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Increasing Efficiency in the IT Environment
The read/write capabilities of your system are coming in to play more and more. Check out this white paper to learn more about improving your system's I/O capabilities.
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Microsoft wants to index all the world's information, too, with Fact Index
Microsoft's Fact Index project is designed to "index every database in the world and expose it in a structured, strongly typed fashion," according to the LinkedIn profile of the head of the project.
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Chris Anderson goes analog; We all can be manufacturers
Chris Anderson, best known a big thinker and an author that chronicles the digital revolution, is going decidedly analog.
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Freemium: The first business model of the 21st century
At the Revenue Bootcamp Conference in Mountain View, Calif., Chris Anderson, author of "Free: The Future of a Radical Price," discusses how different companies use the free-to-premium, or freemium...
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How free wins...or does it?
Do you remember when building a website required an intimate knowledge of HTML and hours of pain just to get off the starting blocks? Or how about a CMS starting at $100K? That's less than 10...
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Free? The 'Wired' Economy Is Still 80% Atoms, Not 100% Bits
Chris Anderson is in the “propagating ideas business.� The idea that he is propagating now is that “if the unitary cost of something is approaching zero, sell it for zero and make your...
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IEEE releases new standard for body area network
After five years of work, the IEEE announced a new standard, IEEE 802.15.6, for wireless communications supporting ultra-low power devices operating in or around the human body.
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Wearable devices to usher in context-aware computing
In this guest post, Joe Burton, CTO at Plantronics, lays out a vision for intelligent wearable devices and sensors that will redefine relevance and greatly simplify and automate the lives of users.
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Scientists create first electricity generator powered by viruses
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a method for generating power using harmless viruses that convert mechanical energy into...
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'TeleHuman' taps Kinect for 3D holographic videoconferencing
A Queen's University researcher has created a Star Trek-like human-scale 3-D videoconferencing pod that allows people in different locations to video conference as if they were standing in front...
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Sensing systems for robots could help blind navigate
Parisian researchers have developed a 3D navigation system for the blind using a pair of glasses equipped with cameras and sensors like those used in robot exploration.
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Netgear ushers in Gigabit Wi-Fi with first 802.11ac router
The networking company looks poised to be the first with a next-generation router on the market with speeds up to three times faster than 802.11n.
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World's largest digital camera one step closer to reality
Construction on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), a 3.2 billion-pixel camera that will capture the widest, fastest and deepest view of the night sky ever observed, could begin in 2014.
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New technique boosts efficiency of multi-hop wireless networks
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a more efficient data transmission approach that can boost the amount of data the networks can transmit by 20 to 80 percent.
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Nanosponges soak up more than 100x their weight in oil
Rice, Penn State researchers laced carbon nanotubes with boron to create reusable oil-soaking sponges that show promise for environmental cleanup, among many uses.
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Programmable 'smart sand' can assume any shape
MIT researchers are developing small magnetic cubes that can communicate with each other to auto-duplicate objects in a "sand box" using a subtractive production algorithm.
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Cost of Li-ion batteries in 2020 not low enough for mass adoption of EVs: report
Despite technology improvements and growing industry scale, Li-ion electric vehicle batteries will cost $397/kWh in 2020, falling short of the $150/kWh target needed to reach the mass market, say...
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Breast implant with nano 'bed-of-nails' deters cancer cells
Brown University biomedical scientists have created an implant that appears to deter breast cancer cell regrowth. Made from a common polymer, the implant is the first to be modified at the nanoscale.
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Getting up close and personal with the 'King of Wow'
In this fun "Esquire-esque" interview, Vinnie Mirchandani, Deal Architect CEO, blogger, and author of two books (one just released) shares his wisdom about the state of IT, innovation, and his...
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3-D printer with nano-precision sets world record
Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology have developed a method for fabricating intricately structured sculptures as tiny as a grain of sand in record speed.
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Breakthrough could make smartphones and laptops 1,000 times faster
Researchers at University of Pittsburgh have generated a frequency comb (a slice of spectrum) with more than 100 terahertz bandwidth, eclipsing today's devices that operate in the gigahertz...
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