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<item><title>Apple Spin-Off Hosts Enterprise App Stores</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:25:47 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Since Apple announced its over-the-air protocol last year, enterprises from Cisco to Procter &amp; Gamble have quietly opened their own private-label app stores, with the help of behind-the-scenes Apple spin-off Apperian.   -  Apple's over-the-air protocol enables any enterprise to bypass iTunes and create its own private-label application store, with complete IT control of provisioning, with Apple spin-off Apperian Inc. providing the necessary cloud-based hosting services.
Apperian was spun off with Apple's blessing by ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Paper Smartphones Use Bending Gestures</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 07:40:31 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If that smartphone or touch-screen tablet is starting to feel heavy after holding it in mid-air for a few minutes, then help is on the way. New &quot;paper&quot; smartphones and tablets will use flexible plastic displays and electronics light enough to wear.   -  Most of the weight of mobile devices comes from the metal
inside, where copper conductors shuttle around the electrons that make your
smartphone or touch-screen tablet work. However, by switching from stiff-metal
to flexible-plastic conductors, the mobile devices of the future will be
feather-li...]]></description>
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<item><title>Smarter Enterprises Measure Brand Appeal</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 06:40:52 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Recall Apple's &quot;I'm a Mac&quot; versus &quot;I'm a PC&quot; campaign? Apple, like every other enterprise, wants to establish its &quot;brand&quot; as desirable to consumers, and now there's a better way to measure it, according to university researchers.   -  Focus-group
raves and rip-roaring sales have been the best ways to measure a brand's
appeal, but now researchers at North Carolina State University claim to have a
better method to calibrate branding.
Each
enterprise seeks to establish a brand  quot;personality quot; that reflects its
goals an...]]></description>
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<item><title>James Webb Space Telescope Smarter Than Hubble</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 08:16:58 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The stunning images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope will be like sketches compared with improved images to be delivered by the James Webb Space Telescope, the worlds next-generation space observatory.   -  The James
Webb Space Telescope will outperform the Hubble's single mirror by focusing the
light from 18 separate mirrors onto a single sensor, enabling ultra-high-resolution
observation of the most distant objects in the universe. 
The main
scientific goal of the James Webb Space Telescope will...]]></description>
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<item><title>Small Businesses Turn Attention to Growth, Not Survival</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 06:58:49 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As the economy improves, SMBs plan to hire, invest in technology, and expand product and service offerings.   -  For the
first time in five years, small businesses are switching to growth not
survival mode, investing in technology, new employees, and more product and
service offerings.
Since
2006, smaller companies have cited survival as their top priority, according to
the American Express OPEN Small Bu...]]></description>
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<item><title>Smart Appliances Hook to Smart Grid</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 07:29:56 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One appliance manufacturer has announced a yearlong rollout for its new line of smart appliances, each with touch-screen apps and remote access from smartphones and touch-screen tablets.   -  One
appliance manufacturer, LG, is pioneering smart-grid-ready appliances with new
models slated to roll out in nearly every month of this year. First in the line
will be a smart refrigerator whose integrated touch screen and remote access
capability reveal what food items are inside, their expi...]]></description>
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<item><title>Media Multitasking Now the Norm, Highly Distracting</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 07:16:38 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Researchers have proven what many parents of teenagers already suspected media multitasking is distracting and detrimental. According to a new study, users of two or more devices kept their eyes on a screen for just a few seconds before switching. The studys results have broad implications for marketers.   -  If
youre like most people in the IT industry, youre used to scrolling through
your email on your computer while tapping out a message on your mobile phone,
probably with the television on in the background. While this system might seem
to work, a new study has shown that users who multitask betw...]]></description>
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<item><title>Collaborative Project Brings IT Skills to MBA Students</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 08:45:17 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[IBM and Yale Business School team up to bring high-tech analytics skills to MBA students. As part of the effort, the students will learn how to manage Web-based customer opinions about businesses.   -  Although more organizations are using tools like mobile
devices and social media, traditional business training often ignores these
types of technology. Now, Yale Business School is teaming up with IBM to
provide analytics and training resources about new technologies for MBA
students.
Social m...]]></description>
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<item><title>Smart Public Cloud Platform Reduces Time, Cost for Enterprises</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:03:30 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A new SmartCloud service promises to reduce costs and offload management chores to free up IT staff for other projects.   -  With IBM's new SmartCloud solution, businesses
that are running out of computing power, need more storage capacity, and want
to ensure they are meeting security and regulatory mandates have a new cloud
option.
IBM SmartCloud is offered in two
flavors: Enterprise, sold today, and Enterprise +, s...]]></description>
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<item><title>Smarter Pollution Detection Uses Trees</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:44:42 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Instead of using complicated soil and water sampling techniques, researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology claim phytoforensics is smarter, since it uses trees to detect soil and groundwater contamination without turning a shovel.   -  Our forests are a natural form of solar sump pumps they suck
up groundwater using the sun for energy in a process called evapotranspiration.
The leaves of every plant are heated by the sun, causing its moisture to
evaporate into the air and thus pulling up more water from the ground to replace
i...]]></description>
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<item><title>Most Security Software Is Flawed from the Start</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:46:14 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Application-testing firm Veracode reports that programmers need more advanced training in security coding, after discovering that nearly three-fourths of the security apps it tested had built-in flaws.   -  Billions of lines of code were screened in the last 18
months by cloud-based application intelligence and security verification
service provider Veracode. After going through that process, the provider
claims that most of the 4,835 applications it screened had security flaws.
Within 30 days of t...]]></description>
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<item><title>Teaching Computers to Feel Regret</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:06:13 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Researchers from Google and several Israeli universities have teamed together to help computers learn to minimize the difference between the desired outcome and the actual outcome of a task.   -  Regret is an important part of adaptation, and most people
learn not to repeat the same mistakes. But for computers, this kind of
hindsight does not occur the same computing task could fail many times without
being adjusted. Now, Google has
teamed up with researchers at Tel Aviv University to as...]]></description>
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<item><title>Smarter Windows Add Transparent Solar Cells</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:58:27 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[MIT claims to have invented a transparent solar cell that harnesses the energy of infrared light while allowing visible light to pass through. The technology could make windows smart by allowing them to harvest sunlight with a transparent film.   -  All the
windows in every building in the world should be generating electricity for use
on-the-spot to minimize electric bills, according to Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. To do that, researchers there have demonstrated transparent solar
cells that harvest the heat of the sun while allow...]]></description>
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<item><title>Better Protection for Personal Data on Mobile Phones</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:22:05 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A new software program helps protect personal data on mobile phones by controlling how information is accessed by the various applications.   -  Recently on Smarter Technology, we discussed rising
security dangers as more workers are accessing sensitive data via mobile
devices. In response to such concerns, a team of researchers has created new software to help protect
information stored on mobile phones.
Designed by a research team at N...]]></description>
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<item><title>Software Aims to Stop Truckers from Texting, Talking Behind the Wheel</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:33:16 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A cloud service and apps help fleet owners get a handle on drivers' cell-phone use.   -  Distracted driving the cause of 20 percent of all U.S.
highway fatalities is especially dangerous when the distracted driver is behind
the wheel of a 100,000-pound tractor-trailer. But just as technology can be the
vehicle of distraction, it can also be used to keep a truck driver's eyes,
hands ...]]></description>
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