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• Wireless soil sensors to help farmers

  A research team at Iowa State University ISU is developing wireless soil sensors to improve farming while minimizing environmental impacts. ISU says that 'the prototype sensors are designed to collect ...

  Tags: Iowa State University, Roland Piquepaille, Sensor, Wireless

  Oct 11, 2008 9:42 AM PDT

• Purported aluiminum MacBook leak video

  Unlike previous blurry pictures of the new MacBooks, there's a new video of Tuesday's upcoming MacBook revision. It's very clear in spots and, if real, provides new angles at the ...

  Tags: Machine, Apple MacBook, Video, Notebooks, Marketing, Hardware, Corporate Communications, Notebooks & Tablets, Power Button, Jason D. O\'Grady

  Oct 11, 2008 9:08 AM PDT

• Report: Three Intel Nehalems in November

  Intel will launch its first three Nehalem processors on November 17, according to a report on the site Expreview.com. These Bloomfield high-end chips will include the 3.2 GHz Core i7-965XE ...

  Tags: Components, Processors, Desktop, Hardware, Nehalem, John Morris, Intel Corp., Server Processor, Mobile, Chipsets

  Oct 11, 2008 5:40 AM PDT

• Anatomy of an attack: The New York Times on Solaris

  Paul Krill's recent New York Times hit piece against Solaris demonstrates, I think, a new low in manipulative agenda journalism as it affects IT. Brilliantly done, really, but pointlessly destructive ...

  Tags: Servers, Attack, Hardware, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., UNIX, Noah, Linux, Operating Systems, New York Times Co.

  Oct 11, 2008 12:15 AM PDT

• Entellium's lost millions

  Larry Dignan outlines the main points of the Entellium fraud. Regardless of the final outcome, there are three glaring questions: How did the CFO and CEO overstate revenues across THREE ...

  Tags: Entellium, Dennis Howlett, Financial Accounting, Corporate Law, Finance, Corporate Governance, Compliance, Board, Business Operations

  Oct 10, 2008 7:54 PM PDT

• Seesmic fires a third of staff as recession bites

  Loic LeMeur, CEO of Seesmic has announced the company is reducing its headcount by seven people. That may not sound like a huge number but as LeMeur says in the ...

  Tags: Dennis Howlett, Recession, Video, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Seesmic

  Oct 10, 2008 7:37 PM PDT

• Apple agrees to repair MacBook Pros with bad NVIDIA GPUs

  Months after Dell and other notebook manufacturers came clean, Apple has admitted some culpability for failing Nvidia GPUs. The GeForce 8600M GT has been failing recently in MacBook Pros and ...

  Tags: Apple Inc., GeForce 8600M GT, Apple MacBook, GPU, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Apple MacBook Pro, NVidia Corp., Jason D. O\'Grady

  Oct 10, 2008 4:17 PM PDT

• Print this: Actually, please don't, but DO think about why printers should get more airtime in green tech discussions

  I was talking to someone within the past couple of months (I honestly can't remember who right now, sorry) who made a pretty profound statement that seems pertinent in the ...

  Tags: Document Management, Managerial Accounting, Peripherals, Finance, Printing, Printers, Hardware, Heather Clancy, Green Technology, Software

  Oct 10, 2008 3:00 PM PDT

• Live Services as Microsoft's consumer Web platform

  It's been tricky keeping separate all of the "layers" in the Microsoft cloud strata. One of those layers, Live Services, has been especially amorphous. But now Live Services is a ...

  Tags: Channel Management, Web, Microsoft Corp., Live Platform, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley

  Oct 10, 2008 2:40 PM PDT

• Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ?89

  Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak ?..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked ...

  Tags: Finance, Recession, Joshua Greenbaum, Stock, Tech Stock, Oracle Corp., IBM Corp., Investment

  Oct 10, 2008 1:46 PM PDT

• Microsoft expected to release Silverlight 2 next week

  It sounds like Monday October 13 is the day that Microsoft will announce that Silverlight 2 is done. by Mary Jo Foley

  Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Application Servers, .Net, Software Development, Enterprise Software, RSS, Apple Mac OS, Middleware, Operating Systems, Microsoft Corp.

  Oct 10, 2008 1:06 PM PDT

• My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services

  Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Verizon Communications Inc., Consumer Electronics, Fee, Text Messaging, Cellular Phones, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS

  Oct 10, 2008 11:58 AM PDT

• Microsoft's 'conceptual touch designs'

  I've written from time to time about Apple and their rumoured tablet devices, applications for tablet PC's, multi-touch and Surface, and all those touchy-feely concepts we've been hearing about, but ...

  Tags: Zack Whittaker, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Tablet PC, Notebooks & Tablets

  Oct 10, 2008 11:38 AM PDT

• Are there really 750 million mentally ill?

  Chan said "these are not insurmountable problems" and "the way forward is bright and solidly paved." A "scaling up" of the professions will cost just 20 cents per person per ...

  Tags: Depression, Worker, Dana Blankenhorn

  Oct 10, 2008 11:13 AM PDT

• Making the giant health database work for you

  It's these medical records experts whose function has been lost in the translation from paper to magnetic ink, Damianakis concluded, and unless that is recovered digital systems will never work ...

  Tags: Vertical Industries, Dana Blankenhorn, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Storage, Human Resources, Healthcare, Health Care, Databases

  Oct 10, 2008 10:27 AM PDT

• Are there really too many Windows editions?

  Ask any Windows pundit about all the different versions of Windows Vista that Microsoft offers and you'll invariably get the same response. There are too many! Consumers are confused! It ...

  Tags: Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Ed Bott, Software, Edition, Microsoft Windows

  Oct 10, 2008 10:23 AM PDT

• NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversations

  Military linguists have come forward to say that the intelligence services routinely listened in on Americans overseas calling home and on the communications of non-suspect groups like the Red Cross. ...

  Tags: Phone, Phone Sex, Telecom & Utilities, Richard Koman

  Oct 10, 2008 10:22 AM PDT

• Defective NVIDIA GPUs present in MacBook Pro

  Apple has now joined the ranks of Dell and HP and admitted that some if its MacBook Pro notebooks have been shipped with defective NVIDIA GPUs. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Tags: Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, GPU, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Apple MacBook Pro, NVidia Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Oct 10, 2008 10:18 AM PDT

• The elephant in the room: SOA and the economy

  We've all been distracted by events in the economy over the past few weeks, and let's face it, it makes for a very large elephant in the room when we ...

  Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Joe McKendrick, Software, SOA, Enterprise Software

  Oct 10, 2008 9:59 AM PDT

• A robot to destroy breast cancer cells

  Researchers at the University of Maryland are developing a robot able to detect and destroy breast cancer cells in a single session. After a tumor is located on an MRI, ...

  Tags: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Roland Piquepaille, Rod, Emerging Technologies, Breast Cancer, Cell, Robots

  Oct 10, 2008 9:57 AM PDT

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