Each warehouse has a layer 4 switch that handles requests from ISPs - either caching content locally, or transmitting it over the Web. Compared to this, PointCast and Marimba are semi-intelligent pull technologies.
On the third initiative, Lam said IDA will put in place an "Enabling Infrastructure" to address industry-wide barriers - such as inter-operability, security, network identity, semantics, web services management and Public UDDI (Universal...
Eugene Cox, director of mobile solutions in IBM's pervasive computing unit, said: "You can say, 'I'd like to make a trade,' and it will say 'What kind? It is still very primitive, but it is more intelligent than current applications.
Its third, and most valuable source of revenue will come from Overture's sponsored advertisements, which frame search results on the top, bottom and left-hand side. The crawler is also keeping copies of those pages - what's known as "caching" pages.
s search-based ad service to include related music advertisements in search results, the source added. Such services let people find music reviews and related information, along with links to legal download stores and peer-to-peer networks.
Xerox also predicts the text-miner software will be useful in other situations where information must be retrieved from a massive database, including corporate and government searches, drug discovery, fraud detection and risk management.