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Stop Losing Performance to File Fragmentation
The best defragmenter only goes to work after system resources have been used to fragment files. You can never recoup that wasted performance. Try Diskeeper 2010 Pro edition free for 30 days and...
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Lenovo founder eyes new business: agriculture
Legend Holdings isn't the only Chinese IT company to step into the field of agriculture: One web portal is putting its money into pig-rearing, while an e-commerce giant invests in growing rice to...
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Indian farmers adopt technology to increase efficiency
Farmers are adopting FarmERP, an enterprise resource management software tailored for farmers to help them manage their produce. A variety of reports and schedules to make it easy for farmers to...
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Carbon nanotubes: Great for agriculture, but for humans?
In what can eventually kick up a firestorm similar to the genetically modified food controversy, the emerging field of "nano-agriculture" is making headlines. It involves the use of...
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Sure, energy tech is sexy and could be profitable. But think real green, as in chlorophyll and growing plants. That's the most crucial green tech now.
There's a lot of interest in alternative energy tech and ways to utilize fossil fuels more efficiently. There's considerable push now for more nuclear power. And all that makes economic and...
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Photos: Israel's treatment of water
The water treatment industry thrives in Israel because of a lack of water needed for agriculture and human use.
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Grand Coulee Dam
CNET News.com's Daniel Terdiman found some up-to-date happenings at the historic dam in Washington. Here's a very old-fashioned look at it.
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Facing budget scrutiny, USDA adds managed print services
With its budget under review, the U.S. Department of Agriculture hires Lexmark for managed print services in a five-year deal worth $50 million.
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Lenovo founder eyes new business: agriculture
Legend Holdings isn't the only Chinese IT company to step into the field of agriculture: One web portal is putting its money into pig-rearing, while an e-commerce giant invests in growing rice to...
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Bah! Humbug! Obama's Christmas tree tax and the price of message stupidity
Somehow, the Obama administration managed to turn Christmas trees into a topic that will provide the GOP with endless mirth and mocking hilarity.
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Creating plants with a kill switch (photos)
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack visits an agriculture start-up in the Boston area that is genetically engineering proteins for energy crops to make biofuels.
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Indian farmers adopt technology to increase efficiency
Farmers are adopting FarmERP, an enterprise resource management software tailored for farmers to help them manage their produce. A variety of reports and schedules to make it easy for farmers to...
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DOE researcher suggests agricultural benefits from wind turbines
This one is bound to create some controversy, given all the negative things I have read about living with or near wind turbines: Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have...
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Microsoft and the USDA: May the best incumbent win
Microsoft execs have been crowing about the company's big cloud win this week with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). What wasn't clear from early reports was why the USDA went...
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U.S. government flings dead mice at Guam
And now for something completely different.
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SmartPlanet: Radically rethinking agriculture
Many consider genetically engineered food controversial, but to Pamela Ronald a UC Davis professor, it could be the answer to feeding the world.
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Carbon nanotubes: Great for agriculture, but for humans?
In what can eventually kick up a firestorm similar to the genetically modified food controversy, the emerging field of "nano-agriculture" is making headlines. It involves the use of...
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Agriculture ripe for change with robot farmhands
Farmers across the developed world did away with the backbreaking part of the work during the 19th century with the introduction of equipment like tractors and combines. Now, evolving technology...
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Picking apples with a robot
According to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), specialty crops (fruits, vegetables, horticulture and floriculture) constitute a $45 billion/year industry in the U.S. alone, of which the tree fruit...
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Sure, energy tech is sexy and could be profitable. But think real green, as in chlorophyll and growing plants. That's the most crucial green tech now.
There's a lot of interest in alternative energy tech and ways to utilize fossil fuels more efficiently. There's considerable push now for more nuclear power. And all that makes economic and...
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Sea, soy and sun
Will you use one day SoyScreen on the beach? This is an eco-friendly sunscreen developed by chemists working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). SoyScreen is biodegradable, non-toxic...
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