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Archive for the ‘Research’ Category

• Google Health and Search Factory Tour

  Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

  Google shows the latest research in various search-related fields and announced the official debut of Google Health.
  R.J. Pittman, Director of Search Properties, showed some of the amazing advances Google made in image search, as well as how ads might work to enhance the user experience on image search. “There are over 300 [...]

• The digital Europe - i2010 Initiative

  Sunday, May 18th, 2008

  Preparing Europe’s digital future i2010 Mid-Term Review {SEC(2008) 470}
  INTRODUCTION

  Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) continue to be a major driver of economic and social modernisation. Today, businesses in the EU devote 20% of investment to ICTs, and the sector accounts for 26% of overall research expenditure. Moreover, 60% of basic public services [...]

• Astronomy live with Microsoft: WorldWide Telescope

  Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

  Microsoft researchers has been developing an interesting astronomy application, now as a public beta, allowing you to see pictures from several observatories. The service is free of charge and uses high-resolution images from the world’s best land- and space-based telescopes.
  WorldWide Telescope is a rich, Web 2.0 application allowing people to easily [...]

• Testing the front running practice with Network Solutions

  Thursday, January 10th, 2008

  I red about the practice of Network Solutions to register every name looked-up via their registration-site WHOIS, but I couldn’t believe it, so I tested it myself.
  I choose the domain name “justadomaintastingtest.com”.
  I tried it with the whois at register.com (that I trust and I always use): the domain name was available.

  I tried [...]

• Yahoo! in Romania

  Saturday, December 15th, 2007

  In accordance with the information published by the Romanian newspaper România Liberă, Yahoo! intends to open a center for software research and development in Romania, and a specific 100% Romanian portal.
  Zoltan Somodi, a state secretary at the Communication Minister, confirmed that a delegation of Yahoo! Europe came at Bucharest two weeks [...]