New Search Engine Wolfram Alpha is Online

The new search engine WolframAlpha is online. The search engine provides an easy interface to find the most important facts about any question. For example, you can check information about dates, cities, countries, names, stocks, or mathematics. You can access Worfram alpha right now here. Tweet This Post

April 2009 browser stats: Firefox and Chrome gain

From ArsTechnica Internet Explorer dropped a significant 0.72 percentage points (from 66.82 percent to 66.10 percent) and Firefox jumped 0.43 percentage points (from 22.05 percent to 22.48 percent). Safari dropped a minor 0.02 percentage points (from 8.23 percent to 8.21 percent). Chrome once again moved further away from Opera: it gained 0.19 percentage points… [read [...]

Atlantis Crew Enjoying Views, Tweets On Hubble Mission

From InformationWeek NASA’s Atlantis astronauts embarked on their second spacewalk Friday afternoon. The astronauts were on schedule to wrap up by day’s end Friday after replacing batteries in one of the Hubble Space Telescope’s bays. STS-125 mission specialists Mike Good and Mike Massimino began the nearly 7-hour spacewalk just before 9 a.m. Massimino and six other [...]

Apple’s future iPods rumored to get cameras like iPhone

From AppleInsider Apple may be planning to add camera functionality to a couple of its next-generation iPod models, according to a new report, which also claims that upcoming iPhones will retain the handsets’ existing form factor. Citing tips passed on from one of its sources, Hardmac, the English-language version of France’sMacBidouille, says that when Apple refreshes [...]

AT&T Blocks iPhone’s SlingPlayer Over 3G

From InformationWeek AT&T has officially blocked SlingPlayer on the iPhone from working over their 3G network. You can still use the player, but only if you have a WiFi connection. AT&T is showing that its network is having difficulty keeping up with the increasing bandwidth demands of smartphones… [read more] Tweet This Post

Google Defrauds Advertisers, Report Claims

From InformationWeek Google and its partners are turning traffic that advertisers would have received for free into paid traffic and collecting the proceeds, claims Benjamin Edelman, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, in a report. “Google and its partners systematically inflate advertisers’ conversion rates by interceding in transactions advertisers would otherwise have received for [...]

No New iPhone At WWDC

From InformationWeek The predictions of what Apple may announce during the upcoming World Wide Developers Conference are mounting quickly. The latest, coming from analyst Gene Munster, is that there will be no new hardware… [read more] Tweet This Post

Stephen Wolfram’s Introduction to Wolfram|Alpha

From wolframalpha Building the ultimate computational knowledge engine is a highly ambitious and long-term project. The Wolfram|Alpha that you will get to start exploring next week is really just the beginning. Still, there are a lot of ways that you might use Wolfram|Alpha. In this screencast, Stephen Wolfram gives a quick… [read more] Tweet This Post

Connecting to an Access Database using C#

From chriscrossx.blogspot This may seem like a common task, and it is, however I found it ridiculously difficult to learn how to do it. The MSDN website has articles on each class involved but nowhere does it explain how to put everything together. After reading this blog you should… [read more] Tweet This Post

Craigslist to drop “erotic services” ads

From Reuters Online classified site Craigslist will replace its “erotic services” ads with a new adult category following pressure by state authorities after the murder of a masseuse who advertised on the site. The “erotic services” section will end within seven days… [read more] Tweet This Post

 

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