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24 Technical Considerations for a Defragmentation Solution
Read this white paper for 24 technical considerations for evaluating a defragmentation solution on enterprise workstations. You'll learn all about the steps you'll need to take in order to make...
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Why mobility will - and does already - matter to IT
While much talk about mobile has a tone of "impending trend" to it, there are currently many mobility initiatives afoot in your organization, some of which IT knows about, some which it may not.
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Optimizing the branch: Mobilizing IT
Writing on technologies for the branch office often times places me across the domains of mobility and non-mobile network infrastructure. Increasingly, in client inquiry calls, the question of...
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BlueCoat: Creating an economic advantage for users in 2009?
Last week, BlueCoat gathered analysts in New York City for its Application Delivery Network Briefing Event to showcase its newest offerings, some of which are not yet released, and give the...
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Wi-Fi: the only network you need?
CES, the showcase of all tech that is likely to make a splash over the next year, is upon us. While reserved primarily for, as the name implies, consumer technology, there are fundamental tools...
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What's he building in there?
Tom Waits fans know the title of this post as one of his pieces and one that was used in the Enron documentary "The Smartest Guys In the Room." There's a YouTube video of the Waits piece here, if...
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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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