Info Industry--Fast Search & Transfer A Bit More FS&T News
Another new product announcement for the enterprise market, FAST Data Search�. This is the same product that FAST has licensed to eBay and Reuters. According to FAST Chief Executive Officer John M. Lervik, �Essentially we have figured out a way to allow corporations to deploy an arbitrary sized slice of our FAST Web Search engine, except that now, in addition to publicly available Web pages, we�ll be searching through terabytes of data like transaction histories and corporate documents. FAST Data Search makes all this data available online with sub-second response from a single easy-to-use standard search engine bar." The press annoucementcontinues, "FAST Data Search is ideally suited for corporate environments in which large amounts of historical data exist and new data is constantly being generated and/or updated, or where any type or amount of business data needs to searched in real-time. FAST Data Search offers inherent fault tolerance through its parallel architecture design, and provides sub-second response times in configurations ranging from a single server searching 50 GB of data 50 times per second, to advanced configurations with hundreds of servers scaling to more than 250 terabytes of data and capable of thousands of queries per second."
New, Updated, & Newly Discovered Resources (5 Entries)
---- Mergers & Acquisitions
Venture Capital
IPO's
Source: New York Times NYT Introduces a New E-Mail Alert, DealBook
Available at now cost. From the registration page, "DealBook -- your daily briefing on the latest and most comprehensive news about market-moving mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, private equity transactions, venture capital deals and Wall Street maneuverings, all delivered before the market's opening bell. Get analyst presentations, SEC filings, press releases and more." See Also: Take a Look at a SAMPLE DealBook
---- Canada--Encyclopedias A Web Version of the The Canadian Encyclopedia Debuts Today
From the news release, "The result of a 20-year collaboration between editor James Marsh and some 3500 contributors from across Canada, the bilingual Canadian Encyclopedia Online edition will allow for continual updating of content and for dynamic, interactive learning through quizzes, interactivities, themes and games. A powerful search engine and detailed subject tree provide quick access to thousands of articles on Canadian biographies and places, history, the Arts, as well as First Nations, science and Canadian innovation." Direct to The Canadian Encyclopedia
---- Health--Web Compilation
Source: National Library of Medicine ArcticHealth: A New Website for the Polar Regions
From the annoucement, ArcticHealth, as it is called, provides access to evaluated health information from hundreds of local, state, national, and international agencies, as well as from professional societies and universities. The new site has sections devoted to chronic diseases, behavioral issues, traditional medicine, environment/pollution, and environmental justice." Direct to the ArticHealth Web Site
---- Senior Citizens--Canada--Fast Facts
Source: Health Canada Statistical Snapshots of Canada's Seniors
----- Colleges and Universities--United States--Lists and Rankings
Source: YIL The Yahoo Internet Life 100 Most Wired Colleges--2001 Is Now Online
At the moment you can download a .pdf of the top 100 schools. The remainder of the list, (colleges #101-200, small schools, and two-year programs) should be available by the end of October.
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