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Last weekend, 150 people attended the Alcor life extension conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. The main subject was cryonics, the use of technology to cool and preserve the human body with the aim of future revival. The technology, still speculative, raises many present-world issues In 2003, a daughter of Ted Williams attempted to stop the cryonic sus...
Half a year after its first rollout of a passenger imaging security scanner in the Phoenix airport, the Transportation Security Administration is testing another form of this technology there Its latest security machine is based on millimeter-wave technology, which is similar in function to the X-ray backscatter technology TSA began testing in Febr...
The House Judiciary Committee has approved a four-year extension on a ban on taxing Internet services, endorsing what would be a mixed blessing to cable, telephone and Internet service companies that want Congress to make the ban permanent. The current moratorium, which is nearly a decade old, will expire Nov. 1, 2007 DontTaxOurWeb.org, a coalition...
Social networking technology. Blogs. Evite applications. Discussion forums. These, of course, are the heart of what has come to be called "Web 2.0." Now, what was once strictly a toy for consumers is transforming itself for corporate use. In the case of the sales function, that would be Sales 2.0 A typical example might be an invitation sent to a p...
Mobile phone carrier Sprint Nextel announced plans Wednesday to offer the BlackBerry Pearl 8130, the latest Pearl from smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM), in November. It is one of four handsets from Sprint that will make their debut in the coming weeks The addition of the Pearl will give Sprint users the "complete BlackBerry smartphone expe...
Virgin Mobile USA staged its long-anticipated initial public offering Thursday, raising more than US$400 million in the process, but investors gave the shares a fairly modest boost out of the gate Shares of the virtual network operator, which focuses on selling pay-as-you-go mobile services to a largely young audience, priced late Wednesday at $15,...
Firefox creator Mozilla is "serious" about creating a version of its browser for use on mobile phones, according to a company official who said the company's goal is to "rock" the mobile Web Mozilla is constantly being asked about its plans for a mobile browser, Mozilla engineering vice president Mike Schroepfer said on his blog. The company is cre...
Sony Ericsson posted quarterly results that show it continues to gain market share against some competitors but is doing so at the expense of its bottom line The fourth-largest handset maker posted its first year-over-year profit drop in two years, saying third quarter net earnings fell 10 percent to 267 million euros (US$379 million). Revenue was ...
Journyx, a provider of Web-based time tracking and project accounting applications, has released a stripped-down version of some of this functionality for the consulting industry Called the "Customer Cost Tracker," the Software as a Service (SaaS) tool's primary purpose is to help consulting and other service-based organizations understand the cost...
Once the software industry absorbed this week's news that SAP would be acquiring the French business intelligence vendorBusiness Objects for close to US$7 billion, speculation immediately shifted to what would happen to Cognos. With Oracle's digestion ofHyperion complete and the Business Objects sale looking very likely to occur, Cognos is the last of the large, independent BI vendors left standing...
Gaming fans may find that life in "SimCity" suddenly gets a lot more realistic this fall with the release of "SimCity Societies", which has been designed to incorporate some of the harsh realities of global warming Through a partnership between Electronic Arts (EA) and energy giant BP, the next-generation version of the bestselling game series comb...
Today, in order to have a commanding e-commerce presence with universal access, domain names must be treated like very special golden keys. Without an effective domain name, the entire exercise of Internet-centric commerce becomes almost useless Super success in cyber-branding lies in the sophisticated creation, development and ownership of these p...
Did you hit any garage sales when you were growing up? Most likely you didn't do it to save the planet but rather to make money or shop for bargains. Regardless of the motivation, a secondary result -- one with far grander, long-term benefits -- is that a lot of old items sold were kept out of the trash When yard sales and the want ads went online ...
Vendors and developers have invested large sums in RFID (radio frequency identification) and heavily promoted its use, especially in the retail, credit card and transportation industries, as well as across sectors for supply chain and inventory management Retailers, among others -- small and medium-sized businesses, particularly -- haven't been kee...
Heavy construction is under way to create an open playing field of interoperable technologies for users to navigate the so-called 3D Internet of the future Linden Lab, the creators of Second Life, and IBM announced Tuesday that they will work with other partners to drive open standards and tools where protocols and formats speak the same language....
Microsoft kept to its schedule in rolling out its October "Patch Tuesday" updates, which included four "critical" fixes -- two deemed "important" -- that in total address nine flaws. The security updates range from crucial patches for the Kodak Image Viewer to Microsoft's Outlook Express and Windows Mail applications to Word to an RPC (remote procedure code) flaw...
Japanese auto manufacturers will show off their hottest, quirkiest and most environmentally friendly automobiles at the upcoming 2007 Tokyo Motor Show later this month. Some car makers, however, are already previewing their upcoming creations, the most interesting of which are the concept cars While Honda, Nissan and Toyota have all unveiled boxy, ...
Following its acquisition of Stumbleupon earlier this year, eBay is wading deeper into the social networking waters with a collection of its own micro-communities designed to foster interaction and sharing among members, the company announced Wednesday The home-grown social networking feature, dubbed eBay Neighborhoods, currently includes more than...
Google on Wednesday launched the fifth version of its enterprise search appliance with more security, better internal search result relevance and a wider reach across enterprise content management (ECM) systems The Version 5.0 upgrades of the Google Search Appliance allow business managers to search across information silos using an enterprise conn...
Google has reached a deal to buy a Swedish firm that makes a social networking application that lets users blast their extended networks of friends with micro-blogs whether they're on a PC or a mobile phone Google did not disclose the terms of its acquisition of Jaiku, which is based in Helsinki; neither company said exactly how the firm's technolo...
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