Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine

Monday, July 28th, 2008

By MIGUEL HELFTPublished: July 28, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO — In her two years at Google, Anna Patterson helped design and build some of the pillars of the company’s search engine, including its large index of Web pages and some of the formulas it uses for ranking search results. Now, along with her ...

Tips for Buying Laptop

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

By James A. Martin, PC World Before buying a new laptop, it pays to consider who, which, when, where, how much and how. There are plenty of business decisions more difficult to make than choosing which laptop to buy. At the moment, I can't think of what they are, so I'll have ...

Mozilla’s Firefox 3 Sets Geeky World Record

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

by Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service It's official: Mozilla has set possibly the geekiest world record ever with the release of Firefox 3. The open-source company said Wednesday that the browser's 8,002,530 downloads in its first 24 hours of release set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in that ...

Sweeping Panoramas, Courtesy of a Robot

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

By ANNE EISENBERG Published: July 20, 2008 ROBOTS already cut the grass and vacuum rugs. Now they are helping with a more artistic job: creating vast photographic panoramas with ordinary cameras.... (read more)