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RSS difference engineGoogle's super secret search upgrades: They want your feedback
News But the industry buzz is obviously a huge part of it: there's a legitimate new contender in the search engine market, Microsoft's Bing, which is fuelled by heavy marketing dollars and has begun to inch its way up in... [11 Aug 2009]
Cisco Secure Access Control Server Deployment Guide
White Paper This paper also covers the difference between Cisco Secure ACS for Windows and Cisco Secure ACS Solution Engine (appliance version), where applicable. This paper discusses planning, design, and... [31 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.06.09
Round-Up In the meantime, while Windows 7 is largely focused on improving the look and performance of the core Vista engine, Snow Leopard goes more under the hood, aiming to better handle 64-bit processing and multi-core... [12 Jun 2009]
Apple on Windows 7 - 'just another version of Vista'
News Windows 7 is largely focused on improving the look and performance of the core Vista engine, while Snow Leopard goes more under the hood, aiming to better handle 64-bit processing and multicore capabilities. [09 Jun 2009]
Betfair spins into financial trading
News The exchange was inspired by Betfair's Flywheel betting engine tech but takes it to the next level, according to Phillips, and is able to support 100,000 customers concurrently. It encompasses two products: spread... [10 Nov 2008]
What's Firefox Mobile got up its sleeve?
News It seems convenient enough to type in your term, than to click the engine you prefer to search with - either Google, Yahoo! Search, in fact, is bundled into the URL bar and is duplicated below to focus the query on one... [20 Oct 2008]
Open Source and IMS Learning Design: Building the Infrastructure for eLearning
White Paper An overview is given of the FOSS applications available, divided into design time and run time, with particular reference to LD editors and the CopperCore Learning Design engine. A short overview of eLearning... [30 Sep 2008]
Beijing Olympics, Google Earth, BlackBerry Bold and more
Photo Charles Babbage's Difference Engine number 2 is making its US debut at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Each ambulance has a Mercedes Benz engine and costs about... [30 May 2008]
Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action
Photo Charles Babbage's Difference Engine number 2 is making its US debut at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. A forward-thinking mathematician and engineer, Babbage designed the... [12 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity ¦ Video Cheat Sheet: Data Breaches ¦ Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain ¦ India's high-tech... [01 May 2008]
India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...
Photo Pictured above is the counting mechanism of the Difference engine - in perfect symmetry prior to its first-ever usage. Tech millionaire Nathan Myhrvold commissioned London's Science Museum to make him a... [29 Apr 2008]
Photos: Charles Babbage's masterpiece reincarnated
Photo Tech millionaire Nathan Myhrvold commissioned London's Science Museum to make him a version of Charles Babbage's famous Difference engine, a machine designed to mechanically calculate polynomial functions. [10 Apr 2008]
CIO Essentials: Open source, green tech, women in IT
News What they do require is an ability to take some risks - no riskier than an Italian publishing house I knew, which spent two years on a massive advertising engine only for their top three software provider to decide that... [19 Jun 2007]
Rob Fraser, IT director, Boots
Comment The engine behind the portal also crunches a vast amount of store data and management information tailored to each store, based on its location and benchmarked against a group of similar stores, to provide what Fraser... [25 Apr 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: My productivity has peaked
Comment An effective search engine would be next followed by modelling and decision support. Any amount of basic machine upgrading, and it continues apace, won't make a jot of difference, as I am now the... [27 Nov 2006]
