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Exalead, the French search engine involved in the Quaero project, has been recently acquired by 3D software giant, Dassault Systèmes for €135 million.
Exalead, the leading provider of Search-Based Applications with an estimated 100 million monthly users, sees this acquisition as one step forward in their dream towards being a global presence. Emmanuel Coste, Partner, Qualis, [...]

Yesterday, June 7th 2010, Apple’s most awaited World Wide Developer Conference was held, which had (as already predicted) the announcement of iPhone 4. The event was all about the iPhone 4’s new hardware innovation and software upgrades. WWDC had 5,200 attendees from over 57 countries.
The phone will be launched on June 24th in five countries [...]

As the China hacking attacks raise security concerns inside the Google offices, the search giant has decided to stricken its security walls. The first step in the line is the exclusion of  Microsoft’s ubiquitous Windows operating system which is slowly vanishing from the official systems at Google.
As reported by the Financial Times, soon after the [...]

The Android fever is rising and Facebook is just in time with something that will help it make the most of one of the fastest growing mobile platforms. A week after Facebook offered a peak into its  Facebook SDK for Android at the Google I/O, the social networking site has now launched the beta version of [...]

Dell Streak tablet which was quite secretly worked on till recently is all set to hit the UK market this June. The tablet is a hybrid between a smartphone and a netbook and looks a lot like iPad. The 5 inch android tablet could be the first one to give iPad a competition.
In its blog, Lionel Menchaca [...]

Google’s popularity in the search engine market isn’t hidden from anybody and with the search giant expanding its business horizons, the company is getting bigger each day. Google is one of the key pillars of the Silicon Valley and the ever increasing fame of the search engine surpasses that of its competitors. While Google has [...]

One of the oldest and popular file sharing service, LimeWire is on the verge of closing after losing the case of copyright infringement. The Record Industry Association of America, RIAA which comprises of four big names in the record industry namely Warner, Universal Music, Sony and EMI had filed a copyright lawsuit against LimeWire in [...]

A vending machine that dispenses gold was unveiled at the The Emirates Palace, the luxury hotel in Abu Dhabi yesterday. The German invention is called “Gold to Go” and it dispenses gold bars and coins that come engraved with maple leaf, kangaroo and Krugerrand. The engravings are symbols of gold producing countries i,e Canada, Australia [...]

In a recent scientific breakthrough, a team of researchers engaged at beamline 9.0.1 of the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has obtained images of complete yeast cells with 11-13 nanometers resolution – highest resolution ever achieved for biological specimens without using any optical lens. One nanometer [...]

Having an ‘App store’ is the new cool thing. While an app store alone can not guarantee the success of the product, it certainly gives the product an edge. TomTom GPS navigation systems are the latest devices to catch the app store fever. The CEO of the company has announced their plan to have an app store [...]