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<item><title>Smart Monitors Benefit from RF Energy Harvesting </title>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:29:06 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[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.   -  Much has been made of the radio-frequency waves saturating every cubic inch of air in developed nations, and especially in metropolitan centers where television, AM, FM, cellular, WiFi, WiMax, Long-Term Evolution and scientific/medical sub-bands compete. One research group at the Georgia Institute o...]]></description>
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<item><title>Desktop Virtualization Growing to $5B by 2016</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 06:58:27 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[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.   -  Virtualization was perceived as useful, but expensive during the cost-cutting era before the recession began to fade circa 2009, when just $500 million was invested in it. During the recession, it was still cheaper to tether workers to their desks and force them to work with inexpensive generic PCs....]]></description>
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<item><title>Supercomputer Simulates Extreme Physics</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 06:19:50 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A powerful supercomputer code update will allow laboratories and universities a better understanding of high-energy density physics and provide insight into the basic properties of matter in extreme situations.   -  Computer simulations have grown more powerful lately, with
researchers using them to study everything from tsunamis
to border
control. Soon, researchers may be able to use supercomputers to simulate
complicated high-energy density physics (HEDP) experiments, according to
scientists at the Unive...]]></description>
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<item><title>Touch-Screen Musicians Jam in Virtual Band</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 08:50:31 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Smarter drummers have always made music by tapping their fingers against tabletops. Now musicians who play the bass, drums and keyboard are getting into the act with specialized apps for large, flat-panel touch screens.   -  Touch screens
as large as 46 inches are enabling musicians to tap out melody, bass and rhythm
on virtual instruments, then record the audio all without touching a mouse.
Once
hailed as a revolutionary advance in man-machine interfaces, the mouse is
starting to appear long-in-the-tooth when comp...]]></description>
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<item><title>Seeing Is Believing When Cloaks Disappear</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 08:50:29 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The world's first visible-light cloak recently converted nonbelievers by making a tiny object disappear Harry Potter style.   -  Transformational optics will enable a future where what you
see is not always what is really there, according to the Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, which recently pulled off the first disappearance act to cloak a
normal visible object.
Invisibility cloaks have been shown for infrared or
mic...]]></description>
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<item><title>Eternal Arigato, Mr. Roboto</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 15:45:47 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Humans and dancing robots trade places in a provocative new opera exploring immortality.   -  What happens when a crazy-rich entrepreneur named Simon Powers decides to transcend life and death by uploading himself personality, memory, feelings into super cool technology he invented called the  quot;System, quot; leaving robots to look after his legend, family and home? Can he persuade his wi...]]></description>
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<item><title>U.S. and China Leverage Official Apps</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:13:11 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The governments of the world are issuing smartphone and touch-screen tablet apps to stoke their public relations efforts, with recent new offerings from both the White House and Beijing.   -  Both the United
States and China have well-documented cyberspace attack strategies, but each is
also adding a carrot to their stick, by offering free downloadable apps for
iPhone, iPad and Android that portray a more flattering super-power profile.
The U.S.
Administration has had over 400,000 d...]]></description>
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<item><title>Micro-Camera Delivers Clear Picture at a Low Cost</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:56:12 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The device could transform health care, auto manufacturing and government.   -  A disposable camera the size of a grain
of salt soon could be as much a part of the operating room toolkit as the
traditional scalpel.
Called the NanEye, this tiny device
eventually could wend its way into cameras, traffic lights, military equipment
and a host of other items designed to protect...]]></description>
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<item><title>New Nanoparticle Rubber Stamp Technology May Mend Wounds</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:36:02 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A new approach to treating wounds relies on the application of small doses of silver administered via a rubber stamp.   -  Wounds on the skin may have met their match, as developers
put their stamp on a new technology that could serve as an antidote by speeding
up the healing process. The innovative idea takes an ultra-thin polymer antibacterial
coating infused with micrometer-size silver nanoparticles and delivers t...]]></description>
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<item><title>Smart Companies Improve Customer Service with Predictive Analytics </title>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:23:59 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[To address the more dynamic nature of doing business today, smart companies increasingly are turning to predictive analytics to spot market changes and identify potential problems and correct them before they impact the customer.   -  For
years, businesses have used historical trends to dictate how they operate. Most
use business intelligence to study customer trends and match their services to
these patterns. 
But
todays marketplace is much more dynamic than it has ever been. 
To
address the more dynamic nature of doing b...]]></description>
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<item><title>Smart Solar Growing Faster than Market</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:43:56 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In the rush to build manufacturing capacity for smarter solar power technologies, overcapacity is now predicted to drive prices down and pressure vendors toward mergers as market growth cools to sustainable rates.   -  As the
recession faded in 2010, pent up demand conspired with a rush to use
about-to-expire tax incentives, temporarily ballooning the solar panel market
and prompting a dozen Asian, European and U.S. competitors to expand
capacity in 2011. In the current quarter of 2011, photovoltaic equipment...]]></description>
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<item><title>Dial M for Money</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:06:01 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In Kenya, M-Pesa enables people to send and receive cash using a simple cell phone and text messages.   -  In America, people can use their cell phones to play games, watch videos and
take photos. In Kenya, people can use their cell phones to withdraw cash, send money, buy
goods and pay for a taxi ride. 
Mobile money has caught on big in Kenya, and it's
bringing a small revolution to everyday life in...]]></description>
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<item><title>Smarter Silicon Retina Aims to SeeBetter</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:10:30 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The European Union is aiming to revolutionize artificial vision for both man and machine with an imager that mimics the real-time spatial and temporal processing of biological retinas.   -  The E.U.
SeeBetter project combines the latest understanding of image processing in the
biological retina with semiconductors structures that realize the same
functions, enabling smarter imaging sensors that filter raw data with feature
detection.
Vision
sensors today are mainly just pixel arr...]]></description>
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<item><title>For 100 Years, IBM Patents Have Changed IT </title>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:26:17 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[IBM received its first patent in 1911. In the hundred years since, the patents consistently have been for inventions that translate into real-world (and smarter) solutions.   -  With
patent lawsuits constantly in the news, you know there's a
great deal at stake when a company files for and is granted a patent. 
IBM
certainly knows this. It has made the acquisition of patents an integral part
of the company's DNA. Quite interestingly, this year marks 100 years since its...]]></description>
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<item><title>How to Start a Business Analytics Effort</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:10:40 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Companies that use data analytics typically have more revenue growth and a higher return on capital investment. To overcome the obstacles to widespread analytics adoption, here are some steps your organization can take to realize these business benefits.   -  Top-performing
companies typically are the ones embracing data analytics.  According to an
IBM
study that surveyed 1,900 CFOs, analytics-driven organizations had 33
percent more revenue growth and 32 percent more return on capital investment. 
With
such significant benefits, it is not surprisi...]]></description>
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