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######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Recently, both Apple and Microsoft have released new versions of their operating systems Snow Leopard and Windows # respectively. Walt Mossberg, personal technology columnist of #;The Wall Street Journal,#; provides tips on specifications

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### Motorola and Verizon Wireless recently unveiled the Droid smartphone, which both companies plan to aggressively promote for challenging Apple#;s iPhone. Verizon Wireless is under pressure to draw iPhone customers from rival AT&T

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### New netbooks such as Nokia#;s Booklet #G and HP#;s Mini ### come with very high-resolution screens, which--due to their high cost--are not usually used for netbooks. These

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Smartphone makers and carriers are adopting aggressive marketing strategies to make a mark in the already crowded smartphone market. Motorola and Palm are among companies pinning hopes on their new smartphone models. Taiwan

######## Article ###### ###### ###### Android was a major topic of discussion at the recent Sprint Open Developers Conference. Google#;s new operating system for smartphones seems to have become the favorite of many mobile application developers. Programmers creating mobile

######## Article Remote monitoring of patients offers a handy solution for healthcare providers, given the short supply of critical-care specialists in hospitals. Doctors of many hospitals operated by Rockledge-based Health First can now remotely monitor patients in intensive

######## Article ###### ###### Healthcare providers planning to go digital could benefit by lessons offered by some veterans hospitals. The government plans to spend nearly $## billion to help hospitals to digitize medical records. Medicare, the U.S. government#;s

######## Article ###### GPS and voice-recognition systems will soon be obsolete in automobiles, as cars will be more like your iPhone in the future. The dashboard of every car needs to take a cue from the iPhone. It does

######## Article ###### ###### President Obama is betting on biofuels and batteries, yet automakers such as Honda, Daimler, and others are not deterred from investing in cars fueled with oxygen and hydrogen. In auto-industry jargon, the #;Valley of Death

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Following the Vista failure, Microsoft altered the way in which it makes software, and the resulting Windows # is earning high marks, prompting the question of whether the new operating system and Microsoft

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Bookseller Barnes & Noble has unveiled Nook, a e-book reader, to challenge Amazon#;s Kindle. The Sony Reader is at present the No. # gadget in the e

######## Article ###### Innovative technology firms are doing so well that proponents insist that they will prompt a broader economic recovery, yet that is unlikely. There is a lot of evidence that the darkness that has hung over the information

######## Article ###### The future of solar power is not only bright but also thin as the industry is seeing a rise of thin-film solar power that is both leaner and less expensive. The #### Solar Decathlon, a contest

######## Article ###### Biofuels were once thought to be a solution to fossil-fuel dependence, but they are now widely viewed to be a boondoggle to agribusiness that hurts the environment and cheats taxpayers. A report commissioned by the United

######## Article ###### Uniform pricing for online music is an attempt to exploit differences in people#;s sensitivity to price, yet it is not the proper way in which to maximize profit. Shoppers get what they consider to be a

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### In an attempt to help unify conversations, the Mozzila Messaging division is now in the process of testing Raindrop, which is yet another technology to try to help us all integrate

######## Article In an Australian family with a speaking disorder, researchers discovered the gene known as #;tospeak,#; which assists in keeping vocal pipes limber and thus provides humans with the gift of speech. Raymond Clarke of the University of New

######## Article ###### ###### In order to achieve bigger sales even with limited ad budgets, major marketers--such as Volkswagen, Sprint Nextel, and Xerox--are revising the strategies they adopt for buying search ads. Some of the new strategies include

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### PC manufacturers are hoping that improved features of Windows #, which was recently launched by Microsoft, will lure more consumers to buy PCs. Dell, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Toshiba America, and Acer are among PC

######## Article ###### ###### ###### Google plans to offer songs from leading online music providers on its search pages. From a search results page, users will be able to stream a song and listen to it. They can also buy

######## Article ###### Broadband providers feel that usage-based pricing needs to be instituted for Internet connections. With always-on broadband connections, many heavy web users enjoy Internet services for a flat rate. Some telecommunications and cable providers, including AT

######## Article ###### Goby (goby.com) is an activity search engine designed to help users to find activities to do during their free time in any U.S. location. The new engine has three query boxes--What, Where, and When

######## Article ###### ###### ###### Walt Disney Co. will be shortly unveiling a technology code-named Keychest. The company says that Keychest will allow users to view movies on-demand from multiple devices. Besides, the technology will allow entertainment companies

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Sony is forging an ever-closer alliance with Google, as it looks to Google#;s open-source Android operating system and other open-source technologies to help put Sony back in play on

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Windows has released an interim upgrade to its smartphone software, Windows Mobile #.#, that is a distinct improvement over the original Windows Mobile #, but still falls far short of the standard

######## Article Many customers believe that building an internal cloud is as simple as installing VMware, yet in reality, the virtualization of servers is just one of many necessary steps for enterprises that wish to build a cloud network, which

######## Article ###### ###### ###### PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has built an innovative high-powered electrical infrastructure with its new data center, which in contrast to its existing data center has #;cool things around just about every corner,#; according to U.S

######## Article Iridium Communications, which a decade ago starred in a legendary tech industry crash & burn, is making a modest comeback. The idea behind Iridium, back in the late ####s, was to provide global phone communications at a time when

######## Article Thompson Reuters is generating savings by using outside air and huge generators to keep its new data center cool and to reduce its expenses. Temperatures in Minnesota dip below zero sometimes, so homes and businesses crank up their

######## Article ###### Hollywood studios are fighting with Netflix and Redbox over revenue share from DVD rentals as its highly profitable DVD sales business declines, a decline that may not end when the recession does. According to the author, #;Hollywood

######## Article Steve Hassell, CIO at global technology and engineering giant Emerson, is only half joking when he suggests that the company#;s data center will be consist of just one rack sitting in the middle of a white room

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Microsoft#;s Windows Vista--launched a couple of years back--was shunned by users for numerous reasons. The OS was incompatible with many programs, and users preferred Windows XP, an operating system

######## Article Cisco dominates the networking world, but now it is being challenged on its technology home turf by Arista, which is offering ultrafast networking gear for large data centers. Arista#;s founder, Andreas Bechtolsheim, has a long history of

######## Article ###### ###### Perhaps the new e-mail is here now that Google#;s most recent product consolidates communication, collaboration, and media sharing into one innovative and insanely useful application. Google evidently knows a lot about human nature, particularly

######## Article Hosting company Navisite in Andover, Massachusetts built a ##,###-square-foot data center with an eye on safety, security, and redundancy. Navisite#;s data center Vice President Bob Stephens was put in charge of wringing every last

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Microsoft will launch a stripped-down, free version of Office called Office Starter #### for new PCs from ####, discontinuing the use of Microsoft Works after a long period of

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### According to Arbor Networks, the Internet is rapidly becoming an entity that exists between and inside a bare minimum of hosting superpowers. The implications of such a transformation would be profound. Arbor Networks undertook

######## Article In an innovative venture, Meetesh Patel, chief executive of New Energy Technologies, is working with engineer Gerard Lynch to generate power from rumble strips. They believe that power can be generated at parking lots or toll plazas by

######## Article ###### Google recently reported financial results for the third quarter, the second successive period of gains for the company. Google#;s profits are a clear indication that Internet advertising is moving from recession to recovery. Google is a

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### Hollywood is exploiting the popularity of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to boost movie ticket sales. Marketing movies on social media sites represents a new trend. The horror movie #;Paranormal Activity#; recently

######## Article Twitter has recently launched a Japan-based mobile version of the microblogging service. Through this service, Twitter is expecting to have an impressive presence in the social networking market in Japan, where other social networking websites like MySpace

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### Google plans to introduce Google Editions, a new service for booksellers that will allow readers to buy books online and read them on a variety of gadgets, including cellphones and ebook readers. The new

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ViSUS is a #D visualization application under development by researchers from the University of Utah. The application would enable iPhone users to view large, high-resolution images. The imaging capabilities of the iPhone would be

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Apple is rumored to be working on a FM radio application for the iPod touch and the iPhone. The radio app is believed to use a dormant portion of hardware in these devices

######## Article Computers are now being taught to recognize objects, which would enable them to do object-recognition tasks in minutes that would otherwise take humans hours to do. For example, if computers could recognize objects, they could instantly search

######## Article According to digital publishing company LibreDigital, online reviews of digital books and ebooks could lead to increased sales. Russell Reeder, CEO at LibreDigital, says enabling readers to preview select chapters online before purchase has a positive impact on

######## Article ###### ###### ###### Research in Motion#;s (RIM) BlackBerry Storm # has several improvements when compared to the previous version, the BlackBerry Storm--the first touchscreen device from RIM. RIM has incorporated feedback it received from customers and

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### The Cliq is Motorola#;s attempt to differentiate itself from the pack of Android devices. The Motorola Cliq is a beautifully designed phone, which could prove very attractive to users

######## Article ###### ###### Google plans to introduce an online store called Google Editions in the first half of ####. The service will deliver ebooks to any device having a web browser. Google#;s online ebook store could unsettle the

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Google is facing competition from a number of players in the Internet search domain. To improve search results and stay competitive, Google engineers meet every week and come up with new ideas

######## Article ###### ###### Websites that enable customers to manage their financial and spending decisions are growing in number. Intuit, a financial software company, has made a bid in September #### to acquire Mint.com, a developer of innovative personal

######## Article ###### ###### ###### Navigation device company Garmin and Taiwan-based Asustek have jointly developed the Garmin nuvifone G##, a product that adds phone features to a standalone navigation device. To compare the nuvifone G## with traditional navigation-capable

######## Article ###### A talented group of engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)--a federally funded division of NASA managed by the California Institute of Technology--is developing unmanned autonomous robots. Robots developed in JPL#;s ###-acre campus

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### New services--like Google Wave, Twitter, and Facebook--that enable constant user interaction in innovative ways seem to mark the end of the email era. Google Wave allows users to share ideas in real

######## Article ###### Netflix recently awarded the $# million Netflix Prize to a seven-member team of statisticians, mathematicians, and computer scientists. The Netflix Prize could easily be the most visible user-generated innovation in the Internet era. Over ##

######## Article ###### Amazon.com first began the practice of posting customer reviews and ratings of its products online. Now, most online vendors allow customers to post product reviews--positive as well as negative. These vendors are working to find

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### MarkMonitor is a brand-protection firm that scans social media sites on a daily basis to find out unauthorized profiles created in its clients#; names by cyber criminals. The company offers a

######## Article The U.S. Energy Dept plans to loan about $#.# billion to enable large and small companies to retool their plants for creating new automotive technologies and manufacturing fuel-efficient cars. The U.S. Energy Dept has

######## Article The desalination business is witnessing growth, with fresh water resources becoming increasingly scarce. Governments worldwide are resorting to new desalination technologies that are cost-effective. There are currently about #,### desalination facilities in the U.S. The

######## Article ###### ###### Sanjay Jha, co-CEO at Motorola, has embarked on a mission to revitalize the company with the launch of the company#;s new cellphone Cliq, which runs on Google#;s Android OS. During the mobile industry

######## Article Chiefs of power utility companies are focusing on ways to generate emissions-free energy at lower prices. Power utilities today have to provide reliable, inexpensive electricity. Carbon emissions from the electric power sector account for ## percent of

######## Article For years there has been talk about interactive television advertising, in which viewers could click on their remote controls to interact with ads and (advertisers hope) buy products. In fact, says analyst Colin Dixon of digital media consultancy

######## Article The recession may have hit hard on Earth, but there is little sign of it in outer space. Rising global communications demand, especially for satellite television, is causing a boom in satellite operations. The industry saw a #

######## Article ###### ###### The economic downturn has not kept Viacom from launching a new television channel, Epix, which will show Paramount and MGM films along with original programming. The reason for this move is that the recession has sped

######## Article ###### ###### ###### Recently, thousands of email accounts provided by Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and Hotmail were compromised. Microsoft and Google believe cyber criminals obtained account passwords through phishing schemes. Cyber criminals often succeed in obtaining private data or

######## Article #;Smart grid#; technology has the potential of transforming a vital but surprisingly archaic electrical infrastructure, saving money, reducing energy waste, and supporting the adoption of green technology. In ####, the U.S. National Academy of Engineering said that

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### A year since launched, Google#;s Android operating system for mobile phones is gaining momentum in the smartphone race, proving itself a worthy rival of the iPhone. The open source software OS has

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### More innovative and dependable vehicle control is being realized by emerging topologies such as Controller Area Network (CAN), the Local Interconnect Network (LIN), and FlexRay, in addition to many hardware and software

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### Microsoft is releasing its new Operating System (OS) Windows #, which could erase the bad reputation of its predecessor Windows Vista. Tests done on pre-release Windows # versions on different machines have led

######## Article ###### ###### Smartphone manufacturers Research In Motion (RIM) and Apple are competing with each other to offer medical applications through smartphones. Recently Palo Alto-based Stanford Hospital & Clinics commenced a trial in coordination with Epic Systems Corp., a

######## Article ###### ###### New digital cameras with unusual features like a built-in projector and dual LCD screens are now available. Compared with digital cameras that were available five years ago, the new models have improvements like larger LCD

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Microsoft and Google are focusing on developing mobile phone operating systems in an attempt to compete with Apple#;s iPhone. Microsoft says over ## new handsets, including touch-sensing models such as

######## Article Google is creating custom ad campaigns for big ad spenders like Ford Motor Co. and Hewlett-Packard Co. Besides, Google has helped Quaker Oats--a PepsiCo unit--and J.C. Penny Co. to launch their ad campaigns on

######## Article Energy firms in Germany are trying to reduce emissions from coal burning plants by storing carbon dioxide underground. The Swedish energy giant, Vattenfall AB, plans to store the gas inside saline aquifers below fields in eastern Germany, with

######## Article ###### In ####, two landmark studies published in the #;New England Journal of Medicine#; demonstrated the effectiveness of therapeutic hypothermia in protecting the human brain after a cardiac arrest. One of the studies was conducted in Australia, and

######## Article ###### Cisco#;s recent bid to acquire Norway-based Tandberg for $# billion is considered a gamble that videoconferencing could take off in the consumer and small-to-medium business markets, which have not yet embraced telepresence systems

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Technology that was initially developed to provide accessibility for the disabled is being #;mainstreamed#; to provide a variety of popular consumer features. Apple#;s latest iPhone, for example, has a voice

######## Article Deal making and risk taking are returning to the tech industry, a sign that firms believe the worst of the Great Recession is behind them. In a three-week period, Jon A. Woodruff, head of technology mergers and

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### Alex Betancourt of Publisher#;s Clearing House Online Network was surprised when he checked the website logs late last year and found a sharp increase in the number of visitors using mobile browsers. In

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Google is taking a new approach in challenging Microsoft Internet Explorer#;s dominance of the browser market. It is positioning itself inside Internet Explorer, by offering its Chrome browser as an IE

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Panda Managed Office Protection (Panda MOP), available as a SaaS solution, provides efficient anti-malware services for workstations and servers. Panda#;s solution facilitates centralized management and protection of systems, irrespective of whether

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Desktop Switch to Mac edition from Parallels is a compelling solution for users who want to switch from Windows PC to a Mac. The edition transforms a physical Windows PC

######## Article ###### ###### Tzolkin offers easy to configure DNS services to provide a geographically dispersed, highly redundant system. Five redundant sites are maintained by Tzolkin in North America. The company also maintains a name server site in Europe. All

######## Article Database virtualization will enhance flexibility, ease administrative overheads, reduce costs, and maximize efficiency. According to Brian Babineau, senior consulting analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, key reasons for database virtualization include flexibility in accessing data from multiple database management

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Upgrading Windows has always been a rather fraught process, whether you are migrating to a new machine or installing a new version of Windows on your current machine. Unlike Apple#;s Migration Assistant

######## Article ###### Baidu is a powerful Internet service of global dimensions. Robin Li Yanhong, president of Baidu.com, has helped his search website--now considered as China#;s information gateway--to successfully survive Google#;s dominance in the Internet

######## Article While the fight over health care still dominates U.S. politics, another contentious issue is coming back to the fore: carbon curbs as a tool for combating global warming. While this debate features some familiar partisan splits, it

######## Article Cloud computing is like many new technologies in that it generates hype and derision, and even revenue for some people, such as the outspoken CEO of enterprise software giant Oracle Corp. Larry Ellison, who is very excited about

######## Article San Francisco-based iPierian, a biopharmaceutical firm, has developed a new type of stem cell that could improve drug development process vastly. The new stem cells are created by inserting four genes-- through viruses--into skin cell genomes

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### The police department of Rancho Cucamonga, California enhanced its status as one of the ## best places to live in the United States with a low crime rate when it recently gained efficiency

######## Article Dell and Xerox made major acquisitions to broaden their offering past just hardware, but now they have to be innovative in order to make the deals work. Three months after Ursula Burns took over as CEO at Norwalk

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### A rising number of exchange-traded fund investors (ETF investors) are seeking online resources that advise about ETFs. At present, ETFs account for only # percent of dollars invested in traditional mutual

######## Article After previously looking inward and focusing on cost cutting and infrastructure enhancements, some healthcare, government, and banking organizations are pushing the limits of web-enabled consumer relationships by delivering an enhanced web experience because business is increasingly being

######## Article ###### ###### Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is an extension of XML designed specifically for financial reporting. In XBRL, financial data is given unique identifying tags, which not only act as identifiers, but provide a range of information

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Despite its required drawbacks, web application development will move to online platforms in what is known as platform as a service--a form of cloud computing that holds substantial potential to assist

######## Article Canada-based Smart Technologies has developed interactive whiteboards that connect to the Internet. The digital boards function as portals that help students save data on to laptops, letting them print or email the saved information. Over ## percent

######## Article ###### ###### IT shops often frown on employee use of social media as mere socializing, a way to waste time and goof off. But author Scot Finnie argues that Twitter is a different beast, and one that has

######## Article ###### Multicore chips are becoming the new hardware standard, but will your software be able to use the additional power they provide? It used to be that if you upgraded your computer, you could expect your existing software

######## Article Dell#;s purchase of Perot Systems Corp is well timed, since Perot does nearly half of its business in the medical sector at a time when federal spending on health information technology is set to increase greatly. A

######## Article ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### ###### Social networking site Twitter has emerged as a top technology platform, with about ##,### applications enhancing the microblogging service. The Twitter platform has been able to inspire diverse applications