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Placed in Menlo Park California, Infovell serves your search needs when you need to delve deep into a subject. Infovell is a research engine that explores the unindexed links from the Web. Some of the most valuable links or rather, information lies beyond the search results returned from traditional (index-based search) engines, as only 0.2% of the web is indexed.

Infovell operates through scouring open-access repositories of information like PubMed Central, and the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Claims. It can also provide results from scholarly journals like Oxford University Press, etc. The search engine provides you content in the areas of Life Sciences, Medicines, Patents, Industry, News, whereas in addition it also delivers breaking news alerts in your email, PDA or any other device. Although Infovell can prove to be a break-through, and serve as competition for the top search engines, the service is not available without a price tag, putting the power of information into the hands of those who can afford it. Here’s a video of the team describes how the search engine can be useful:

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Searching for relevant information is really hard sometimes as the search engine gives you an array of ambiguous search results for a particular query. So, you  have to eliminate or add certain keywords in your query to have pertinent results. Xippee solves the problem of inserting  different keywords to acquire accurate results.

Xippee is a plug-in that lets you filter your query by selecting the words from the search result page. With this deftly tool you can select any word or phrase and press plus/minus buttons to include/eliminate the term from your search query. For instance, if you will search for the term ‘galaxy’ than the search engine will give you results covering wide fields such as superstores named galaxy, music, milky way galaxy, etc and if you want to narrow your results to the Universe Milky Way Galaxy than you can easily select and subtract other words from the result page. The extension saves time and gives accurate and relevant results.   

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According to a report from InformationWeek, it is confirmed that Google Chrome is going to make the add-ons and user scripts support available for users. Although Chrome gained popularity with its release, it wasn’t looking complete with out add-ons and user scripts, but with the addition of such options it won’t be unusual to see more users attracted towards the new browser.

Other than the regular extensions, Greasemonkey scripts will also be supported. According to Aaron Boodman, the Greasemonkey founder:

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If I were to say that I will retire from writing when readers will count every  star in the Sky, you know what I mean; forget it I am never going to retire. Similar is the case with Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer who has once again changed his mind and obviously the time he plans to retire.

He had earlier hinted at calling off from duty in a decade or so but the power he has seated in Microsoft as its CEO has definitely got the old man loose senses. In a statement he gave in Seattle, Ballmer told that he will retire from Microsoft the day its shares exceed those of Google. Now when is this going to happen?

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SlideRocket, a San Francisco-based web service, deals in making presentations easier and fun to make. SlideRocket launched its beta version, and offers the ability to create presentations online, using its full featured Web app. Slide Rocket offers a downloadable desktop app by which you can view the slides offline. The application is head to head with PowerPoint and KeyNote.

With SlideRocket, making slides you can:

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When we talk about Google now it’s no more Google Search alone, for in less than a decade the Search giant has expanded rapidly into every  sphere of the technology world. And its reach into every nook and corner is the reason that the annual survey released by Interbrand for the best Global Brands puts Google at number 10.

Number 10 doesn’t sound much impressive does it? But given that it was no where in the list in 2004 to making a direct jump at 38 in 2005, ranked 20 last year and topping many previous best to reach number 10 in 2008, increasing by 43%, speaks volumes about how valuable it is.

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David Hirsch, a former Googler, has joined Metamorphic Ventures as Managing Partner. He has worked at Google for eight years and now he is looking into the investment business. Earlier this year, David told SAI about his interested in getting involved into investing.

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California-based BillShrink, is a free personalized saving service for everyday services like wireless and CC (credit cards). BillShrink simplifies the complicity involved in dealing with bills, and shows you where and how to save. The service aims to save your time and money through its personalized analysis of your particular usage. BillShrink can also automatically re-analyze your wireless plans and credit cards, if your usage changes.

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Jabber an open source IM and presence control protocol appears to have  made Cisco bite wisdom by making it realize the how important it is to collaborate with existing media in the present world. Cisco has announced its plans at acquiring the the privately held firm for an undisclosed amount in order to enhance its current messaging and presence features.

The deal would also make it possible for Cisco to embed Jabbers services in its own network and increase efficiency for its services including on demand solutions. In its press release, Cisco stated:

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Spore, a single player online game developed by Will Wright, has been criticised for their policy that allows users to install the game on only three computers at a time. According to its publisher Electronic Arts, this was done in order to prevent the game being copied illegally. If there is any user who wanted to activate the game on more than three computers, he/she has to call EA and tell them the reason for further activations.
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