Posted on 13 February 2011. Tags: Brad Rutter, IBM, Jeopardy, Ken Jennings, supercomputer, Watson
An IBM supercomputer named Watson will challenge Jeopardy super champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter beginning on Monday. The show was taped back in January and the matches will be run Feb 14-16. Jeopardy naturally wont divulge the outcome although it is said to be close. This is not IBM’s first battle between man [...]
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Posted on 08 February 2011. Tags: Facebook stalker, Mark Zuckerberg, restraining order, social network stalker
Mark Zuckerberg reports that he is terrified of a social network stalker and it is due to his own creation, Facebook. Zuckerberg has reported that he has a Facebook stalker and he, his girlfriend and his sister Randi are terrified of the man that has been after them for some time now. The man, Pradeep [...]
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Posted on 06 February 2011. Tags: data systems, slow down, smart phone users, Verizon, Verizon iPhone
With the successful launch of the Verizon iPhone the company is finding out just how nice it is to be part of the Apple plan for tech domination. However, Verizon is finding out that they need to make some changes to their service to ensure that they stay on top in the mobile carrier world. [...]
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Posted on 05 February 2011. Tags: facebook, Facebook profiles, Lovely-faces.com, online dating site, scraped
More than 250,000 Facebook profiles have been stolen from the famed social network and used to populate an online dating site. The site, Lovely-faces.com, scraped the profiles from Facebook that were made public, saying that they were using the system to build some new cyber-art that was used to publicize the new website and populate [...]
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Posted on 01 February 2011. Tags: Flickr, web properties, Yahoo
Times have been rough for the once powerful Yahoo. During the Dot Com era Yahoo was the dominant search engine. They controlled the largest portion of the web and other companies wanted to grow and be just like them. However, those days came to an end when Yahoo failed to change over the years. They [...]
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Posted on 29 January 2011. Tags: algorithm, duplicate content, google, keyword stacking, keyword stuffing, scraping, web spam
Things have certainly changed on the internet since Google first arrived. They were the first to offer such a unique position on the search engine business and they are still considered the best source for this type of information. But things have changed and Google is still facing some issues that can be traced back [...]
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Posted on 28 January 2011. Tags: Apple, Apple products, AT&T, iPhones, mobile carrier, Verizon
The last several months have been rough for the mobile carrier AT&T. First they were listed as the worst network in the world for reliability and power and then Apple announced that they were ending their exclusive deal with AT&T for iPhones and other Apple products. Today the CEO of AT&T has announced that the [...]
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Posted on 26 January 2011. Tags: FCC, google, net neutrality, Verizon
A plan for net neutrality partially devised by Verizon as well as Google was just about to be enacted when the companies involved, sans Google, decided to sue the FCC to stop the laws from being put into effect. According to several sources, Verizon has done a complete turnaround on the rules and has decided [...]
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