| The geeks gather once again for the 2005 edition |
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The geeks gather once again for the 2005 edition of O’Reilly Media’s Emerging Technologies Conference. This year’s conference theme is the simple declaration, "Remix."
Taking this to heart is Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, whose presentation this morning described a feature that debuted today on the company’s A9.com search site that lets anybody create their own vertical search options that they can share with all other site sers.
Bezos used as an example the Koders service that searches for open-source code. Simply write a few lines of HTML code, submit it to the site, and the search option is added to the list of available vertical-search options you see when you click the "See More Columns" button on the A9.com home page.
Bezos predicts that there will eventually be thousands of such specialty search options available to A9.com users. According to Bezos, such features mean the "community can remix A9.com."
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| No More Printer Hassles - Mar 25, 2005 12:14 IST |
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Laser printers, ink jet printers, photo printers, whatever you’ve got, problems are bound to occur. Wouldn’t it be nice to avoid problems or, if they occur, fix snafus yourself without having to deal with tech support?
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| In Search of Keener USB Memory - Mar 25, 2005 12:14 IST |
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USB memory keys--which can pack as much as 2GB of solid-state storage into a device smaller than a pack of Wrigley’s gum--are a mighty handy way to transport data. But with that much storage riding in your pocket, wouldn’t it be nice if you could also carry along your whole computing environment? Then when you got to your destination PC, you could just sit down and get to work without having to worry about whether or not you had the right applications (and versions) needed to handle the data.
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| One of twenty Google.com users getting free gmail - Mar 18, 2005 0:10 IST |
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Google opened up its Gmail Web mail service to a wider scope of users this week by randomly offering, for the first time, accounts to some visitors of the main Google.com page.
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| Microsoft to launch Keyword-based ad program - Mar 18, 2005 0:7 IST |
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Microsoft is developing its own paid-search advertising program to become a player in a lucrative market where rivals Google and Yahoo have been playing for years.
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| IT manager will serve five months for hacking - Mar 18, 2005 0:4 IST |
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An Orange, California, IT manager who earlier pled guilty to hacking into his previous employer’s computer network was sentenced Monday to five months in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said this week.
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| Indigo Preview from Microsoft - Mar 18, 2005 0:3 IST |
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Microsoft plans to release the first preview version of Indigo this week, giving developers a chance to test-drive the new communications subsystem for Windows.
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| Local search index rom Google - Mar 17, 2005 23:58 IST |
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Google has created a program to let businesses create or update listings on its Google Local index, the latest enhancement the Mountain View, California, vendor has made to one of its most popular search services.
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| Phishing and Pharming Law - Mar 8, 2005 17:37 IST |
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A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate last week would allow prison time of up to five years and fines of up to $250,000 for people who design fake Web sites for the purposes of stealing money or credit card numbers. The Anti-Phishing Act of 2005, introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), would outlaw "phishing," in which scam artists design Web sites to look like real banking or e-commerce sites, then e-mail spam to people saying they need to re-enter their account or credit card numbers at the bogus site.
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