TurboScout.com Makes Web Searching 20 Times Faster

A 21 year-old undergraduate from Singapore launched TurboScout.com, a
new search tool that helps Internet users to access and compare original
results from over 90 search engines across 7 categories on a single
web page, removing the hassle of retyping keywords into different search
engines.
Comparing results from different search engines like Google, Yahoo,
MSN Search, and Ask Jeeves is a common practice for many users. This is
because different engines use different ranking methods and thus no
single engine can give users exactly what they're looking for.
"That's where TurboScout.com comes in handy." Says William Chee,
founder of TurboScout.com. "Grown out of the frustration of typing and
retyping keywords into different search engines, I decided to create an online
search tool to get rid of these hassles and make such searching 20
times faster."

"Users who visit http://www.turboscout.com only need to enter keywords once, and getting original results from different search engines is as simple as clicking the engine's name. No more retyping keywords into different search engines."
Search engine marketing firms also find TurboScout.com an invaluable
tool for search engine optimization and finding out the rankings of their
clients' web sites in different engines.

Users who set their browser home page to their favorite site can even
customize TurboScout.com to load together with their favorite web
site.
This way, users can have all the benefits of TurboScout.com and
access to their favorite site at the same time.

In addition to web page search, TurboScout.com also helps users to
find images, search encyclopedias, check out latest news, look for
interesting blogs, find songs and videos, and even compare prices from major
online retailers and auction sites. With a growing number of users who search online, TurboScout.com is slated to become the preferred time-saving search tool for many across the globe.

computer disposal

The development of faster computers just barely keeps up with the need for faster ones. Computers are typically replaced every 3 to 4 years. Getting rid of the old computers can be a difficult process. Computers hold a massive amount of structured and unstructured data. Migrating this info can be a challenge. Environmental concerns to dispose of the old PC's in a friendly fashion can be a chore too. New IT systems are more popular now than compared with getting entirely new systems. The regulation of several industries hold companies responsible for disposing of the old computers. Hard discs need to be "swept" before disposal. This process erases all the data so that none of it will be held. Companies are turning to outsiders to do the job. Most hard drives are overwritten 3 or 4 times and this process takes about 1 hour and 30 minutes per machine. This way there is no risk for any data to be recovered.

tech doc weirdness

Check out the info darren barefoot has submitted to give us a laugh and get us to thinking about why we don't think.

osprey webcam

Washington DC students can view nesting ospreys via a Webcam located under the Frederick Douglas Bridge. Neval Thomas Elementary School students collaborated with the environmental group Earth Conservation Corps on the project.

Sun may have advantage in security

The Air Force Research LAboratory, which manages the Department of Defense Intelligence Information Sysytem Infrastructure, is currently shifting thousands of intelligence analysts' desktops to Sun Ray hardware running trusted Solaris. This initiative for the Defense Intelligence Agency is known as the DODIIS Trusted Workstation Program. The move will help the DIA, which manages 30,000 desktops across more than 900 sites, to consolidate to five data centers by late 2008.

Sun targets Red Hat

Jonathan Scwartz, predisent and ceo of Sun Microsystems said Linux will be running more systems next year than ever before. He also said there will be no one Linux because of the diversity of clients. He sees more technology bought that people will carry around in their hands than ever before. He sees a demand growth for services and service operators. Mr. Schwartz sees demographic changes, as we are no longer the target demographic of the Internet, but of particular demographics. He used the example of ringtones because that industry is now a 3 billion dollar industry. The idea of a PC run network gives no clue as to what the network is on. The network is really where people are and an evolution is taking place with mobile network devices.
Grids are growing and Mr. Schwartz sees the financial services and gas companies as the major grid building players.

dollar drops against the yen

The dollar dropped for a third straight week against the as economic numbers relaesed yesterday showed that job growth was not active in the U.S. Speculation had 300,000 jobs would be added to the U.S. economy, but that number fell short, coming in at 262,000. The jobless rate rose to 5.4 from January's 5.2% The numbers were just not there to keep supporting the dollar's bullish tone against the yen. The dollar finished at 104.78 yen, down 0.4% this week. Also helping the yen was speculation that Japan's economy is pulling from recession. This will help the foreign stock investment picture. Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average had its best week this year, rising 1.8 percent to an eight-month high.

World is not ready for a flu pandemic

The world is poorly prepared for a future influenza pandemic, with only a dozen countries purchasing significant quantities of antiviral drugs and just 50 with contingency plans on how to cope with such an outbreak.

A Financial Times analysis on the eve of a World Health Organisation meeting on preparing for a pandemic shows widely differing approaches between countries that already have plans, and a sharp divide between richer countries and many poorer nations, creating splits that could hinder efforts to curb disease.

The analysis comes as concern rises about the likelihood of a pandemic linked to widespread outbreaks of bird flu in south east Asia, which have killed at least 42 people.

The WHO, which meets in Luxembourg on Wednesday with 52 countries from the European region, estimates that up to 8m people could be killed and 30m could be hospitalised by a pandemic.