Computerworld - In an interview this week, a Google executive called rival Facebook an outdated social network that is annoying the heck out of users with its ads. He also said there's a definite advantage to being late to the party. ...
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Big data a catalyst for change Corporate IT, BI and enterprise search Finding the gems Social, collaborative common to BI and search Business intelligence (BI) and enterprise search have been converging slowly in corporate IT ...
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Google's services have been riding a bit of a rollercoaster in China over the last several days. Google services were blocked in China for about 12 hours, going from last Friday evening into Saturday morning. Then services were restored ...
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Computerworld-A Ukraine-based startup,Devellar,has launched an online plagiarism tool that checks online content to see whether it has been duplicated. The beta version of PlagSpotter features an algorithm that"enables ...
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Most organisations are failing to put the necessary protections around data in virtual environments, leaving them wide open to attack, says Jason Hart, vice-president cloud solutions, SafeNet. "In the virtual world, the basic security ...
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Hays Specialist Recruitment and Fiat are impressed by the new expert location and translation features in Google's new enterprise search appliance (GSA). Entity recognition – which automatically classifies unstructured content and ...
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Google has added to its list of acquisitions with the$45m(£28m)purchase of Ukrainian company Viewdle,while at the same time closing a number of unpopular services that have failed to catch on. Viewdle is a developer of facial ...
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A 40 year retired industrial art teacher's project by Robert Sanchez Rivera is creating quite the commotion in Puerto Rico.Mr.Sanchez's flying saucer home actually does not have anything to do with anticipated encounters with aliens.Just ...
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Is your office strict about employees working 9 to 5?Still use a desktop computer and rely on your Rolodex?Those-and more-are office trends that professionals believe will disappear within five years,according to a new LinkedIn report. ...
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Iran has blocked access to Google search and Gmail in a move officials say is aimed at improving cyber security. The Islamic Republic has increasingly tightened cyber security after its nuclear programme was targeted by the Stuxnet worm ...
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IDG News Service-When assigning search result rankings,Google will now take reports of copyright violation into account. The goal is to give better placement to sites that publish content they either own or have legally licensed,and ...
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The Bank of Israel is using Google search data to find clues to the state of the Israeli economy,analysing keyword counts reported by Google,before it releases its own official statistics. And the Bank of England,the Federal Reserve in ...
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Infoworld - With its much-anticipated Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean" OS release imminent, Google is keeping Apple on its toes in the mobile computing space, say software developers. "Jelly Bean" offers a host of feature improvements, ...
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Use heat exchanger, in order to save hot water can save a lot of heat energy, but also to open up or close tankless tankless, electric, or you can not have the possibility of a tinyhouse hot water system, because they need too much power. ...
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