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IBM wins bid to build hybrid supercomputer
News Those engines also are amenable to scientific computing tasks, IBM has said. If we keep pushing traditional microprocessors and using them as high-performance computing engines, they waste a lot of energy.
[September 6, 2006, 10:05]
Hate site distorts King's dream
News Meta tag information included in the site's source code, which is used by search engines to categorise Web sites, lists words like "civil rights", "Jesse Jackson", "Rosa Parks", and "NAACP" in an attempt to appear during searches for those words.
[January 26, 2000, 12:20]
IBM to court service providers with new servers
News The Netfinity 4000R includes integrated hardware technology from Network Engines, which specialises in thin servers for Internet companies in need of rack-dense environments. IBM and Network Engines signed a deal last week in which IBM will license...
[September 8, 1999, 12:16]
IBM launches new blade server
News IBM followed a similar pattern with Network Engines, a smaller server maker that preceded RLX as a pioneer in stacking servers as densely as possible. Network Engines was a leader in dual-processor, pizza box-size servers 1.75 inches thick.
[April 25, 2002, 9:07]
Spyware's tentacles spread to search
News Major search engines and second-tier search providers distribute those text ads to third-party publishers and split the fees with them when people click. So if a spyware maker can arrange to place text ads over popular search engines, it is set to...
[June 29, 2004, 12:50]
Usenet under fire
News The Digital Millennium Copyright Act provides a legal shield, or "safe harbour" for search engines that meet a certain set of requirements, including the ability for copyright holders to request that links to copyrighted material be taken down.
[February 27, 2006, 14:30]
US Web snooping plan draws fire
News The SEC won't disclose its red flags, but investigators now type such phrases as "get rich quick" and "free stock" into search engines when they scan the Internet manually. The Internet is expanding quickly, and scanning it manually with...
[March 29, 2000, 9:12]
US legislature suggests China Web crackdown
News The worldwide press freedom organisation has called for similar laws that would, for instance, prohibit search engines from incorporating automatic filters to reject phrases such as "democracy" or "human rights.
[February 20, 2006, 12:35]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Accusations are flying in the search engine wars as The European reports that "many search engines are believed to sell rankings to large multinationals, which pay to ensure that their site appears first on the list of results whenever a user...
[September 7, 1998, 15:30]
Google protects its search results
News We just try to educate people to use it properly and to not abuse the search engines and to keep queries to a minimum. Among the search engines that WebPosition Gold analyses include Yahoo! He said the Missouri-based company tries to educate its...
[April 16, 2002, 14:47]
Photos: Inside BT's world of innovation
News BT has experimented, in conjunction with Rolls Royce, with using fibre wrapped in copper as a long, thin, makeshift microphone for pinpointing flaws in jet engines — the technology is simple and hardy enough for use in such extreme environments...
[September 26, 2006, 17:35]
Browser shoot-out: IE 7 v Firefox 2 review
Reviews IE 7 thoughtfully offers more customisation than in the past, such as the ability to add more search engines to its search field. Firefox 2 did not include my custom-created search engines, only those defaulted by Mozilla.
[October 31, 2006, 8:08]
OpenLink JDBC Bench
Downloads Offering real-time comparative benchmarking of multiple JDBC Drivers, Database Engines, and JVM combinations. Distributed as part of the Demonstration Applications included with all OpenLink JDBC Drivers.
[May 15, 2003, 8:00]
PopUpBuster
Downloads Two built-in Artifical Intelligence engines kill all annoying popup windows without user intervention. PopUpBuster is a small non-invasive pop-up killer program. Minimal CPU, Memory and Resource usage.apos;No installation' feature prevents any...
[September 12, 2002, 18:18]
NASCAR 2009 by EA SPORTS
Downloads Start Your Engines! Get behind the wheel as one of 19 top NASCAR drivers. Climb the corners on authentic tracks. Draft, block and accelerate your way to the checkered flag. Show off your pit strategy with repairs, tire changes and fuel ups.
[September 4, 2008, 8:00]
BA038 crash at Heathrow
Blog Comment I don't think you can apply specific problems with GE engines to RR! As for the landing question, it's quite a good one. I'm active on PPruNe, and although the flybois over there can be a bit prickly when self loading freight ask technical...
[January 22, 2008, 11:51]
Programming Collective Intelligence: Searching and Ranking
White Papers This paper covers full-text search engines, which allow people to search a large set of documents for a list of words, and which rank results according to how relevant the documents are to those words.
[October 17, 2007, 1:00]
Stirling work for cooling your chips
Blog Comment The thing about the Stirling engine is that it is either simple, robust and inefficient (as in the Victorian engines that powered pumps and generators in the country) or efficient but unbelievably complex (as in the Philips quad mechanism which...
[February 29, 2008, 21:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Among the sounds of financial markets in rapid descent and B2 bomber engines spooling up, a more familiar noise can be heard: that of wool being pulled over eyes. Tuesday 18/09/01 The US government is bent on tracking down and disposing of those...
[September 24, 2001, 12:49]
Personal Web Search
Downloads Search the Internet with facilities not offered by commercial search engines. Direct your searches to specific areas. See pages without ranking to favor commercial sites. Obtain up to the minute searches of the Web, rather than weeks-old cached pages.
[May 14, 2009, 13:05]
