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There's No Business Like Grid Business
Scientists have embraced the computing and communications grid, but businesses have held back, concerned about complexity and security. Now a European research...
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Intuitive Semantic Internet Would Know What Is Said
The push to develop the Semantic Web recently received fresh support through a National Science Foundation grant, which has been awarded to researchers at Rensselaer...
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Spdy: An Experimental Protocol For a Faster Web
As part of the "Let's make the web faster" initiative, we are experimenting with alternative protocols to help reduce the latency of web pages. One of these experiments...
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Theme-Park Dummy Trick Becomes Teleconference Tool
A trick used in theme-park animatronics could help people act more naturally during videoconferences. Shader lamps is a technique that projects an animated face...
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Digital Cloud Plan For City Skies
A giant "digital cloud" that would "float" above London's skyline has been outlined by an international team of architects, artists and engineers. The construction...
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Wi-Fi Certification Might Be Tweaked For Smart Grids
The Wi-Fi Alliance has formed a task group to determine what standards need to be modified to ensure Wi-Fi is the tool of choice for smart-grid applications. The...
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Social Tags Complement the Learning Resource Metadata, Researcher Finds
Social tagging can help people find educational resources in digital repositories that are filled with millions of learning materials, says Open University of the...
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Now We Know Where We Stand, and It's About Time
America has seen its last Lost Generation. Thanks to an invisible armada of incessantly broadcasting satellites, collectively called the Global Positioning System...
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Grant Will Improve Mobile Device, Cellular Network Security
Smart phones have become indispensable to today's highly mobile workforce and tech-savvy youngsters, but they pose new security and privacy risks. Two assistant...
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nlimited Compute Capacity Coming, IBM Says
IBM Canada Lab director Martin Wildberger predicts that unlimited computing capacity will become a reality in the near future, putting the power of modern mainframes...
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Splitting p Search
Researchers at Yahoo!'s Labs in Barcelona, Spain, have developed a distributed search approach that spreads the search index and additional data out over a larger...
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Adding a Sixth Sense to Your Cellphone
Many Indians bought their first mobile phones before they had their first experiences with personal computers. Pranav Mistry thinks that most of them might also...
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Splitting p Search
Searching the Web could become faster for users and much more efficient for search companies if search engines were split up and distributed around the world, according...
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$1.2M Project Speeds Research Data Processing
Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network has provided $1.2 million to researchers at the University of Western Ontario to develop a new high-speed network...
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Tim Berners-Lee: Machine-Readable Web Still a Ways Off
World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee says the machine-readable Web is still a ways off and faces numerous obstacles. He says recent initiatives such as the...
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Online Collaboration With Built-In Clarity
Software packages that interoperate while providing online users with an overview of their colleagues' work may finally lessen the dominance of email as the world's...
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AI Spacesuits Turn Astronauts Into Cyborg Biologists
Wired NewsA research team led by University of Chicago geoscientist Patrick McGuire has successfully tested a feature-identifying system that could one day be used...
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New Keys for the Diffusion of Information in Social Networks
Information in social networks travels at an unexpectedly slow pace over the Internet with the exception of a few mass events, according to a study by researchers...
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Endowment Fund to Support Ict Research
Australia will continue to serve as a hub for research into wireless technologies as a result of new funding from the Science and Industry Endowment Fund, announced...
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