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Wednesday, 5th December 2001

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Use of Online Information
Outsell Releases First-Ever Study of Information Habits of European Sales & Marketing Professionals
From the news release, "Study reveals free information sources on open web preferred for daily decision-making; fee-based services still maintain competitive edge for business-critical decisions."

Life Online--Future
Source: PC World
A Few Products Under Development At Microsoft Research
In this article mentions of Mindnet ""A huge natural language database automatically created from dictionaries," in development at MSR. The dictionary information helps links words by their relationships. It is a much more sophisticated sibling of the grammar checking technology in Microsoft Word. Ask MSR:"a natural language, automated question answering site that is used internally for fun more than work. It researches questions across the Internet. "It's a very early stage of the technology," Rashid says. "We get about 50 percent of the answers right." For now, he says, that technology is best suited to help answer the very specific, expensive questions at the end of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? rather than the common-sense queries in the early rounds. Computers are apparently still learning common sense."

New, Updated, & Newly Discovered Resources (3 Items)
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Computer Software--Ready Reference
Filext, A Comprehensive Lists of File Extensions
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Charities--United States--Lists & Rankings
Source: Worth
100 Best Charties (guide for those people who expect a good return)
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Small Business--United States
Source: Entrepreneur
State-By-State Guide to Doing Business
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Service Industry--Statistics--United States
Source: U.S. Census
2000 Service Industry Annual Survey
From the site, "...report covering professional, scientific and technical services. This sector includes legal services (except notaries); accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services; architectural, engineering and related services; management, scientific and technical consulting services; scientific research and development services; advertising and related services; and other professional, scientific and technical services."
See Also: "Securities and Commodities Underwriters, Dealers and Brokers Report Revenues of $251 Billion"

Women in the Workplace--United States
Source: U.S. Census
Maternity Leave and Employment Patterns, 1961-1995
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