Software Industrial God Complex

Dear 800-pound-software-gorillas:The more engineering time you waste binding your products together into confusing suites/packages (adding questionable "value-added" features) & then "protecting" them with...

Halo Reach Beta Available Through Halo 3 ODST

Halo: Reach, a multiplayer game exclusively developed for Xbox 360, is now available to gamers who buy the game Halo 3: ODST. Halo 3: ODST (Orbital Drop Shock Troopers) is available for purchase today. It's a prequel to the massively popular Halo 3, released in 2007. Halo 3:...

Probable Microsoft Office 14 Screenshots Leaked

A probable concept screenshot of Microsoft Office 14 is now leaked out from a powerpoint presentation hosted at Microsoft servers, Microsoft has not declared any release dates or roadmap for the next version of Microsoft Office but speculation is that Microsoft Office 14...

Vista SP2 beta due next week

"Vista SP2 beta due next week""The next update to Windows Vista will enter beta testing next week, bringing with it support for Blu-ray drives, among other enhancements.In a blog posting on Friday, Microsoft confirmed that a beta version of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 will...

Yahoo to fix password exposure problem in Zimbra

Follow up to story posted yesterday"Yahoo to fix password exposure problem in Zimbra"" New security features planned for Zimbra will resolve an issue responsible for passwords being transmitted as clear when...

Google Launches Audio Indexing

Google has a new app in beta called GAudi, which is going to crawl political youtube vids and make transcripts searchable."As the Web becomes more sophisticated and audio and video becomes a more important part of our online lives, we need something that will help us sift...

IE8 lock-in locks up computers

If you're like me, or the other 19% of the browser population, you use Firefox for its security, stability and extensibility. However, Microsoft just released an update to its alternative browser, Internet...

Viewzi Visual Search Engine come online

Viewzi is a new visual search engine that attempts to deliver a fun and interactive way to find online content. Recently out of beta (although the Web site still displays the beta tag), Viewzi focuses on the user experience by offering different "views" to organize the...

New clue to Alzheimer's found

" WASHINGTON -- Researchers have uncovered a new clue to the cause of Alzheimer's disease. The brains of people with the memory-robbing form of dementia are cluttered with a plaque made up of beta-amyloid, a sticky protein. But there long has been a question whether...

Mozilla Sets June 17th Release Date for Firefox 3

Sorry, Firefox 2.0.0.1.4 just crashed while I was trying to post this. Let me try again and see if I can get this news published. Set your web calendars kids, the long overdue FF 3 is coming next Tuesday, June...

Microsoft demos 'touch Windows'

"Microsoft's next operating system (OS) will come with multi-touch features as an alternative to the mouse.It is hoped the successor will have a better reception than the much-maligned Vista OS, released last...

Google Wants Your Medical Records...And More?

Let's think, for a moment, about the wealth of the world's information that Google already has stored and cached, and then let's think about where that might go in the very immediate future.Google's got some...

Yahoo! India launches Glue Pages Beta

Yahoo! India has launched a new concept for Yahoo! India Search calledGlue Pages Beta. This new search experience integrates relevantinformation from across the Web onto a single 'visual' search resultspage. Glue Pages Beta aggregates text, images, and video contentrelated to...

Peter Gabriel Launches Entertainment Aggregator

Recommendation engines, aggregators, filters, selectors, DJs, friends, and algorithms: all are tools to help us find more relevant, cool stuff, by selectively narrowing the infinite entertainment choices available...

Doping Scandal Rocks the Science World

While scientists aren't turning themselves green or endowing themselves with mind-controlled metal tentacles (yet), approximately one-fifth of them are taking drugs to increase their productivity.What, you thought...

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