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Artificial intelligence's next frontier: Jeopardy

IBM on Monday unveiled Watson, a question answering system designed to play Jeopardy against humans.  Watson will be competing against humans on Jeopardy, the popular quiz show. IBM is hoping that Watson will be able to understand complex questions---presumably from Alex Trebek---and answer them fast enough to...

Tags: Human, Artificial Intelligence, IBM Corp., Watson, Financial Planning, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-27

Hey Skype, how about some phone-based customer service?

Skype has some serious customer service and support issues. It was one thing to provide minimum four-day Web-based response when Skype was Web-based only. But now with Skype's video chat, third-party plug-ins and mobile devices, it is time for eBay owned Skype to grow up and act like a...

Tags: Customer Service, Phone, Skype Technologies S.A., Watson, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-11-26

Protecting genetic storage

It ain't just bits on your laptop, buckoMIT's Technology Review blogger David Ewing Duncan writes about Nobel Laureate and co-discoverer of DNA, James Watson.DNA is, of course, a very compact biotech storage medium - pure informationWatson agreed a couple of years ago to have his DNA sequenced and publicly released...

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Blog posts 2007-04-03

Dr. James Watson reflects on DNA research in the 21st century

One of the highlights of AMD’s Global Vision Conference was an interview Paul Saffo conducted with Dr. James Watson, who along with Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA more than fifty years ago. In this new century, the full fruit of the Watson-Crick discovery is being unleashed in a...

Tags: Watson

Blog posts 2006-09-19

Blinkx Pico - real -time contextual search

I've been taking Pico the latest search tool from Blinkx for a test drive and it's a very interesting approach to providing information related to what you're currently reading. Results can come from the web, blogs, podcasts, and/or Wikipedia and are derived from a background scan of the e-mail or...

Tags: Watson, Pico

Blog posts 2006-03-08

Move over Google Sidebar

Move over Google Sidebarre: Move over Google SidebarSounds as if it's worth a try. Didn't like Google's sidebar. Currently testing "SPYDERBAR"by TGTsoft and "DesktopSideBar"(by Idea2, dsidebar.exe), and like both alot.Soon everybody and his brother will be releasing a sidebar application. So far, the two above meet my...

Tags: Web browsers, Google Inc., Google Sidebar, Watson

Discussion threads 2005-09-22

Additional Resources

vLog 3.59 (Windows)

Recording and reporting software defects for QA and tech-support. The vLog Visual Logger acts like a black box in an airplane. It records all user-actions on dialogs of specific applications, and monitors many other application and system's resources. It also adds log files and other data files (such as configuration...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, VapiSoft, Business Intelligence, E-mail, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-11-25

Emma Watson Bikini and Lingerie Screensaver 1.0 (Windows)

Features Emma Watson in sexy bikinis, swimwear, lingerie and other revealing poses and outfits. The screensaver also includes: "Sticky Note" feature for custom on-screen message. Use any image as your own custom wallpaper. Special artistic effects. 100+ screen transition effects. Display images in sequential or random order. Set image display...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Image, Effect, White Paw Products

Software downloads 2009-10-25

Oracle's big plan: Double revenue in five years

Oracle capped off its OpenWorld conference with a powwow with analysts where management was described as extremely confident about the company's prospects. Although I'm not sure you could ever describe Oracle management as timid---does Larry Ellison allow that?---analyst notes seem to portray executives as exceedingly confident. Judging...

Tags: Revenue, Oracle Corp., Ross MacMillan, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-16

IBM launches 'pureScale': Front runs Oracle's database attack

IBM on Friday will launch a new database technology dubbed pureScale, which is designed to up the ante in transaction processing. The news comes ahead of Oracle's OpenWorld powwow next week. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is expected to take a bevy of shots at IBM's database capability as it touts...

Tags: Oracle Corp., IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Attack, DB2 pureScale, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-08

Apple's tablet UI patent unearthed

You really can't be serious...can you?From the looks of the graphic...the "touch screen" is going to be at least SIXTEEN INCHES wide.That makes it REAL convenient to carry around.That looks to beone awfully large tablet. I wonder if they will copy Microsoft's idea, and make a folding tablet?GraphicPatent application graphics...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Apple Inc., tablet, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

News to know: IDF; Skype; New neutrality; HP; Palm; Madoff

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. John Morris: Intel: 32nm is just the beginning Sam Diaz: Intel on laptop chips: Speed kills Mary Jo...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., Twitter Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-24

Ellison wants to model new Oracle after T.J. Watson Jr.'s IBM

Applicance VendorWhile setting up Oracle RAC or the rest of their software stack isn't too difficult, it is beyond the skill set of many in house IT departments. If Larry who is no Watson may want to remake his software product into a stack of hardware, storage and software...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Oracle Corp., software, IBM Corp., hardware

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Ellison wants to model new Oracle after T.J. Watson Jr.'s IBM

At a Churchhill Club event, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talked to former Sun Microsystems President Ed Zander about Oracle's recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems. He said he’d like to pattern the new Oracle after T.J. Watson Jr.'s IBM, combining both hardware and software systems. Ellison said that...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Larry Ellison, IBM Corp., Ellison, Tools & Techniques, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Management, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-23

Ellison wants to model new Oracle after T.J. Watson Jr.'s IBM

At a Churchhill Club event, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talks to former Sun Microsystems President Ed Zander about Oracle's recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems. He says he'd like to pattern the new Oracle after T.J. Watson Jr.'s IBM, combining both hardware and software systems.

Tags: Oracle Corp., IBM Corp., Ellison, Mergers & Acquisitions, Tools & Techniques, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Management, Business Operations, IBM, Oracle Sun

Videos 2009-09-23

Sandvox 1.6.4 (Mac)

Sandvox: The pioneering website creation tool for Mac OS X (version 10.4.11 and above). From Karelia Software - the developer of Watson. Instant Gratification. Sandvox makes website creation elegant, intuitive, and fun. It's the Macintosh way--the way it should be: Drag and drop content, watch your site take shape as...

Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, Web Site, Karelia Software, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Desktops, Internet, Marketing, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-09-15

Snow Leopard upgrade: what's in it for me?

RE: Snow Leopard upgrade: what's in it for me?How does "the 32-bit OS X kernel can run 64-bit apps" work? Is it a hack, or could Microsoft have implemented this in Windows too?Talk about a "Snow Leopard Capable" fiasco!!!Wow, that's [b]brutal[/b]! None of the new features that Apple is touting...

Tags: 64-bit, Desktops, Operating systems, Snow Leopard, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

UK caves to Hollywood, orders net cut-off for 'hardcore' downloaders

In June, the U.K.'s Digital Britain report rejected the Draconian demands of Hollywood to cut off "hardcore" downloaders from the Internet. Now the British government has changed its tune: Stephen Timms, the minister for Digital Britain, said that proposals previously considered by the Government to...

Tags: Watson Co., Mandelson, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-25

SOA services: stop worrying about protocols, worry about the business

Richard Watson says there is too much hand wringing over service protocols and standards (REST, WS-*, etc.), and not enough thought given to why a service may be needed by the business in the first place. In a new post, he states that while "debates about whether to use REST...

Tags: Watson Co., SOA, Service, Service Modeling, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Research & Development, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Screenshots: Office 2010 technical preview

Screenshots: Office 2010 technical previewLet's use the product line first, regarding this consistency thing...There are still inconsistencies and inequities between the various Office 2007 apps. Some of which date back YEARS.And for system requirements, which typically tend to balloon upward with each subsequent release. Granted, Microsoft's layout for...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Office 2010, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-16