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Social Media Analytics: Making Customer Insights Actionable
Check out this white paper to learn more about social media analytics and what they can do for your business.
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Volocopter: Sixteen propellers and one seat belt (photos)
Winner of the AERO 2012 Lindbergh Prize for Innovation, E-volo is trying to change personal transportation with its multi-propeller aircraft designs.
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With the USS Langley, aircraft carriers took off (photos)
Aircraft carriers weren't always the high-tech marvels they are today. In fact, the U.S. Navy's very first one wasn't even a carrier at first.
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Torn between two smartphones...feeling like a fool
As a person who owns multiple smartphones, it isn't often that a couple make such an impression that they battle daily for my smartphone heart.
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NASA's big ideas for the future of flight (photos)
NASA looks to advanced design concepts to reduce noise and increase the fuel efficiency of future aircraft.
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Seven reasons I chose the HTC Radar 4G over the Nokia Lumia 710
The Radar 4G and Lumia 710 are both excellent low cost Windows Phone devices on T-Mobile USA. After spending time with both, I am using the Radar 4G as my primary device for several reasons.
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The top 11 flying machines of 2011 (images)
It was a monumental year for aircraft and spacecraft, as Boeing's Dreamliner carried passengers for the first time and the space shuttle landed for the final time. Plus: drones, drones, drones.
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On your radar: Life-changing emerging tech (photos)
From bionic contact lenses to 'invisible' tanks, check out the latest emerging technologies that will change the world.
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Second X-47B robo-drone takes to the air (photos)
The U.S. Navy gets another step closer to having an unmanned aircraft that can fly autonomously to and from the unforgiving environment of an aircraft carrier.
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USS Enterprise: Nuclear power meets aircraft carrier (photos)
Fifty years ago today, the U.S. Navy commissioned the world's first nuclear-powered carrier. It's now the oldest ship in the U.S. fleet, but retirement looms.
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Gallery of galleries: Top 10 for September
Extremely bad decisions were the focus of the most popular ZDNet gallery for August. Plus, new Windows and old Linux were pretty popular, too.
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A look at the Navy's next-gen destroyer radar
By 2020, the U.S. Navy should have its next-generation Arleigh Burkle-class destroyers deployed along with next-generation radar technology. Combined, the new destroyers and the new radars should...
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Dancing with the tech stars (gallery)
Can't get enough of "Dancing with the Stars"? We decided to create our own version but the stars on this dance floor are tech execs and the dancing, well, you'll just have to imagine it.
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HTC Radar hands-on (photos)
The HTC Radar is one of two Windows Phone Mango devices that was unveiled at HTC fan meetups around Europe. The handset manufacturer stopped by CNET to give us a look, so check out our hands-on...
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SOA is everywhere: even driving drone aircraft
A framework 'analogous to the hardware and operating system used by a tablet computer' will give the government more flexibility with the software running its pilotless drones.
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NASA's aircraft of the future (images)
NASA is attempting to fill the skies with quieter, faster, more fuel efficient, and carbonless aircraft.
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NASA Aeronautics working towards carbonless silent aircraft
Noise and carbon-free airplanes are not simply pipe dreams any more as NASA and partners are working towards the next generation of airplanes.
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DARPA's 13,000mph plane lost but not forgotten (images)
DARPA's Twitter feed tells that it lost track of the super speed Falcon HTV-2 aircraft during a test flight. But the craft did hit its speed goal.
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Report: Energy harvesting technologies will generate $4.4B by 2021
Self-powered devices will proliferate quickly over the next 10 years, powered mainly by solar means. But the ability of heat and touch to create energy will gain much more attention.
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World's first 'printed' airplane takes to the skies
Engineers at the University of Southampton have developed an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) whose entire structure has been printed, potentially changing the economics of aircraft design.
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UK company tests solution to wind tech's radar problem
Holographic radar approach could help mitigation aviation interference seen as a downside of wind farms.
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