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Australia's Technological World Cup Advantage 343

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday June 18, 2006 @02:26PM from the time-to-build-an-expert-system-bot dept.

hotsauce writes "The BBC has a piece about how Australia is using software to gain an advantage in the World Cup. The Socceroos are running software that looks for patterns in attacks of the opposing team. It also shows the effectiveness of different response strategies by recording where attacks fail when countered. This is the first time Australia has reached the World Cup in 30 years, but a real test of the technology will come today when Australia must take on five-time and current world champions Brasil. The Socceroos talk about specific strategies for that game, also."

Comment Re:fp (Score 1) 427

by dr3vil on Sunday March 19, 2006 @02:00PM (#14952582) Attached to: Suing Google Over Pagerank

That was a case of a company that sold google page rankings, and tried to manipluate those rankings for its own profit. I don't see that this is a similar case - this one involves a company that apparently legitimately gained a high page ranking losing business when that ranking was lowered. It sounds to me like this case has a lot more merit.

CNET Accuses Apple of Over-Hyping Launch 382

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday March 05, 2006 @05:11PM from the bring-back-fireside-chats dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A columnist at CNET is questioning whether Apple over-hyped last week's launch. From the article: 'Jobs' announcement of a new leather case for the iPod was especially ridiculous. Like the queen announcing a new toaster in Buckingham Palace. It seemed odd that Jobs was troubling himself to introduce fashion accessories to Apple's products.' Is Apple a victim of its own success? Can it hold a low-profile product launch anymore -- or do we inevitably expect too much?"

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