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SYS-CON Media's SEO/SEM Journal (search.sys-con.com), is the first and only global publication to present the hottest timely topics on the merging search engine optimization and search engine marketing industry. Microsoft’s browser rivals aren’t satisfied with the tentative “ballot screen” settlement that the company came to with the European Commission, which would offer all its European users a chance to download a rival browser. Google, Mozilla and Opera want changes made. According to the ...Nov. 6, 2009 02:45 PM EST Reads: 300 |
 SMA Solar Technology AG, listed in the TecDAX of the Frankfurt stock exchange since last year, is the world market leader in photovoltaic inverters, a central component of every solar system. With subsidiaries in eleven countries on four continents, the product and company communicatio...Nov. 5, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 301 |
 HFS Wrapper is a popular and reliable Mac OS X file system. The HFS+ volume could be made to contain within the HFS file system volume in a way that make it look like the HFS volume and not the HFS+ volume to your systemNov. 5, 2009 12:30 PM EST Reads: 415 |
 SimpleOCR is the popular freeware OCR software with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. SimpleOCR is also a royalty-free OCR SDK for developers to use in their custom applications. If you have a scanner and want to avoid retyping your documents, SimpleOCR is the fast, free way t...Nov. 5, 2009 12:30 PM EST Reads: 431 |
 A “power panel” composed of Stoneware Co-founder, CEO and Rick German, M-Dot Network CTO Mike Kavis, GoGrid CEO and Co-Founder of John Keagy, and Altor Networks Director of Product Management at Todd Ignasiak gathered at the 4th International Cloud Computing Expo held at the Santa Clar...Nov. 4, 2009 06:45 PM EST Reads: 414 |
 “We see Traffic Server as an essential building block for cloud computing, and at Yahoo!, it’s integral to our edge services, on-line storage and cloud serving. The open-sourcing of Traffic Server is representative of our company-wide commitment to sharing technology innovation with th...Nov. 2, 2009 10:30 PM EST Reads: 1,099 |
 Yahoo! aims to be one of the 800-pound gorillas--along with Google, Amazon, and several major technology companies--in the upcoming battles for hosting dominance in the Cloud Computing space. Yahoo aims to be one of the 800-pound gorrillas--along with Google, Amazon, and several major ...Nov. 2, 2009 03:00 PM EST Reads: 932 |
 icloud has announced the launch of its improved desktop with Super Search and a new innovative start menu. Super Search integrates many of the most popular services on the internet with simultaneous search of your private files in the cloud. It has never before been more convenient to ...Nov. 2, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 521 |
 The city of Los Angeles has okayed a $7.2 million deal with CSC to rip out a lot of its existing Novell GroupWise e-mail systems and whatnot and replace it with Google Apps provided CSC agrees to pay a pre-set penalty if there’s a security breach. They still need to dicker about that a...Oct. 31, 2009 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 750 Replies: 1 |
 Embedding tags in books is probably the most obvious way to connect print content with online content so it's surprising more book publishers are not following Rough Guide's lead. Their new coffee table book, Earthbound: a Rough Guide to the World in Pictures is tag-enabled.Each image ...Oct. 30, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 415 |
 An Israeli company called Red Bend has sued Google’s Chrome browser for patent infringement in the district court in Massachusetts. It says Chrome’s Courgette differential compression algorithm treads on its widgetry. Courgette, which launched in July, sends just partial application up...Oct. 30, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 581 |
 I recently added 20 yards of distance to every club in my golf bag with no effort whatsoever (and the chipping now is sublime). For the non-golfers out there, this is quite a significant improvement. I have played the game for about 15 years achieved a reasonable standard and plateaued...Oct. 29, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 373 |
 We process about 300 messages / second in our application. The Service Activator pattern has been very helpful to fork off and distribute processing of messages. We fork off messages to a JMS queue for processing. In some cases, the forked off messages need to run inside the same trans...Oct. 29, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 360 |
 By Tom Hopkins
When we give a presentation to a future client not only do our appearance, visual aids, and body language relay a message, but the words we use create pictures in their minds. When we hear a word, we often picture a symbol of what that word represents. We may even attac...Oct. 29, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 403 |
 My long-time former PC Magazine colleague Al Poor has begun his own series of video reviews of consumer products on his YouTube channel here. You can find a new Epson photo printer, the Buffalo Terrastation, and other products. Like my WebInformant.tv series, they are sponsored by the ...Oct. 29, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 473 |
 A new search site is in beta called DeepDyve that has some promise. First, they claim that they index millions of medical papers from paid journals and free sites. The problem in the past is that this content wasn’t too readily available. Yes, there is Medline, but not a very user-frie...Oct. 29, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 459 |
 The result is BSMReview.com, a site which seeks to analyze the best and next practices in business service management from a third-party point of view. The experts that Bill has brought to the site are literally a who's who of the best and most trusted people in the field: Peter Armstr...Oct. 29, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 444 |
 His latest book, The Idea of Justice, is a serious re-examination of the foundations of justice from a global perspective. He speaks of the two definitions of justice in Sanskrit - niti (institutional justice) and nyaya (realized justice) - and how we are too often misled by the utopia...Oct. 29, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 505 |
 Poor Leonardo. After losing out to Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni during his lifetime, he still doesn't get the credit or recognition his work deserves. Finally, someone trusted their intuition, and bought a sketch which looked to him like a Leonardo, and, lo - it was! His ...Oct. 29, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 454 |
 If you don’t understand why the Real Time Web is huge, you will soon.
Thanks to micro-blogging sites like Twitter, a constant stream of human-posted content has infiltrated the Web. This growing infiltration has created a bottoms up approach to content creation that via the progressi...Oct. 28, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 721 |
 LookStat Announces Free Trial of its Back Office Services for Stock Photographers
Microstock keywording, retouching, uploading and analytics web platform provider to offer a free 25-image trial of microstock keywording, uploading and submission services. LookStat will keyword and uplo...Oct. 28, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 360 |
 Welcome to our enterprise cloud computing blog where we'll share our perspectives on cloud computing trends and best practices for the enterprise. We're a team with extensive experience in IT software and systems (learn more about us), and we're passionate about the opportunity that cl...Oct. 28, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 439 |
 A Box Life is a cute idea for QR Codes sponsored by clothing firm Columbia as a recycling initiative. Put a tag on a cardboard box so that when the box is reused you can track the 'life' of the box. By snapping the tag and providing your location data or entering the tracking code prin...Oct. 28, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 379 |
 Kooaba's mobile image recognition (MIR) technology will be used in the November edition of Wired magazine (US) to link print advertisements to online content. Kooaba claims this as a US first. Oddly enough Wired online are also running a vstory on augmented reality (AR) here. The adva...Oct. 28, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 328 |
 I had the privilege of serving on the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation (now the Leader to Leader Institute) for ten years. Peter was a pioneer in understanding the impact of knowledge workers in the new economy. He simply defined knowledge workers as ‘people who know more about wh...Oct. 28, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 834 |
 "The Secret" was launched by Rhonda Byrne in 2006 and says that thoughts have an energy that attracts like energy and you attract into your life whatever you think about. This tool refers to what Buddha said: "What you have become is the result of what you have thought". It suggests th...Oct. 28, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 653 |
 The Los Angeles City Council voted today to move the city's 30,000 email users to a system provided by Google, but only after a provision that the city be compensated if there is security breach in the data held on Google's servers. Consumer Watchdog had said that the security provisio...Oct. 27, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 419 |
 In a note to the CCIF list, Sam Johnston informed us that Google too has continued on its promise to liberate our data as part of their Data Liberation Front project. This latest Google effort introduces a new feature that makes it much easier to get your content back out of the Cloud...Oct. 26, 2009 07:31 PM EDT Reads: 343 |
 As more fully described in a Form 8-K being filed today by On2 and as disclosed in the registration statement on Form S-4, as amended (the "Registration Statement"), which Google intends to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on or about October 26, 2009, On2 a...Oct. 26, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 480 |
 If you have spent any time online using social networks like LinkedIn or Facebook, you know they can be difficult to grow your network and add contacts. But even harder is the ability to extract your contacts once you have built up a reasonably sized network. None of the social network...Oct. 26, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,286 Replies: 2 |
 Ulitzer provides a powerful social journalism platform for content syndication, bridging the gap between traditional and new media. For rapid awareness of news, articles, blogs and other content, Ulitzer's keyword tagging enhances searchability and allows targeted audiences to easily f...Oct. 25, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,948 |
 The city of Los Angeles can’t make up its mind whether to trash its clunky Novell system and go with Google Apps for e-mail and office applications, citing costs and necessity. It was supposed to be a showcase account for Google. The decision will now move from LA’s budget and finance ...Oct. 25, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 850 |
 Microsoft has cut non-exclusive deals with both Facebook and Twitter for Bing to search their real-time data feeds. Google has followed suit at least with Twitter, but Facebook is the prize because it has like 40 million updates a day from its 300 million users. Not all Facebook update...Oct. 23, 2009 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,005 |
 Carl Icahn announced today that he had informed the Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. that he was resigning as a director of Yahoo!. Mr. Icahn told the Board that in his view there was not a need at this time for an activist director at Yahoo! Mr. Icahn indicated that there are a numbe...Oct. 23, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 881 |
 I often mention Alexa Rank to make a comparison among microstock agencies, as you can see in Stock Agencies page. In this post I want to show another tool that can be used to follow the trends in the stock photo market, Google Trends, that lets you compare the world’s interest in some ...Oct. 23, 2009 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 580 |
 A new ‘internet’ has been born which can flatten the market place if not managed correctly. New opportunities create greater challenges for any company to stay ahead. Thanks to sites like Ulitzer the corporate world has finally embraced online social media as a real competitive advanta...Oct. 20, 2009 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 897 |
 What every developer wants is access and the ability to shape any data across the Internet through one simple language, with out need to learn different APIs. Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) provides just that and its effectiveness will be demonstrated live at SYS-CON's 4th International C...Oct. 20, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,190 |
 There seems to suddenly be a lot of focus on “data” and the ability for users consumers to pack up their data and take it wherever they want. Except for people attached to their i-Thing. I think users of i-Things were approached about the concept but were unable to get past the revelat...Oct. 20, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 844 |
 Google is doing something very un-Google. It's stooping to advertise. What started a few months ago with "Go Google" billboards on 101 in Silicon Valley, the West Side Highway in New York, the Mass Pike in Boston and the Ike in Chicago touting Google Apps went international Monday in F...Oct. 19, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 721 |
 Yahoo! is investing significantly in Cloud Computing to support the company's global applications and audience of more than 500 million users. Yahoo!'s cloud confronts technical challenges at an almost unprecedented scale - requiring tens of petabytes of storage, tens of thousands of m...Oct. 17, 2009 03:25 AM EDT Reads: 8,650 |
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