Google lanceert Knol, wat ze zelf vertalen als "a unit of knowlegde". Het is hun antwoord op Wikipedia.
dinsdag, juli 29, 2008
yet another search engine :)
Cuil is a new search Web site which combines the biggest Web index with content-based relevance methods — results organized by ideas.
Cuil has indexed 120 billion Web pages, three times more than any other search engine.
Cuil (pronounced COOL) provides organized and relevant results based on Web page content analysis.
The company is led by husband-and-wife team Tom Costello and Anna Patterson.
Costello researched and developed search engines at Stanford University and IBM.
Patterson was the architect of Google's large search index and led a Web-page ranking team.
Together with Russell Power, Anna's former colleague from Google, they founded Cuil.
Since the search engine ranks pages based on content instead of number of clicks, personal data collection is unnecessary, so personal search history is always private.
The launch has been so successful that right now their servers are out of service!
For many hours it was very slow.
So, not a good take off for a search engine that wants to compete with Google.
By declaring its aim of taking on Google, Cuil joins a long list of others that have tried and largely failed to dent the search giant's market share.
Other contenders include Teoma, Vivisimo, Snap, Mahalo and Powerset.
maandag, juli 28, 2008
Banenverlies bij halfgeleiderproducent Infineon
Hopelijk blijft Kris hier "buiten schot" !!
Bij het Duitse Infineon, ontstaan als spin-off van Siemens, staan 3.000 banen op de tocht. Volgens het bedrijf moet 10 procent van de werknemers verdwijnen door de moeilijke economische omstandigheden. Met de bedrijfsresultaten heeft de beslissing niets te maken, want die zijn dik in orde.
De beslissing lijkt vooral met de toekomstperspectieven te maken te hebben. Het aantal marktrisico’s zou alleen nog maar toenemen, en de zwakke dollar doet het Europese chipbedrijf al helemaal geen goed.
Peter Bauer, die in juni aantrad als nieuwe CEO, gaf toen al aan dat hij het bedrijf flexibeler wilde maken om sneller te kunnen inspelen op marktevoluties. Nochtans deed Infineon het niet zo slecht, met een stijging met 97 procent van de operationele winst in het derde kwartaal van het boekjaar.
Bij Infineon werken 43.000 mensen. Het ontwikkelt vooral chips voor de auto-industrie en voor producenten van communicatie-apparatuur. Ook levert Infineon chips die worden gebruikt in Apple’s iPhone.
Bron: IT Professional
5 miljoen euro voor 1 GB
Base heeft de duurste internationale GSM roaming tarieven van heel Europa. Dat staat in een persbericht van Europees commissaris Viviane Reding. Base rekent tot 0,80 euro aan voor klanten die vanuit het buitenland een SMS sturen. 0,80 euro voor 160 bytes, dat is – hou u vast – 5.000 euro per megabyte. Toch wel een gepeperd tarief. Zo kost het u – jawel!!! – 5 miljoen euro om een gigabyte via SMS door te sturen. Mocht u dat ooit willen doen.
Lees het volledige artikel op IT Professional.
donderdag, juli 24, 2008
Fwd: THE NYT FOLLOWING THE WSJ
Begin forwarded message:
Date: Thu 24 Jul 2008 03:48:43 GMT+02:00Subject: THE NYT FOLLOWING THE WSJSource: WHAT'S NEXT: INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERSAuthor: Juan Antonio Giner
Associated Press reports that the New York Times newsstand price goes from $1.25 to $1.50
The increase takes effect Aug. 18.
The Times' last increase, from $1 to $1.25, came a year ago.
The move comes a week after the Wall Street Journal said it would boost its newsstand price by 50 cents to $2 starting July 28.
Good move.
But late.
The NYT must cost five dollars, right now.
Tell your audience, readers and advertiser, that you are a quality necessary paper and deliver a great product.
They will pay higher prices and higher rates.
woensdag, juli 23, 2008
Fwd: A NEW APPLE MACBOOK TOUCH IN OCTOBER ?!
Speculatie in de blogosphere draait wwer op volle toeren over een nieuw hebbedingetje van Apple.... benieuwd wat hiervan waar zal zijn.... het ding zou combinatie van de iPhone en de Macbook (die schone Apple laptopjes waarvan Debbie, Liza en ik zelf er een van hebben) zijn!
Begin forwarded message:
Date: Tue 22 Jul 2008 21:00:18 GMT+02:00Subject: A NEW APPLE MACBOOK TOUCH IN OCTOBERSource: WHAT'S NEXT: INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERSAuthor: Juan Antonio Giner
Yesterday, at the earnings talk, Apple promised a product transition by the end of September with "technologies and features that others can't match."
The rumor says that the new product will be an Apple tablet:
A MacBook screen, possibly a bit smaller, in glass with iPhone-like, but fuller-featured Multi-Touch.
Gesture library.
Full Mac OS X.
This is why they bought P.A. Semi.
Possibly with Immersion's haptic tech.
Slot-loading SuperDrive.
Accelerometer.
GPS.
Pretty expensive to produce initially, but sold at "low" price that will reduce margins.
Apple wants to move these babies.
And move they will.
By October at the latest.
It seems that Quanta is busy building a touch product for Apple.
And this would confirm the rumor:
Apple has filed for a European design trademark.
The filing, made in May this year but only published this week, covers a "handheld computer" and contains sketches of what looks like an iBook screen minus the body of the computer.
The pictures are from Gizmodo
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Quotes of the month :))
A magazine recently ran a 'Dilbert Quotes' contest. They were looking for people to submit quotes from their real-life Dilbert type managers. These were voted the top ten quotes in corporate America:
1. 'As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday, and employees will receive their cards in two weeks.'
(This was the winning quote from Fred Dales, Microsoft Corp. in Redmond, WA)
2. 'What I need is an exact list of specific unknown problems we might encounter.'
(Lykes Lines Shipping)
3. 'E-mail is not to be used to pass on information or data. It should be used only for company business.'
(Accounting manager, Electric Boat Company)
4. 'This project is so important we can't let things that are more important interfere with it.'
(Advertising/Marketing manager, United Parcel Service)
5. 'Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule .'
(Plant Manager, Delco Corporation)
6. 'No one will believe you solved this problem in one day! We've been working on it for months. Now go act busy for a few weeks and I'll let you know when it's time to tell them.'
(R&D supervisor, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing/3M Corp.)
7. Quote from the Boss: 'Teamwork is a lot of people doing what I say.'
(Marketing executive, Citrix Corporation)
8. My sister passed away and her funeral was scheduled for Monday. When I told my Boss, he said she died on purpose so that I would have to
miss work on the busiest day of the year. He then asked if we could change her burial to Friday. He said, 'That would be better for me.'
(Shipping executive, FTD Florists)
9. 'We know that communication is a problem, but the company is not going to discuss it with the employees.'
(Switching supervisor, AT&T Long Lines Division)
maandag, juli 07, 2008
Axel Springer swithes 10'000 employees to the Mac ;-)
Huge newspaper makes Mac switch move
One of Europe's largest newspaper publishers, Axel Springer AG, has announced a Mac migration
One of Europe's largest newspaper publishers, Axel Springer AG, has announced plans to migrate its 10,000 employees and 150 newspapers in 30 countries to the MacSpeaking in a video message that's now available through YouTube, company CEO Mathias Döpfner notes the following four reasons for the shift:"Most of the company's layout work was already being done on Macs
"Macs are more user friendly than other computers
"Apple creates the most elegant computers
"Macs are cheaper to buy and easier to maintain than they were in the past."The migration will take five years and when complete will make Axel Springer Apple's second largest corporate customer, after GoogleMost recently in the US Auto Warehouse Co. began its switch of 1,000 desktops to the Mac.
donderdag, juli 03, 2008
Happy Birthday Kris !!
Enjoy the day! Have a nice drink and dinner in Villach; we will do the same here 4 you! ;-)
dinsdag, juli 01, 2008
Newspaper Innovation » Blog Archive » Free newspaper circulation
Again, an excellent post by Piet Bakker! Well done, Piet! -- Tom
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