Wolfram|Alpha has just been launched today. tagged by some as Google‘s killer, i quickly played around and here are some immediate points i have: it’s a totally new experience! not so much text, it was clean with nice images search performance is quite slower compared to Google, but manageable definitely a geeks searching tool dream-come-true! […]
a few months ago i blogged about Wolfram|Alpha, which by some was tagged as the next Google killer, today this much-anticipated (or hyped) tool is launched. Wolfram|Alpha boasts of a new search algorithm that makes data on the web “computable” via its computational knowledge engine. sit back and watch the LIVE stream:http://www.justin.tv/widgets/jtv_player.swfWatch live video from […]
Morebasictweaks yesterday forwarded me this link (thanks dude!), done by doloreslabs where they listed the top 10 programming language with the happiest users. doloreslabs fetched the 150 most recent tweets (from Twitter) for each programming language and this is what they got:there are actually quite a number of reactions on the post, some thought the […]
MoreRei Magpayo of CID Communications emailed me today (and i’m passing this to all IT PINOYs) about the upcoming 13th ICT Professionals Congress (ICTPC) on May 20/21 @ the Dusit Thani Manila, Makati City. The gathering will focus of Cloud Computing, here is their press release. Computing in the Clouds With cloud computing right over […]
MoreBusiness Software Alliance (BSA) just reported that software piracy in the Philippines remain @ 69% in 2008 but revenue losses increased to $202mil. However, it was noted that the growing usage of both laptops & netbooks were helping drive down piracy, mainly because these mobile devices have pre-installed operating systems. “There should be more efforts […]
Morethe International Data Corporation (IDC) has just reported that inspite of the current global recession, personal computers (PCs) are faring much better compared with the other products. they attributed this to much cheaper PCs today compared to seven years ago (last recession). they also cited that PCs today are much more driven by replacements than […]
Morethe 2010 Philippine poll automation would push through even with the disqualification of firms bidding to provide automated counting machines, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) said yesterday. “We have not yet reached a situation where we would opt for partial automation. We have yet to declare a failed bidding,” COMELEC chairman Jose Melo stated. COMELEC […]
Morethere has been an ongoing debate in the software community as to make developers liable to the quality of products they make. this came after the European Commission (EC) proposed this; “…extending the principles of consumer protection rules to cover licensing agreements of products like software downloaded for virus protection, games or other licensed content… […]
MoreMininova, starting today will detect and remove torrents with copyright infringing files. this came a few days before Mininova appears on court against local anti-piracy outfit BREIN. Mininova added that the system will be tested for 12 weeks with only a few titles. with this trial Mininova collaborates with an association representing several TV/movie content […]
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