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MP3Toys (exe): MP3Toys organizes your music collection into albums, automatically downloading the accompanying high-resolution album-art and lyrics. You can further enhance your collection by adding artist images and Web links. The album browser allows you to select and sort albums by various attributes like rating, genre, year of release, date added or...; Tags: Robert Frahm, Album, Information Retrieval, MP3Toys, Album Browser; Software downloads 2007-12-28
IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Bulk Volume information retrieval Function User's Guide Version 1.3: The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series is the latest in the line of tape virtualization products that has revolutionized the way mainframe customers utilize their tape resources. As the capability of tape virtualization has grown, so has the need to efficiently manage the large number of logical volumes the system...; Tags: Information Retrieval, IBM Corp., IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Storage; White papers 2007-08-01
AdaRank: A Boosting Algorithm for information retrieval: The goodness of a model is usually evaluated with performance measures such as MAP Mean Average Precision and NDCG Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain. Ideally a learning algorithm would train a ranking model that could directly optimize the performance measures with respect to the training data. Existing methods, however, are only...; Tags: Algorithm, Performance, Training, Information Retrieval, Performance Measure, Performance Management, Engineering, Workforce Management, Human Resources; White papers 2007-05-09
Scalable Near Identical Image and Shot Detection: This paper proposes and compares two novel schemes for near duplicate image and video-shot detection. The first approach is based on global hierarchical colour histograms, using Locality Sensitive Hashing for fast retrieval. The second approach uses local feature descriptors SIFT and for retrieval exploits techniques used in the information retrieval...; Tags: Association For Computing Machinery, Information Retrieval; White papers 2007-04-24
Stock Aides (exe): Market charting, analysis, information retrieval tool for Stocks, ETFs, indices. Uses freely available quotes and information from the Internet as its data dources. Price/Volume/MAs/trendline/indicators (Stochastic, RSI, ADX) on charts. Support resistance levels analysis. Trend and general analysis. Various statistics and volatilities calculations. Information retrieval - profile, fundamental, earning/revenue. Batch download...; Tags: Stock, Information Retrieval, Analysis; Software downloads 2006-02-28

A Study of Relevance Propagation for Web Search: Different from traditional information retrieval, both content and structure are critical to the success of Web information retrieval. In recent years, many relevance propagation techniques have been proposed to propagate content information between web pages through web structure to improve the performance of web search. This paper proposes a generic...; Tags: Web, Propagation, Internet Search, Association For Computing Machinery, Information Retrieval, Channel Management, Marketing; White papers 2005-08-19
IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape Server 3494 Bulk Volume information retrieval: Function User's Guide V3: The IBM TotalStorage 3494 Virtual Tape Server VTS has revolutionized the way zSeries customers utilize their tape resources. As the capability of the base VTS and its high availability Peer to Peer PTP VTS configuration has grown, so has the need to efficiently manage the large number of logical volumes...; Tags: Information Retrieval, Volume, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., IBM TotalStorage 3494 Virtual Tape Server, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Servers, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2005-08-01
New Approaches to KM in Government: User-Centric Enterprise information retrieval: Today's $12 billion knowledge management market provides comprehensive solutions to large organizations - implementing such solutions requires significant resources and depends on behavioral changes by employees. As a result, KM efforts often fall short of their goals. This paper describes a new user-centric approach to managing structured and unstructured organizational...; Tags: Government, Information Retrieval, X1 Technologies, Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management; White papers 2005-03-01
Streamlined Document Management Expedites information retrieval and Customer Inquiries: With more than 10 million customers, KPN Telecom is the market-leading supplier of telecommunications equipment and services in the Netherlands. The company needed to find an efficient solution to manage and process customer sales inquiries. KPN chose ISIS Benelux BV, a leading GIS and EDMS solutions provider, to set up...; Tags: Document Management, Information Retrieval, EMC Corp., Sales Strategy, GIS, Telephony, Storage, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Sales, Software, Networking, Hardware; Case studies
information retrieval in Web2.0: This presentation discusses Information retrieval in web2.0.; Tags: Information Retrieval; Presentations

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Facebook bans Google's Friend Connect: A few days ago, Google launched a new service called Friend Connect to help website owners make their stuff social without needing to do much work. This basically involves being able to host certain gadgets that use OpenSocial on a webpage by simply copy and pasting some code from...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Run by Wall Street? A Cause or a Company?: Guest post: Anshu Sharma is author of Anshu's blog, which focuses on Software as a Service and the emerging SaaS Ecosystem. He is an Enterprise Irregular. In light of the Yahoo! - Microsoft fiasco, fellow bloggers Larry Dignan and Vinnie Mirchandani have been asking the question whether...; Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Vision, Wall, Management Team, Software As A Service (SaaS), Financial Accounting, Construction, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Management, Anshu Sharma; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Tom Ilube ponders 'social verification' with FOAF: Writing today in the latest issue of Nodalities Magazine, Garlik CEO Tom Ilube tackles the increasingly fraught subject of Identity Theft before moving past it to consider notions of 'social verification.' Tom's company, Garlik, offers a product called DataPatrol that helps UK consumers track information about themselves...; Tags: Tom Ilube, QDOS, Social Networking, Semantic Web, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Jerry Yang is busy...Writing email: Yahoo filed its internal communications about Carl Icahn's proxy war plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The takeaway: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has been writing a lot of emails. To senior vice presidents at Yahoo, Yang delivered a few talking points following Icahn's first volley and...; Tags: Jerry Yang, Annual Meeting, Board, Carl Icahn, E-mail, Stockholder, Director, Company, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Yet another "iPhone killer:" Blackberry's Thunder (updated): Did you hear that John Mayer is cheating on Apple again? That's right, Apple's poster boy blogged that he's using a Blackberry Bold. Not really surprising considering that RIM sponsored his 2007 tour. Note to Cupertino: send him a 3G iPhone, like, today. Although RIM hasn't said...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Verizon Communications Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Electronista, 3G, Cellular Phones, Keyboards, Handhelds, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Weekend Gadget Guidance: Put your iPhone 'slide to unlock' screen to use: Remember when they invented the outside screen for the cell phone? You know, the little piece of crystal that showed the time? A coup for anyone neurotic enough to need to check the time without needing to flip open the phone. Well, now that...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Screen, RSS, E-mail, Telecom & Utilities, Web Browsers, Internet, Online Communications, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Web 2.0 and the end of advertising: The idea that software on the Web is going to be largely funded by advertising is just so wrong-headed, I hardly know where to start. It had me spluttering in the latest BriefingsDirect Insights analyst podcast hosted by Dana Gardner — more on that in a moment. Let's move on...; Tags: Software, Web, Web 2.0, Advertisement, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Dynamic documents as two-way end points help bind people and processes to SOA: Read the full paper. Listen to the podcast. Sponsor: JustSystems North America. Making services oriented architecture SOA a fixture across larger swaths of enterprise IT and business processes has grown into a top goal. Finding additional innovation to amplify a SOA's value is therefore always welcome. ...; Tags: Document, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Facebook flap: Google's side: Amid the Facebook move to block Google's Friend Connect, the search giant has responded. As expected, Google had a few issues with Facebook's privacy assessment of Google Friend Connect. There's a lot of debate on Techmeme about the issue and it's a big one as all of...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Google Friend Connect, User Privacy, Third Party App, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-16
News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing: Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?...; Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Privacy, TechMeme, Icahn, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software; Blog posts 2008-05-16