Monthly Archives: September 2009
Yebol Guns for Google with Unlimited Semantic Search
I profiled semantic search startup Yebol today on eWEEK.com.This startup promises to index every term imaginable from a semantic search standpoint come November. It...
Are Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader Too Expensive?
Amazon.com, Sony and others may have gained substantial publicity over the summer for their e-reader devices, but mass-market adoption of digital-book readers may be...
Apple at Work Patching ‘Leopard’ OS
Computer maker Apple is alerting consumers to a security patch concerning Java for its operating system, Leopard (version 10.5.8 or later). Apple explained on...
Yebol Promises Unlimited Semantic Search as Google Alternative
Another search startup plans to challenge Google by offering semantic search results, results that have been disambiguated to be more relevant, for every term...
EFF: Google Books Privacy Policy “Needs to Do More”
One day after Google unveiled a privacy policy for Google Books at the behest of the Federal Trade Commission, the Electronic Frontier Foundation said...
Symantec Goes Under the Hood of Waledac Botnet
From Valentine's Day to Independence Day, pretty much all the holidays this year have had at least one thing in common -- the Waledac...
Microsoft Warns IIS Vulnerability Is Under Attack
Microsoft officials are reporting limited attacks targeting a zero-day vulnerability in the FTP service in Internet Information Services.The IIS vulnerability warning follows the release...
Pluck to Launch Social Media Application Server
Update: Pluck, the social media software maker acquired by Demand Media in 2008, has created a programmable environment to let customers customize the social...
10 Lessons the European Consumer Tech Industry Has for Enterprise Computing
I stopped for a few days at the big IFA consumer technology show in Berlin, Germany. Once, it was technology developments in the business...
How Offshoring May Be Hurting U.S. Technology Employees
Cost cutting is the name of the game. But at what price for the country?That appears to be the central argument of public policy...