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Google Uses Searches to Track Flu’s Spread

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/technology/inter...

There is a new common symptom of the flu, in addition to the usual aches, coughs, fevers and sore throats. Turns out a lot of ailing Americans enter phrases like “flu symptoms” into Google and oth...

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Hunting for a brainy computer

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/hunting-f...

An ambitious project in cognitive computing is getting under way with a $4.9 million government grant to five universities and I.B.M. Research.

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OPEN WEB AWARDS: People’s Choice Winners

http://mashable.com/2008/12/16/open-web-awards-2-w...

See the list of the winners of The 2nd Annual Open Web Awards, a multilingual, international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology.

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Skype growing by 380,000 users a day

http://www.pcworld.com/article/159279/skype_growin...

The number of its users is growing by the population of Singapore (more than four million) every 12 days and nearly a third of its registered subscribers now use it for business purposes.

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