For many markets there will be no Post-PC evolution. There will only be Post-PC. "A new report on the African telecommunications market highlights that mobile penetration in Africa hit 80 percent in …
Computer model predicts crime hot spots: Truants sometimes also are burglars
"And in a recent study from the University of California, Riverside, you might be interested in a new computer model that anticipates crime hot spots, according to the November 4, 2013 news release, …
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Scientists expect GOCE satellite to crash to Earth in just days
"The European Space Agency says its GOCE research satellite will crash to Earth on Sunday night or during the day on Monday, but debris is unlikely to cause any casualties. Scientists say the …
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Japan tests asteroid-blasting ‘space cannon’
"Japan’s space agency conducted a successful test this week of its ‘space cannon,’ expected to depart on a mission to shoot an asteroid in 2014, as part of the Hayabusa 2 mission. The Japan Aerospace …
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Some say health-care site’s problems highlight flawed federal IT policies
"Problems with the federal government’s new health-care Web site have attracted legions of armchair analysts who speak of its problems with ‘virtualization’ and ‘load testing.’ Yet increasingly, they …
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Amazon Web Services Wins Again In Battle To Build The CIA And NSA Cloud
"Amazon Web Services has won a major battle against IBM in the pursuit to build a cloud infrastructure for the intelligence community. In a ruling published today, U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge …
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Researchers implant false memories in mice
"Have you ever misremembered an event, while being totally certain it actually happened? Most people have experienced the unreliability of human memory. As it turns out, false memories are very easy …
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With A Half-Billion Dollar IT Budget, She May Be The Best U.S. Gov CIO
"Casey Coleman, the Chief Information Officer for the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) knows a thing or two about the challenges that private-sector businesses face today - managing …
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Chinese spaceship blasts off from Gobi Desert
Someone once remarked that the Chinese were going to the moon, but once there, they weren't coming back. " A Chinese spaceship blasted off Tuesday from a launch center in the Gobi Desert, carrying …
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Google blimps will carry wireless signal across Africa
It was always assumed that the last mile (or even the first mile) would be delivered via cellular technologies in developing nations. Google is offering up an alternative approach that is not …
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