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Virtual Reality Meets the Office
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Google Explores 'eyes-Free' Phones
The screens on many mobile phones can leave a user feeling distinctly vision impaired, especially if her attention is divided between tapping virtual buttons and...
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Eu Project Evaluates Nomadic Device Benefits For Drivers
Swedish Research CouncilParticipants in the European Union (EU) project TeleFOT recently met at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, to assess...
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Iphone The Work Tool For Sustainable Factories of the Future
The European Union-backed MyCar project is a collaborative effort involving Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology and the Volvo Group that is developing manufacturing...
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Personal Discrimination on the Web
Researchers in India and Japan say they have discovered an automatic way of differentiating between Web sites that express personal opinions and corporate marketing...
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Craigslist Founder to Keynote Computer Policy Conference
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark will give the keynote address at ACM's 2009 Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP), which takes place from June 1-4...
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Computex to Present Design Awards
Computex Taipei will present awards in five different categories on Monday (June 1) to top international innovators and designers in the field of information technology...
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New Memory Material May Hold Data For One Billion Years
Alex Zettl and colleagues say enclosing an iron nanoparticle in a hollow carbon nanotube could serve as the foundation for a memory material for the next generation...
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Hi-Tech Aims to Improve Lifestyle
A three-year project is exploring how people react and behave when information on their energy use and activity levels are presented to them through mobile phones...
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Online Life Can Be Convenient as Well as Dangerous
The rapid growth of technology and the cyberworld has made today's youth excellent technological multitaskers, and created entirely online businesses, but cyberspace...
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Viral Epidemics Poised to Go Mobile
A research team led by Northeastern University Center for Complex Network Research director Albert-Laszlo Barabasi set out to investigate why smartphone and mobile...
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Mobile Services Made Simple
European researchers believe they have achieved what has remained an almost impossible dream in the wireless world: powerful mobile services that work simply, seamlessly...
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Obama Set to Create a Cybersecurity Czar With Broad Mandate
U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to announce that he will create a cyberczar position, adding a senior White House official who will have broad authority...
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Every Move You Make: Smart Phone App Helps Burn Calories
Thanks to a University of Houston professor, the iPhone can now count how many calories you've burned in a given day. A new, free download called Walk n' Play is...
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It's Not Just Tv Anymore: The Promises and Perils of Children's Technological Environments
Today's children are coming of age immersed in video gaming, Web browsing, and instant messaging. Many have cell phones, laptops, and hand-held video games. Others...
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Classroom Computers Boost Face-to-Face Learning
A European Union-funded research initiative called LEAD is using computers to enhance collaborative, face-to-face learning and problem solving. The research demonstrates...
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Wisconsin tility Testing Online Energy Monitors
A Wisconsin utility is joining an energy-efficiency initiative that allows customers to monitor their home's power use online, through an iGoogle gadget. Google's...
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Boost For Future Broadband Speeds
Building the pieces of future ultra-fast broadband networks is the focus of a new initiative of the U.K. government. Local firms have received approximately 1...
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New Wave of Apps Build 'where' Into the Web
You just landed in Seattle for a meeting later this afternoon. But first, you've got to pick up your rental car, grab a hot cup of coffee and probably spend a fair...
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Technology to 'watch Over' Vulnerable Road Users
The European WATCH-OVER Project has developed a system capable of monitoring vulnerable road users (VRUs) that features a pre-crash system and a warning system....
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