Stories about: Altavista

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    Top 50 tech visionaries 22/05/2008 10:20:00

    It's easy to look at a laptop, an iPod, or a laser printer as nothing more than a tool to get work done with or to while away your free time on, but these and many other high-tech devices didn't fall off a tree. They emerged following years of hard work--and in some cases, an entire career devoted to a single technology--by inspired researchers, designers, and developers.
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    Google App Engine beta 14/05/2008 14:50:00

    With Google's App Engine, you write a bit of code in Python, customise some HTML and bingo, you've got your database-backed dynamic website up and running in a few short minutes.
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    Search startup from ex-Googlers promises 'new approach' 17/04/2008 07:46:28

    A search company founded by ex-Google and IBM employees landed US$25 million in new venture funding this week, but remains in stealth mode with no indication of when its technology will be publicly available.
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    Core Security Technologies Impact 7.5 13/03/2008 14:42:37

    With Version 7.5, the tried-and-true attack toolkit becomes easier to use, leverages the fallibility of users to gain access to host systems, and adds security checks for Web-based databases.
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    Can Microsoft use AltaVista without buying Yahoo? 22/02/2008 10:25:31

    Earlier this month, Microsoft announced its intentions to acquire Yahoo. Although Yahoo has since announced it plans to fight Microsoft's takeover and court other suitors, most notably Google, there is an element of shared search technology that neither Microsoft nor Yahoo can easily dismiss because of Microsoft's earlier 2008 announcement to acquire FAST Search and Transfer.
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    Tech's all-time top 25 flops 22/01/2008 11:20:32

    Imagine how different the tech industry might have been had Gary Kildall accepted IBM's offer, back in 1980, to license his computer operating system for a top-secret project. CP/M would have been the OS that shipped with the original IBM PC, and the world might never have heard the name of Kildall's competitor, who eventually accepted the contract: a Mr. Bill Gates.
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    Wikia search engine gains a Web crawler 30/07/2007 08:08:24

    Wikia's project to develop an open-source search engine got another boost with the acquisition of the Grub distributed Web crawler, the company announced Friday.
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    Search engine roulette: sites rarely agree on top results 18/06/2007 09:57:53

    The most popular Web search engines rarely deliver the same results when identical queries are performed on each site, and the disparity has increased over the past two years, new research has found.
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    WEB 2.0 - Flash and Firefox to unite 08/11/2006 10:27:39

    Adobe Systems will contribute source code to the Mozilla Foundation as the two organizations aim to establish a standard scripting language that developers can use to create interactive applications for Adobe's Flash Player and Mozilla's Firefox browser.
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    Software can translate Yahoo IMs on the fly 09/01/2006 08:00:15

    Communication among colleagues around the globe who don't speak the same language could become easier with an open source tool that translates Yahoo instant messages on the fly.
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    Ballmer on SQL Server 2005 16/11/2005 11:54:33

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer this week said SQL Server 2005 should eliminate any "last bit of hesitancy" that enterprise users may have about the database's ability to scale. Ballmer spoke with Computerworld at the launch of the SQL Server upgrade, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006, discussing the new products and other topics.
 
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