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  SMB BI Adoption Grows, Shifts to Cloud

  Salvatore Salamone | Date: 02-22-12 |

  A new survey finds that BI use by SMBs is on the rise. And increasingly, companies are shifting their BI efforts from spreadsheets to cloud-based services.
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  Video Processors Aim for Cancer Cure

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 02-20-12 |

  Researchers are repurposing the graphics processing units (GPUs) that power video gaming consoles for ultra-detailed simulations of how cancer cells reproduce, unlocking new protein folding techniques that could lead to a cure.
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  Battling Non-communicable Diseases with Smart Technology

  Salvatore Salamone | Date: 02-13-12 |

  A social-media enabled support system for pregnant women with gestational diabetes and an advanced smart-phone service were the winning entries in an IBM and Novartis-sponsored contest to developed new solutions to help manage the growing global problem of non-communicable diseases such as asthma, diabetes, stroke and cancer.
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  People's Oscars Gauge Public Sentiment

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 02-10-12 |

  The People's Oscars project intends to demonstrate that business analytics and natural language software can be successfully used to understand, respond, and predict public sentiment in Academy Awards winners, sports events, retailing trends, and journalist media.
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  Smarter Cameras Plumb Composition

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 02-08-12 |

  A rose is a rose if its red and round, but smarter cameras can now tell the difference between a real rose and a silk rose using chemical composition analytics.
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  Smarter Net Boosts Tough Apps

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 02-07-12 |

  Compute-intensive applications executing on-the-fly processing of network data are turning to a new genre of accelerator that harnesses field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
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  Bionic Man Says: Better than Original

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 02-06-12 |

  The teenage fisherman who made national headlines when a shark attacked him in shallow water back in 2005, now claims his new smart prosthetic leg is better than the original.
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  10 Best Fitness Apps: Part 2

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 02-02-12 |

  Building on yesterday’s article, here are the best fitness apps that include analytics and social media integration.
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  10 Best Fitness Apps Revealed

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 02-01-12 |

  Want to get fit? Of course, there’s an app for that. An expert in fitness training video courses picks the 10 best apps for exercise and nutrition from among the thousands of offerings.
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  In-Memory Computing Is Big Data's Best Friend, at Least for Some Enterprises

  Judy Hogan | Date: 01-30-12 |

  While in-memory technology makes analysis faster all around, it's an expensive proposition.
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  Delivering Business Value With Workload-Optimized Systems

  Michael Steinhart | Date: 01-27-12 |

  x86 servers are good for general-purpose applications like email and file storage, but higher-powered servers with multicore processors and large memory capacities can turbocharge database and transactional applications while maximizing utilization.
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  A Retailer Learns Data Is Just Data Without Analytics

  Judy Hogan | Date: 01-27-12 |

  Collecting data is a great thing, but if you can’t parse it for business-strategy needs, it’s a useless effort.
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