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Google releases its new Google Search Appliance, a box that now indexes 10 million documents as a way to compete with Microsoft's Fast search assets, as well as Vivisimo, Endeca, Autonomy and other players in the enterprise search market. Google also looks to extend its market lead with new metadata biasing tools, Google alerts, advanced search analytics and Kerberos support.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg irked some media members by dodging questions about social network monetization and OpenSocial during a question-and-answer session at Facebook's F8 Conference July 23. However, he tempered the artful dodging with thoughtful answers to some questions. Here are some of the top Zuckerberg quotes from F8.
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RedPrairie is outfitting its E2e Supply Chain Execution suite with new capabilities to unify the supply chain process and give enterprises greater visibility into their inventory.
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Delicious formally unveils its revamped Web site. The social bookmarking site loads faster and boasts several new design and navigation features that are putting people off at first. It may take some time for users to warm to it.
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Google has no current plans to leverage the video advertising potential of its new Omnisio assets, which have been added to YouTube to provide video annotation and mashup capabilities.
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Adobe is taking its lead with Flash into the enterprise and beyond. Adobe is expressing confidence that Flash can remain the dominant rich Internet application platform even in the face of competition from Microsoft's Silverlight.
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Facebook is planning to use “thousands” of Intel Xeon processors as the social networking site looks to expand its operations and its data center infrastructure. Facebook plans to use servers that use Intel 5400 series Xeon processors that are built on the chip maker’s newer 45-nanometer manufacturing process.
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Sun Microsystems' Sun Web Stack, an integrated enterprise-quality AMP for Solaris and Linux, is ready to roll, and the core components of the Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 and Sun Java System Web Proxy are open source. Sun hopes it means faster time to market for Web developers.
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Security vendors are increasingly baking whitelisting technology into their anti-virus and other security products to battle malware. Whitelisting is an effort to compile a list of trusted, malware-free applications that IT and the user community agree to support.
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Amazon Web Services offers a Web-based editing tool for its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace that makes it easier for nonprogrammers to create tasks for others to work on together. Even as Turk is fading, businesses are leveraging Amazon's EC2, S3 and other cloud computing tools to give developers platforms to launch Web-based apps. This has spawned a nation of startups, including Bungee Labs, Etelos and Coghead.
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Symantec Norton Safe Web aims to challenge McAfee's lead in the Web reputation space with a new beta. Norton Safe Web is a Web reputation service supported by an online directory of site reports and a user community. It rates Web site reputations and provides visual safety ratings of search results from engines such as Google and Yahoo.
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Google Knol tries to out-wiki Wikipedia. Just as you settled on Wikipedia as your de facto source for all information, Google Knol jumps onto the scene. Google Knol is Google's latest attempt to gain yet another foothold on your everyday life by providing users with a new source for their daily zeitgeist of knowledge -- the wiki. How long can Wikipedia survive until Google "does no harm" them to oblivion?
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At OSCON, Microsoft announces support for the Ruby specification effort and says it will participate in the RubySpec project.
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The Yahoo Zimbra Beta allows all 263 million Yahoo Mail customers to access mail and calendars offline. Zimbra Desktop Beta Version 3, available July 24, will let users run their Yahoo mail as desktop POP or IMAP mail client software.
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Any Yahoo acquisition plans Microsoft might have entertained are now dead, says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Microsoft is moving on and looking to invest more in search, a business Ballmer categorizes as a "two-horse race" between Microsoft and Google.
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Review: While not as innovative as some past Opera releases, the Opera 9.5 beta does have some interesting new capabilities.
Review: The beta of Flock 1.0 shows promise as a browser designed for heavy users of social networks and Web 2.0 media sites.
Review: Web conference systems can reduce the cost of integrating voice services.
Review: For companies looking for a plug-and-play voice and Web conferencing solution, Sonexis' ConferenceManager is a good choice.
Review: Interwise Connect earns eWEEK Labs' Analyst's Choice award for its flexiblity as a voice or Web conferencing solution.
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