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How .s. Lost Out on Iphone Work
When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley's top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.
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Engage: Apple's New Tools For Interactive Books on Ipad
Engagement is a big word in education. It combines both objective participation and subjective emotion. It's one of the few psychological terms in education that...
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U.s. Losing High-Tech Jobs, R&d Dominance to Asia
U.S. companies are locating more of their research and development operations overseas, and Asian countries are rapidly increasing investments in their own science...
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Project Dreamcatcher
How cutting-edge text analytics can help the Obama campaign determine voters' hopes and fears.
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Apple Makes Push Into Ipad Textbooks
Apple Inc. on Thursday introduced tools designed to spur the development of textbooks and other classroom materials for devices like the iPad, in the company's...
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The Opposite of Evil: Google Named Best Place to Work in America
Google has a new weapon in the intense war for engineering talent in Silicon Valley: The search giant on Thursday was named by Fortune magazine as the best place...
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.s. Loses High-Tech Jobs as R&d Shifts Toward Asia
The U.S. is losing high-tech jobs as American companies expand their research and development (R&D) labs in Asia, according to the U.S. National Science Board....
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Scratching Your Head Over Sopa?
As Wikipedia and other Websites go dark Wednesday in what backers are calling the largest Internet protest ever, the epic battle between Silicon Valley and Hollywood...
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Sopa: Sites Go Dark As Part of Anti-Piracy Law Protests
Thousands of Internet sites are taking part in a "blackout" protest against anti-piracy laws being discussed by U.S. lawmakers.
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Nyc to Open Its First Software Engineering High School
New York City is taking another step toward becoming Silicon Alley—the East Coast’s own tech hub—with the grand opening of the city's first software engineering...
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Making It in America
In the past decade, the flow of goods emerging from U.S. factories has risen by about a third. Factory employment has fallen by roughly the same fraction.
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Steve Ballmer Reboots
They had his dining room waiting. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive and one of the richest men in the world, often eats privately at a Bellevue (Wash.)...
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Google's Data Center Engineer Shares Secrets of 'warehouse' Computing
Luiz André Barroso doesn't see Google's data centers as data centers. He sees them as computers the size of warehouses.
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Patent Grants Hit All-Time High in 2011; Ibm Leads the Way
Patents were a hot-button issue in 2011, so there's no wonder so many companies were filling their portfolios with new intellectual property all year.
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The Search For the Right Candidate Just Got More Personal
The 2012 presidential campaign is about to get a lot more personal, at least if Google has any say in it.
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Almost 1 In 3 U.s. Warplanes Is a Robot
Remember when the military actually put human beings in the cockpits of its planes?
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NASA: Prize Money a Bargain for Better Software
Researchers at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Harvard Business School in 2010 launched the NASA Tournament Lab, an online platform...
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Intel Unveils New Chips For Smartphones and Tablets
Intel's chips have dominated the PC era, but when it comes to post-PC devices, such as smartphones and tablets, the company is less than an also-ran.
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The Critics Rave... For Microsoft?
"Gorgeous," raves The Huffington Post. "Best-looking smartphone operating system in the industry," gushes Slate. "Far superior to most if not all the Android...
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