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ebook from Plastic Logic (via Vimeo) Large format rival to Amazon Kindle and Sony eReader heats up the e-paper business.
May 28th
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May 27th
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“Upcoming Webinar (6/11): Discover A New Kind of Intelligence:”
– Adam Gartenberg’s Blog Join us on June 11
May 27th
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IBM joins effort to prevent pandemics - CNET News →
IBM is working with leading health organizations to save lives by learning how to curb the spread of infectious diseases. They will do this by utilizing two projects initiated by IBM. The interoperable health care information infrastructure (IHII—pronounced eye-high) is a system capable of data mining—collecting and analyzing information for determining outbreaks and health trends...
May 27th
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Lumber Improves Business Performance With IBM... →
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ListenFrank Kern, senior vice president of Global...
May 26th
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From Sick Care to Health Care: There's no place... →
May 26th
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The $99 computer… →
berniemichalik: …is actual a plug. But no ordinary plug: it’s a fully functioning computer with a fast processor, sufficient memory, Linux (of course), gigabit ethernet and a USB 2.0. What can you do with…
May 26th
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“If fusion energy works,” said [Ed Moses, project director of National Ignition...”
– At NIF, a Quest for Fusion Energy (or Maybe Folly) - NYTimes.com
May 26th
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ListenBusiness Intelligence In the Cloud – Lower Cost,...
May 26th
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UN announces first free e-university →
The first-ever, tuition-free online university has opened its doors to a worldwide student population. The Pan African News Agency reports that the UN Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technology and Development, as part of its focus on education this year, initiated the institution, known as the “University of the People”.
May 25th
Shining Cities on a Smarter Planet →
May 24th
Is this the eve of revolution for food? →
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“Look at the capabilities already being built into cities around the world....”
– Samuel J. Palmisano: Shining Cities on a Smarter Planet
May 22nd
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“For a sense of how to manage the process, it’s instructive to take a look...”
– Web 2.0: Managing Corporate Reputations - BusinessWeek
May 22nd
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Sensors Help Save Water on Golf Courses
A New York Times story covers how new companies like UgMO (below) and others are using wireless sensor networks to help reduce water usage.
May 22nd
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Performance Management for Government
Many factors influence a government’s performance. But few areas are more important than an organization’s decision-making ability. Getting answers and acting on them means integrating reporting and analysis, planning, and measuring and monitoring—spanning all the functional areas of an organization. This integrated approach is the IBM Cognos performance management system. IBM Cognos...
May 22nd
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Geoweb data mapper Earthmine co-founder Anthony Fassero from the Where conference
May 20th
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ListenThe Patient Centered Medical Home: Blogger...
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Smarter Healthcare TV: The IBM Global Business Services Video Studio Channel
May 20th
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17 Ways College Campuses Are Changing  →
e-resources are one of many ways campuses have changed: universities provide faculty with plagiarism-detection software such as Turnitin, while students cruise the (new electronic) paper-mills, where for only $9.99 you can take your chances at being thrown out of the big U.
May 20th
Business Analytics & Optimization in a Minute →
May 19th
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smarterplanet: Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web | Video on TED.com
May 19th
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Smarter Manufacturing & Products
The era of the one-size-fits-all product comes to an end From automobiles to meat cases to artificial hearts, today’s smarter products represent a new generation of capabilities that provide increasingly multidimensional and personalized functions. Smart products fuse together sensors, actuators, electronics and mechanical systems. In fact, 66% of manufacturers surveyed include embedded...
May 18th
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Artificial Simulator Of The Nervous System Created... →
Researchers of the University of Granada have developed a simulator, so-called EDLUT (‘Event driven look up table based simulator’), which can reproduce any part of the body’s nervous system, such as the retina, the cerebellum, the hearing centres or the nervous centres.
May 18th
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How technology is being used in UK schools to... →
The ultimate example of the role of technology in schools is the huge investment by Government in interactive whiteboard technology. In 2002, only 37 percent of primary and 58 percent of secondary schools had interactive whiteboards. By 2008, this has increased to 92 percent and 98 percent respectively.
May 18th
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Education for a Smarter Planet: the Future of... →
There are five trends that will reshape education over the next decade. How we respond to these factors will determine how well education prepares us for the future and how we advance as both an economy and society.
May 17th
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“Many technology advocates, including health policy specialists, say that...”
– The Machinery Behind Health-Care Reform - washingtonpost.com
May 16th
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OLEDs could soon give fluorescent lighting a run...
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) developed in Germany has the potential to produce the same quality of white light as incandescent bulbs but with power efficiencies considerably better than even fluorescent lighting. Technology Review White lighting: Organic light-emitting diodes like this could be the future of lighting, thanks to very high efficiencies, which outperform even fluorescent...
May 16th
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science: A huge ocean wave has been filmed from beneath the surface, revealing features never before captured on camera. The remarkable video, which will be shown as part of the BBC Natural History Unit’s new series South Pacific, was filmed in super slow motion using a high-definition camera. It reveals the hidden power of a four-metre-tall monster barrel wave and shows the first images of...
May 16th
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IBM: Stream computing to change the way analytics... →
IBM is bringing its stream-computing technology to the commercial market this week with a new software package called System S that, according to the company, can simultaneously analyze hundreds of thousands of business data streams from multiple sources in real time, rather than being limited to a static database. The technology is being touted as a solution for organizations that need to analyze...
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