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Business Execution: Executive Buyer's Guide
There's a big difference between strategy and execution. Take a look at this white paper to learn how you can take your business strategies into the real world with the help of assets you already...
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GNOME delays 3.0 release
The release of the next major upgrade of the GNOME desktop, GNOME 3.0, has been pushed back to September 2010.
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Ubuntu reveals plans for Lucid Lynx
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has detailed plans for the distribution's April 2010 release, code-named Lucid Lynx.
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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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Another ZDNet Great Debate lost, still not giving up on Windows Phone
I win the popular vote, but can't seem to win the argument as I continue to support the Windows Phone platform in ZDNet Great Debates. I'm sticking with Windows Phone for the long haul though.
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Social business in Australia
Social business adoption is growing around the world as organizations continue to apply social media to the way they work. I've spent the week in Australia learning about the challenges and...
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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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A closer look at BlackBerry OS 10
At BlackBerry World 2012, RIM executives used a keynote address to demonstrate the company's new BlackBerry OS 10. CNET Australia's Joseph Hanlon takes a closer look.
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Australia to question Microsoft, Apple, others in 'price gouging' probe
Australia's parliament will hold an inquiry to determine why major digital content providers are charging significantly more for content than elsewhere in the world.
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Australia's Apple store 'Wake Up' stunt: Let's run through the suspects
As a public service, here's a look at the potential suspects behind Australia's Wake Up bus marketing fiasco in front of an Apple store in Sydney.
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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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Case study: Strategic approach to disaster recovery and data lifecycle management pays off for Australia's SAI Global
Disaster recovery is critical for us. Our publishing business feels that their website needs to be available 99.999%. When we showed them what DR is capable of doing, they really jumped on board...
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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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Australia vs. Apple: Take two on e-book price fixing
Australia's consumer and competition watchdog is mulling a move to sue Apple, as it seeks complaints from e-book sellers in light of the U.S. Justice Dept.'s antitrust move.
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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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