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Google Won’t Sell Music, Partners with MTV

Maybe because they know they can't compete with iTunes, or maybe because their online video store is kinda lame, or maybe just because engineers...

Microsoft Focuses on User Behavior With New Search Research

Search is about more than search-engine algorithms. It also must take into account user click-through and browsing behaviors, if search-result accuracy is to be...

Microsoft: User Behavior as Key to Improving Search Results

From Microsoft Watch: When it comes to search, Microsoft researchers are some of the key movers and shakers inside the Redmond software company. At...

Apples Mac OS X Leopard: A 3-D Impossible Dream

SAN FRANCISCO—Apple Computer once again showed it still owns the secret sauce when it comes to computer interface design (and maybe even with hardware...

Disaster Recovery: Make a Copy, Stay in Business

From Sept. 11 to Hurricane Katrina, businesses have wrangled with the nuts and bolts of recovering from catastrophes. Data replication software, which copies corporate...

Two Men Charged with Theft of VA Laptop

A pair of Maryland men have been charged with taking the laptop computer that contained the personal information of millions of veterans and active...

Giant Health Insurance Claims Database Pilot Unveiled

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is creating a database of health insurance claims from 79 million of its clients. The data will have no...

Leopard Spotting Piques Developers Interest

SAN FRANCISCO—The new Leopard version of Mac OS X with its Time Machine feature, along with the briefly mentioned Xcode 3 application development environment,...

Microsoft: No Virtual PC for Intel-based Macs

Microsoft has decided not to move forward with a version of Virtual PC for the Intel-based Macintosh, and will also be discontinuing support of...

The Next Research Frontier: Game Cheating

After recognizing that I had a computer gaming problem in college (this is where I spent my time in the early 80s), I basically...