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Risk management, e-discovery, enterprise search, e-mail archiving, and secure and managed file transfers might all beat hard times in a recession or economic downturn in the wake of the Wall Street financial crisis. Risk management, e-discovery, enterprise search, e-mail archiving, and
secure and managed file transfers are all positioned for a boom as the business and financial sector call on their unique services more than ever.
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Because they are providing exactly the right services at exactly the right time, enterprises in certain sub-sectors of IT are beginning to get busy helping clean up the Wall Street/Main Street financial debacle. Companies in e-discovery, archiving, enterprise search, risk management and secure file transfers are among those "lucky" ones.
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Ask.com, which has struggled to position its search engine in an era dominated by Google, retools its question-and-answer results using semantic search technologies, which look to extract the meaning behind search queries to provide more valuable results. Meanwhile, startup Hakia is trying to lure more users to its own semantic search site with an option to search what it calls credible Web sites, which are vetted by librarians and informational professionals.
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A surge in consumer demand for the first smart phone powered by Google's Android software has prompted T-Mobile to triple its order from HTC for the G1 smart phone and to extend the deadline for presales before the Oct. 22 launch.
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Hakia relaunches its semantic search engine to better differentiate itself from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and other search engines. Application development efforts have made Hakia a fully tabbed search engine, with a credible sites tab for validated expert results. Hakia joins Microsoft's Powerset, Wikia and others in trying to provide users with a different experience from Google.
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The Google-Yahoo deal announced in June to share advertising was widely seen as an effort to help fend off Microsoft's efforts to acquire Yahoo, by bringing Yahoo an additional $800 million in annual revenues.
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Ask.com's search engine market share is minimal at best, but the company keeps on plugging away in application development to keep from being extinguished by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. The latest effort leverages semantic technologies to help Ask.com more accurately answer more questions than ever. Think of it as getting back to its Ask Jeeves roots, but with the Ask3D universal search look for good measure.
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Google's Android mobile operating system holds a lot of promise for developers. Key features in Android include the ability for all applications to work together and to run in parallel.
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Even if the Department of Justice eventually approves the ad deal between Google and Yahoo, antitrust subcommittee head U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl wants the DOJ to keep a close eye on the controversial search and advertising collaboration between Google and Yahoo.
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Microsoft looks to improve its online search in Europe, where Google currently holds 79 percent of the online search market, compared with Microsoft's 2 percent.
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Google Trends is being used by hackers as the vehicle to reach more victims with malware payloads. The latest assault on desktop and notebook security prompted security software provider Webroot to alert PC users to the malware, which attempts to bait users into buying destructive software. Webroot's advice? Keep your PCs and Macs secure, your anti-spyware updated and don't download videos from strangers.
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Google's Nasdaq Stock Exchange Share Prices dropped to as low as 1 cent as the market closed Sept. 30. The Nasdaq Stock Market said it will cancel some of the late trades in Google. The Nasdaq Stock Exchange Market said the "erroneous orders" that caused the abrupt plunge "were triggered by orders routed from another exchange." Earlier, Nasdaq's surveillance arm said in a statement it was investigating "potentially erroneous transactions" in Google shares.
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Developer Big In Japan shows off its new application for the Google Android smartphone, the G1, called ShopSavvy. ShopSavvy lets users comparison shop with their G1 by scanning a product's barcode with the phone's digital camera. ShopSavvy searches the Web for the best prices on the queried product, displaying the lowest online as well as nearby in-store prices (using GPS technology).
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Google and T-Mobile show off the new Google Android smartphone, the G1, at a massive New York press conference. G1 features include on-device sensors, an application store, called Android Market, similar to the App Store on the Apple iPhone and embedded Google applications. T-Mobile and Google executives, including Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, also discuss the G1's features and applications.
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After a summer of debate over NebuAd's deep package inspection advertising model leads to Congressional hearings and harsh criticism by consumer groups, the nation's largest broadband providers hope industry guidelines calling for consumer opt-in regimes will stave off new Internet privacy laws. AT&T, Verizon and Time Warner deny using deep packet inspection.
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Search giant Google in its new Chrome browser has souped up JavaScript, calling it V8. Although Google Chrome's V8 sports neither fuel injection nor dual-overhead cams, it does have full compilation even for dynamic languages and new garbage collection features, resulting in much faster Web 2.0 applications.
Google's new Chrome browser has a lot to offer in terms of new technology. Google has recognized that something needed to be done to enable browser technology to catch up to the current state of Web application development. Jeff Cogswell looks under the hood to see what makes it tick.
Review: Microsoft closes the gap between its browser and rivals
Review: New Google unit will appeal to businesses
The biggest name in search hasn't done so well in the corporate arena, but the Google Mini appliance's new pricing and more robust capabilities will be appealing to businesses.
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