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Apples Tiger operating system with its personal computer search tools is due out this week
Today Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is scheduled to demonstrate features of his companys next version of Windows which will include ways to search for files and organize and display documents email and spreadsheets
The version called Longhorn is set for release in late two years after its original release date
Already Microsofts Google and Yahoo have free programs for download that are faster and have more features than the current version of Windows Windows on sale since...
Ask Jeeves Inc.
To grok is to use the Grokker technology platform from Groxis Inc of San Francisco to search multiple databases and organize the results in a unique color graphical display said John Stacey vice president of marketing
He slipped grok rhymes with clock or grokking into an interview several times in the hopes theyll catch on Its not in the mission statement but we would not be unhappy if that came about
Grokker has ambitions to be a verb just as search giant Google Inc of Mountain View has become one
Internet search is one of the most hotlycontested technology businesses...
Apple announces Mac upgrades
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Apple refreshed its line of desktop computers yesterday announcing a new topend Power Mac as well as price cuts on two screens
The new Mac features dual 27z G5 processors a new graphics card from and a new 16x SuperDrive that can burn data to doublelayer s orld reports
Apple also unveiled a dual 23z G5 model as its midrange dualprocessor desktop computer while continuing to sell two models it had offered before
The new model is priced at R15 000 and the topend version sells for R18 000 the same price that the nowdiscontinued dual 25z G5 models sold for...
Longhorn organizes against Google
Were hoping our users never say they cant find a file again Goldberg said during an interview in London on Thursday
Longhorn will not tie together desktop and Internet search capabilities but instead focus on organization and offering users more ways to view their documents Goldberg said
This strategy may come as a bit of a surprise given that Microsoft introduced a desktop search tool late last year that offers tight integration with the Windows environment and applications...
Yahoo Adds Personal Search Feature
My Web saves a copy of the page as well as the link to that page Users can add notes to the saves pages do complete text searches of their saved material send saved pages to others on the Web or access their search history to find previous results
They can also create Web sites with their favorite saved pages or share their pages using an feed
The new service is an outgrowth of tools Yahoo released in October The company said the new functionality comes from suggestions and requests from early adopters of those tools But in the race to create the next best service search engines may be overloading their users...