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Report Reveals Google's Strong Position vs. Facebook in Mobile App Wars
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Report Reveals Google's Strong Position vs. Facebook in Mobile App Wars

A new Appcelerator/IDC survey shows that mobile developers view Google and its broad range of assets as key to implementing their social strategies in 2012. The...

Brain Drain: Where Cobol Systems Go From Here
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Brain Drain: Where Cobol Systems Go From Here

A recent Computerworld survey of 357 IT professionals found that 46 percent of respondents are noticing a shortage of Cobol programmers, and 50 percent said the...

Student-Designed Robots Take on March Madness
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Student-Designed Robots Take on March Madness

Sixty-six national and international high school teams will take their robots to the courts this weekend to compete in the 21st season of the Los Angeles regional...

Computer System Predicts Kentucky to Win Ncaa Tournament
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Computer System Predicts Kentucky to Win Ncaa Tournament

Georgia Tech's Logistic Regression Markov Chain method has a history of accuracy as a predictor of the men's NCAA basketball tournament. It predicts this year's...

Computer Simulations Help Explain Why HIV Cure Remains Elusive
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Computer Simulations Help Explain Why HIV Cure Remains Elusive

Australian research scientist Jack da Silva used computer simulations to discover that a human immunodeficiency virus, even at an early phase of infection, evolves...

Berkeley Supports It Startups High Atop the Campus
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Berkeley Supports It Startups High Atop the Campus

High above the University of California, Berkeley campus, IT entrepreneurs are being given the opportunity to grow their startups in the four-month-old Skydeck...

Apple Pioneer Brings Emotion to Google+
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Apple Pioneer Brings Emotion to Google+

Andy Hertzfeld was ready to retire back in 2009, following a momentous 30-year plus career where he worked side by side with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak to design...

Hail to the Geeks
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Hail to the Geeks

Basketball dominates the American sports landscape in March. So perhaps it’s fitting that the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, held last week...

An App That Helps You Cozy ­p to Strangers
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An App That Helps You Cozy ­p to Strangers

Paul Davison is in a hurry. Not just to board the plane that's about to take him to his father's retirement party in San Diego, or to get through the talking points...

Two Asteroids Named After Unix Co-Creators
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Two Asteroids Named After Unix Co-Creators

Two small asteroids now bear the names of two towering figures in computing history, Unix inventors Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.

Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge
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Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge

The Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge, sponsored by DARPA and NASA, and run by the MIT Space Systems Laboratory, TopCoder, and Aurora Flight Sciences...

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Hackers Vie For More Than $1 Million to Take Down Browsers

As alleged hackers from LulzSec and Anonymous contemplate the possibility of a life behind bars, other hackers are limbering up in Canada this week to vie for more...

Silicon Valley's Humble Billionaire
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Silicon Valley's Humble Billionaire

It's a Saturday afternoon in Palo Alto, Calif., and there goes David Cheriton, navigating the Silicon Valley suburb's tony downtown on his bike.

Community College Scholars Selected to Design Rovers
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Community College Scholars Selected to Design Rovers

Community college students will have the chance to design robotic rovers in cooperation with NASA.

Dhs, Not Nsa, Should Lead Cybersecurity, Pentagon Official Says
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Dhs, Not Nsa, Should Lead Cybersecurity, Pentagon Official Says

In the midst of an ongoing turf battle over how big a role the National Security Agency should play in securing the nation’s critical infrastructure, a Defense...

Computer Software Responds to Students' Frustration and Boredom
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Computer Software Responds to Students' Frustration and Boredom

Computer software that models and responds to students' cognitive and emotional states — including frustration and boredom — has been developed by researchers from...

Windows Without Windows
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Windows Without Windows

Microsoft's new version of Windows is fantastic, jarring, and risky at the same time. Fantastic because it marks the clearest sign yet that Microsoft is embracing...

Google Web Grows in City
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Google Web Grows in City

Google Inc. has dramatically expanded its presence in Manhattan in the past year, adding roughly 750 people to its outpost in 2011 in the most prominent example...

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Pwnium: Rewards For Exploits

This year at the CanSecWest security conference, we will once again sponsor rewards for Google Chrome exploits. This complements and extends our Chromium Security...

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Garmin Finds a New Direction

In the pantheon of seemingly obsolete technologies, automobile navigation devices might seem ready to join laser discs and pagers.
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