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Teens Getting Creative With Web 2.0 Tools
A pilot study shows that teens were able to use Web 2.0 technological tools in new and innovative ways to connect with each other—ways that the tools' creators...
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Japan's Ipad Frenzy Signals a Sea Change
The debut of Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet computer in Japan is generating a level of hype and excitement rarely seen these days for a new electronics product in the...
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Apple Passes Microsoft as No. 1 in Tech
Wall Street has called the end of an era and the beginning of the next one: The most important technology product no longer sits on your desk but rather fits in...
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Mine Your Business
Researchers are developing new techniques to gauge employee productivity from information flow.
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Beyond the Smart Grid
The electrical grid isn't the only utility acquiring intelligence, as water and gas meters throughout the U...
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Straightening Out Heavy Tails
A better understanding of heavy-tailed probability distributions can improve activities from Internet commerce to the design of server farms.
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Idea Man of Limewire at a Crossroads
Mark Gorton is a confident guy. He’s confident about his ideas. He’s confident about his enthusiasms. And he’s confident that his successes--like making money on...
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Software Tool Helps Tap Into The Power Of Graphics Processing
A research team from North Carolina State University has developed software that could make it easier for traditional software programs to take advantage of powerful...
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New Platform Creates Shortcut For Field Data Analysis
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed the Knowledge Acquisition Ubiquitous Agent Infrastructure, a framework for gathering and analyzing data...
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Technology Linked to Happiness, Study Claims
A recent Chartered Institute for IT worldwide survey found there are positive links between access to technology and feelings of well-being. Access to communication...
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Evolution of Large-Scale Social Networks Focus of MSU Study
A team from Michigan State University will study how large-scale social networks such as YouTube and Wikipedia change as users come and go over time in order to...
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Concerns as Sixth Foxconn Worker Commits Suicide
Foxconn Technology, the world's biggest contract maker of electronics, has been forced to answer allegations about the welfare of employees in China after its...
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New Mathematical Method May Help Tame Big Data
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill mathematicians and colleagues have developed a new technique for examining networks to help identify patterns and see...
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Interface Expert Knocks Ipad Apps For Inconsistent Usability
The iPad has been hailed as an interface triumph. But one usability expert has published an exhaustive critique of the iPad, taking it to task for the inconsistency...
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A 3-D Environment Model Enhances Collaboration During Learning
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid researchers have developed a model for three-dimensional virtual learning environments using an autonomous virtual tutor that...
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Computer Pioneer Palevsky Was Wary of Google, Games, Pcs
Max Palevsky, the computer industry pioneer and early investor in Intel who died at age 85 last week, had, ironically, a fairly well-documented skepticism of...
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Computer Program Turns Complex Data Into Brilliant Images
University of Utah scientists Jens Krueger and Tom Fogal have developed ImageVis3D, a 3-D imaging program that converts complex data into colorful pictures that...
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Georgia Tech Students Sweep Health It Coding Challenge
In a competition to make health data for doctors who are on call more effective, a team of Georgia Tech College of Computing graduate students finished first, second...
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Computer Science Shows How 'twitter-Bombs' Wield Influence
Wellesley College computer science professor P. Takis Metaxas says "Twitter bombs"—sending many Tweets from a large number of Twitter accounts within a short...
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