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RSS engines in newsLiMo adds browser-based UI kit to arsenal
News The bridge, therefore, makes it possible for an application to launch services, such as media engines or instant-messaging engines, via a browser-based user interface (UI). The mobile Linux company... [05 Aug 2008]
Yahoo! 'Boss' offers up search to build on
News s search engines in any manner, and display the results. It might well be that no single company becomes as dominant as the top three search engines - Google, Yahoo! has begun a project that lets anyone... [10 Jul 2008]
IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News Cell broadband engines, used in the Play Station 3 (PS3), work in conjunction with AMD x86 processors. Roadrunner runs on 6,948 dual-core AMD Opteron chips on IBM Model LS21 blade servers, and 12,960 Cell... [11 Jun 2008]
The future, in 3D
News In the shorter term, Kurzweil predicts mobile users will soon have the ability to talk in their own language and be heard in another as speech translation engines - a technology he has been developing - become embedded... [19 May 2008]
Google bots are crawling in a new way
News In fact, HTML forms have long been thought to be the gateway to large volumes of data beyond the normal scope of search engines. Google's search bots, which scour the web constantly for new pages, have begun a new, more... [16 Apr 2008]
M-commerce on retailers' shopping lists
News Services offered by portals, price-comparison engines and mobile map providers should therefore be utilised by retailers to establish a workable m-commerce strategy, according to the analyst. Better mobile interfaces and... [21 Feb 2008]
BBC iPlayer gets Christmas bonus
News The number of online searches for iPlayer increased by 15 times during the past month, with 18 per cent of the site's traffic during the week ending 5 January coming from search engines. The BBC's iPlayer website saw a... [10 Jan 2008]
P2P indexing site shutters access to US users
News and other search engines should be very concerned. TorrentSpy.com, the BitTorrent tracking site facing a copyright lawsuit from the motion picture industry, is shutting down access to users in the US, the company said in... [28 Aug 2007]
Second Lifers on their best behaviour?
News To be sure, all of the panellists have a stake in seeing virtual worlds take off more widely with internet users, corporations and advertisers, so that they can become viable economic engines. Do people behave better in... [02 Aug 2007]
Privacy screw tightened at Microsoft, Yahoo!
News The major search engines are racing to outdo each other in updating their data retention policies in an attempt to assuage concerns that they keep consumer search data too long. The latest to go public with their moves... [23 Jul 2007]
Search gurus see big bucks in the enterprise
News The panellists said they were impressed with search engines like ZoomInfo.com, the job candidate search engine, and Mahalo, the search engine started by publishing entrepreneur Jason Calacanis that uses human-created... [29 Jun 2007]
Google helping Utah with its searchable data
News Google is also working with officials in Utah and Virginia to help create Custom Search Engines for those government websites. Custom Search Engines allow people to sort for information by codes and... [30 Apr 2007]
Google has a Froogle rethink
News Recent statistics from online traffic measurement company Hitwise found search engines are the primary way that internet users navigate to key industry categories. Google is rebranding "Froogle" as "Google Product... [19 Apr 2007]
Controversial green plans could cripple your car
News Proposed 'black boxes' which could be installed in all UK vehicles as part of road-charging plans may also be linked to a mechanism within car engines which would disable the vehicle if it exceeded a weekly limit on the... [01 Apr 2007]
Net reputations ruin job hopes
News The rise of search engines such as Google means that potential employers are never more than a few clicks away from information about you," he added in a statement. Employers are increasingly checking out online personal... [28 Mar 2007]
