The idea of distributed data storage is not new. But Cleversafe is significant because it is an open-source project ? that is, the technology will be freely licensed, enabling others to adopt the design to build commercial products. That a…

Buried in a list of 20 million Web search queries collected by AOL and recently released on the Internet is user No. 4417749. The number was assigned by the company to protect the searcher’s anonymity, but it was not much of a shield. 人物…

Steve Rubelのブログで知ったのだが，WashingtonPost.comがユーザー参加型のビデオ・マッシュアップ・サービスを始めた。 政治記者Dana Milbankが質問しているビデオが用意されている。複数の質問から構成されている。Milbankの質問に，読者がビデオで応えて…

GoogleはＡＰ通信社（the Associated Press）にコンテンツ代を支払うことした。両社間で契約された料金などの内容は明らかでない。ただ，Googleがメディア会社にコンテンツ代を払うとなると，たとえばGoogle Newsで勝手に利用されている4500以上のコンテンツ…

Intel is fighting back with its "Woodcrest" Xeon 5100 family for dual-processor servers, which improve performance while reducing power consumption. But it still has a long way to go: Its forthcoming "Tulsa" Xeon for four-processor machine…

The Washington Post, The New York Sun and The Daily Oklahoman, in Oklahoma City, have contracted with an online news aggregator, Inform.com, to scan hundreds of news and blog sites and deliver content related to articles appearing on their…