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- Nanospheres moving faster than light?
- In recent years, I don't think I've spent a month without a report about a new way to exceed the speed of light. Yesterday, University of Pennsylvania researchers announced a theoretical way to increase the speed of pulses of light which could bring optical computing closer to reality. The scientists...
- Tags: Team, Bandwidth, Researcher, University Of Pennsylvania, Theory, Nanoparticle, Particle, Penn, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Penn's Racing Hedge Calculator (exe)
- Penn's Racing Hedge Calculator helps you hedge two different bets on Horse Racing. If you like to play mutiple horses on a single race like most people, this program may do you a great favor. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Horse, Rake Software, Penn
- Software downloads 2008-06-23
- Hillary's top strategist accused of illegal eavesdropping
- Illegal eavesdropping's not just for the NSA and Hewlett Packard. Hillary Clinton's top strategist has now been accused of improperly tapping into a rival's BlackBerry messages, The Washington Post reports.Mitchell E. Markel, a former vice president at the polling firm of Penn, Schoen & Berland, filed a lawsuit claiming his...
- Tags: Privacy, Elections
- Blog posts 2007-07-03
- PA schools adopt handheld tech for test-taking
- No longer will elementary students at several Pennsylvania schools scribble their answers on paper when a teacher gives a pop quiz. This year, teachers at some Penn Hills elementary schools will be using remote devices to answer test questions, and the answer will appear on teachers' computer monitors, reports ...
- Tags: teacher, Penn
- Blog posts 2006-09-11
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- Blackberry Storm set for lift-off?
- Updated: Does Verizon Wireless finally have a date to roll out the Blackberry Storm? In a conversation with Verizon's helpdesk on an unrelated issue, a customer rep spilled the beans that the release date is Nov. 17. Here's what we've heard so far: Verizon...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry, Verizon Wireless, Handhelds, Smart Phones, Help Desk, Product Marketing, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, It Operations, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Data Strategies That are Right for You!
- "Connect 2008: Store, Secure, Protect" Attend PC Connection's premier online event and get closer to achieving a streamlined data management solution. Participate in sessions throughout the day where valuable information to help you succeed will be shared. Store: Uncover ways to tackle...
- Tags: Strategy, PC Connection Inc., Forrester Research Inc., Data Management, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2008-11-06
- Data Strategies That are Right for You
- "Connect 2008: Store, Secure, Protect" Attend PC Connection's premier online event and get closer to achieving a streamlined data management solution. Participate in sessions throughout the day where valuable information to help you succeed will be shared. Store: Uncover ways to tackle...
- Tags: Strategy, Apple iPod, PC Connection Inc., Forrester Research Inc., Data Management, Storage, Digital Music, Digital Media, Databases, Hardware, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2008-11-06
- Should bosses kill the office and let everyone telecommute?
- It's time to kill the office. At least that's what Wired columnist Brendan I. Koerner says in his latest piece championing the values of telecommuting - and urging bosses to send everyone home for good, saving green on all the cubicle space the company won't need. ...
- Tags: Home, Telecommuting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- Turning US News college rankings into 7-dimensional analytic geometry
- No really, I'm not kidding. Two researchers from UC Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon thought that the methods employed by US News and World Report to rank the nation's top universities was just a bit too arbitrary. As Science News reports in a great article to share with high...
- Tags: Vector, Corporate Governance, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- A new method to study origin of life
- U.S. researchers at Penn State University have developed a new computational method to understand how life began on Earth about four billion years ago. According to the scientists, their method 'has the potential to trace the evolutionary histories of proteins all the way back to either cells or viruses, thus...
- Tags: RNA, Method, Team, Penn State, Protein, Virus, Biotechnology, Team Management, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Management, Security, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Social giving for charity begets social giving for community
- Normally I don't write about specific events but I'm making an exception as this is almost a mini overview for how charity in social media can turn into a benefit for the social Web community. In May I launched a Social Media Charity Auction that raised about...
- Tags: giveaway, social media, greg verdino, inbound marketing summit, jennifer leggio
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Are hospitals really safe?
- Now that we have access to more information about health care and what goes on inside a hospital, what should we be most worried about? How do human errors prevent us from getting the best possible health care when we do have access to fabulous diagnostic tools and intelligent health...
- Tags: Software, Interoperability, Patient, Hospital, Researcher, Medical Device, Healthcare, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Polar robots to explore the Arctic
- It's now almost certain that the world's ice shelves are melting. And while satellites provide lots of data about their evolution, ground-based weather stations could be even more useful. But if scientists can no longer stay on fragile and volatile ice sheets, what can they do? They can use specially...
- Tags: Professor, Georgia Tech, SnoMotes, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Memo to Microsoft: Put up or shut up on patent claims
- I was reminded today that it has now been a year since Microsoft made its claim that Linux violates hundreds of its patents. In the year since Microsoft has used this FUD like a bargaining chip. It has sued no one. It has not pressed its patent...
- Tags: Patent, Microsoft Corp., Claim, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- A snake-inspired robot
- On a recent visit to Pittsburgh, Penn., CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi dropped by professor Howie Choset's Robotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University to see his latest creation, the Snakebot.
- Tags: News, kara tsuboi, jared kohler, snakeBot, carnegie mellon, howie choset, robotics, rescue, surgery, heart, Robots, Emerging Technologies
- Videos 2008-05-08
- Did Sun just make mySQL closed source?
- Sun's happy talk at its mySQL shindig this week masked a grimmer reality. In the future cool new features of mySQL like online backup will, when written by Sun, first go only to paying customers. This does not, as some have said, make mySQL Enterprise closed...
- Tags: MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Could Yahoo's 'openness' be another anti-Microsoft poison pill?
- Could Yahoo's 'openness' be another anti-Microsoft poison pill?Integration issuesThis merger is an integration disaster waiting to happen because of that reason. With Yahoo's reliance on open source, the opening of it's infrastructure and APIs, as well as it's own open source development including Zimbra, it seems any kind of...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Mergers & Acquisitions, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., openness
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
- Siemens' Dillione is HIMSS' smartest executive
- It's hard to avoid stupidity in technology, especially medical technology, where niches are established and profits have been growing for years. Janet Dillione, CEO for health solutions at Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, Penn., offered HIMSS a vision of interoperability, open standards, and SOA today so far from...
- Tags: Siemens AG, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Giant gas field found in the Appalachia
- It's well known that the Marcellus black shale in northern Appalachia, which covers hundreds of square miles in five states (New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland and West Virginia), contains natural gas. But now, two U.S. researchers have discovered that the reserves are much bigger than previously thought. They estimate that...
- Tags: U.S., Joint, Pennsylvania, Fracture, Natural Gas, Marcellus, J1, Telecom & Utilities, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-20
- Autonomous virtual crowds
- It has always been difficult to generate computer-generated crowd scenes in movies and video games. Until recently, an animated character moved almost like his its neighbors. But according to Technology Review, a computer scientist working at UCLA has designed software which gives personal behaviors to animated characters. For example, he...
- Tags: Computer, Character, Productivity, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Games, Marketing, Internet, Personal Technology, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-26
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