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- Roving robots explore moon, desert
- Whether it's exploring the moon's craters or the inhospitable Chilean desert, robots are aiding in the research work that humans wouldn't ordinarily be able to do. At a recent visit to Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi gets up close and personal with the...
- Tags: Emerging Technologies, News, kara tsuboi, carnegie mellon university, lunar x prize, robots, jared kohler, moon, mars, solar, space
- Videos 2008-05-28
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- Who's Dumber: Bad Guys … Or Good Guys?
- In the old cowboy movies, the black hats were villains that created mayhem, until the white hats came along and ended their reigns of fear. Now, we have the spectacle of good guys seemingly educating the bad guys on how to exploit flaws or processes of the Internet, that...
- Tags: Hat, Flaw, Internet, Social Security, BGP, Operational Accounting, Government, Networking, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Has Firefox already matched IE privacy features?
- Perspectives, hatched at Carnegie Mellon, thwarts so-called "Man in the Middle" attacks on SSH secure sites by creating a virtual notary that can check the validity of an unsigned security certificate. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Sign language over cell phones in the U.S.
- Thanks to University of Washington UW computer scientists, hearing-impaired users might soon be able to use sign language over a mobile phone, like in Japan or Sweden. The research team received a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to start a 20-person field project next year in Seattle. Of...
- Tags: Team, Professor, Phone, Cell Phone, Video, UW, MobileASL, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Google journeys to the center of the earth (well not quite) with latest alternative energy foray
- Apparently Google's philanthropic arm isn't content investing in just one source of alternative energy, which makes sense considering the geographic diversity of the planet we live on. The search and business applications giant last week said it will put up about $10.25 million toward energy technology called enhanced geothermal systems...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Google Inc., Geothermal Energy, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Office Ultimate 2007 for $16,014,000,000,000
- Seriously! A copy of Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for just over $16 quadrillion Zimbabwe dollars. Bargain! I know I sometimes bitch on about Microsoft as being as evil as an al-Qaeda suggestion box, but this time they've excelled themselves. I got a press-release through a couple of...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Office 2.0: 'Conversations' prevent IT failure
- Cultural issues are among the key drivers causing acute IT problems. Project failure rates remain high in large part because these drivers are difficult to identify and diagnose. Many organizations accept information silos as a cost of doing business, despite the clear negative impact of these boundaries...
- Tags: Information Technology, Project Failure, Office 2.0, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Gold nanoparticles purified air in old churches
- Chemists from Queensland University of Technology QUT, Australia, have found that the air in medieval European churches was purified by gold nanoparticles used to paint their stained glass windows. As said the team leader, 'glaziers in medieval forges were the first nanotechnologists.' [This is not completely true: nanocosmetics were used...
- Tags: Nanoparticle, Team Management, Nanotechnology, Management, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-23
- This week's rants
- This week's rantsYou've got it.I never tire of Robin Harris telling the world that MS has lost all their data...a classic. Even when he admits other filesystems are worse. Why then MS? Well they are the biggest and deserve to be blamed...so there..pouted Robin in reply to that question. ...
- Tags: Linux, Blogging, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Seinfeld
- Discussion threads 2008-08-23
- Big tech on campus
- CNET's Kara Tsuboi visits the University of California, Berkeley, to find out what gadgets students are craving at the start of their school year. CNET Reviews editors Bonnie Cha and Donald Bell also weigh in on their top cell phone, MP3, and laptop picks.
- Tags: CNET Networks Inc., Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, News, kara tsuboi, iphone, apple, mac book, ipod, school, berkeley, laptop, itunes, imac
- Videos 2008-08-22
- Virtual economies employ 400,000 people in 2008
- In 2008 the virtual game economy employs 400,000 people who earn an average of $145 per month, creating a global market worth about $500 mln, according to Professor Richard Heeks from the University of Manchester. 80% of virtual game workers are based in China. by AM
- Tags: Worker, Games, Personal Technology, AM
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- Virtual economies employ 400,000 people in 2008
- In 2008 the virtual game economy employs 400,000 people who earn an average of $145 per month, creating a global market worth about $500 mln, according to Professor Richard Heeks from the University of Manchester. 80% of virtual game workers are based in China. by AM
- Tags: Worker, Games, Personal Technology, AM
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- China cuts off iTunes, likely over 'Songs of Tibet'
- China cuts off iTunes, likely over 'Songs of Tibet'Learn from M$, Google and YahooThey cooperated with the local bully, they were allowed to run business over there. Don't p*ss of their government, that's the key in China. Yahoo went so far they handed in evidence to China government to help...
- Tags: Tibetan family, Han, census, Apple iTunes
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- Better networked soldiers
- The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA has recently given a US$500K award to a computer scientist of the Washington University in St. Louis WUSTL. His research project is called 'Revolutionizing Defense Communications with a Diversified Internet Infrastructure.' Crowley will design a new kind of network for the U.S....
- Tags: Network, DARPA, U.S. Department Of Defense, Computer, Productivity, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- Back to school special: Big thanks to our green tech kids
- I have no children so I really can't appreciate the end of August, when the parents I know count down the hours until their offspring heads back to the classroom. But I do remember mourning the bittersweet end of summer in the northeast, when crickets chirp of a summer evening...
- Tags: Green Technology, Canon Inc., Corporate Communications, Team Management, Marketing, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch?
- I walked into an AT&T Wireless store earlier today, eyed the iPhone and picked up some brochures on pricing plans. I've been thinking that the problems with the new iPhone can't last forever - and yet, here's another black eye for Apple and the iPhone. An Alabama woman has filed...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Pricing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality
- Guest editorial by Emma McGrattan In the current economic climate, businesses of every size are looking to reduce their spending wherever possible. Open source software, which has no upfront licensing fees, is one way of achieving significant savings. However, in order to protect their...
- Tags: Software, Security, Open Source, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Technology: where on the scale from cure to curse?
- I'm old enough to remember the many apocalyptic scenarios conjured up by nuclear weapons and the Cold War. From Alas, Babylon to "The Day After", from Godzilla himself, the second half of the Twentieth Century was repeatedly haunted by vivid imaginings of the post-nuclear world, or its ending....
- Tags: Bee, Clean Technology, NRDC, Purdue, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- 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
- WSUS users get a surprise: Windows 7 client
- WSUS users get a surprise: Windows 7 clientThis is the evidence that Windows 7 is the code name for Vista SP2if WSUS shown Windows7, this is the evidence that Windows 7 is the code name for Vista SP2, and so each Vista user will have it for free! Thank you...
- Tags: Blogging, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Microsoft Windows, blog, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
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