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Cern CIO: Invest when times are bad
Insight newsmaker Putting resources in fundamental science and education during bad times will get results needed "to make things better and cheaper", argues the head of IT at the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
Tags: grid computing, Business Strategies & Functions, CERN, CIO, biomedical, Silicon.com, financial, network, Earth, Geneva
Bringing back Mickey Mouse's dark side
Insight newsmaker Well-known video game designer will get chance to show the world mischievous side of cartoon icon in Disney's Epic Mickey, a game for the Wii to be released next fall.
Tags: Digital media, Games, Character, Mickey Mouse, Spector, Video Game, CBS Interactive Inc., Animation, EPIC, 3D
Why Bing is not Wave of the future
Insight commentary If Microsoft is so powerful, why does it leave it to Google to innovate?
Tags: Innovation, Search, Web services, Google Inc., Search Engine, Messaging, antitrust, corporate computing, Earth, Google Search
What Y2K can teach us about 2012
Blogs Dec. 21, 2012. It's a big day on the calendar, particularly because some believe it marks the last day of the world as w...
The final frontier: Solar power from space
News California utility PG&E has contracted with stealth company Solaren to capture solar energy with satellites in space for delivery to Earth via radio frequency.
Tags: Green IT, Satellite, PG&E Corp., Pacific Gas & Electric, Renewable Energy, radio frequency, Earth, scientist, California, radio
Tech must step in where we forget
Blogs After a minor security scare--his house keys were misplaced--my brother went on a defense mode and installed a biometric...
Cagayan, my valley home is dear to me
Blogs The title above is the first line of the official anthem of Cagayan, my home province here in the Philippines. I've been...
Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans
News New feature will allow people to "fly" through oceans and seas and view high-resolution images of the underwater topography, researchers say.
Tags: Web services, NASA, Google Inc., Database, Google Earth, 3D, professor, researcher, Earth, HotSpot
Google to buy GeoEye satellite imagery
News Google Maps and Google Earth will get a new infusion of higher-resolution imagery from the GeoEye-1 satellite, due to launch from a California Air Force base Sep. 4.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Satellite, Imagery, Google Inc., imaging, marketing, Earth, blog, vice president
Hackers break into Large Hadron Collider computer
News CERN says hackers accessed a computer system that monitors the particle accelerator experiments and analyzes data, according to a newspaper report.
Tags: Hacking, Networking technology, Network security, CERN, E-mail Message, Computer, phone, theory, black hole, Earth
Use a nonbreaking space to keep words together
Techguide Learn how to keep two words together when they happen to fall at the end of the line and Word pushes the last name to the next line.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Backup, Item, Tools Menu, e-mail, keyboard, Microsoft Excel, Earth, built-In
Dot Go could be 'the Internet for text messaging'
News New service from Scientific Media aims to make it very easy for companies to run text message marketing campaigns.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Starbucks Corp., Text Messaging, dot-com, marketing, Earth, Internet, Mobile platforms/communications, Internet domain
Cars should be made greener, not cheaper
Blogs It was a long time coming, but the Tata Nano finally saw daylight this week when the US$2,230 car was officially launche...
A billion Internet users can be wrong
Insight commentary Global Internet usage reached over one billion unique visitors in December, according to ComScore. However, the Web is not the Net.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Wireless, Tim Berners-Lee, Foresight, Internet User, ComScore Networks Inc., Earth, Internet, Geneva
IBM plunges into 'smart grid for water'
News Betting that governments and businesses will need to better manage water resources, IBM leads effort to design IT systems to monitor and analyze water use.
Tags: Green IT, Grid, Sensor, U.S., France, IBM Corp., information technology, Green IT, software, conference
