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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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- Measuring the acceleration of the universe
- According to Theodor Hänsch, director at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics MPQ in Germany and one of the winners of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics, a 'laser frequency comb' can now be used as a basis for new astronomical instruments. Telescopes using this method, which could 'answer...
- Tags: Laser, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-06
- LHC scientists get death threats
- So it's come to this: Death threats against physicists. About what? The earth-destroying Large Hadron Collider, of course. Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University,...
- Tags: Black Hole, Physicist, Scientist, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Green tech reward program: Intel will recognize innovation that aids environmental cause
- I've had the pleasure of interviewing Intel Chairman Craig Barrett three times in my varied career, so I can say with authority that he is passionate about the environment. And about education. Then again, this is not surprising from technologist who also happens to be a Montana ranch owner. ...
- Tags: Innovation, Green Technology, Craig Barrett, Intel Corp., Registration Deadline, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- HP closes EDS purchase; Outlines services exec line-up
- HP on Tuesday said it completed its $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS and announced its management team for its services unit. With the EDS purchase, HP's services business will have annual revenue of more than $38 billion and 210,000 employees. Now the integration begins. HP CEO Mark...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Senior Vice President, Outsourcing, Data Centers, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- A (Microsoft) Codename a day: Rouge
- As I announced last week, I'm holding a short but sweet Microsoft codename contest this week, with the prize being a free signed copy of my Microsoft 2.0 book which I will ship anywhere in the world to the winner. Today's entry, based on one reader's submission, is "Rouge." by...
- Tags: Mobile, Codename, Microsoft Corp., Mobile Service, Pink, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Olympics set the stage for Web tech fight
- The summer Olympic games provided the first battleground for a war between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet's next big competition. SEATTLE--As the world's best athletes competed in Beijing, the summer Olympic games set the stage for a battle between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet's next big competition....
- Tags: Software, Developer, Adobe Systems Inc., Web, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Flash, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management, Reuters, Adobe, Microsoft, Silverlight, video
- News items 2008-08-25
- Get out the vote: American Express to fork over $2.5 million for "positive impact" idea
- The Members Project, organized by American Express, is running an online nomination and voting campaign aimed at funding ideas that will have a "positive impact" on the world. There are several different categories, including a bunch of projects focused on energy, green tech and alternative fuels. At this link, you'll...
- Tags: Idea, American Express Co., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-23
- 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
- News to know: IDF; Windows 7 wishes; IE 8; Salesforce.com
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centers Ed Bott: My Windows 7 wish list ...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Jason O'Grady, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Intel Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Submit your best, new Microsoft codenames. Win a prize
- Submit your best, new Microsoft codenames. Win a prizeWow...How exciting. Now let me start digging through my stuff...
- Tags: Microsoft Codenames, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Yahoo Buzz! opens up, let the gaming begin
- Buzz, Yahoo's social news site and "meme tracker", has opened its submission process so that any site on the Web can now be 'buzzed'. Prior to today, only select publishers were allowed into the program, with around 400 sites vying for the top prize of being featured on the Yahoo.com...
- Tags: Digg, Yahoo! Inc., Games, Personal Technology, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Submit your best, new Microsoft codenames. Win a prize
- As Labor Day approaches, it's pretty quiet out there on the Microsoft news front. So what better time to launch a contest? by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Codename, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Blogging, Online Communications, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Will we kill the ocean before the atmosphere kills us?
- The race is on. We humans are trashing large patches of the ocean, says an American researcher. Our cast-off, washed-away chemicals are creating oceanic dead zones. Latest dead zone discoveries have been in the more oceanic, less populated Southern Hemisphere. America's own prize dead...
- Tags: Ocean, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-16
- Wordcamp 2008
- In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...
- Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-16
- Unique corporate service relies on good human nature
- Last week I was on a call with Frank Hannigan, Managing Director of YouGetItBack.com, and quite possibly the best thing to come out of Ireland since Guinness. YouGetItBack is a lost and found company, the idea created in 2004, probably from a drunken...
- Tags: phone, mobile, service, yougetitback, o2 bluebook, advertising & promotion, marketing, zack whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- LinuxWorld video: Merrill Lynch moves to stateless computing
- LinuxWorld video: Merrill Lynch moves to stateless computingThis guy has been drinking too much clould computing Kool AidPutting your fate in someone else's hands is simply not a good idea. You may get away with doing so once or twice, but eventually you will get bitten very badly. As for...
- Tags: Corporate communications, NOW HERE, stateless computing, LinuxWorld, computing, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., video
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Master Poker (zip)
- Master Poker allows you to play Tournaments (up to 5k players), Sit and Go's, and Cash Games. More importantly for real poker players, it possesses intelligent, creative, dynamic computer players devoid of recognizable playing patterns. MP's large feature list includes such things as automatic user preference tracking, game saves, personal...
- Tags: Player, Computer, Computer Opponents Software, MP, Productivity, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-08-01
- Microsoft's road to the cloud is paved with parallelism
- Microsoft's road to the cloud is paved with parallelismMore InvestmentTwo words. How long? This new commitment is certainly a good direction, but it's hard to see it as leadership at this late stage. The move into parallelism is a great equalizer. The laws of diminishing returns are applied across the...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Games, Game players, parallelism, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-31
- Changing university education, one Nobel laureate at a time
- Carl Weiman, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics is obviously in a position to give some serious thought to how we teach science at the university level. He has posted a couple of very interesting blogs on the topic, most recently writing about his vision for an...
- Tags: Education, Student, Outcome, Strategy, Blogging, Management, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
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