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It was a time-tested tactic during ancient Roman times for generals to embrace their adversaries and bring them into the fold when they represented significant threats to the Empire that they could not otherwise defend against. A modern variation of this practice is becoming common across the media ...
Allegations of illegal gambling, reports of online orgies, and even an active investigation in Europe of sexual abuse and misconduct seem to have overshadowed the tamer daily goings-on in the virtual world Second Life. Yet, just this week, it was the locale of an innovative job fair in which upstand...
When billionaire Charles Simonyi blasted off into space for a visit to the International Space Station last month, he not only made history as the fifth private citizen to fly into orbit. He also fulfilled what for many is a lifelong dream: To explore the final frontier. The prospect of traveling in...
Some things never change -- in our memories, that is. We pump quarters into the jukebox in a crowded bar, waiting for our favorite singles to play and create just the right mood for the evening. We hold up wooden paddles at an estate auction, hoping to score that prized painting for a sweet price. T...
Software programmers, developers, analysts, engineers and architects are facing an ever-widening range of job roles and expectations. Organizations worldwide are asking more of these professionals, in ways rarely seen only a decade ago. "One of the things I've seen over the last three years is a dec...
Especially as Earth Day 2007 approaches, working to mitigate the effects of global warming and greenhouse gases, as well as protecting the environment, are topics on everyone's lips these days. While lawmakers around the world wrangle over car and factory emissions, international treaties, fossil fu...
You don't have to be a Democrat to scoff at the White House's recent assertion that some e-mails related to the recent firing of eight U.S. attorneys may be permanently lost. You just have to know something about networking and computers. "To truly lose an e-mail to the point that it is unrecoverabl...
In recent years, identity fraud has been researched and quantified possibly more than any other societal issue. However, all measurements of identity fraud have, to date, relied on victim accounts, whether recorded by Gartner or Javelin in consumer surveys or as reported to the Federal Trade Commiss...
John Edwards' campaign has stood out from the others for some time now for the fact that it has embraced the online game "Second Life" and set up a campaign headquarters in the game's virtual world. The French National Party was the first political organization to establish a presence in "Second Lif...
Much fund-raising is done on the candidates' own pages, although with varying degrees of emphasis. At John McCain's site, fund-raising is a major focus, but again with a grassroots feel. Visitors to the McCain home page are urged to do two things: 1) make a contribution, and 2) join McCain's "team."
When Phil de Vellis, creator of the "Hillary 1984" mashup video, wrote that "the game has changed," he summed up in four words the virtually earth-shaking revolution that is now changing the nature of the political campaign. Candidates in the 2008 presidential election face a landscape unlike any ot...
Today, most corporate CEOs come up through the ranks from either sales or operations. Fast forward a few years, though, and IT leadership may be a third route to the helm. A number of trends in recent years indicate that the role is evolving, said Martha Heller, managing director of the IT Leadershi...
Imagine a home with cheerful splashes of natural sunlight in every room at once -- even the interior ones -- all day long. Now imagine a world in which all citizens have access to the very best medical care, regardless of where they live. These are just two of many new applications of fiber optics t...
Cell phones are increasingly becoming miniature PCs. In keeping with that trend, major mobile carriers throughout the world have been enhancing their services to support IM functions, further blurring distinctions between the two devices. While the change should enable users to exchange information ...
Now that IBM and Intel have both created chips using 45nm process technology, it's clear chip technology will continue at least a little longer on the path predicted by Moore's Law, with ever-tinier creations coming out every two years or so. High-k metals, in particular, appear to help solve one o...
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