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RIP Exchange?Computerworld, MA -9 hours agoOver the years, many of Microsoft monopolies have been successfully attacked by open source: Linux on the server; Apache for Web servers; Firefox for Web …Data Storage Cisco Buys PostPath to Compete with Microsoft ExchangeeWeekCisco Buys E-Mail and Calendaring Start-Up for $215 MillionNew York TimesCisco swoops on PostPathWashington TechnologyIT […]

What Makes 100%? That’s easy. The complete version of anyhting is the 100% mark. But what does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? Is it even possible?
We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%. […]

Comcast will implement a 250 GB data monthly cap on customers starting Oct. 1. The move, reported first by DSL Reports, was confirmed by Comcast today (Techmeme). On its site, Comcast posted its amended user policy: We’ve listened to feedback from our customers who asked that we provide a specific threshold for data usage and […]

With over a year since the launch of Google Scholar, I thought it was time to revisit my test of Google Scholar’s indexing of PubMed content. In my Sitelines article, Google Scholar is a Full Year Late Indexing PubMed Content of February 8 2005, I ran a test to see how GS’s coverage of PubMed […]

Lots of buzz this week about Healthline.com, a new vertical search engine for medical information. Chris Sherman, in his SearchDay review, quotes the company’s promotional material, which indicates that the site covers “62,000 web sites with between 45-50 million pages… [and] hosted content licensed from reliable content providers.” However, my own initial examination showed a […]

One of the issues involving XML-RPC.NET that turns up fairly frequently is when the library throws an instance of System.Net.WebException with the message “”The server committed a protocol violation”. This usually occurs because from .NET 1.1 SP1 onwards the parsing of HTTP responses became much more strict, as a security measure to prevent attacks which […]

Dropping profits and stock prices have analysts speculating that Sun could be a target for either acquisition or a restructuring in which the company would sell off parts of the business and focus on a smaller set of technologies. In a July 31 report, the 451 Group analyst firm raised the possibility of Sun being […]

Google Scholar’s chief engineer, Anurag Acharya, contributed a presentation “Searching Scholarly Literature: A Google Scholar Perspective” at the 9th World Congress on Health Information and Libraries, September 23, 2005. Some key points: The index has grown significantly in the last six months, although the company does not disclose the actual index size Coverage by category […]

A few months back we announced the acquisition of Inquisitor software, which helped to extend our query suggestion features, similar to Yahoo!’s Search Assist, to the Mac community. We’ve been quietly working on enhancements since, and today we’re rolling out a new look, a few performance improvements and we’re also going global.
To start with we […]

NewsFactor - Anyone perusing porn sites at home will appreciate Microsoft’s latest efforts at browser privacy, but it’s not clear it will do much for the enterprise. Internet Explorer product manager Andrew Ziegler discussed the new privacy features of IE8, currently in its second beta, in an extensive blog post Monday. Users of the new […]