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  Smart Monitors Benefit from RF Energy Harvesting

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 07-13-11 |

  Radio-frequency energy from television, AM, FM, cellular, WiFi, WiMax, Long-Term Evolution and more can now be harvested to power smarter electronic devices for security, environmental sensing, structural monitoring (bridges/buildings), food spoilage and wearable bio-monitoring devices.
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  Apple Spin-Off Hosts Enterprise App Stores

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 07-13-11 |

  Since Apple announced its over-the-air protocol last year, enterprises from Cisco to Procter & Gamble have quietly opened their own private-label app stores, with the help of behind-the-scenes Apple spin-off Apperian.
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  Desktop Virtualization Growing to $5B by 2016

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 07-12-11 |

  Virtualization will seep into every aspect of business computing over the next five years, growing tenfold as recession cost-cutting fades and mobilization of the workforces increase.
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  Coming to a Desktop Near You: Virtualization

  Michael Krieger | Date: 07-11-11 |

  Will desktop computers become an IT endangered species in 2011?
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  Smart Cities Investments to Skyrocket

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 07-11-11 |

  A new study on the growth of smart cities estimates that investments will increase fivefold over the next five years.
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  Eight Touch-Screen Gestures That Increase Comprehension

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 07-08-11 |

  In the age of information overload, business agility requires optimal knowledge-acquisition techniques that psychologists call "active learning." These eight touch-screen gestures optimize active-learning techniques for electronic media and will be available in an app this fall.
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  A Glimpse of Future Health Care Apps and Devices

  Salvatore Salamone | Date: 07-07-11 |

  A recent study has identified a new class of health app and device users. Dubbed information seekers, this currently underserved group will want some measure of control over a potentially serious health risk or a condition that is difficult to manage.
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  Smarter Phase Change Memory Beats Flash

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 07-06-11 |

  Using a variety of solid-state memory technologies, IBM Research recently demonstrated a flash substitute that is 100 times faster and will last 3,000 times longer than the flash memory, which has replaced hard disks in everything from smartphones and touch-screen tablets to high-end enterprise servers and cloud-based data centers.
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  CIOs Say Business Analytics Is Driving Growth

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 07-06-11 |

  A CIO survey reveals that harnessing business intelligence and analytics is by far the CIO's top priority for increasing competitiveness over the next three to five years.
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  XBRL and Risk Reporting: Part 2

  John Jainschigg | Date: 07-01-11 |

  The backstory on XBRL is that its adoption is due to a multi-year development and testing effort by several groups.
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  Smartphone Materials Inspire Kyoto Prize Laureate

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 06-29-11 |

  National Institute of Technology materials scientist John Cahn was recently awarded the 27th annual Kyoto Prize for lifetime achievement in advanced technology.
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  XBRL and Risk Reporting: Part 1

  John Jainschigg | Date: 06-29-11 |

  The dual purpose of XBRL is to make complex financial statements machine-readable, while also providing a transparent, public and standardized framework-of-frameworks for encoding their semantics.
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