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  • Space Elevator one step closer to heaven? Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 1:32PMIf you attach cables to a satellite, will this be enough to construct an elevator to outer space? A conference in August will discuss the progress of such a project.
  • New design unveiled for Terrafugia flying car Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 1:18PMA successful test flight of a prototype Terrafugia vehicle has led to structural improvements just unveiled. The company hopes to start shipping late next year.
  • Take home laptops part of new junior high curriculum Tuesday, July 20, 2010 @ 8:38AMThe upcoming school year for the Marshall school district will include technological improvements said to affect students, teachers and even parents.
  • The cloud helps with life's questions Monday, July 19, 2010 @ 9:00AMA MAJOR physics research project could be one of the largest beneficiaries of cloud computing.
  • What We’re Reading: Trailers Friday, July 16, 2010 @ 1:45PMWorld map of geotagged pictures — Flickr David Gallagher says: Interesting how Flickr’s geotagged photos are strung out along U.S. interstates. Africa is undertagged.
  • Sorenson Media Finishes Third Consecutive Quarter of 40-Plus Percent Revenue Growth, Achieves Additional Significant ... Tuesday, July 13, 2010 @ 3:15AMSAN DIEGO----Sorenson Media today announced that the company has concluded a highly successful second quarter of 2010, highlighted by overall revenue growth in excess of 40 percent over the same period in 2009 – its third consecutive quarter with 40-plus percent growth – and the launch of enterprise-focused version 2 of the Sorenson 360 online video platform .
  • Making a Magnetic Moment in a Split Picosecond Monday, July 5, 2010 @ 1:18PM(PhysOrg.com) -- A wide range of phenomena in nature and technology depend on changes that occur in a material after it is illuminated with visible light. A well-known example is photosynthesis, where successive excitations by photons (light particles) leads to the production of oxygen from water. Other, more application-specific examples are solar cells and photocatalysis. Current research ...
  • How not to blow up a molecule Friday, June 25, 2010 @ 9:24AMHigh-charge-state ions in a molecule cause strong Coulomb forces, repulsive forces that try to blow its atoms apart. But the research team's crucial finding was that a way to produce only lower charge states in nitrogen molecules is with shorter pulse lengths, even though their peak power is higher.
  • Apple iPhone 4 Sparks Long Lines, Online Videos, Upbeat Reviews Thursday, June 24, 2010 @ 10:15PMApple issued its long-anticipated iPhone 4 June 24, immediately sparking long lines at stores around the world. That crush of demand was perhaps to be anticipated, given the immense amounts of pre-orders for the next-generation smartphone.
  • Acer Aspire One 532h-2588: A Merely Adequate Rendition of the Now Familiar Netbook Platform Tuesday, June 22, 2010 @ 3:19PMWhen the Apple iPad shipped, pundits noted that netbook sales declined . In fact, the iPad had little to do with the decline in netbook shipments--the decline had already begun well before Apple's tablet arrived in the hands of enthusiastic users. AcerAspireOne - Acer - Netbook - Plantae - Magnoliopsida
  • Flash Player 10.1 Released for Mobile Devices Tuesday, June 22, 2010 @ 12:54PMOn Tuesday, Adobe Systems released Flash Player 10.1 for mobile devices -- but the rollout is going to take a while. The player is available first for devices running version 2.2 of Google's open-source Android operating system, but that upgrade is currently only available on Google's Nexus One smartphones being tested by reviewers.
  • Mafia - Walkthrough Friday, June 18, 2010 @ 4:12PMMafia (PC) Mafia The City of Lost Heaven
  • Stephen Streater of Forbidden Technologies Thursday, June 17, 2010 @ 2:01PMWendy M. Grossman THE INQUIRER Interview On the future of video IN 1996 , Stephen Streater – 30, English, inexperienced – had £36 million riding on proving to Larry Ellison that his then tiny company, Eidos, was run by the cleverest people in the world. Eidos, founded in 1990 to revolutionise the video editing industry based on Streater's PhD research on image processing, had moved into video ...
  • RIM Speeding Up BlackBerry Browser with New Patents Monday, June 14, 2010 @ 6:23PMRIM filed patents for technology that prioritizes different components of a Web page when loading and displaying it according to GoRumors . Specifically, it should make BlackBerry Browser load and display a page's main content before processing CSS and Javascript files. The patents further RIM's efforts to improve its mobile browsing experience as enterprises and consumers increase their ...
  • Intel's new Atom chips appear in HP, Fujitsu netbooks Friday, June 11, 2010 @ 10:40AMIDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard and Fujitsu are updating existing netbook models with new Atom processors that were announced last week by Intel at the Computex trade show.
  • Acer Aspire One D260 arrives with some in yo' face branding, we go hands-on Friday, June 11, 2010 @ 5:46AMAcer's Aspire One netbook line has done incredibly well over the past few years -- largely due to its competitive pricing -- but apparently that's given Acer the impression that people want to see the brand smacked in large letters on the lid. Yep, that's the first thing that struck us about the new 10.1-inch Aspire One D260 when we saw it last week at Computex . But, if you can overlook that ...
  • Intel's New Atom Chips Appear in HP, Fujitsu Netbooks Thursday, June 10, 2010 @ 7:02PMIntel's latest Atom processors have appeared in Hewlett-Packard's and Fujitsu's netbooks. Hewlett-Packard - Intel Atom - Intel Corporation - Hardware - Intel
  • Filmmaker Jesse Dylan Focuses on the Bigger Picture Tuesday, June 8, 2010 @ 10:34AMHe has created award-winning ads and directed feature films, but lately he has been making short films for the likes of the Clinton Global Initiative, TED, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
  • Acer Liquid E Android Smartphone Available in Canada Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 11:35AMAcer has released its Liquid E smartphone in Canada exclusively through Rogers Communications. The Acer Liquid E runs Android 2.1 with a 3.5" capacitive touchscreen, built-in WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, a 5 megapixel camera and is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon ...
  • Go-Green.ae Launches Online Campaign To Promote 'World Environment Day' Wednesday, June 2, 2010 @ 11:57PMWorld Environment Day on 5 June 2010, is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. [Wired by: PressReleaseNetwork.com]
  • Inside Aptimizes Website Acceleration Products Tuesday, June 1, 2010 @ 12:55PMJune 1, 2010 -- New Zealand-based startup Aptimize is offering companies a range of website acceleration products that can significantly improve the load time of their websites.
  • Young generation redefines culture of Microsoft philanthropy Monday, May 24, 2010 @ 8:15PMIs Microsoft an incubator for social entrepreneurship?
  • Windows Phone 7: technical tidbits exposed Monday, May 24, 2010 @ 1:28PMdigg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/Windows_Phone_7_Technical_Tidbits_Exposed'; We're in an interesting position with Windows Phone 7 . We still don't know what devices will be running the OS nor indeed exactly when they'll be launching, but despite that we've already had the opportunity to spend quite a bit of quality time with not one but two separate versions of ...
  • Chicago startup YCharts helps put stocks in focus Monday, May 24, 2010 @ 4:02AMWhen the Dow Jones industrial average tumbled nearly 1,000 points in a few minutes earlier this month, the pitfalls resulting from interconnected financial markets were shockingly exposed. Recognizing increased uncertainty and confusion, one local startup is using state-of-the-art technology to help bring investors back to the basics. "When a lot of people look and talk about stocks, they tend ...
  • Water Motions Revealed (w/ Video) Friday, May 21, 2010 @ 4:03AM(PhysOrg.com) -- Gaze into a glass of water, and you're unlikely to see much more than your own reflection. But gaze a little deeper using a microscope -- or, better yet, a series of laser pulses and detectors -- and you'll see an intricate molecular dance. As water sits, seemingly calm, the hydrogen bonds between water molecules are continually breaking and forming, with each molecule switching ...
  • Test drive: Adobe Flash Player on Android (beta) Thursday, May 20, 2010 @ 11:13AMEven before Adobe revealed its first full-fledged Flash Player for smartphones on Thursday, we got a chance to play online games and video from an Android phone.
  • Broadcom Accelerates WebM Video on Mobile Phones Wednesday, May 19, 2010 @ 6:09PMIRVINE, Calif., May 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced that its VideoCore® mobile multimedia processor family now supports the recently open-sourced WebM video format.
  • Broadcom Accelerates WebM Video on Mobile Phones Wednesday, May 19, 2010 @ 12:39PMThe Broadcom® VideoCore® Mobile Multimedia Processor Enables Low Power, Hardware Accelerated WebM Playback on Mobile Devices read more
  • Broadcom Accelerates WebM Video on Mobile Phones Wednesday, May 19, 2010 @ 12:30PMBroadcom Corporation , a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced that its VideoCore® mobile multimedia processor family now supports the recently open-sourced WebM video format.
  • POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 Wednesday, May 19, 2010 @ 7:53AMThe CNN Washington Bureau’s morning speed read of the top stories making news from around the country and the world. WASHINGTON/POLITICAL For the latest political news: www.CNNPolitics.com CNN: Specter's projected loss, Paul's win shake up political landscape Voters sent mixed signals in Tuesday's primary elections in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Arkansas. They tossed ...
  • IBM Helps Business Partners Deepen Skills and Deliver High Value Solutions with New PartnerWorld Program Benefits Wednesday, May 19, 2010 @ 1:09AMARMONK, N.Y., May 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new and expanded capabilities to help IBM Business Partners deepen their skills to deliver high-value solutions for clients, while enhancing profitability and creating opportunities for growth.
  • IBM Helps Business Partners Deepen Skills and Deliver High Value Solutions with New PartnerWorld Program Benefits Tuesday, May 18, 2010 @ 11:05PMread more
  • IBM Helps Business Partners Deepen Skills and Deliver High Value Solutions with New PartnerWorld Program Benefits Tuesday, May 18, 2010 @ 11:01PMIBM today announced new and expanded capabilities to help IBM Business Partners deepen their skills to deliver high-value solutions for clients, while enhancing profitability and creating opportunities for growth. Â
  • How Venture Capitalists are Using Social Media for Real Results Monday, May 17, 2010 @ 11:16AMThe Real Results series is supported by Gist , an online service that helps you build stronger relationships. By connecting your inbox to the web, you get business-critical information about key people and companies. See how it works here . VCs and angel investors might be last on your list of usual Twitter suspects. Sure, many of them have social media accounts and they certainly look at and ...
  • Aptimize Debuts in the U.S. to Speed Up Websites Tuesday, May 11, 2010 @ 2:01AMBreakthrough Technology More than Doubles Web Site Load Speeds
  • Another week of GW News, May 9, 2010 [A Few Things Ill Considered] Monday, May 10, 2010 @ 9:55AMLogging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor . Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
  • Chrome 5: Faster and Better Wednesday, May 5, 2010 @ 3:24PMCyber Cynic: "The first thing you'll notice with Google's new beta of its Chrome Web browser is that it's faster, much faster, than the last version."
  • Tribeca at a crossroads: Downtown NYC festival launches new strategies Wednesday, May 5, 2010 @ 1:35PMAt a crossroads, the recent Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), which ran April 21 to May 2, had its foot on the accelerator and was looking for road signs.
  • First X-ray laser's early success brings approval for next-phase facility Wednesday, May 5, 2010 @ 11:58AMThe U.S. Department of Energy has granted approval for SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory -- home of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world's first hard X-ray laser -- to begin planning a second X-ray laser at the laboratory. The LCLS, which began operation in April 2009, generates ultra-fast, ultra-bright pulses of X-ray laser light which are already providing new insights into the ...
  • Apple Spreading its Search Wings with Siri Acquisition Wednesday, May 5, 2010 @ 8:05AMIn the never-ending quest to be at the top of the technological landscape Apple has taken an extra step toward possibly entering the search market by acquiring Siri a company that creates personal assistant and search apps for the mobile world. The exact details of the acquisition are relatively vague but an early-termination request that was filed with the Federal Trade Commission is believed ...
  • Capital Factory Accepts Five Startups to Participate in 2010 Early-Stage Accelerator Wednesday, May 5, 2010 @ 6:00AMTech startups to receive $20K in cash, free resources and access to successful entrepreneurs as mentors during 10-week summer program in Austin, Texas
  • Web resources key to NHS improvements Tuesday, April 27, 2010 @ 11:16AMManagers in the NHS need greater freedom to access web resources if they are going to use it to make improvements for staff and patients.
  • Career Almanac Saturday, April 24, 2010 @ 6:07PMDr. Joe Ades, a foot and ankle surgeon, joined Lake Norman Regional Medical Center.
  • Microsoft shows off another Java deployment option for Windows Azure Thursday, April 15, 2010 @ 4:30PMWhile Windows Azure is designed first and foremost to appeal to .Net developers, Microsoft has been adding tools for those who want to work on cloud apps using PHP, Ruby and even -- gasp -- Java. Recently, Microsoft went public with proof-of-concept information about another Java tool that can be hosted on .Net: The Jetty HTTP server.
  • Social Media Management System Spredfast Secures Series A Funding Thursday, April 15, 2010 @ 4:20PMTaking advantage of the increasing importance of social media management for businesses, Spredfast , a finalist at this year's Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator at SXSW, has received $1.6 million in funding from Austin Ventures. Featured here on ReadWriteWeb in January, Spredfast is the first enterprise-class social media management system. Sponsor Spredfast supports companies at both the ...
  • This time, swift action from Toyota Thursday, April 15, 2010 @ 2:15PMMICHELINE MAYNARD After charges that it was slow to respond to accelerator problems, Toyota worked quickly on its S.U.V. issue.
  • Spredfast Secures $1.6M in Series A Funding from Austin Ventures Thursday, April 15, 2010 @ 10:34AMTakes Big Leap Forward in Social Media Engagement Market with Venture Capital BackingAUSTIN, Texas -...
  • Rocky Mountain Early Birds Get the Discount at 2010 Clean Tech Open Thursday, April 15, 2010 @ 8:47AMApril 22 Deadline Approaching for Discounted Entry Fee for Leading Cleantech Competition
  • Rocky Mountain Early Birds Get the Discount at 2010 Clean Tech Open Thursday, April 15, 2010 @ 8:41AMDENVER, CO--(Marketwire - 04/15/10) - The Cleantech Open ( www.cleantechopen.com ), the innovation catalyst that helps great ideas become viable clean tech businesses, announced that its early bird registration deadline for entering this year's competition is Thursday, April 22. Entrepreneurs in the six-state Rocky Mountain region, which includes Arizona, Colorado ...
  • Social Media Management Startup Spredfast Raises $1.6 Million Thursday, April 15, 2010 @ 7:32AMSpredfast , recently a finalist in the Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator at SXSW, has raised $1.6 million in funding from Austin Ventures . This marks the first financing secured by the startup, which markets a social media management platform for businesses.