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Comment Romance (Score 1) 37

by tbigby on Saturday February 17, 2007 @12:42AM (#18048036) Attached to: She said YES!

A friend from work says there ought to be more romance in this world... with that tale I think you proved that there's plenty already!

Congratulations, all the best to both of you!

Submission + - Yahoo Music, chiefs urge labels to 'ditch DRM'

Submitted by

waired

on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @05:35AM

waired writes: "It seem that a trend has begun in the musics industry after Steve Jobs essay. Now a senior Yahoo chief has spoken out in favor of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' call for major labels to abandon digital rights technology (DRM). It points out that consumers are getting confused and that the Microsoft DRM "doesn't work half the time". http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&newsI D=17184"

Journal Journal: mobile operators concerned by increasing malware

Journal by blusjune on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @03:49AM

Mobile operators concerned by increasing malware threat

13.02.2007 - Mobile network operators are increasingly feeling the impact of viruses and security threats that are already very familiar to computer users, new research has found.

Submission + - Google News Found Guilty of Copyright Violation

Submitted by

schmiddy

on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @02:06AM

schmiddy writes: "A court in Brussels, Belgium, has just found Google guilty of violating copyright law with its Google News aggregator. According to the ruling, Google News' links and brief summaries of news sources violates copyright law. Google will be forced to be $32,600 for each day it displayed the links of the plaintiffs. Although Google plans to appeal, this ruling could have chilling effects on fair use rights on the web in the rest of Europe as well if other countries follow suit."

Using Technology to Improve Kindergarten? 132

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @01:22AM from the improving-the-K-experience dept.

andres32a asks: "I currently run a private preschool located in Latin America. I have been always interested in finding new ways of giving kids a legitimate educational advantage through fresh applications of technology. What technology would you like to have seen applied in your kindergarten?"

Journal Journal: 16-qubit Quantum Computer Successfully Demonstrated

Journal by PoliTech on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @12:46AM

D-Wave held a Quantum Computer demo today at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. The actual Quantum Computer itself is located back at the company's British Columbia HQ. headquarters.

D-Wave qubits in the era of Quantum Computing

MS Patent Applications Reveal Search Technology 87

Posted by kdawson on Monday November 06, 2006 @01:44AM from the mining-the-record dept.

eldavojohn writes, "In the roughly 90 patents they applied for on November 2, 2006, Microsoft reveals that it is apparently pushing its research in the search engine market. There are a few patents that reveal improved ranking methods and document classification but the real interesting ones revolve around linking related queries, optimizing search, identifying results that are spam, and using a Bayesian classifier to measure feedback from the user. If that's not enough, there's even a few I don't quite understand. Another notable Microsoft application for a patent is the model for assisting children in authoring stories so you can't accuse Microsoft of not thinking of the children. Microsoft regularly applies for many patents but never so many revolving around search."

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