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How To Keep Track of Latest Higgs Boson Announcements

December 13th, 2011 admin

Interested in hearing what CERN have to say about the latest Higgs Boson discoveries?

They’re holding a press conference at 14:00 (Europe/Zurich) today 13/12/11 to discuss they’re latest findings.

You can watch a live webcast of the event here:

http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=164890

Follow @cern for the latest announcements, or watch the latest Tweets from around Cern on a map here:

http://www.seekatweet.com/?distance=10&lat=46.23281545877312&lng=6.059989929199219&zoom=10&filterkeywords=cern





Bing Announces Facebook Integration

October 14th, 2010 admin

Bing have announced that they’re working with Facebook to integrate social networking into their search algorithm.

 

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Facebook brings a wealth of social link graphs to the search algorithm, using ratings from your social network to enhance Bing’s results.

It’ll be interesting to see how Google reacts to this – maybe by bringing their rumoured Google Me social network forward

 

Here are a couple of blog posts from Bing explaining the new changes:

New Signals in Search : The Bing Social Layer

Bing Gets More Social With Facebook





New Release – Mozy 2.0 for Windows

May 23rd, 2010 admin

Are you backing up your data?  If not, you should start now as I’ve seen so many people lose valuable data/memories due to data loss.

Mozy, if you’ve not heard of it before is an an online backup tool from EMC which automatically backs up your files to the Internet.

The latest release gives you the option to back up to an external drive as well as backing up to the cloud.   It also improves the user interface and backup performance.

Contact Scotia Systems to see how we can help you back up your critical systems using Mozy.

More details on the Mozy release here.