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Lab Notes from UC Berkeley Engineering. In my latest issue of Lab Notes from UC Berkeley's College of Engineering:
* Clearer vision for unmanned air vehicles
* Radar for grape growers means better wine
* Bio-chips for detecting "break-bone fever" in South America
* and why so many people die at railroad crossings.
Stop on by!
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CNET News.com - Front Door
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AOL sends Communicator to Macs. America Online extends its Communicator e-mail and IM account management tool to Apple Computer's Mac OS X operating system. |
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IBM unveils storage management system. Big Blue steps up its on-demand computing efforts, announcing the shipping date for a product to link servers and data storage devices for better data access. |
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Yahoo! News - Technology
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IBM's chemical trial set to begin (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday in the first major case to put the electronics manufacturing industry on trial for concealing knowledge of harmful working conditions in its early clean rooms. |
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Retiring BEA co-founder sells shares to repay loan (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - Retiring BEA Systems co-founder and Director Bill Coleman sold more than $9 million of his holdings in the software provider's stock last month as shares reached a 52-week high. |
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Lucent, AT&T Wireless to Test New Network (Reuters). Reuters - Telecommunications equipment company
Lucent Technologies Inc. (LU.N) on Monday said it was working
with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. (AWE.N), the No. 3 U.S.
wireless telephone company, to test a next-generation wireless
network in Miami. |
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HP Highlights Mobility (PC World). PC World - Fiorina unveils wireless strategy, plus new iPaqs, notebooks, and a Tablet PC. |
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Microsoft, Vodafone form partnership in mobile Internet services standards (AFP). AFP - Microsoft, the world's leading software maker, and British mobile phone giant Vodafone announced plans to develop mobile Internet services standards aimed at promoting new integration of fixed and wireless networks. |
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Music Labels Launch Mobile Song-Swapping Technology (Reuters). Reuters - Music giants Warner Music and
Bertelsmann's BMG introduced on Monday a new anti-piracy
technology enabling music fans to download songs onto a mobile
phone and share the music with friends. |
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NY Times on VoIP, Skype Profile and the FBI |
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'Smart' Clothing: A Fashion Show |
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Interview With Bjarne Stroustrup |
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BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
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Apple powers supercomputer. A US college has been able to build a supercomputer by hooking up hundreds of Apple G5 computers. |
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Motorola unveils surprise profit jump. Struggling US telecoms giant Motorola posts quarterly profits twice as big as Wall Street estimates. |
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InfoWorld: Top News
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Microsoft, IBM ramp up SMB battle. Microsoft accelerated its push into the SMB (small to midsize business) market at its annual partner conference last week by launching two updated versions of its SBS (Small Business Server). |
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MPF illuminates chip designs. Amid signs of a possible rebound in chip sales, semiconductor companies are gathering this week in San Jose, Calif., to discuss future processor designs for both server and PC chips at the Microprocessor Forum. |
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BI brews with Java. The Java platform's maturity is driving the emergence of embedded BI reporting tools that infuse applications with critical reporting. |
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Portals plant new integration style. Portal vendors are changing their products into independent architecture layers that span a broad set of infrastructure pieces. As a result, the technology is enabling a new style of integration conducted by end-users at the browser level. |
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BEA unlocks first security product. Out to change the way developers secure applications, BEA Systems this week will release WLES (WebLogic Enterprise Security), its first stand-alone security software product. |
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Russia mobile market grows, but data services lag. The number of cellular phone users in Russia broke the 30 million barrier in September, but despite significant growth, digital data services have yet to catch on with Russian users. |
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Sun, Fujitsu take Sparc to 90 nanometers. Sun Microsystems Inc. and Fujitsu Microelectronics Inc. plan to reveal details about their new dual-core Sparc-based processors at the Microprocessor Forum conference in San Jose, California, this week. |
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Arm unveils new cores to kick off Microprocessor Forum. Mobile processor core designer Arm Ltd. announced two new series of processor cores for embedded and handset processors at the Microprocessor Forum Monday in San Jose, California. |
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Microsoft, Vodafone aim to bridge PC, mobile services. Microsoft Corp. and Vodafone Group PLC announced a partnership Monday that aims to bridge the gap between services offered over mobile networks and applications built for PCs. |
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China Grid project goes live. On Monday, the Chinese Ministry of Education, in conjunction with a dozen universities, plans to go live with a grid computing project that is expected to eventually connect as many as 200,000 students in 100 universities across the country.
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InfoWorld: Security
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BEA unlocks first security product. Security architecture targets developer headaches |
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SecurityFocus
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BugTraq: Re: New AIM Expliot/Worm/Adware-script (realphx.com related). Sender: Thor Larholm [thor at pivx dot com] |
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BugTraq: Re: Bad news on RPC DCOM vulnerability. Sender: Terence Runge [terencerunge at sbcglobal dot net] |
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BugTraq: Re: Bad news on RPC DCOM vulnerability. Sender: Terence Runge [terencerunge at sbcglobal dot net] |
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BugTraq: Re: Gallery 1.4 including file vulnerability. Sender: Bharat Mediratta [bharat at menalto dot com] |
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Vulnerabilities: Rit Research Labs TinyWeb Server Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability. TinyWeb is a small web server daemon available for the Microsoft Windows operating system.
A vulnerability has been reported in the software that may allow a remote atta... |
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The Register
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The Cloud drifts into Europe with Wi-Fi deals. Teams up with Boingo too |