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- Improving internal search and detecting cloaking
- One of the problems with using search inside the enterprise is that corporate users rarely link to internal data on Web pages like users on the greater Internet do. This means that using incoming links as a way of ranking search results for relevance page rank doesn't work nearly...
- Tags: SEARCH, Baoning Wu
- Blog posts 2006-05-25
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- Royal Society educator resigns, advocated creationism in science class
- Royal Society educator resigns, advocated creationism in science classGuilty of Heresy!The society has behaved just like the Orthodox church behaved, whenever someone put forward ideas that were not in line with its doctrines. It is a shameful act by the society, and just underscores that religious intolerance exists everywhere -...
- Tags: Reiss, creationism, Royal Society, science class, Creationism, Royal Society educator
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- Microsoft to tweak WGA Notifications on Windows XP
- Microsoft to tweak WGA Notifications on Windows XPDo it right......kill WGA altogether!! Time to start listening to your customers, M$!!WGA, friend or foe?Somebody at my work brought to me his laptop that had XP pro. A friend of his had sold it to him and when he tried to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- China cuts off iTunes, likely over 'Songs of Tibet'
- China cuts off iTunes, likely over 'Songs of Tibet'Learn from M$, Google and YahooThey cooperated with the local bully, they were allowed to run business over there. Don't p*ss of their government, that's the key in China. Yahoo went so far they handed in evidence to China government to help...
- Tags: Tibetan family, Han, census, Apple iTunes
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- Cerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over again
- Cerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over againCerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over again[i]Rather than a volume cap, I suggest the introduction of transmission rate caps, which would allow users to purchase access to the Internet at a given minimum data rate and be free...
- Tags: Pricing, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, NETWORKING, Net Neutrality, Vint Cerf, simple pricing, pricing strategy, Internet, Cerf, network
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- FCC set to slap Comcast's wrist
- It's almost official. In the latest step forward, a majority of FCC commissioners voted Friday to "affirm" a complaint against Comcast for blocking BitTorrent traffic, the Washington Post reports, although the punishment is likely to be a "slap on the wrist," according to one analyst. The final...
- Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Republican, Wrist, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- Nothing stealthy about this Windows Update update
- Nothing stealthy about this Windows Update updateStill got it wrong?!?!What part of "check for updates but let me decide" do they not understand???If the people at MS are feeling so benevolentwhy not have the programmers pop up a box when the update occurs, sort of hand holding for the wary.If...
- Tags: Operating systems, Opting-Out, Microsoft Windows Update, Microsoft Windows, proper warning
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Overly restrictive A.P. quoting guidelines risk winning battles at the war's expense
- Saul Hansell reports today that the Associated Press "will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The A.P.'s copyright." The problem with "clear...
- Tags: Reproduction, Standards, A.P., Quality, Blogging, Channel Management, Business Operations, Internet, Marketing, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Microsoft puts more muscle behind Windows and Web search
- Microsoft puts more muscle behind Windows and Web searchwhen it will be available on Windows Update?when it will be available on Windows Update?Win Update: Microsoft saysFrom a company spokeswoman:"We don't have a specific date yet, but Microsoft is planning to make it available on Windows Update as an optional download...
- Tags: Operating systems, Web, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Windows, Internet search
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- Conference for media reform
- Free Press hosts the National Conference for Media Reform, June 6-8 in Minneapolis. From the press release: We're at an important point in the history of the media -- a point where the decentralized Internet and the centralized media are finally meeting head on," said...
- Tags: Media, Conference, Free Press, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- The panelist's nightmare
- The panelist's nightmareTuxedo and brown shoesThat pretty much sucks. What was that old "Lonesome George" Gobel quip to Johnny Carson from years back, after following Bob Hope and Dean Martin on the Tonight Show: "Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a...
- Tags: Federal government, Larry Lessig, FCC, panelist
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
- VC Supports Next, Greener Generation of Biotech
- Using, not losing, all the carbon. Courtesy Zeachem and Mohr Davidow. Click on diagram for full view. We've had several blogs here recently reflecting the building political anxiety around the current generation of biofuels, esp. those based on using food products. You...
- Tags: Food, Biofuel, Biodiesel, Clean Technology, Zeahcem, OPX, Genomatica, Biotechnology, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- XP SP3 not generally available yet, after all
- Microsoft has decided not to release Windows XP Service Pack SP 3 to Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center as planned on April 29. The reason? A last-minute compatibility issue with a Microsoft application -- Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System RMS. Here's the latest from a...
- Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Windows Update, Microsoft Windows Vista, Customer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Retail Management System, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Is Balkanization of the Internet inevitable?
- The openness of the Internet could fall to nationalism. That's just one of the side effects from nationalism and its impact on global trade, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Journal in its Monday edition zoomed out to look at the rise of nationalism. After all,...
- Tags: Web, Russia, Internet, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Windows updates galore: The latest on SPs, FPs and UEs
- The Windows client team has been pushing out service packs SPs, a new feature pack FP and Ultimate Extra add-ons for Vista over the past few days -- to varying degrees of customer satisfaction. On April 23, Microsoft began rolling out via its Automatic Update mechanism SP1...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Windows Update, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- It's official: XP SP3 has RTM'd
- It's official: XP SP3 has RTM'dRTM does not mean availability...What does RTM translate to nowadays anyway? Looking at the Vista RTM it's taken 4 months for SP1 availability, and that's required a multitude of pre-requisites, a whole list of itmes that won't work, and numerous installation woes reported. It's STILl...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, XP SP3, Microsoft Windows XP, RTM'd, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-04-21
- Microsoft to recommence pushing Vista SP1 prerequisite
- After a number of users reported endless-reboot problems in February after installing one of the prerequisites for Windows Service Pack SP 1, Microsoft pulled automatic distribution of it. As of April 8, however, Microsoft will resume pushing out that prerequisite. On the Microsoft Update blog, Microsoft officials...
- Tags: Update, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Update, Microsoft Windows, Blogging, Team Management, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Vista SP1 reboot bug fixed
- Remember that issue where trying to install Vista SP1 would result in a hard-to-break reboot cycle? Well, the Microsoft Update blog says the problem was caused by "a few unknown and rare events" during the installation of one of the prerequisites to installing SP1: KB937287, the Servicing Stack Update SSU....
- Tags: Update, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Microsoft delivers yet another updated XP SP3 RC 2 test build
- Microsoft delivers yet another updated XP SP3 RC 2 test buildBuild 5508Mary, it's only a WU release, though as always you have to enable WU first, and the stub to do that is what's on the download center unchanged from before. Details:http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3061999&SiteID=17Does this include XP 64Try to forgive my complete...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, XP SP3, XP 64
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- Vista SP1 collateral damage not as bad as I had expected
- Vista SP1 collateral damage not as bad as I had expectedRE: Vista SP1 collateral damage not as bad as I had expectedThat was by far the most painless SP install I've been through. It took about 25 minutes, 1 reboot, and no issues.2 installs - 2 tweakson my laptop...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista, SP1, SP1 RC
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
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