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Bill Gates offers the world a physics lesson
Insight newsmaker In an interview, the Microsoft chairman talks about why he spent his own money to make a series of classic physics lectures available free on the Web, and shares on Project Natal, Google's Chrome OS and more.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Business applications, Consumer Technology, Battery, Bill Gates, Science, Video, biology, teacher, CNET Networks Inc.
Superfast Ethernet project aims for 100Gbps
News U.S. government-funded project at Berkeley Labs plan to develop a superfast network capable of sharing large amounts of research data.
Tags: Web 2.0, Mobile platforms/communications, Department Of Energy, Juniper Networks Inc., U.S. Department of Energy, supercomputer, financial, network, scientist, Ethernet
IBM's 35 atoms and the rise of nanotech
News Don Eigler moved a single atom two decades ago. Since then, he and IBM have taken new steps in pursuing a dream of compact, power-efficient computing.
Tags: Processors, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Electronics, Carbon Nanotube, Manufacturing, Atom, vision, knowledge, circuitry
Bahasa or English? One step forward, two steps back?
Blogs A couple of weeks ago, the Malaysian government ignited a controversy when it reversed a five-year-old government policy...
Obama names science and technology team
News U.S. president-elect Barack Obama has named leaders in climate change, cancer research, and genetic research to head his science and technology team.
Tags: R&D, Defense/military, Federal Government, Politics, Science, Human Genome Project, Oregon State University, John Holdren, Eric Lander, Lubchenco
Study: US retains lead in science, tech
News Leadership, however, increasingly relies on the brain power of foreign-born students and employees.
Tags: Workplace, Venture capital, Science, India, Japan, Ingersoll-Rand, performance, leader, China, U.S.
Google co-founder, wife give US$500K to Creative Commons
News Sergey Brin and 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki donate half a million to copyright reform group, to help build out its science initiative.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Creative Commons, Sergey Brin, co-founder, financial, founder, blog
The curious case of Sun Microsystems Philippines
Blogs In more ways than one, Sun Microsystems Philippines (SunPhil) is an "anomaly" among the large IT companies in the countr...
Ultimate 2012 recovery site: the moon
Blogs Have you seen the disaster movie "2012"? A friend from Control Risks and I did, and we reluctantly concluded we wouldn't...
US govt to disclose findings in Web 'mystery charge' probe
News Numerous shoppers have traced mystery credit card charges to Webloyalty, Affinion, and Vertrue. U.S. Congress will reveal the results at a hearing Tuesday.
Tags: E-commerce, Data security, Vertrue Inc., Classmates.com, Affinion, advertisement, online retail, U.S. Senate, Continental Airlines Inc., e-mail
A look back at Arroyo's ICT term
Blogs As I watched the State of the Nation Address (Sona) of Pres. Gloria Arroyo last Monday, I noticed that she peppered her ...
Google announces Project 10^100 themes
News More than 150,000 ideas were submitted following Google's call for world-changing ideas, and the company has finally identified 16 categories of ideas for further voting.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Business Strategies & Functions, Idea, public sector, strategy, sustainability, spokesman, RFP, analysis
Will consumers plug into home energy displays?
News Dozens of companies are developing tools to ratchet down home energy use as part of utility smart grid programs, but nobody is sure which approach will stick with consumers.
Tags: Green IT, Google Inc., Energy Management Company, Home Energy Management Company, Security, software, U.S., network, Energy, Green IT
Khosla Ventures piles up US$1B for green tech
News Vinod Khosla is seeking out "science experiments" that address environmental problems and nabs former Facebook CFO and former CMEA investor to run two venture funds.
Tags: Green IT, Clean Technology, Manufacturing, Investor, venture capital, venture-capital fund, finance, biofuel, green technology, biotechnology
Where's technology when the earth shakes?
Blogs This past week has been calamity filled. Following the freak dust storm in Sydney, Typhoon Kestana flooded into the Phil...
