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Viper - the Anti-plagiarism Scanner 1.5 (Windows)

We like to think of Viper as the FREE alternative to Turn It In. Our anti-plagiarism software is used by teachers, lecturers and students worldwide to detect instances of plagiarism in academic work, such as essays, dissertations and pieces of course. Are you a student? Use the software to...

Tags: Software, Essay, Student, Microsoft Windows, Academic Answers, Scanners, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Hardware, Peripherals, Management

Software downloads 2009-03-19

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Netbooks worth the upgrade to Windows 7? Heck yes!

my thoughts"As I wrote the day that 7 launched, 'Windows 7 is just another OS.'"An article sitting at a -1 rating (out of 33 people) as I type this, and with quite a bit of Talkback discussion. Not exactly a shining pillar of truth."Most netbooks ship with Windows XP Home...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Boot-time, Waking Up, netbook, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks worth, Heck Yes

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

While I'm away..."Good riddance, Encarta!"

While I'm away..."Good riddance, Encarta!"Did not many people sayincluding the creator of wikipedia (?) that much of the material and sublect matter retained within wikipedia is not to be regarded as 100 percent factual?RE: While I'm away...I kind of liked that Encarta was at least somewhat verified as factual. ...

Tags: Wiki, Keyword Searches, Encarta.com, Wikipedia, encyclopedia, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Wolfram Alpha won't ask and won't tell

Wolfram Alpha won't ask and won't tellwolfram alpha wants to be a brainbut it does not have all the data to deliver all the answers.I see it more like an academic atempt to data mining rather than a search engine.it is not a search engineI have commented on Wolfram Alpha's...

Tags: INTERNET, SEARCH, Wolfram Alpha

Discussion threads 2009-05-21

Wolfram/Alpha launches: Can it break out of niche-ville?

Wolfram/Alpha launches: Can it break out of niche-ville?Agreed. Tried it out.It can answer "some" questions faster then Google but still suffers the problem of you want to do further research even then to be assured Wolfram got it right. As I suspected, its much like Wikipedia; just a smaller...

Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., search engine, Wolfram/Alpha

Discussion threads 2009-05-16

Wolfram/Alpha's demo: Search results meet analytics

Updated: Stephen Wolfram, creator of the Wolfram/Alpha search engine, on Tuesday demonstrated his much ballyhooed "computational knowledge engine" at a talk at Harvard University. Wolfram likened his effort to reproducing a global reference library and said Wolfram/Alpha will launch in "a few weeks." Wolfram's demonstration was one...

Tags: Gross Domestic Product, Algorithm, Search Engine, Analytics, Knowledge, Data, Search Result, Wolfram/Alpha, Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram/Alpha Search Engine, Search, Engineering, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-28

Algorithms everywhere: Can IBM automate business decisions?

IBM outlined a vision---and of course a new services unit to go with it---that takes a little time to grok. Big Blue talked about the "information journey," fact-based enterprises and nudging out gut calls in everyday management for decisions based on hard, cold facts. But when you boil it all...

Tags: Algorithm, Fact, Vision, Risk Management, IBM Corp., William Pulleyblank, Game Plan, Engineering, Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial Services, Security, Finance, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-15

True Knowledge API lies at the heart of real business model

Semantically powered question answering start-up True Knowledge today made its Semantic Search API available for public consumption, taking the next step on the company's journey out of beta and providing a clear steer as to the way in which they intend to generate revenue. As the company's...

Tags: Knowledge, Knowledge Base, True Knowledge, Query API, True Knowledge Home Page, Strategy, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-04-13

Even I'd use Windows 7 if it was free!

Fellow ZDNet blogger, Andrew Nusca, asked a great question today: "Should Microsoft give Windows 7 away for free?" He answers his own question, with a pretty big yes at least under certain conditions, but I think his question is even more relevant here in the land of Ed Tech...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Chances, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Open Source, UNIX, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-01-29

Can we rely entirely on Google and Wikipedia?

After spending two years now as a student at university, I've come to the sound conclusion that yes; yes you can survive entirely on Google and Wikipedia for essays and research. Don't be so hasty to shoot me down just quite yet... "Wikipedia" you might question, but...

Tags: Google Inc., Essay, University, Wikipedia, Wiki, Homeland Security, Online Communications, Government, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-01-19

If you don't think Wikipedia is a worthy resource, make it better

If you don't think Wikipedia is a worthy resource, make it betterReally, Wikipedia can be all that you use for quick assignments. Sure,for a full research paper, there should be other sources. But, kids can learn a whole lot more if they do not spend as long looking for information....

Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Wikipedia IS, worthy resource

Discussion threads 2008-11-11

Sub-prime and the other seven deadly bubbles . . .

Now that the distraction from the election is gone, I wish there was another distraction out there because we still have a way to go in regards to the financial crisis. There seems to be a widespread perception that the mess caused by the sub-prime bubble has...

Tags: Financial, Derivatives, Bubble, Philanthropia, Financial Services, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-11-08

Associative arrays and elections data

Associative arrays and elections dataThis is a very useful data structureand what modern language doesnt provide an implementation of it?Neat as your solution it, I have say though I think you're a little hard on SQL. As this data is probably in a RDMBS anyway, if you can write a...

Tags: Programming languages, Scripting languages, Development tools, Databases, Perl, J Smith, John Smith, Associative Arrays

Discussion threads 2008-10-25

Student Technology Day: your questions to the presenters

I received an email this morning about the opportunity to participate in sending questions to the speakers at the Microsoft Student Technology Day tomorrow (that's Wednesday, for those who have yet to understand the Gregorian calendar). Whilst I'm not allowed to publish the number to text in your questions for...

Tags: Speaker, Microsoft Corp., Question, Keyboards, Internet, Games, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-30

KAUST to house fastest supercomputer in Middle East

Thanks to one of my tipsters, I was informed the other day that KAUST, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, have teamed up with IBM to build the fastest and most powerful supercomputer in the Middle East. KAUST is one of the most modern, dedicated...

Tags: Supercomputer, University, Middle East, Supercomputing, KAUST, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-25

Squaring the cloud

Squaring the cloudNobody cares...about the cloud. Individuals will eventually be its only users.I guess the large number of talkbacks indicates just how popular it is.Totally dangerous idea.http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/15/google_spreadsheet_bug/This is what users of google apps can expect. Unsecure data.So who takes the call when the Cloud is down?The ISP? Google? Who is...

Tags: BIOS, Strategy, Processors, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-04-15

illumin8-ing improvements for knowledge workers?

The printing press was a pretty pivotal invention, challenging artificial limitations on the dissemination of ideas maintained by scriptoria and opening flood gates to the vibrant philosophical, social and technological innovations of the Renaissance, Reformation, and beyond. From those early innovations, we entered a long period in...

Tags: Journal, Elsevier, Illumin8, Productivity, Product Development, Research & Development, Business Operations, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-26

The new Google Spreadsheet Feature and Visualization API

Today Google released a new feature for Google Spreadsheets that gives users some very powerful data visualization capabilities. Considering the multitude of different ways people use Google Spreadsheets, Google couldn't possibly create unique, tailored visualization tools for everything, so they decided to open it up and let both users...

Tags: Google Inc., API, Spreadsheet, Productivity, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-03-19

Microsoft plays with new non-Windows OS; If only it could start from scratch

Microsoft Research has developed a non-Windows OS for academic types to play with. The subliminal message from Microsoft: Folks, we'd love to start from scratch with an OS, but we just can't go there. That connection between Microsoft's research and actual company desires may be a bit...

Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Research, Singularity Effort, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-05

H-Store: Complete destruction of the old DBMS order?

Guest Post: Curt Monash reports from the front lines of a database revolution. Mike Stonebraker created much of the database management industry. Now he wants to blow it up. Via a project called H-Store [pdf file], he proposes to manage high-end OLTP databases entirely in...

Tags: Disk, DBMS, Brown University, OLTP, RAM, H-Store, I-Store, H-Store Team, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Curt Monash

Blog posts 2008-02-20