Caffeine: Googles New Search Index

The search engine giants Google announced the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than their last index, and it’s the largest collection of web content they’ve offered. Whether it’s a news story, a blog or a forum post, searchers can now find links to relevant content much sooner after it is published than was possible ever before.

Caffeine, instead of analyzing the entire web, breaks it into small pieces and updates the search indexes on a continual basis. This differs from layer based indexing – whereby some layers would get updated faster than the others as it would require searching the entire Web to find new updates, thus causing significant delay.The new search engine is possibly an attempt to take on Microsoft’s Bing, which was adopted by Yahoo!, catapulting it to second place among search engines. Bing uses the old indexing system, which was also employed by MSN search. Google said a new system of indexing was required as web pages have become complex and richer in content, with real-time information, news and multimedia updates. The new method is likely to give greater exposure to sites such as twitter and could boost traffic to information companies that depend on providing real-time proprietary data.

Adobe ceases development of Flash on mobile devises, refocuses efforts on HTML5 

Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5.

Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer adapt Flash Player for mobile devices to new browser, OS version or device configurations.

Adobe is Stopping development on Flash Player for browsers on mobile.

[UPDATE: The full content and scope of the announcement has now been posted on the Adobe web site.]

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In-store pickup, self-checkout likely coming to Apple Store near you! Customers buying new Macs and other Apple products will soon have the ability to pick up their online orders from local Apple retail stores, starting in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. The pilot program, which has already begun for some of Apple’s retail operations, is expected to begin at more stores on Thursday, November 3 as part of the launch of Apple’s new retail app for iOS devices. Read More »
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In-store pickup, self-checkout likely coming to Apple Store near you!

Customers buying new Macs and other Apple products will soon have the ability to pick up their online orders from local Apple retail stores, starting in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. The pilot program, which has already begun for some of Apple’s retail operations, is expected to begin at more stores on Thursday, November 3 as part of the launch of Apple’s new retail app for iOS devices.

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Steve Jobs has resigned as Apple CEO “effective immediately” In a surprise announcement Wednesday evening, Apple’s Board of Directors announced that Steve Jobs is resigning as CEO of the company. Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, Tim Cook, has been named Jobs’ successor and plans to begin taking over as CEO effective immediately. Below is the text of Jobs’ letter addressed to the Board and the Apple Community that was distributed on Wednesday evening: To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come. I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee. As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple. I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role. I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you. Steve Photo illustration by Aurich Lawson
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Steve Jobs has resigned as Apple CEO “effective immediately”

In a surprise announcement Wednesday evening, Apple’s Board of Directors announced that Steve Jobs is resigning as CEO of the company. Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, Tim Cook, has been named Jobs’ successor and plans to begin taking over as CEO effective immediately.

Below is the text of Jobs’ letter addressed to the Board and the Apple Community that was distributed on Wednesday evening:

To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.

As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.

I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.

I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.

Steve

Photo illustration by Aurich Lawson

According to a recent survey from Arbitron and Edison Research, nearly half of Americans age 12 and older have a profile on one or more social networking Web sites.
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According to a recent survey from Arbitron and Edison Research, nearly half of Americans age 12 and older have a profile on one or more social networking Web sites.

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