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17. May 2009 | 22:11

Wolfram Alpha launches amid glitches

Myriad problems prevented Wolfram Alpha from going live Friday evening as planned, but the new search engine finally launched a few hours later. (News Source: CNET - 01:13:38)

Wolfram Alpha gets supercomputer boost

Two supercomputers–one of them the 66th fastest in the world at present–will power the Wolfram Alpha site for search, calculation, and data crunching. (News Source: CNET - 19:38:52)

Wolfram/Alpha details engine’s computing power

The folks working behind the scenes on the infrastructure of the Wolfram/Alpha search engine offered some details on the computing power for a new search engine that’s been referred to as a Google killer. In the post, the team noted that once Wolfram/Alpha launches, it will be “one of the most computationally intensive” sites on the Internet and there’s no way of knowing exactly how much traffic … (News Source: ZDNet - 21:36:23)

Top 10 disappointing technologies

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company’s marketing department actually believes it. (News Source: VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News - 07:30:02)

Wolfram Alpha boosted by super-fast HPC

The machine, built out of Dell hardware by a company called R Systems, can sustain performance of 39.6 trillion mathematical operations per second (News Source: ZDNet UK - 10:31:21)

More details emerge on Wolfram Alpha

Set to launch this month, Wolfram Alpha promises to be the next big thing from the same guy who transformed mathematical software. Ahead of its launch, though, we’re seeing some details emerge that may position it as more of a Google Supplement than a Google killer. In fact, the more I read about it, the more Alpha seems like the moral equivalent of LinkedIn while Google is decidedly … (News Source: ZDNet - 06:06:13)

Weekly Digest Issue No. 465

Eircom kicks into cost-cutting action | ComReg poised to cut LLU prices? | Intel stung with EUR1 billion fine | Google beats search drum | Software piracy still on the rise (News Source: ElectricNews.Net - 11:17:37)

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