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Sending Cell Phones Into the Cloud
Intel Research Berkeley scientists Byung-Gon Chun and Petros Maniatis have developed CloneCloud, a cloud computing-based clone of smartphones that can handle large...
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Consortium Lights the Way for Photonics Research Community
An umbrella group set up to give direction to Europe's emerging photonics community has proposed a program of strategic research and is calling for action to address...
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Rfid Wristband Becomes a Theme Park Essential
In a nondescript manufacturing plant on a quiet cul-de-sac in San Fernando, Calif., a khaki-green machine the size of a buffet table sucks in bright pink ribbon...
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Here Comes the Smart Grid
A new data model developed by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, at other universities, and in the private sector will help facilities and buildings...
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Software: The Eternal Battlefield in the Unending Cyberwars
Cybercriminals still have the upper hand on the Internet despite nearly two decades of technological advancement, and Carnegie Mellon University professor William...
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Iranians and Others Outwit Net Censors
People around the world are circumventing their governments' censorship of Web content using tools developed and provided by a diverse coalition of political and...
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Panel Advises Clarifying U.S. Plans on Cyberwar
A report based on a three-year study by a panel assembled by the National Academy of Sciences says the United States does not have a clear military policy on how...
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niversities Angle For Billions to Build Obama's New Broadband Network
Several higher-education information technology groups are working to influence the U.S. broadband strategy and help steer the distribution of $4.7 billion in Internet...
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Congressman Langevin Determined to Prevent a 'cyber 9/11'
In an interview, Rep. James R. Langevin (D-R.I.), the co-founder and co-chair of the House Cybersecurity Caucus, said he promises to do everything he can to prevent...
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Traffic Demands to Disrupt the Internet By 2010
The World Wide Web has reached a critical point, warns Nemertes Research in a new report, which claims that increased online traffic will likely result in slower...
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Smart Electric Vehicle Charger Won't Strain the Power Grid
Using a new technology developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, electric vehicle owners can plug in their cars and forget...
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Computers Bring Efficiency to the Infrastructure
Low-cost sensors, clever software, and computing firepower are key ingredients of an emerging computing trend called smart infrastructure — efficient and environmentally...
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U.S. Steps Up Effort on Digital Defenses
The United States is engaged in an international race to develop both cyberweapons and cyberdefenses. Thousands of daily attacks on federal and private computer...
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Google Tries Jump-Starting 3D Web Graphics
Google has released O3D, software designed to bring accelerated three-dimensional (3D) graphics to Web browsers. The program is a browser plug-in for Internet...
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.n. Launches Library of World's Knowledge
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has officially launched the World Digital Library, an Internet-based library that...
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Network Pioneer Cited For Revolutionary Advances in Web Search Techniques
ACM announced Tuesday (April 28) that Jon Kleinberg, a professor at Cornell University, is the recipient of the 2008 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing...
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Wireless Networks Can Now Be Truly Wireless
Researchers at Karlstad University in Sweden are collaborating with researchers at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories to test technology that promises to maintain the...
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Researchers Work on Web Site Credibility Tests
Scientists at the Know-Center, a technology research center in Austria, are developing software capable of quickly determining if a Web site is a credible source...
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Hackers: The China Syndrome
For years, the U.S. intelligence community worried that China's government was attacking our cyber-infrastructure. Now one man has discovered it's worse: It's hundreds...
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