Watson 2.0, The New Butler of Personal Search

The world of search software is getting cooler and cooler. Available in beta until the end of the summer Chicago-based Intellext has released Watson 2.0, a sort of "search butler" standing alongside you as you work, searching for relevant topics as you go.

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What My Teenagers Taught Me About Marketing

My kids taught me a lot about marketing communication when they were teenagers. My son had me playing 20 questions. When I asked what he'd done at school or out with his friends the night before, I'd get one of two classic teenage responses; "Stuff" or "Nothing". I'd have to pepper him with questions to learn any more.

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Using Flash Player 8 Features in Your Flex 1.5 Application

Macromedia Flash Player 8 is here and packed with useful and innovative features. Performance and memory consumption are also significantly improved in the new player, and you will notice the improvement without changing a line of code or recompiling.

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Intel: Dual-Core, Hyper-Threaded Server Inside Early

Chip-making monstrosity Intel announced their monster's getting a little bigger with the early deliver of their Xeon and Xeon MP processors. The new units will contain dual-core and hyper-threading technology will ship in 2005.

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