YouTube's biggest challenge figures to be a familiar one: persuading movie studios to make their digital rentals available at the same time the films are released on DVDs and Blu-ray discs. The studios aren't keen on that particular idea, partly because selling DVDs and Blu-ray discs is so profitable.

Apple (AAPL) is in talks with Microsoft (MSFT) to replace Google (GOOG) as the default search engine on its iPhone, according to two people familiar with the matter. The talks have been under way for weeks, say the people, who asked not to be named because the details have not been made public.

Quantum computers are fundamentally different from classical computers because the physics of quantum information is also the physics of possibility. Classical computer memories are constrained to exist at any given time as a simple list of zeros and ones. In contrast, in a single quantum memory many such combinations—even all possible lists of zeros and ones—can all exist simultaneously. During a quantum algorithm, this symphony of possibilities split and merge, eventually coalescing around a single solution. The complexity of these large quantum states made of multiple possibilities make a complete description of quantum search or factoring a daunting task.

The Open-PC is a PC for everyday use built by the Linux community for the Linux community. We use only free software. Your help will be welcomed, to make our project even better.

Google thrives where privacy does not. If you're like most internet users, Google knows more about you than you might be comfortable with. Whether you were logged in to a Google account or not, they know everything you've ever searched for, what search results you clicked on, what news you read, and every place you've ever gotten directions to. Most of the time, thanks to things like Google Analytics, they even know which websites you visited that you didn't reach through Google. If you use Gmail, they know the content of every email you've ever sent or received, whether you've deleted it or not. [...] GoogleSharing is a system that mixes the requests of many different users together, such that Google is not capable of telling what is coming from whom.

This free web-based online language identifier analyzes and identifies what language any text is written in. Just copy and paste the text snippet that you want identified into the text box above and click Go! Or click «example» above to see how it works.

Andrew Carlson along with Prof. Tom Mitchell and other researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an artificial intelligence language-learning program that never ends. It simply continues to run and learn more of the English language every day. The idea is that the Web contains so much information to be extracted, and has so much new information added each day, that an AI program can continuously mine it without its knowledge ever reaching a plateau.

Enligt Richard Murphy, en brittisk skatterevisor som granskat Googles skatteupplägg, betalas bara fem procent av Googles totala skatteutgifter utanför USA, trots att hälften av försäljningen sker utanför hemmamarknaden. [...] – Av allt att döma fakturerar Googles bolag på Bermuda den irländska verksamheten för stora belopp. Och på Bermuda betalar Google ingen skatt över huvud taget, säger Richard Murphy.

The OpenSync project is an ongoing effort to create a synchronization framework that will be a platform independent, general purpose synchronization engine utilizing modular plugins for content formats and different kind of connection types. OpenSync's modularity should allow it to be extended easily to new devices and purposes without radically changing the architecture itself, allowing it to support wide variety of devices used today and in the future.

With libsynthesis, full-featured SyncML functionality based on Synthesis' mature and high quality SyncML DS engine can be integrated into applications. The library provides a stable binary API for both interfacing with the application and for database adaptor plugins. The Synthesis SyncML engine supports SyncML versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 including complex features like data filtering, suspend & resume, vCard/vCalendar format conversion in a way completely transparent to the user of the library.