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Semantic Web Getting Real: “BlueSalamander writes ‘Tim O’Reilly just did an interview with Devin Wenig, the CEO-designate of Reuters. With no great enthusiasm I started to read yet another interview on how the semantic web was going to make everything great for everybody. Wenig made some good points about the end of the latency wars in news and the beginning of the battle for automatically detecting linkages and connections in the news. Smart news, not just fast news. Great stuff — but just more words? Nope — a little searching revealed that Reuters just opened access to their corporate semantic technology crown jewels. For free. For anyone. Their Calais API lets you turn unstructured text into a formal RDF graph in about one second. I ran about 5,000 documents through it and played with a subset of them in RDF-Gravity. The results were impressive overall. Is this the start of the semantic web getting real? When big names and big money start to act, not just talk, it may be time to pay attention. Semantic applications anyone? The foundation appears to be here.’

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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(Via Slashdot.)

From TUAW: 

Our sibling site, Engadget, is reporting that Apple has apparently applied for trademark protection on a gaming device. The trademark in question would protect the word ‘APPLE’ under the following circumstances: ‘toys, games and playthings, namely, hand-held units for playing electronic games; hand-held units for playing video games; stand alone video game machines; electronic games other than those adapted for use with television receivers only; LCD game machines; electronic educational game machines; toys, namely battery-powered computer games.’Engadget also reminds us about Apple’s recent patent filing of a touch gaming device. Could this mean that Apple is working on Pippin 2.0? Time can only tell. However, I wouldn’t hold my breath, since Apple often randomly trademarks names and such.

Original source: trademork.com

(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)

Windoze users just dont know anything about seemeless “it just works” computing environments. It always amazes me how hard-core Windoze fanatics have just learned that OS upgrades are a major month-long migration activity requiring IT savvy to undertake, and that the BSOD is just … natural.

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