First noticed today, some changes were made to Google’s index (as far as logged in users can see). Searchers now have the options to comment on and remove search results from Google’s index, search-specific. No other search engine to date has done this, and this is a radical move on Google’s part to continue to remain the dominant force in search engine usage.

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A few weeks ago, VMware, inc. released a new version of their “open source” VMware server software, in addition to a new VMware Player (2.5). VMware server 2 takes a few radical steps never taken before in the world of virtualization, most likely in an attempt to compete with Microsoft’s Hyper-V. The new build has not, however, been released without numerous bugs mostly centered around the new (botched) user interface.

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“Good artists copy, great artists steal.” - according to Picasso, Microsoft is one of the greatest artists in the technology industry today. Here is a carefully compiled list of all Microsoft products considered to be derivatives of other works, and the research behind the facts.

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Wikipedia experienced some downtime starting 5pm Eastern Time on Saturday. The problem has been attributed to a central image server that seems to be having NFS and Squid related difficulties, and the Wikipedia developers gave more of an insight to the problem in their IRC channel on freenode, and at the time of this writing are hard at work correcting the problem.

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The recently released Open Office Version 3 has caused such a stir by such vendors like Sun and the Mozilla foundation, OOO’s servers were briefly taken offline due to enormous amounts of requests (something thecoffeedesk has suffered from in the past as well). The site has been briefly brought back up now, however, for the sole purpose of providing links to mirror sites for the version 3 download.

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They solve problems, they answer questions, and hell they even make money. Here is an in-depth analysis of the “big three” search engines, and how they compare to other search engines and their behind-the-scenes workings.

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A couple of weeks ago we covered the Asus recovery scandal and more importantly how exactly it came to occur. A couple of days ago, however, it was discovered that Asus has graduated from simple keygens and private documents to full on viruses.

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After a long tug of war over whether or not to pass the large bailout sum, AIG and others finally received the answer to their prayers, and the curse of many whom worried about future taxes. But the first check to be written from the sum was spent by none other than the AIG execs for a vacation of all things, to the tune of $400,000.

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In a software-centric world where we already have many, many languages to program in, from scripting to bytecode compiled languages, to frameworks on top of languages and embedded languages, now Redmond wants to bring ANOTHER language to the table, titled ‘M’ (for Microsoft?).

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Wikileaks.org, the fearless wiki run by the Pirate Bay masterminds has gone down recently due to an expired domain name from dynadot.com. The site is notorious for hundreds of confidential documents being hosted, and recently made headlines as the site hacker group Anonymous chose to host USA VP candidate Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! emails.

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