Android platform they must still respect the Apple iPhone and its influence in the mobile phone world as Google has just rolled out a new search portal optimised for the Apple iPhone.


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