Microsoft has agreed to buy Silicon Valley-based semantic search engine Powerset for over $100 million, VentureBeat is reporting today, a move that will apparently be announced next month. Powerset’s search technology uses the open-source, cluster-based technology Hadoop, which provides fast answers to queries by using… Read More »
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A smarter network doesn’t necessarily mean a safer network, or so goes the thinking when it comes to the new intelligent power grid. It is seen as an increased security risk. It has been rumored that Chinese paramilitary hackers have taken tried to
NewTeeVee Station: Remembering George Carlin. His best videos have been ranked and collated for your viewing pleasure. NewTeeVee: ABC wants what Veoh has — traffic — and is willing to pay for it, which means Veoh’s now an ABC affiliate of the online kind. Could… Read More »
The launch of the final version of the Firefox 3 browser is not going the way Mozilla planned. This was supposed to be Download Day — an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in a 24-hour period. Instead, after the… Read More »
Earth2Tech: Tech giants are going solar. Intel spins out (and funds) SpectraWatt. NewTeeVee: BitTorrent client, Vuze (formerly known as Azureus) has gone social and more webby. OStatic: Open source is everywhere: electoral voting & census are two of the more interesting mainstream… Read More »
Here are some of the stories on our network of sites that are worth reading this weekend.
OStatic: Opensource Dia takes on Microsoft Visio. It is pretty good.
WebWorkerDaily: Many many things that are wrong about Google’s products, including lack of an integrated experience.
If you do any work with video on a Mac, you probably already have some basic software for video editing and production. Out in the open source arena, though, there are many free utilities, adjunct applications, and just plain novelties that any videographer can benefit from… Read More »
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The Earth2Tech Team grabbed some camera time with Google.org’s director for climate change and energy initiatives, Dan Reicher, at Google’s conference in Washington DC on plug-in vehicles. Reicher told them that Google will make investments in green cars this summer through it’s plug-in hybrid program, RechargeIT.… Read More »
NewTeeVee: ISPs shut down Usenet to save children and cash. NewTeeVee: Cat lovers may get their video fix with secret Cheezburger Video Project. Earth2Tech: SF Mayor says City’s Solar Program by July 2008. WebWorkerDaily: The importance of pursuing offline interests. NewTeeVee Station: A conversation with… Read More »
Linux was just deemed greener than Windows Server 2008 when running as the operating system for servers — a good 12 percent more efficient. Now that might not sound like much, but the same research also drove home just how difficult it is to get… Read More »
Earlier today, we posted an item written by one of our freelance contributors about little-used features of Gmail. What we did not realize was that the post lifted from an item published three days earlier on MakeUseOf.com. Giga Omni Media considers such behavior unacceptable. As soon… Read More »
On the red carpet out front of the Webby Awards in NYC, the two Lizzes chatted with will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas about posting his video, “Yes You Can,” online. Check it out! Read More »
Bill Gates has been slowly selling off his 20.6 percent stake in ethanol producer Pacific Ethanol. Gates’private investment and holding company, Cascade Investment, has been whittling down its stake trade by trade, and by last Friday Cascade had sold off a total of 1.4 million… Read More »
Eucalyptus, an open-source infrastructure for cloud computing on clusters that duplicates the functionality of Amazon’s EC2, directly using the Amazon command-line tools, was released today. For the full story, and a way to download Eucalyptus, head over to OStatic . Read More »
The East Coast version of Graphing Social Patterns, a conference for developers and marketers building and distributing apps for MySpace, Facebook and the myriad of other social networking platforms out there, will kick off next week in Washington, D.C. GSP East will tackle… Read More »
Internet video portal and software maker Veoh has raised $30 million from Intel Capital, Adobe Systems Inc. and Gordon Crawford, senior vice president of Capital Research Global Investors, NewTeeVee is reporting, bringing the company’s total funding to just shy of $70 million. The funding… Read More »
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