"Figuring out what keywords to use for a Web
search has always been a challenge. And once you get your results, you have to
guess which link will have the answer to your question. Wouldn't it be nice just
to type in a regular question and get a direct answer?" Get the full story from
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"Parents in some school districts now have a high-tech way to monitor what
their kids eat at school. Used in 75 school districts in 21 states, a prepayment
service called MealPay allows parents to electronically put money in their
children's accounts. The student gives cashiers a card or PIN number." Get
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"Yahoo, along with
Adobe, HP and others are supporting an effort to digitize approximately 18,000
books that aren't copyright protected, all contained in libraries within the
University of California system. The ultimate goal of the project is to make the
materials available, searchable and downloadable for free over the Web.
" Get the full report from
TechNewsWorld
"Meet the privacy-conscious folks who carefully manage to
evade the omniscient eye of the monster search engine and its web-crawling
minions, living one stray e-mail or election ballot away from discovery" Get the full report fromWired [More]
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