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Commentary: Unlock technology's potential by giving CIOs line-of-sight authority
Washington Post
Information technology represents about $80 billion in federal expenditures annually, but these dollars can be used more effectively. When Congress created the position of chief information officer for cabinet agencies in 1996 it was intended that CIOs ...
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FIFA picks goal-line technology system for Confederations Cup, 2014 World Cup ...
Washington Post
GENEVA — FIFA opted for GoalControl on Tuesday as its goal-line technology system for the Confederations Cup and 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The German camera-based, ball-tracking system was the last of four contenders to win a FIFA contract that starts ...
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Beijing Opposes US Rule on Technology Imports
New York Times
BEIJING — China expressed “resolute opposition” and “strong dissatisfaction” with a new U.S. cyberespionage rule limiting imports of Chinese-made information technology products, the state media reported over the weekend. The remarks underscore ...
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Best Technology Websites of 2013 to be named by Web Marketing Association ...
Sacramento Bee
HARTFORD, Conn., April 1, 2013 -- /PRNewswire/ -- The Web Marketing Association is looking for the best technology websites in the world as part of their 17th annual international WebAward Competition for Website development at www.webaward.org.
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Tiger Technology Introduces cluStore TLE
CIO Today
SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Tiger Technology, the leading developer of high performance storage area networking (SAN · Relevant Products/Services ), software · Relevant Products/Services management tools and integrated appliances, today announced cluStore ...
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CIO Today
Micron Technology, Inc. (MU), Celgene Corporation (CELG) & The Best ...
Insider Monkey (blog)
Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) +57.3% Memory-chip maker Micron sneaked in as the fifth-best performer in the S&P 500, but it snagged the title as top dog within the Nasdaq-100 thanks to the beautiful combination of decreasing production costs and ...
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Insider Monkey (blog)
Goal-Line Technology: Fifa Picks GoalControl
Sky News
Fifa will use the GoalControl goal-line technology system for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil - after it has been trialled at the Confederations Cup in June. The German company's camera-based, ball-tracking system GoalControl-4D uses 14 high-speed cameras ...
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Philadelphia gets ready to play 'Pong' on building
San Francisco Chronicle
Now, what might be the world's largest "Pong" game will be played April 19 and 24 as part of Philly Tech Week, the news website's annual series of events, seminars and workshops spotlighting the city's technology and innovation communities. "This is ...
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San Francisco Chronicle
Nvidia Launches GeForce 700M GPUs With Boost 2.0 Technology
eWeek
The chips also feature the company's Optimus technology, which enables extra-long battery life by switching the GPU on and off so it runs only when needed, and GeForce Experience software, which adjusts in-game settings for the best performance and ...
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eWeek
North Korea Lacks Technology to Carry Out War Plans
Antiwar.com
Yet experts who analyze the threats note that North Korea may talk a good fight, but lacks the basic technology to even theoretically do many of the things it talks about in its “war plans.” Their best missiles aren't even close to being able to hit ...
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Antiwar.com
Tech firms bumping up perks to recruit, retain
The Seattle Times
"We're seeing the mature technology companies trying to energize their work environments, getting rid of cube farms and investing in facilities to compete for talent," said Kevin Schaeffer, a principal at architecture and design firm Gensler in San ...
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Shell to expand energy technology R&D
Financial Times
Geert van de Wouw, managing director of Shell Technology Ventures, said the Anglo-Dutch oil group would be adding several hundreds of millions of dollars to its existing R&D budgets across a range of new technologies in an attempt to commercialise ...
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One-Time World's Fastest Supercomputer Roadrunner Retired On Sunday
RedOrbit
The first supercomputer to complete one quadrillion calculations per second has been officially decommissioned, going offline Sunday after being operational for the past five years. The computer, which was known as Roadrunner, was built by IBM and went ...
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RedOrbit
2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Gets All Up In Bentley's Business With ...
Forbes
Only a few journalists are allowed in at a time. We're in Stuttgart, Germany, getting a run-down of thetechnology inside Mercedes' new flagship sedan, set to debut May 15 in Hamburg. Engineers and designers eagerly watch as we test out plush seat ...
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Cameron: 'fact' that North Korea has 'technology' for nuclear strike against ...
Telegraph.co.uk
However, he added: “The fact is, as I wrote in a newspaper article this morning, North Korea does now have missile technology that is able to reach, as they put it, the whole of the United States and if they're able to reach the whole of the United ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Stevens Institute of Technology Forms Strategic Partnership with Langan ...
Amerisurv
Hoboken, N.J., April 1, 2013 -- Stevens Institute of Technology has formed a strategic partnership with Langan Engineering & Environmental Services to provide expertise related to flood mapping and deliver engineering solutions to help protect ...
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Facebook phone: Technology industry abuzz with fresh rumours
India Today
Soon after after the Facebook invitation went out on Friday for the April 4 event, thetechnology news site TechCrunch has reportedly said the announcement would be a modified version of the Google Android operating system with "deep native Facebook ...
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India Today
Technology and engineering education students garner awards at conference
Indiana Statesman
Indiana State University technology and engineering education students display the award certificates they earned through several competitions at the 2013 International Technology and Engineering Education Association (ITEEA) Conference in Columbus, ...
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Cash Dividend On The Way From DuPont Fabros Technology
Forbes
Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 4/3/13, DuPont FabrosTechnology Inc (NYSE: DFT) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.20, payable on 4/15/13. As a percentage of DFT's recent stock price of $24.10 ...
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Special Features of Technology Office Leases
GlobeSt.com
SAN FRANCISCO-Leasing of office space to technology-oriented companies has been one of the major drivers of the rebound in the office market throughout the US, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area. In many cases, these technology companies are ...
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'China's Google' Baidu is making smart glasses
BBC News
Baidu, China's largest search engine, is working on its own smart glasses technology - similar to Google's Glass project. A spokesman for the Chinese firm said the glasses would be able to search by using facial recognition. Kaiser Kuo told Reuters ...
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BBC News
Mobile phone's 40th anniversary: from 'bricks' to clicks
The Guardian
Mobile phone technology has come a long way since the first mobile phone call was made 40 years ago – but there is a lot more innovation ahead, according to one expert. It was on 3 April 1973 that Motorola employee Martin Cooper made a call in New York ...
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The Guardian
Company to Offer New Technology to Air-dry Pallets, Prevent Mold
Pallet Enterprise
Wisconsin-based Lumber Sales & Products has developed a proprietary technology and method for air-drying pallets to prevent mold and mildew. The company's approach, which president Jim Francois plans to market, was in research and development for ...
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Technology that works behind closed doors
BBC News
Previous Launch Festival winners include the business-focused social networking site Yammer, which was bought out by Microsoft last year for $1.2 billion (£800 million). Two of this year's winners, both of whom focused on technology that works indoors, ...
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BBC News
Google Wins FTC Award for Robocall Prevention Technology
eWeek
The Google team won the FTC's Technology Achievement Award for its submission, which recommends the creation of a system where users could report such calls to an online database system, while allowing users' telephones or external hardware to ...
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eWeek
Biological Transistors Could Revolutionize The Future Of Medicine
RedOrbit
Researchers at Stanford University have developed a basic computer using genetic material, according to a report in the journal Science. The team said that the tiny biological transistors they have developed could potentially revolutionize medicine in ...
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RedOrbit
Growing fears that North Korea actually has the technology to launch nuclear ...
The Australian
However, North Korea is generally regarded as being years away from perfecting the technology to back up its bold threats of a pre-emptive strike on the United States. But a recent string of successful tests has introduced a strong measure of doubt.
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Stratospheric aerosols and their impact on Sahelian rainfall
Thousands of trout were killed in Switzerland after technical trouble at a hydroelectric dam stemmed the water flow in a national park, the Swiss news agency ATS reported. Space & Earth / Environment. created 8 hours ago | popularity ...
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Facebook mystery Android news may be a home screen launcher ...
By Suzanne Choney
Facebook's mysterious invite for its Thursday announcement has a clue in its wording — "Come see our new home on Android" — and it may be t...
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EQuala Uses Your Friends To Build A Custom Radio Station ...
By Avner Meyrav (translation)
Technology News: EQuala Uses Your Friends To Build A Custom Radio Station. In the social network era, the simplest way to share a song is by posting a link of the YouTube video on your Facebook timeline, Twitter feed or other platforms, ...
No Camels
New algorithm based on biased assimilation models society ...
Anyone who has spent more than a few minutes watching some of the more partisan 'news' networks lurking in the bowels of cable television is aware that America has grown more polarized in recent years. What's not so certain is why.
Phys.org - latest science and...
Book Review - Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing
By Dave Peterson
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No newspaper delivery drones! French firm admits prank ...
By Nidhi Subbaraman
Parrot, a French company that makes small quadricopter drones that you can control with a smartphone app, seemed ready to put newspaper deli...
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Big Data Raises Big Questions - Government Technology
One piece of good financial news for governments is that because they've been slow to embrace big data, few of them have already invested in building data warehouses, said Mohan. So they're not locked into using older technologies and ...
Government Technology News
E-Waste Explosion: A Growing Concern (Infographic)
April 4, 2013 By News Staff. With the proliferation of smartphones and tablets, laptops and even desktop computers, the amount of e-waste produced in the United States is astronomical: In 2010 alone, the U.S. disposed of nearly 2.5 million tons of e-waste, according to an infographic from MetroFax, which also points out that nearly 1.8 million tons of that waste was thrown into landfills or incinerated. ... Curious to know more about the waste that comes from our reliance on technology?
Government Technology News
Dr.Web CureIt! 8 on-demand virus scanner released -
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311 App Arrives in Los Angeles - Government Technology
Steve Reneker, CTO and general manager for the Los Angeles Information Technology Agency, said that so far, the app has been downloaded more than 4,000 times. But, he added, the app ... Daily Govtech News In Your Inbox. View Sample ...
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Oregon Explores Treadmill Desks for State Workers
Legislators in the room could see the technology in action while they mulled its merits. ... Stateline is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service of the Pew Center on the States that provides daily reporting and analysis on trends in state policy.
Government Technology News

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Breakthrough in hydrogen fuel production could revolutionize ...
A team of Virginia Tech researchers has discovered a way to extract large quantities of hydrogen from any plant, a breakthrough that has ... Virginia Tech News ...
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MetroPCS promotes T-Mobile deal after advisers pan it | Reuters
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