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Last year Netflix offered a prize of $1 million to anyone to improve their recommendations to user by 10% or better. Now it seems the gave out more than expected. When the online DVD service Netflix offered its $1 million prize gave out real data from its users to help improve its recommendation feature on [...]
Sat, December 1 2007 » www » Comments Off
Web sites on Thanksgiving Night and Black Friday for some major retailers we caught off guard by shoppers. Victoria, Macy’s, and Lowe’s we surprised on those two periods which hit them hard. Their sites slowed down by online browsers and shoppers. This caused transaction times on their respective sites to come to a crawl. Black [...]
Mon, November 26 2007 » www » Comments Off
The Mozilla Foundation has seen a 26% spike in revenue over the past year. At over $66 million in revenue the company behind the open-source web browser Firefox seems to be in good financial health. Mitchell Baker, Mozilla’s chair said in a blog posting, “”The highlight is that Mozilla remains financially healthy: we’re able to [...]
Mon, November 12 2007 » tech » Comments Off
With the help of the global PC grid Canadian researchers have been able to squeeze decades of cancer research in about 2 years. The research team thanks the IBM World Community Grid of PCs and laptops that makes up one of the world’s five biggest supercomputers. With this supercomputer the researchers say that they were [...]
Thu, November 8 2007 » tech » Comments Off
So I’m sitting in my local Vespia’s waiting to get my tire fixed. I have come from work so I had my laptop ready to start “working” on things. For grins and giggles I figured I’d try to connect to the network using my wifi connection. To my surprise a “WLAN” popped up with a [...]
Tue, November 6 2007 » misc. debris » Comments Off