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TechNewsWorld: Google is offering a new service that will let readers search the archives of newspapers, magazines and other publications dating back more than 200 years, considerably extending its already-powerful influence over how the world’s information is searched, indexed and accessed.

Continuing its quest to index all of the world’s information online, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG)  has released Google News Archive Search, a service that offers a wide selection of previously published material, some of it dating back centuries.

Articles that are already offered for free elsewhere on the Web will be available at no cost through Archive Search. However, premium content will be available only for a fee — an arrangement welcomed by publishers that have been jealously guarding their turf and content since the advent of e-commerce .

News.com: IBM has won a deal to build a supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory that will pair more than 16,000 AMD Opteron processors with more than 16,000 Cell processors to try to reach a new computing milestone for the company.

As first reported by CNET News.com, the machine, dubbed Roadrunner, uses a hybrid approach that combines a conventional cluster of Opteron servers with Cell chips that handle some of the calculating grunt work. Each Cell chip, originally designed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba for the Sony PlayStation 3 video game console, includes eight special-purpose engines that can rapidly perform physics calculations.

TechTree: STAR India recently launched a mobile audio entertainment service called “STAR 7827 Voice,” which the company claims is the first-of-its-kind in the country. This radio-like voice service offers popular TV and movie content in an easy-to-access, consumer-friendly format, with mobile jockeys presenting fresh content every time consumers make a call.

STAR 7827 Voice is based on advanced IVR technology, and provides mobile and sometimes fixed-line users access to daily “audiosodes” of dramas and other popular content from STAR’s bouquet of channels. The service is touted as offering consumers their daily fix of fun on-the-fly, including jokes, contests, spiritual messages, and a special range of ring tones and ring back tones.