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  • May
  • 09
  • 2008

10 High-Tech Health Breakthroughs Coming Soon to Your Body

Medicine of the future will make even todays broad-based therapies obsolete. Breakthroughs such as cancer-hunting nanoparticles, virus-busting lasers and featherweight heart monitors have begun to usher in a new era of targeted treatment…

? PM NEWS: Developing a High-Tech Cure for the Superbug

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  • May
  • 09
  • 2008

26 Entrepreneur types from A - Z

From Againtrepreneur to Zentrepreneur, this list of 26 entrepreneur type classes is a mostly tongue-in-cheek representation of the people who want to be, but will never be, entrepreneurs.

Some that didn't make the cut.Altrepreneur An entrepreneur driven the chance to make an altruistic impact on society. Monetization is secondary. Tantrepeneur Entrepreneur currently residing in MiamiBonBontrepreneur An entrepreneur who stuffs…

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  • May
  • 07
  • 2008

Cubicle Culture: Tech’s top 10 workspaces

What makes for an appealing workspace? The envelopes they leave in your mailbox every two weeks. But after that, it comes down to design and amenities. Also, we like windows and brick. Lots and lots of brick. After spending some time on Office Snapshots, we present the ten best-looking offices in tech, below.

What makes for an appealing workspace? The envelopes they leave in your mailbox every two weeks. But after that, it comes down to design and amenities. Also, we like windows and brick. Lots and lots of brick. After spending some time on Office…

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  • May
  • 07
  • 2008

MySQL Server is now completely Open Source, even Backup extensions

official statment

As M?rten mentioned yesterday in the CommunityOne panel, expect Sun/MySQL to continue experimenting with the business model, and with what’s offered for the community and what’s offered commercial-only. We won’t…

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  • May
  • 05
  • 2008

20 most profitable tech companies

Check out the list of 20 most profitable tech companies.

Among Fortune 1000 techs, Microsoft remains on top, taking in $14.1 billion in earnings last year.

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  • May
  • 05
  • 2008

Does Ballmer Need To Go?

Microsofts dramatic decision this weekend to withdraw its offer for Yahoo and not pursue a hostile bid raises a whole host of questions. What happens to Yahoo now? What happens to Microsoft? Or is this just a tactic to drive down the price of Yahoos shares so that Microsoft can go hostile with a lower offer? does ballmer need to go?

Google, a company with a monopoly in search, should have just stood by and watched the trains either come together or pass each other on the rails. Instead, they immediately started talking with its competitor about how to thwart a deal with the…

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  • May
  • 04
  • 2008

Wifi antenna hack that will turn your $30 router into a $300 router

Make wifi signal booster using aluminum foil with pre-made template. Gain your wifi signal up to 12Db

As I promise before (Cheap Solution for Wireless Signal Booster (Homemade Wireless Antenna)) I would like to give instructions on how to create your own Wifi signal booster. Right now i am using free Wireless connection from school…

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  • May
  • 04
  • 2008

Breaking: Microsoft Walks

No Microhoo after all?

Some of you guys posting on here are morons and don’t have a damn clue about business. This isn’t about Microsoft being evil. Yahoo just literally signed their death sentence and in the process screwed over their shareholders….

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  • May
  • 03
  • 2008

Study: Myth That Most Tech Entrepreneurs Are College Kids

A new study from researchers at Duke University & Harvard University challenges the popular assumption that most technology entrepreneurs are college kids launching businesses from their dorm rooms.

The top ten schools awarding these entrepreneurs’ most advanced degrees were Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania State University, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, the…

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  • May
  • 01
  • 2008

Blog Rivals Engadget and Gizmodo - the Competition Heats Up

Lam threw open the door to his room and plugged his SLR into his MacBook Pro, with photos of scoops shots of CES. While he waited for the photos to upload, he logged on to Engadget to keep tabs on his nemesis. And that’s when he saw it.
Photos.
Of the same 150-inch television.
Posted 15 min earlier.

And like a couple of rival hometown newspapers, Engadget and Gizmodo have seen their competition develop into a full-blown feud, complete with charges of malfeasance and sabotage. Engadget rarely links to Gizmodo, and often it's to…

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  • Apr
  • 30
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House Of Lords Goes High-Tech

How The Centuries-Old Institution Is Embracing Technology

Now you're in the public comment zone. What follows is not CBS News stuff; it comes from other people and we don't vouch for it. A reminder: By using this Web site you agree to accept our Terms of Service. Click here to read the Rules of…

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  • Apr
  • 29
  • 2008

wearable computer systems: RallyPoint Handwear Computer

Some U.S. soldiers in Iraq are already equipped with wearable computer systems. But the lack of efficient input devices restricts their use to safer environments, such as the interior of a Humvee or a base station, where the soldier can set down his weapon and use the keyboard or mouse tethered to his body. Now RallyPoint, a startup based in Cambri

A typical wearable computer system consists of a helmet-mounted display and hardware the soldier wears around his waist. RallyPoint's engineers have designed their glove so that soldiers can grip other objects, such as their weapons or a…

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  • Apr
  • 29
  • 2008

SAI 25: The World’s Most Valuable Digital Startups - Silicon Alley Insider

Wondering how much your private company is worth? (Or your stock options in your private company?) Curious where your company ranks in the pantheon of digital market values? Wondering which companies might be next in line for a blockbuster IPO? Then you've come to the right place

AcknowledgmentsBefore moving on to the initial list, we want to thank the hundreds of companies, investors, and executives who have taken time over the past few months to submit nominations and share information with us. Thanks also to our…

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  • Apr
  • 27
  • 2008

Girls Love Linux

LinuxChix was founded in 1998-99 by Deb Richardson, who was a technical writer and webmaster at an open source consulting firm. Her reason for founding LinuxChix was to create an alternative to the “locker room mentality” of other Linux User Groups and forums.

If these tech leaders were to run for US President, who will you vote for?