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Answers.com - Now you know (gadget)

Answers.com - Now you know is a gadget that will show on your desktop or in your Vista Sidebar the latest news headlines at Answers.com. WikiAnswers is a wiki-based website that is growing constantly as people from all walks of life share their knowledge. It is the user-driven component of...

Tags: Answers.com, WikiAnswers, Wiki, Web Site Development, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Web Technology, Strategy, Online Communications, Internet, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Management

Software downloads 2007-12-20

New, improved Answers.com

One of my favorite tools just got better. Answers.com provides answers not search result listings to queries, covering about 3 million topics. It has about 100 data sources, such as Wikipedia, Houghton Mifflin, Columbia University Press, Thomson Gale, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, MarketWatch, Investopedia, and AccuWeather. Alt-clicking on a word takes...

Tags: Answers.com, AnswerTip

Blog posts 2006-05-16

Answers Widget (zip)

The Answers Widget for Mac OSX gives you quick access to Answers.com directly on your dashboard. Get instant access to Answers.com content drawn from Wikipedia, American Heritage Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, and Columbia University Press Encyclopedia as well as maps, company snapshots, stock prices, legal, medical, nutrition, and various quality sources....

Tags: Answers.com, Apple Mac OS X, Wiki, Investment, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Online Communications, Finance

Software downloads 2005-07-06

Answers about answers.com search

Answers.com is one of the services that I rely on for quick access to reference information. Paul Festa interviews GuruNet CEO Bob Rosenschein about the service, asking him how the piddling million topics and 100 information sources in answers.com compares with the 8 billion pages indexed by Google. The answer: It's...

Tags: Answers.com

Blog posts 2005-03-17

Bookmark: Answers.com

GuruNet is one of my most valued "micro" applications. It provides answers to basic queries, using over 100 reference sources, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, Wikipedia, and sources for government, legal, science, medical, sports, religion, arts and culture info. It avoids the dreaded search-engine overload for defining a terms or getting information...

Tags: Wiki, GuruNet Corp., Answers.com

Blog posts 2005-01-04

Additional Resources

Has technology evolved our language beyond recognition?

You pick up your Blackberry in the morning because your notebook has a virus. You connect to your cloud storage and retrieve a few documents to store on your drive, and grab yourself a cup of Java. I get emails every day, mostly ordinary commentary from like-minded...

Tags: Legend, RIM BlackBerry, Virus, Computer, Internet, E-mail, Productivity, Cyberthreats, Notebooks, Handhelds, Online Communications, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Top Web companies in US in October 2008

Rank Property Audience, 000 Total Audience 190,616 1 Google Sites 147,035 2 Yahoo! Sites 144,903 3 Microsoft Sites 123,483 4 AOL LLC 111,259 5 Fox Interactive Media 90,636 6 eBay 70,737 7 Ask...

Tags: Site, Advertising & Promotion, Networking, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-11-27

Cloud definitions and economics

Like Phil Wainewright, I attended the excellent CloudCamp in London several weeks back. Unlike Phil, I walked away with more questions than answers but with my enterprisey antenna on high alert. Two things struck me. Rhys Jones of Royal Bank of Scotland's assertion that while cloud computing...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., James, Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Text analytics helps find what you're searching for

As search becomes more and more of a commodity, many people are beginning to ask “what’s next” for the enterprise search industry. The answer may lie with the fast-evolving area of text analytics, says Lexalytics' Jeff Catlin. Commentary--Enterprise search is still growing, evolving and improving....

Tags: Enterprise Search, Financial Planning, Cloud Computing, Finance, search, analytics, Jeff Catlin, Lexalytics, Special to ZDNet, Jeff Catlin, Lexalytics, Special to ZDNet

News items 2008-11-24

News to know: Kumo; Zune; Storm; Google

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Would you 'Kumo' it? Phil Wainewright: When to spend cash in a SaaS business Brian Sommer: Taleo's November to forget ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Zune, RIM BlackBerry, Nokia Reliability Labs, E-mail, Home Entertainment, Handhelds, Open Source, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Still more questions than answers about Microsoft Morro

Over the past couple of days, I had a chance to ask Microsoft a few more questions about the disappearance of OneCare and sudden appearance of Morro (a codename and service that no one I've spoken with has heard a peep about until this week). Here are some more tidbits....

Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., OneCare, Q, Windows Defender, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-11-21

10 answers to your questions about botnets

Michael Kassner recently asked TechRepublic members to submit questions about botnets, promising to forward them to the experts at Arbor Networks. Dr. Jose Nazario volunteered to provide the following informative answers.This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things blog.

Tags: Arbor Networks, Question, Michael Kassner, Blogging, Internet

Download resources 2008-11-21

Witnesses set for MySpace suicide trial

Well, it's shaping up to be a juicy time at the trial of psycho-mom Lori Drew, the woman whose weirdo obsession with a neighbor girl led to the teen's MySpace-driven suicide. A long list of witnesses are poised to testify, Wired reports, including the parents of...

Tags: Juror, Suicide, MySpace, Internet, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-19

'Fish' = 'Sex'? iPhone can't understand British accent

The new voice-recognition search tool for the iPhone has problems understanding British accents, leading to some bizarre answers to spoken queries, according to a report by Agence France Presse. The free application, which allows iPhone owners to use the Google search engine with their voice, mistook the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Web Site, Accent, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Telecommunications, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-19

SPAM and the free lunch

SPAM and the free lunchSIMPLE SOLUTION: Mandatory email server registration!(1) Get rid of "Reply-to:" tags.(2) Mandatory email server registration using credit cards, at yearly rate $2~3 dollars.This will make spammers impossible to operate without being caught.What SPAM is that?During the height of the "bad old days" of spam, I got...

Tags: Cyberthreats, spam

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

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

Can we really go paperless?

Can we really go paperless?paper is madefrom sapling and cotton for the most part. Complaining about "killing" trees for paper is about like complaining about killing wheat for bread.Paper has the advantage of requiring no power, being foldable, writeable, high-resolution and you can spread it out across your desk giving...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Document management, Homeworks, computer, printing

Discussion threads 2008-11-07

Sony VGNFW270J/W

When we reviewed the 16-inch Gateway MC7801u earlier this month, we bemoaned its lack of a Blu-ray drive and the absence of Centrino 2 components. The Sony VAIO FW270, which incorporates a similarly HD-friendly 16.4-inch display, does not have these shortcomings. Its optical drive both reads and writes Blu-ray discs,...

Tags: Desktops, Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, VAIO FW270

Product reviews 2008-11-07

10+ answers to your questions about IPv6

Michael Kassner recently asked TechRepublic members to share their questions about IPv6, promising to submit them to the experts at ARIN and Command Information. Both groups graciously responded, providing the following in-depth answers.This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things blog.

Tags: IPv6, Michael Kassner, 10+, Telecommunications, Networking

Download resources 2008-11-07

Yes, we can go paperless...so what's the cost/benefit?

Regular readers know that not only am I something of a tree-hugger, but I've recently become convinced that social media (not MySpace and Facebook, but the wide variety of Web 2.0, collaboration, and communication tools available to us on the Web) can have a very important place in education. ...

Tags: School, Student, Teacher, Computer, Productivity, Web 2.0, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-06