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Zapped to glory: CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos takes a ride with the Compex Sport, which electrically stimulates nerves to build muscles. It's an efficient, legal, and very painful way to beef up athletic performance.; Tags: News.com, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Michael Kanellos, sports, compex sport, muscles, athletics, performance; Videos 2008-01-16

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How dangerous is computing to your health?: How dangerous is computing to your health?...Eat healthy, exercise often, and take time off to disconnect. Simple rules to live by! ]:)Back problemsSeveral years ago I felt like there was a knife in my back. It kept getting worse so I visited a chiropractor. As soon as I told him...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Vertical industries, computer, computing, health care, Preventive Medicine; Discussion threads 2008-05-05
3DVirtual Human Anatomy Studio (exe): What is 3D Virtual Human Anatomy Studio. Highly detailed and accurate 3D Virtual human anatomy reference application .Reveal both superficial and deep muscles, tendons and bones. Perfect for learning and teaching for all levels. Why 3D Virtual Human Anatomy Studio. Save you time and effort from confusing carts, expensive books,...; Tags: 3D, CloudStars; Software downloads 2008-04-29
New protective cups for sportsmen: As Popular Science reports in 'The Cup Stops Here,' 'the most important piece of male athletic gear, the protective cup, hasn't changed much over the years.' After looking at a bunch of protective cups available from $8 to $25, the reporter thinks he has found the winner. The NuttyBuddy™ has...; Tags: Patent, Player, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-04-24
A 100-million-year dragon killer: Komodo dragons are one of the largest living species of lizards, growing to a length of up to 3 meters and weighing around 70 kilograms. They're living on several central Indonesian islands for more than 100 million years. Why are they still alive? According to an international team of researchers,...; Tags: Researcher, Species, Komodo, UNSW, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-04-15

BEA, Adobe flex their muscles in pushing toward RIAs on the enterprise desktop: BEA, Adobe flex their muscles in pushing toward RIAs on the enterprise desktopNo one needs RIA standards!I agree on RIA being a key for application delivery in the future.But no one needs standards for that. What for? Standards are too slow and prohibit innovation.If you are looking for professional business...; Tags: rich Internet application, Adobe Systems Inc., BEA Systems Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-03-23
This robot snake wants to dance with you: According to a short article in The Engineer Online, a two-meter high robotic snake will be shown in April 2008 at the London Science Museum. This vertical snake has been designed as an interactive sculpture. It uses sensors to react to what are doing its viewers and 'dances' with them....; Tags: Intention, Robotics, Sensor, World First, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-02-02
Harvesting data from children with cuddly creatures and cutesy keyboards: And you thought Beacon is (was) creepy. Yesterday I had my first experience at a Build-A-Bear Workshop store. Build-A-Bear, if you're not familiar with it, is a publicly traded company headquartered in St. Louis, MO, with some 350 retail outlets worldwide. ...; Tags: Kid, Keyboards, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Peripherals, Denise Howell; Blog posts 2008-01-21
StepEditor (jar): StepEditor can be used for writing digital books, organize "stuff", create tree data structures and family trees, and it can be used for online documentation(once Step Reader is completed). In terms of reader, Step is an alternative to PDF, Word Documents and HTML documents. Like some magic book, a page...; Tags: Eye, Adobe PDF, HTML Document, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; Software downloads 2008-01-10
Microsoft restores Office 2003 users' access to old file types: Microsoft restores Office 2003 users' access to old file typesWhat was the specific update giving you trouble?What version of the OS are you using? IE 5 is pretty old. It shipped with Windows 2000.Another Microsoft Problem: faulty IE6 updateI'm not surprised to read this after what happened to me. When...; Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5; Discussion threads 2008-01-06
Becoming cyborg: Beware inequalities ahead: For the past couple of months I have been exploring a different kind of technology, the biological ones. You see, I need a new neck. Most of the big news in medical technology seems these days to revolve around genetic discoveries. Nevertheless, the first kind of...; Tags: Insurance Company, Disc, Fusion, Surgery, Mitch Ratcliffe; Blog posts 2008-01-03
iTunes 8 needs subscriptions and rentals: iTunes 8 needs subscriptions and rentalsRE: iTunes 8 needs subscriptions and rentalsI'd settle for an iTunes client for my Windows Mobile 6 phone.1 outta 3 ain't bad...in MLB..."Open it up" is the only one of the three that I can see. Spare me the "kids can't afford 0.99 per...; Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Digital rights management (DRM), I-Tunes, Apple iTunes, iTunes 8, rental, digital-rights management, music; Discussion threads 2007-12-05
Building PCs vs. buying: Flex those geek muscles: Building PCs vs. buying: Flex those geek musclesAlways funNot counting my old Apple IIs and my first couple 286 and 386 machines (and of course laptops) I've usually built my own systems for personal use. It appeals to my need to tinker (much the same way some guys love...; Tags: Desktops, Building PC, PC; Discussion threads 2007-11-27
Building PCs vs. buying: Flex those geek muscles: There are geeks. And then there are geek's geeks. George Ou falls in the latter category. For someone who just has worked himself up to the point where he isn't handy--up from ridiculously incompetent--I can't help but marvel at George's weekend projects. His latest build it yourself feature...; Tags: PC, Geek, George, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-11-27
PS3 gamers are real world heroes: Quick, are gamers socially impaired, violence prone losers or technically hip, socially conscious good guys? The numbers don't lie: Sony Playstation3 participation is 30x that of Windows machines in Stanford's disease fighting Folding@home project. And PS3s provide 80% of the TFLOPS this project uses. ...; Tags: DNA, Protein, Sony PlayStation 3, Gamer, Microsoft Windows, Games, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2007-11-05
SCO, it was good to know ya... you coulda been so much more: I read with interest this morning a story in ComputerWorld (more like an obituary) about how SCO said in its most recent SEC filing that there is "substantial doubt" that it will survive. In addition to the meltdown of its lawsuit against IBM, the filing cites its depleted cash...; Tags: Banyan Systems, SCO Group Inc., Open Source, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-09-19
SAP's slow hand A1S play: Late yesterday, Henning Kagermann, CEO of SAP hosted Zoli Erdos, James Governor, Prashanth Rai, Charlie Wood, Jason Wood and myself for a pre-launch discussion about A1S. During the meeting, Kagermann emphasized the company's cautious approach to the SaaS market. On the one hand, SAP is readying itself for a volume...; Tags: Transformation, SAP AG, A1S, Zoli, Roi/Tco, Business Structures, Software As A Service (SaaS), Outsourcing, Web 2.0, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Emerging Technologies, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Internet, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2007-09-19
EU emboldened; Who's next on the hit list?: Now that European regulators got their big victory over Microsoft attention should turn to who's next on their hit list. The EU case against Microsoft market position and anticompetitive behavior boiled down to two items: The ability of Microsoft to bundle its media...; Tags: Brad Smith, Red Hat Inc., Market Share, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Court, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-09-17
BEA, Adobe flex their muscles in pushing toward RIAs on the enterprise desktop: BEA Systems Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc. are teaming up to give enterprise customers a design environment for rich Internet application (RIA) development. The two companies announced Tuesday that BEA will bundle Adobe's Flex Builder 2 software with BEA Workshop Studio. This move will let developers build cross-platform RIAs that...; Tags: Desktop, Adobe Systems Inc., BEA Systems Inc., Rich Internet Application, Genesis, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Software, Middleware, Web Services, Software, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2007-09-12
News to know: Building PCs; Jotspot; Windows Live; iPhone skins: Notable headlines: Garett Rogers: Get ready for JotSpot in Google Docs. Techmeme discussion. Hidden flight simulator application in Google Earth. Robin Harris: Build a $2,500 supercomputer. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Quad-core PC project - Update on the Asus Striker Extreme motherboard. The parts list. Weekend Project...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, PC, Quad-core, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, JotSpot, Cell; Blog posts 2007-09-04