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Archive for September, 2009

App user servey: iPhone and iPod Touch Users Buy More, more Android users are stingy

Monday, September 28, 2009 14:52

A survey conducted by Admob shows that iPhone and iPod Touch Users Buy More, Android users are stingy. AdMob surveyed over 1,000 of  iPhone, iPod Touch and Android users to find out more about their interaction and download behavior with...

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Will buying ACS save Xerox?

Monday, September 28, 2009 12:19

Xerox Corp. is struggling because offices are going paperless, and copy machines are not as busy or as necessary as they used to be. In an effort to offset this declining trend, they decided to buy Affiliated Computer Services for...

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Gotthard Base Tunnel, world’s longest, may not open until 2017

Monday, September 28, 2009 11:33

The Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) is a railway tunnel under construction in Switzerland. With a planned length of 57 km (35.4 mi) and a total of 153.5 km (95.4 mi) of tunnels, shafts and passages planned, it will be the...

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Netflix wants to stream to your PS3, Wii and Xbox 360, maybe even iPhone

Monday, September 28, 2009 11:20

On Sept 21, 2009, after nearly three years, Netflix announced the winner to its Netflix Prize yesterday. The million dollar prize goes to “BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos”, a team of seven engineers, statisticians and researchers from Austria, Canada, Israel and the...

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TopicScoop: Twitter Search with real-time topic clustering

TopicScoop: Twitter Search with real-time topic clustering

Monday, September 28, 2009 9:48

TopicScoop launched a Twitter search service that provides more insights into the search results. Using TopicScoop is like any other search engine: Enter a keyword(s) into the search box, click Search. Within seconds, TopicScoop analyzes hundreds to thousands of tweets...

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Multiverse Theory: technology implications

Sunday, September 27, 2009 21:32

New physics theories are completely changing how we look at the world. The universe is not made up of atoms, it is actually mostly dark matters. We have heard of black holes in the universe that sucks everything in. Now,...

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Twitter Advertising: Pay for performance

Sunday, September 27, 2009 11:24

More and more Twitter Advertising networks are launching. There are long time leaders RevTwt and Magpie, and there are new comers sponsored tweets and ad.ly among many others. Both sponsored tweets and ad.ly put their bets on celebrity Twitterers and are...

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Linus says Linux is getting “Bloated and Huge”

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:40

At LinuxCon in Portland, Ore., on Monday, Linus Torvalds said that Linux is getting bloated and with no plan in sight to change that. Moderator James Bottomley cited an internal Intel study that tracked kernel releases, which showed that Linux...

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Netflix Prize: first million to Bellkor Pragmatic Chaos, second million up for grabs

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:15

After nearly three years, Netflix announced the winner to its Netflix Prize yesterday. The million dollar prize goes to “BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos”, a team of seven engineers, statisticians and researchers from Austria, Canada, Israel and the U.S. More than 51,000...

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Fallout 3 DLC for PS3 to release next week

Fallout 3 DLC for PS3 to release next week

Saturday, September 19, 2009 21:26

Finally, Fallout 3 downloadable content packs for the PlayStation 3 will arrive next week, the game’s publisher Bethesda Softworks revealed. PS3 gamers will finally be able to catch up with Xbox 360 owners on the game. Broken Steel will be available...

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