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- The incredible shrinking GOOG! 25% smaller...
- oddmaybe that's how they're making google faster - just by indexing less?Analysis is way too simpleSimply looking at the number of returned results is a useless criterion for determining search quality. I Googled my name and got 489,000 results - none of the first 30 or so referred to me....
- Discussion threads 2009-08-13
- Are Google's 'Caffeine' search results more like Bing's?
- no caffeine neededGoggle's search is best.Trying to emulate the inferior results from M$ bang, is not the way to go.Total Disagree...You give Linux a bad name, you really do. Google would not be spending millions of dollars to revamp their search engine if they really thought Bing was a non-issue...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-11
- Why SOA really, really matters in a cloud computing world
- Back in early 2006, I published a piece on the impact of delivering SOA-ready services via online, on-demand venues such as online marketplaces. Here is an update on the piece, revised to meet today's cloud computing realities. Since I wrote the first piece, we have seen many of the principles...
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Are iPhone 3.0 improvements enough to get you to buy an iPhone? They are for me
- Are iPhone 3.0 improvements enough to get you to buy an iPhone? They are for mePeople like you keep saying that'user experience sucks' then never actually explain how or why.I guess it would be difficult, as I assume you have never used one. And it is much easier to...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-17
- The Future looks very Cloudy
- I've just attended the one day, highly-focused executive 'Cloud Summit' conference. The Cloudâ€"used to describe everything from internet-based computing utilities to Software as a Service â€" was examined and its future impact explored within the highly appropriate venue of the Silicon Valley Computer History Museum. ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Have we all become a bunch of anxious, depressed, sleep-deprived irritable stress-heads?
- Have we all become a bunch of anxious, depressed, sleep-deprived irritable stress-heads?To answer your question, yes.I'd write more, but I'm too busy.ChrisBusy IT LifestyleIt's true - the IT world is very hectic and requires lots of work as well as time to research and respond to messages in many forms....
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Homeschooling + marketing = great coffee?
- I really love coffee. Not Folgers or Maxwell House, but the good stuff. My current favorite is Dean's Beans' "Ahab's Revenge" (with "the highest caffeine content of any organic coffee!"), but there are few things that make me happier than a really good cup of coffee. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- 600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddance!
- Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! As the great Obi-Wan Kenobi once said "I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced." Click on the "Read the rest of this entry" link below...
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Google shows real-time solar power statistics
- Google has been gathering information about the power collected through their array of solar panels. Last October, Google installed hundreds of panels on the Googleplex in Mountain View. If you are wondering how much power is actually generated in a given day, Google provides a few...
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- SAP, Oracle, Babies, and Wonks: Competition, American-style
- SAP as a company has always been risk-averse, even as it takes some risky steps. But its perhaps most risky step ever â€" the acquisition of TomorrowNow â€" in 2005, has apparently turned the already anodyne company into an almost non-competitive stupor, and frankly, it’s becoming a problem. ...
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- Why desktop Linux really hasn't (yet) succeeded
- Why desktop Linux really hasn't yet succeededneeds to be todaythat is why open source fails to compete. It can't compete in the "next year" it needs to compete now and to do so, means changing it's mode of operation into a revenue generating and proprietary format.In the long...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-25
- Apple plugs gaping iTunes hole, doesn't tell everyone
- Apple plugs gaping iTunes hole, doesn't tell everyoneTypical Apple operating procedure.No news here. Let the users be at risk so we can pretend our software is safe. To be fair, the company did issue a brief advisory with basic details of thso what was your "article about"?Why help the hackers??Ya...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-06
- Irony Dept: Thanks to social nets, Craigslist, etc, pro recruiters may have to find new careers
- If you're a professional recruiter (particularly one that works for a recruiting/headhunting firm), then it's probably time to start thinking about a career change. The reason? Once money starts talking, the mob of Internet users-cum-recruiters will be impossible to compete against. By "money talking," I mean, once employers start...
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Cybercrooks add QuickTime, WinZip flaws to arsenal
- Cybercrooks add QuickTime, WinZip flaws to arsenalVista users are safe, OSX users are notSince the Quicktime flaw affects [b]all[/b] OSX users it is installed by default and only some Vista users not installed by default, let's compare what happens when a Vista user and an OSX user visit a "malicious"...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-10
- Major new BlackBerry Patent app: Auto-capitalization, Auto-punctuation, many more usability features
- Major new BlackBerry Patent app: Auto-capitalization, Auto-punctuation, many more usability featuresInsignificant Incremental InventionResearch in Motion has once again produced an invention of minimal significance. It is really obvious to use timing to alter keyboard behavior.It is RIM's inability to produce significant inventions and their unwillingness to fairly compensate those...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-05
- Hitachi DZ-HS300A
- Photo gallery:Hitachi DZ-HS300AI'll start with the good news. Hitachi's goal of an inexpensive camcorder, combining the long recording times and stability of a hard disk drive with the easy playback and distribution of a DVD, merits attention. Furthermore, from that limited perspective, the hybrid DZ-HS300A succeeds. Its one-touch dubbing from...
- Product reviews 2007-03-16
- Identity substitutes, tokens and proxies
- We frequently use proxies for identity when the real thing is difficult, inconvenient, or unnecessary to validate. This applies especially in the realm of authentication, as the only true identity based authentication technologies available are biometric. Everything else is an approximation of identity validation to some acceptable degree of risk...
- Blog posts 2006-08-31
- Clinical Compendium 2008 MobiPocket Reader 2 (Mobile)
- Ethics, Alternative Medicine, Medical Genetics, Preventative Medicine and Pharmacotherapy. Many books in one. Topics include: all the inside information on the practice of medicine. Detailed P-450 drug interactions, pharmacotherapy, evidence-based medicine & statistics, medical ethics, medical genetics, medical malpractice, the placebo response and much more. Features: ***Tons of pearls in...
- Software downloads 2005-09-10
- Clinical Compendium 2007 2 (Mobile)
- Ethics, Alternative Medicine, Medical Genetics, Preventative Medicine and Pharmacotherapy. Many books in one. Topics include: all the inside information on the practice of medicine. Detailed P-450 drug interactions, pharmacotherapy, evidence-based medicine & statistics, medical ethics, medical genetics, medical malpractice, the placebo response and much more. Features: ***Tons of pearls in...
- Software downloads 2004-04-17
- Clinical Compendium - 2007 2 (Mobile)
- Ethics, Alternative Medicine, Medical Genetics, Preventative Medicine and Pharmacotherapy. Many books in one. Topics include: all the inside information on the practice of medicine. Detailed P-450 drug interactions, pharmacotherapy, evidence-based medicine & statistics, medical ethics, medical genetics, medical malpractice, the placebo response and much more. Features: ***Tons of pearls in...
- Software downloads 2004-04-17
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