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Google sheds light on search process
Google has announced plans to be more open with users about how search results are generated and positioned. The company is preparing to rollout a new set of options which will provide details on why results are ordered in a particular way.
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Cops Hacked And Bombed In China
Sixteen policemen have been killed in a grenade and knife attack in China just four days before the Beijing Olympic Games begin.
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Mainstream Web Watch: The Olympics & Online Video
The Beijing Olympics starts in a couple of weeks and what better test of the mainstream web is there than the world's biggest sports event. This is the first in a series of posts that will look at the Web technologies powering this year's Olympics. One of the most obvious ways the Web will be utilized with the Beijing Olympics is with online video coverage . In the US, NBC has teamed up ...
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How To: Recover From A Lost Wallet
Like this list? Buzz Up on Yahoo! How to recover from a lost wallet To many people, their wallet is their livelihood. Not only are wallets used for money and credit cards , but they're also used to store personal identification, business cards, and other valuables.
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New BRAVIA Theatre Systems Offer Tiny Speakers, New Features and a Room-Filling Sound: DAV-IS50, HTD-890IS and HT-IS100
-- DAV-IS50 combines 5.1 channel DVD home-theatre-in-a-box, tiny speakers the size of a golf ball and wireless rear speakers
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Dell tries to trademark 'cloud computing'
Dell may be trying to grab control of a term that could define technology infrastructure for years to come. The company is applying to trademark the term "cloud computing," according to a document on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Web site. Learn more about what cloud computing really means and the new breed of utility computing and platform-as-a-service offerings . ] The ...
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Oracle's complex to double in size
Oracle Corp. , the world's third-largest software maker, is proceeding with plans to build a 150,000-square-foot facility at its Burlington office park, the latest in series of major real estate moves by out-of-state technology giants.
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In retrospect, the PR strategy for Cuil.com's launch wasn't so cool
Shooting down a launch. The highest-profile website launch in a long while was last Monday's unveiling of Cuil.com (pronounced "cool.") The new search engine was built by former Google and AltaVista engineers, who say it searches three times as many pages as Google. But by the end of the site's first day, many bloggers and journalists seemed to have found ...
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Dell tries to trademark 'cloud computing'
Dell may be trying to grab control of a term that could define technology infrastructure for years to come. The company is applying to trademark the term "cloud computing," according to a document on the US Patent and Trademark Office's website.
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IPhone helps spur a new cellphone attitude
In the first 10 days after Apple opened its App Store for the iPhone, consumers downloaded more than 25 million applications, ranging from games like Super Monkey Ball to tools like New York City subway maps. It was nothing short of revolutionary, not only because the number was so high but also because iPhone users could do it at all.
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Free Articles Get Read But Don't Generate More Citations
When academic articles are "open access" or free online, they get read more often, but they don't -- going against conventional wisdom -- get cited more often in academic literature, finds a new Cornell study.
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Intel says its new chips will soup up graphics
SAN FRANCISCO - Intel is planning to release today the first technical details of a new family of chips intended to soup up computer graphics and, eventually, a broad range of computing tasks.
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Square Enix to offer Final Fantasy XIII in 2009
TOKYO, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Japanese game software publisher Square Enix Co Ltd <9684.T> said it would launch its "Final Fantasy XIII" game in 2009 in Japan.
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Around Town
The volunteer group, Southern Utah for Obama, will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Jazzy Java Coffee House, 285 N. Bluff St. Topics for the evening will focus on planning for a rally on Aug. 28, the day Sen. Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination.
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PRW.com - Plastics Industry News
But value of global battery powered devices will continue to rise, says report. 4 August 2008 –The global market for battery powered communication devices such as mobile phones is expected to see a fall in value over the next five years.
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Voltage Security Empowers Partners With Rapid Revenue Opportunities From Information Encryption Solutions
Voltage Security, a global leader in information encryption, today announced rapid momentum for its Entourage Partner Program as well as the launch of Voltage SecureMail Server V3.3.
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Internet scam hits Beijing Games
BEIJING, CHINA: Sports fans around the world have been swindled by an international Internet scam which offered thousands of bogus tickets for the Beijing Games, Olympic officials said on Monday.
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Better Than Beach Reading: A Linux Starter Kit
This week, we here at LinuxInsider felt it our duty to help those who are fed up with Redmond to find their way to Linux. This is August -- a month of transition and new beginnings, after all -- so what better time for geeks who have been lost on the dark side to come over to the Light that is Linux?
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Pak ready to resolve all issues with India: Gilani
Confronted over the Inter Services Intelligence's role in the Indian embassy bombing in Kabul, Pakistan Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani has said he addressed "various apprehensions" in bilateral ties during his meeting with counterpart Manmohan Singh, with the two sides displaying eagerness to resolve all outstanding issues, including Kashmir.
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Could 64-bit Windows finally be taking off?
After years of false starts, new numbers suggest that people may finally be making the leap in significant numbers.
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ISI is Pakistan's first line of defence, says Musharraf
Amid pressure from India and the US to rein in the Inter-Services Intelligence, President Pervez Musharraf has come to its rescue saying any attempt to target the spy agency will weaken Pakistan as it is "the first line of defence" and lashed out at his detractors for calling him an American stooge.
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Auto Windscreens launches online booking system
Auto Windscreens, part of RAC, has launched an online booking system for customers arranging a windscreen replacement or repair.
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NovaShield, Inc. Launches NovaShield AntiMalware Version 2.0 With 90-Day Free Trial
NovaShield, Inc., leader in advanced anti-malware technology, today announced the availability of NovaShield AntiMalware version 2.0, a cutting-edge behavior-based security software for Windows XP and Windows Vista designed specifically to detect, block, and remove sophisticated and rapidly morphing malware such as drive-by-downloads, Trojans, keyloggers and rootkits, as well as traditional ...
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 17th Nov 2005 00:00 UTC
The Microsoft doubters are at it again. Skeptics are questioning Microsoft's ability to deliver on the "Windows Live" strategy outlined recently by Bill Gates and Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 9th Aug 2005 17:49 UTC
Microsoft on Monday signed off on the Windows Vista SDK , or software development kit, which will enable developers to create applications for the next-generation Windows release.
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