News: Software & Web

• Google's Knol online encyclopedia launches debate forum
  Heather Havenstein
  Oct 07 2008
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  • Software & Web

  Google launched the first of a series of debates on Knol - its version of Wikipedia - that aim to help voters during this election season by gathering expert opinions on a variety of economic ...

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• Japanese telecom partners with EnterpriseDB
  Chris Kanaracus
  Oct 07 2008
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  • Software & Web

  Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Japan's largest telecommunications company, has formed a "wide-ranging strategic partnership" with EnterpriseDB that includes an undisclosed ...

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• Spammers abusing Google's Web 2.0 services
  PC World India staff
  Oct 07 2008
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  • Software & Web

  According to a report released by Websense Security Labs, recently, spammers have used a combination of different Google Web 2.0 services to carry out a range of attacks. Spammers are creating bogus ...

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• LinkedIn: The network effect revisited
  C.G. Lynch
  Oct 07 2008
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  • Software & Web

  As people make "connections" and build their contacts list on LinkedIn, the popular social network for business professionals, some users have thought long and hard about the quality of their ...

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• Practical Web sites and services
  Steve Bass
  Oct 07 2008
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  • Software & Web

  The hot story on PC World these days is a humongous collection of "100 Incredibly Useful and Interesting Web Sites." I'm still wading through it, and it got me thinking about my faves--you know, ...

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• Differentiating 'new' and 'recent' podcasts
  Christopher Breen
  Oct 07 2008
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  • Software & Web

  A colleague contacted me with an iTunes/Podcasts/iPhone/iPod conundrum that goes a little something like this: I have my iPhone set to sync "All New" of "Selected Podcasts." If I listen to part of a ...

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• MozyPro for Mac brings backup to business
  Dan Moren
  Oct 07 2008
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  • Software & Web

  EMC announced Tuesday that it is expanding its Mozy online backup service with a new option targeted primarily at small businesses. MozyPro for Mac will let companies that use Macs back up their ...

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• Google blacklists ATUG Web site
  Darren Pauli
  Oct 07 2008
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  • Software & Web

  Hackers may have hit the Australian Telecommunications User Group (ATUG) Web site, according to Google which has placed security threat warnings across all pages displayed in searches. The flag -- ...

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• Ask.com, Hakia target Google with search engine updates
  Heather Havenstein
  Oct 07 2008
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  • Software & Web

  Search engine companies Ask.com and Hakia Inc. this week overhauled their respective search technologies, tapping into the semantic Web to provide search results that better reflect the intent ...

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• Massive Welsh data center to fire up early next year
  Jeremy Kirk
  Oct 07 2008
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  • Software & Web

  An ambitious project is under way in Wales to build one of the most advanced and secure data centers in Europe. Next Generation Data (NGD) is investing £200 million (US$346 million) to modify a ...

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