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Long Tail Criticism Might Affect e-Business Strategies
The Long Tail theory embraced by online businesses has taken some recent criticism, raising questions about whether businesses should change their e-strategies.
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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 skip keyboards and mice and go straight to more intuitive and interactive…
Splitting Up 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 to researchers at Yahoo.
Currently, search engines are…
Futurists' Report Acknowledges Dangers of Smart Robots
A forthcoming report from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) will explore whether robots could eventually become so intelligent that they pose a threat to society. Although some researchers…
MU Research Leads to Improved Human, Object Detection Technology
University of Missouri researchers are developing software that would enable computers to search within videos and identify humans and specific objects, as well as perform other video analysis tasks. "The goal of our research…
Announced Initiatives to Bolster U.S. Science and Technology Collaboration With Muslim Communities
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recently announced new initiatives aimed at promoting science and technology collaboration with Muslim communities around the world. Clinton named Bruce Alberts, Elias Zerhouni,…
ACM Initiative Addresses Long-Term Preservation of Digital Library Content
ACM announced that it is providing institutional library customers with advanced electronic archiving services to help preserve their electronic resources. The services, which will be provided by Portico and CLOCKSS, address…
U.S. and Australia Dominate MAGIC Robot Competition Short List
The organizers of the Multi-Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge (MAGIC) have created a list of 12 teams and has asked them to develop their proposals. Ten teams will receive $50,000, and the remaining two teams…
$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 for handling huge amounts of research data from synchrotrons…
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 U.S. government's Data.gov, specifically its spreadsheets and…
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 premier collaboration tool.
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The second day of Informatics Education IV in Freiburg, Germany, focused on accreditation, expanding enrollments, student engagement, parellelism, and…Reading and Augmented Reality
An upcoming issue of Esquire plans to include a number of readable Q codes. So Engadget suggests that this is augmenting reality. It is augmenting reading…Strength in science collaboration
Rory Cellan-Jones of BBC News reports on how Google Wave is proving its worth in the scientific community, as one of the new collaboration tools which…Conferences & Events
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- VISIGRAPP 2010: International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Monday May 17, 2010 – Friday May 21, 2010; Angers …
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- C# Cookbook (2nd Edition) - Jay Hilyard, Stephen Teilhet
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- SUSE LINUX Security: SLES 9 - This course introduces the learner to various security-related aspects of SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 system administration. This course is designed for users who are …
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