We’ve improved the Search box in Internet Explorer 8 so that search providers can deliver rich, contextual search suggestions in real time. As you type a search term, you’ll see relevant suggestions that can be categorized and may even include images. For instance, you might find images of products from your favorite store as you search, or stock charts from your online brokerage account in the Search Box drop-down list. Internet Explorer 8 provides the technology, but the choice of what to show is made by the search provider.
Popular sites such as Bing, Wikipedia, Amazon.com, The New York Times online, Yahoo!, eBay, OneRiot, ESPN, Photobucket, and TinyPic are all taking advantage of the new search capabilities in Internet Explorer 8. In addition, because people often use Search to get back to sites that they’ve visited before, Internet Explorer 8 includes matches from your Favorites and History in the bottom of the Search Box drop-down list.
The enhanced Instant Search box in Internet Explorer 8 is more helpful than before, making it easier to find interesting content and returning more relevant search results. As you type a search term, you’ll see real-time search suggestions—including images and rich text—from the search provider you’ve chosen. The Instant Search box will even display results from your Favorites and browsing history. A quick pick menu at the bottom of the Instant Search box lets you switch back and forth between your favorite Web sites and search provider’s search suggestions with a click of the mouse.
Motorola’s ‘slim’ brigade
Finally, Motorola’s ‘slim’ brigade is under attack, and this time from i-mate. The Dubai-based i-mate, famous for its large-sized handhelds, has tried to marry a slim handset to a business tool. The result is the slinky SPL, which runs on the Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphone platform.
Integrated i-mate;
The most versatile feature of the SPL is the backward integration into the i-mate suite of offerings like the I-view, Backup and Control options. Via the I-view, a user can have the benefit of securely accessing his entire data and files at any point during the day or night, irrespective of the location. And if you feel that the expandable memory storage on the phone is still short for your requirements, then additional data can also be stored on the I-view suite, thereby enhancing your phone’s efficiency.
Similarly, the Backup function allows you to have an automatic copy of your of your entire data in a separate location other than the handset. So, in an unfortunate scenario where you lose the phone, a data replica already exists that can be seamlessly transferred to a new handset.
Remote troubleshooting is easily done through the Control functionality. This feature has the capability to remotely wipe out sensitive data on the phone and the storage card in ase the handset falls into the wrong hands. Well, all this sure makes me greedy and I wish it also had Wi-Fi.