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- Google Scholar beta
- The Google Scholar beta is a terrific search tool for students, teachers, scientists, librarians, and journalists seeking articles within established academic journals. In our tests, we found that the Google Scholar beta sifts through more publications than does the Windows Live Academic Search beta (though Microsoft plans to add more...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Scholar, Google Scholar beta, Windows Live Academic, Windows Live Academic Search, beta, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows
- Product reviews 2006-04-27
- Windows Live Academic Search beta
- Windows Live Academic Search beta is designed to aid researchers seeking current paper abstracts who might otherwise turn to Google Scholar or other sites. This service retrieves finds from journals in the areas of computer science, medicine, electrical engineering, and physics. Microsoft says it will add more biomedical sources soon,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Windows Live Academic Search beta, Windows Live Academic Search, Microsoft Windows, Windows Live Academic, beta
- Product reviews 2006-04-14
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- Top search engines in July 2008
- Core Search Entity Jun-08 Jul-08 Growth, MTM Total Core Search 100.0% 100.0% NA Google Sites 61.5% 61.9% 0.4 Yahoo! Sites 20.9% 20.5% -0.4 Microsoft Sites 9.2% 8.9% -0.3 Ask Network 4.3% 4.5% 0.2 AOL LLC 4.1% 4.2% 0.1...
- Tags: Search Engine, Site, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy
- No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of "data processing" while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHA's, I'm already starting to see evidence of consolidation between India's major...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Speed up Vista installation via thumb drive
- It's Labor Day weekend. Have you given your computer a fresh Windows install for the holiday? (If you're the kind of guy or gal who's into periodically wiping your hard drive, this tip's for you.) The How-To Geek over at Lifehacker recently posted a...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Microsoft Windows Vista, USB Flash Drive, Microsoft Windows, Flash Memory, Operating Systems, Software, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Where the Linux laptops live
- Almost one-third of the 25 top-selling laptops at Amazon.com are sold with Linux. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: ASUS, Linux Laptop, Dell Computer Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Laptop Computer, Linux, Notebooks, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Mobile access to your SIS
- Several student information system SIS vendors offer to sync data with a Palm Pilot or Windows Mobile PDA. This is a handy feature for teachers on field trips, assistant principals stalking the halls, etc. It's fairly limited in it's utility, though since it generally only provides a static...
- Tags: Mobile, SiS, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Microsoft to bolster Live Search in Europe with Greenfield acquisition
- Microsoft said Friday that it will acquire Greenfield Online, which owns Ciao, a price comparison, shopping and reviews site in Europe, for $17.50 a share, or $486 million. The goal: Expand Live Search in Europe. Greenfield Online, which also owns an Internet survey business, will be split...
- Tags: Acquisition, Europe, Microsoft Live Search, Microsoft Corp., Survey, Ciao, Survey Business, Marketing Research, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Netbooks just want to be free
- At a trade show in Berlin, T-Mobile confirmed that it will sell an Asus Eee PC 901 netbook with built-in 3G. If the prices on these bundles come close to what's been rumored, they could start to catch on. In the UK, Asus already offers a free...
- Tags: ASUS, Bundle, T-Mobile, 3G, Modems, Microsoft Windows, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Microsoft Windows XP, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- News to know: Dell; Comcast's cap; Yahoo Mash RIP; Google Apps
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Dell: Turnaround interuptus as share grab hurts net, margins Google, Mozilla extend search box deal Jason Hiner: Sprint unveils location-based 'geobrowsing' on...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Comcast Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Hydrogen Road Tour, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Comcast's Web limits: Saving bandwidth or stifling innovation?
- The first computer I ever bought had a whopping six-gigabyte hard drive inside - far more storage capacity than anyone might have ever dreamed of using some ten years ago. Back then, no one was really downloading music or uploading digital photos, let alone streaming video or placing VoIP phone...
- Tags: Innovation, Web, Bandwidth, Comcast Corp., Internet, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- The depressing future of the Internet
- A brief overview of how the Internet came about: some years ago, some military boffs thought it'd be awesome if computers could talk to each other, so the US could nuke the hell out of other countries without actually being near there. A smart professor from England then came up...
- Tags: Security, IPv6, Computer, Flaw, IPv6 Adoption, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?
- I'm really hoping that Steven Sinofsky will kick off a discussion about Windows 7 pricing over on the Engineering Windows 7 blog sometime soon. I'm not holding my breath because the chances of seeing an open debate on pricing is highly unlikely, but I can dream, can't I? by Adrian...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows 7, OEM, Microsoft Windows Vista, Pricing Strategy, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Pricing, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Google, Mozilla extend search box deal
- That little Google search box in the upper right part of your Firefox browser will be sticking around through 2011, according to Mozilla. Mitchell Baker, Chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation or Chief Lizard Wrangler depending on what you prefer, said in a blog post that Google has...
- Tags: Google Inc., Financial, Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Internet, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Top search engines in Asia-Pacific in April 2008
- Top 10 Properties Searches, mln. Share Total Internet 22,363 100.0 Google Sites 8,737 39.1 Yahoo! Sites 5,366 24.0 Baidu.com Inc. 3,725 16.7 NHN Corporation 1,178 5.3 Alibaba.com Corporation 488 2.2 Microsoft Sites 401 1.8 ...
- Tags: Search Engine, Site, Internet, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Windows 7 must avoid the marketing trap that Vista stumbled into
- I've been following the Engineering Windows 7 blog closely and I've come to the conclusion that while Steven Sinofsky is a man of many words, those words don't say an awful lot. However, the other day Sinofsky did say something quite interesting. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Home Basic, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Marketing Research, Software, Marketing, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- A (Microsoft) Codename a day: Sputnik
- A piece of the infrastructure powering Microsoft's adCenter and paid-search technologies is today's featured Microsoft Codename of the Day. Read on for more about "Sputnik." by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Codename, Microsoft Corp., Sputnik ETL, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- News to know: IE 8; iPhone password locks; SOA; Palm Treo Pro reviews
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: IE 8 Beta 2 ready for download Ed Bott: Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover Gallery: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Password, Palm Inc., Palm Treo, SOA, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Live Webcast: Closing the Deal: Online Presentations That Result in Higher Sales
- Closing deals is an art form. You've got to know your prospects, understand their concerns and speak their language. How do you accomplish this in order to make the sale? View this on-demand BNET webcast, moderated by James Hilliard and featuring guest speakers Tom Bunzel and Kineon...
- Tags: Webcast, Prospect, Citrix Systems Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
- Webcasts 2008-08-28
- Live Webcast: Enterprise Search Architectures of the Future
- Businesses today increasingly recognize the benefits of universal search, the ability to search all corporate content sources from a single secure search box. Many enterprises have heavily invested in developing content management systems and their associated processes. These systems and portals hold valuable information; however, lack of quality search...
- Tags: Google Inc., Enterprise Search, Webcast, Benefits, Search, Human Resources
- Webcasts 2008-08-28
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