AMD Launches Dual-Core Athlon 64 X2
Like one launched last week by Intel, the chip contains two processors on a single piece of silicon and represents one of the biggest changes in PC processor architecture for several years. Dual-core chips offer users higher performance because tasks can be balanced between the two cores.
"[Everyone] will benefit dramatically and qualitatively with multi-core," said Dirk Meyer, president and chief operating officer of AMD's microprocessor solutions sector, at the company's launch event.
The Athlon 64 X2 is hardware-compatible with motherboards for AMD's single-core Athlon 64 chip, although current boards will require a BIOS (basic input output system) upgrade. The advantage of this is that boards for the chip are already on the market, and it also makes upgrading an existing system relatively simple.
The reason: the new chips will deliver even greater performance gains when used with a 64-bit operating system. Microsoft just launched such a version of Windows but it is not easy to obtain for the average user, and there are still many issues associated with drivers for peripherals.
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A Google giveaway: its strategy
Now that we know the secret behind Google's strategic moves, we won't get quite so worked up about the company's grand pronouncements.
Schmidt said the U.S. government is making some "stupid" moves such as reducing funding for basic science research. He might phrase it a bit differently if Google hires former White House flak Dan Senor as VP of communications.
Several news outlets reported in recent weeks that Google is hiring Senor, a former deputy White House spokesman, former information director for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and Fox News panelist.
Chief Executive Eric Schmidt shared the dirt in Seattle last week at the Technology Alliance luncheon:
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Every few months we announce a new strategy" he said, "which is basically the old strategy modified."
Last week a Google spokesman refused to confirm the hiring. Nor does Senor appear in Google's corporate-information Web site and management list, at least not when you use the site's Google search tool.
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Woman sues Yahoo! for publishing nude photos
A WOMAN is suing Yahoo! for $3 million (£1.6 million), alleging that the web portal, content and search-engine company has failed to remove naked pictures of her posted by her former boyfriend.
In a lawsuit filed in Oregon, Cecilia Barnes, 48, claims that her former boyfriend began posting naked pictures of her in Yahoo! profiles, with her e-mail address and work telephone number, in December. She says that the photographs were taken without her knowledge.
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Ms Barnes says that she sent a letter to Yahoo! in January, saying that she did not create the profiles and asking for them to be removed. She claims that Yahoo! did not respond to the letter and failed to remove the photographs.
Additional attempts to get Yahoo! to remove the profiles in February and March also failed, the lawsuit claims. A Yahoo! spokesman said that the company does not comment on pending litigation.
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Microsoft urges Windows users to dump Netscape 8
Microsoft Corp. is urging Windows users to uninstall the new Netscape 8 Web browser from their computers, saying it damages Microsoft's own Internet Explorer browser.
Computer users who install Netscape 8 and then go back to using Internet Explorer for browsing may see some Web pages appear blank in Internet Explorer.
The problem particularly affects pages incorporating display technology such as that used for syndication-service feeds.
Nevertheless, Microsoft issued its plea to uninstall Netscape because it believes that's the only way to address the problem until permanent repairs are available.
Netscape 8, which is based on the Firefox browser developed by the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation, employs some of the same features as Internet Explorer.
This latest issue with Netscape 8 is the browser's second major problem in two weeks. Just hours after its unveiling on May 19, developers withdrew it for repairs.
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Yahoo! reaping profits from search engine
As Yahoo! struggled to lift itself out of the dot-com slump a few years ago, it faced a big decision.
Google was dazzling the world of Internet search engines with its building of a massive index of Web documents. Yahoo! had neither its own search engine nor a way to fully reap the profits from Internet searching.
Today, Internet searching has become a cornerstone of Yahoo!'s resurgence from the dot-com slump. Yahoo!'s search-engine advertising revenue of $1.2 billion last year accounted for 58 percent of all ad revenue and 45 percent of the company's total net revenue.
While Google's name is still synonymous with search, many consider Yahoo!'s search technology to be at least as good as anybody's. U.S. Internet users went to Yahoo! for 31 percent of their search queries in February, according to comScore Networks. Google captured 36 percent.
Meanwhile, Overture's system of matching ads to search-engine results was taking off as advertisers found it effective and cheap to target text ads to specific search queries.
Yahoo! can hardly afford to rest on its laurels. The search industry is evolving rapidly beyond just ordinary Web search. Desktop search, video and image search, and the ability to find local businesses are all must-haves for a search engine today. Weiner envisions Yahoo!'s 165 million registered users — with the help of Yahoo! tools — vastly expanding the amount of information they share with each other through the Web.
"We have only scratched the surface," he said. "You get into the potential of hundreds of trillions of documents. That's the vision — to enable people to find, use, share and expand all human knowledge. Not simply organize what already exists."
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Ask Jeeves Buys Excite Europe Operator
Ask Jeeves Acquires Excite Europe Operator for Undisclosed Sum From Tiscali SpA.
Financial terms were not disclosed. Ask Jeeves acquired the U.S.-operated Excite.com Web portal in March 2004. Ask Jeeves said it doesn't expect the acquisition to impact 2005 revenue or earnings per share, and does not expect the deal to affect previously issued financial guidance.
Excite has offered search and Web portal services since 1995. Excite will remain a separate brand under Ask Jeeves, with operations continuing out of Excite Europe's headquarters in Rome.
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Google Gets Personal
Google Inc. launched in beta a personalized-homepage service, stoking the competition with rivals Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN.
The service, similar to offerings from its competitors, lets users aggregate information, search, email and other content in their own personal portal to the web.
Users can drag and drop sections to arrange them anyway they want on the page. Once its created, the user can sign in through their Google acccount.
Google, based in Mountain View, Calif., is apparently challenging competitors for the majority of Internet users who have yet to sign up for a personal homepage.
While Google remains the leader in search queries on the web, capturing more than 36 percent of the total, it lags far behind No. 1 Yahoo in overall traffic to major portals, according to ComScore.
Yahoo had 71 percent of that traffic in April, or 114.8 million visitors. MSN had 59 percent, or 97 million visitors; and Google had 48 percent, or 78.7 million. America Online Inc.'s subscription-based portal was No. 3 with 52 percent, or 86 million.
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Software Piracy In Asia Cost Manufacturers $8 Billion In 2004
Software piracy in the Asia-Pacific region cost manufacturers an estimated $8 billion in 2004, with China, Vietnam and Indonesia among the top five nations flouting intellectual property laws.
Vietnam topped the global BSA hitlist, with 92 percent of all software used coming from pirates. It was followed by the Ukraine (91 percent), China (90 percent), Zimbabwe (90 percent) and Indonesia (87 percent).
Globally, the software industry in 2004 was worth $90 billion, but only $59 billion was actually paid for commercially packaged software.
By region, losses from the European Union were the highest at around $12 billion in 2004, up from around $10 billion the previous year. But the BSA said that was partly due to the strong euro.
The BSA commissioned International Data Corporation, a technology research firm to conduct the study, which took place in over 80 countries.
Microsoft launches desktop search tool
Mircosoft released the finalized version of its desktop search tool, taking aim at Google Inc. and other rivals in the increasingly competitive search market.
Google, which became the Web's top search engine after its debut in 1998, was the first major search company to roll out a test version. Search rival Yahoo Inc. released its test, or beta, desktop search tool in January.
While Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are competing on the Windows desktop, Apple Computer Inc. has also beefed up search capabilities for its Macintosh computer operating system.
Microsoft's new desktop search, which can be downloaded from http://desktop.msn.com, can also be accessed from the Internet Explorer Web browser, the Outlook e-mail and contacts program or from the Windows desktop.
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Microsoft gunning for Adobe's PDF format?
When Bill Gates showed off the new Metro document format in Longhorn at a hardware conference last week, some analysts were quick to call it a PDF killer.
Metro is designed to do things PDF already does, namely to allow for the creation of files that can be printed, viewed or archived without needing the program that created them.
With Metro, Microsoft basically wanted to create a file format that would handle two specific tasks.
First, the software giant wanted a way to save files from within any Windows program that could then be opened, viewed and shared without needing the specific program that created it.
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Media Companies Partner with Yahoo! Search
The online arms of seven traditional media companies have partnered with Yahoo!
Buena Vista Pictures, CBS News, CMT, Discovery Communications, MTV Networks, Reuters, and Scripps Networks have all signed deals to have their content indexed by Yahoo!
Google announced similar relationships with Discovery Communications, C-SPAN, Fox News, PBS, and several local television affiliates in the San Francisco Bay Area.
For its part, Yahoo! hasn't announced plans to serve advertising on its video search pages, but says it's exploring a number of possible revenue models. For now, the company is focused on creating a better user experience.
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Google tool to speed Web surfing
Google has introduced a technology designed to make Web sites load faster.
The tool, which must be downloaded, will tap into the power of Google's global computer network and thus help sites load faster, according to the company. Web Accelerator works by sending URL requests through company servers designated specifically for speeding site downloads.
The system stores copies of sites frequently accessed by individual PCs and automatically retrieves new data from those pages, so that a Web browser needs to process only updates to those sites when asked to load them.
To use the application, a computer must have Microsoft's Windows XP or 2000 and at least version 5.5 of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser at least version 1.0 of Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser.
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Another Sober Worm Spreading Quickly
Another version of the dual-language Sober worm hit the Internet mid-day Monday, and by Tuesday was accounting for a stunning 70 percent of all malicious code traffic according to one anti-virus vendor.
Sober.p -- also called Sober.n and Sober.o in the confusing mishmash that's the naming structure of worms and viruses -- is epidemic in Western Europe, said two firms there, Sophos and Kaspersky Labs.
"It's currently running at about 70 percent of all mail traffic, worldwide, but it seems to have plateaued," said Ted Anglace, a senior security analyst in Sophos' Boston office. "It's leveling off."
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Anti-virus firms released new signatures to detect and delete the new Sober, or in some cases, crowed that their in-place detection technologies spotted the worm without users needing to update.
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Microsoft learns to crawl
Last year, the Microsoft chairman candidly credited Google with winning the first round of the search wars. "Google kicked our butts," he said.
Microsoft didn't just miss the boat in search technology. It missed the dock, the pier and the turnoff to the marina. The company has relentlessly pursued new businesses over the years, hoping to find another cash cow that could churn out revenue like its Windows and Office products.
That hit home for Microsoft in 2002. Google's revenues would reach $348 million that year and $962 million the next. Yahoo! was so hot on search that it soon would shell out $2 billion to buy search-engine companies Inktomi and Overture Services.
In early 2003, Moss and another developer set out to build a Web crawler — the online robot that would collect Web pages for gleaning by the future search engine. In his 16 years at Microsoft, Moss had never seen such a challenge.
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Google, meanwhile, had been perfecting search for five years and already had indexed more than 4 billion documents.
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Google is seeking to patent a technology meant to help its Google News section sort stories based on their overall quality, which could augment the current methods of ranking results by date and relevance to search terms.
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Yahoo! Search Marketing to Test Graphical Ads
Yahoo! Search Marketing is planning tests of graphical banner ads to be displayed on its pay-per-click contextual ad network.
A lot of details haven't been determined, but we are testing," said Gaude Paez, a spokesperson for Yahoo! Search Marketing, formerly known as Overture Services.
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