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John Sculley: The Secrets of Steve Jobs' Success
In 1983, Steve Jobs wooed Pepsi executive John Sculley to Apple with one of the most famous lines in business: "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling...
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Cell Phone Is 'gadget of Choice' For Americans
U.S. consumers crave their gadgets, but the cell phone rules them all, according to a new Pew Internet study.
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Scvngr's Hunt: Retailers Who See Dollars in Game Dynamics
Can location-based games for smart phones boost foot traffic at stores?
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For Baseball Archivists, a Tag Ends Every Play
Most baseball fans saw it as a dribbler in front of the plate, a throw to first and the completion of a no-hitter for Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay...
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Tech Solutions Start With Pattern Recognition
University at Buffalo computer scientist Venu Govindaraju believes that CAPTCHAs, the annoying computer-based attempts to confirm that you are human, have a decidedly...
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Cellphones Reveal Emerging Disease Outbreaks
Your cellphone could be a key tool in the fight against disease by relaying a telltale signature of illness to doctors and agencies monitoring new outbreaks.
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Foot-Operated Computer Mouse Invented
Several students from the Nanjing University of Science and Technology have invented a computer mouse that people can control with their feet. Called the "Talang"...
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'scrapers' Dig Deep For Data on Web
At 1 a.m. on May 7, the website PatientsLikeMe.com noticed suspicious activity on its "Mood" discussion board. There, people exchange highly personal stories...
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Babies Treat 'social Robots' as Sentient Beings
University of Washington researchers report that babies who watched a robot interact socially with people were more willing to learn from the robot than babies...
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Call to Define Rules of Cyber War
Nations need to define the rules of engagement for acts of cyber terror.
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Air Force Office of Scientific Research Funds Computer sability Laboratory
Hamilton College computer science professor Stuart Hirshfield has received a $458,900 grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research to establish the...
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Improving Phones Through Surveillance
Apps that track how people use their phones could help make the devices more efficient.
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Robot Arm Punches Human to Obey Asimov's Rules
Isaac Asimov would probably have been horrified at the experiments under way in a robotics lab in Slovenia. There, a powerful robot has been hitting people over...
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Eerie Female Robot Learns to 'sing' By Copying Human Singer
The life-sized humanoid robot known as HRP-4 has been taught to sing using synthesized voice technology. The robot is also able to mimic the expressions of a human...
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New Advances in ICT Research for Autonomy and Social Inclusion
The Barcelona Digital Technology Center has developed a human computer interface made with brain-computer interface sensors designed to help improve the quality...
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Google to Map Inflation Using Web Data
Google is using its vast database of web shopping data to construct the "Google Price Index"—a daily measure of inflation that could one day provide an alternative...
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Intel Tries Anonymity, For a Change
An average laptop contains about 1,800 components, but only one garners much brand awareness from typical consumers: the chip made by Intel.
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Microsoft Fixes Record 49 Holes, Including Stuxnet Flaw
In a record Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released updates today for Windows, Internet Explorer, and the .NET framework that feature fixes for 49 holes, including...
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Researcher Finds Top Reasons for Facebook Unfriending
University of Colorado Denver's Christopher Sibona surveyed more than 1,500 Facebook users on Twitter and found that the number one reason for unfriending is frequent...
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