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<title>Smart Phone Apps Can Find You, Follow You (San Francisco Chronicle)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177115</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Smartphones apps are at last bringing about the local online world, where walking past a...</description>

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<title>A Hulu for Print (The Economist)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176984</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>In disproving the belief that old-media firms are slow to deal with new technology, an...</description>

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<title>Fuel-Cell Power-up (TECHNOLOGY REVIEW)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176974</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>MIT chemical-engineering professor Paula Hammond pinches what appears to be a small amount of Saran...</description>

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<title>Webcasting for the Masses (Streaming Media Magazine)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177024</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>New products and services for live streaming are making webcasting live events a much simpler...</description>

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<title>Why Facebook Wants Your ID (Business Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177099</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Facebook, the biggest social networking website worldwide, would benefit if it could customize its online...</description>

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<title>Make That 'Qualcomm Inside' (Business Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177167</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The high profile debut of the Nexus One smartphone has put the focus on Google,...</description>

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<title>Knowledge Genie Builds Platform for Authors (Information Today)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177085</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Knowledge Genie is an innovative new company that has developed an interactive digital publishing platform....</description>

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<title>Can AT&amp;T Tame the iHogs? (Business Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177098</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>AT&amp;T is planning to restrain heaviest iPhone users by introducing tiered pricing models. The carrier...</description>

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<title>Virtual Goods Paying Off for Web Firms (internet.Web)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177102</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Virtual goods have proved profitable for some web firms like Crowdstar, Zynga, Electronic Arts, and...</description>

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<title>The Enterprise's Fear of Facebook (Information Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177022</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>When Salesforce.com announced a new product, Chatter, described by CEO Marc Benioff as 'Facebook for...</description>

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<title>A New Way of Seeing, and Being? (Network World)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177064</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Innovative new tools allowing smartphone users to overlay digital data on live video is an...</description>

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<title>Patent Protection for Sale (Forbes)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177046</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>A recent startup firm, RPX, offers to help technology firms avoid patent hassles by buying...</description>

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<title>Has Microsoft Become Toothless or Friendlier? (Computerworld)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177032</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>In Silicon Valley, Microsoft does not get the hate it used to. A decade ago...</description>

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<title>LinkedIn Wants Users to Connect More (Wall Street Journal)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177113</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn, plans to add new features that will better engage users...</description>

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<title>Microsoft's Dropped Call (Wall Street Journal)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177114</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Research firm Gartner estimates that the share of Microsoft's Windows Mobile in the global mobile...</description>

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<title>Programming Skills Could Transform Librarians' Roles (Research Information)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177071</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Independent web analyst and consultant David Stuart argues that librarians need some programming skills to...</description>

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<title>Counting the Cost of Energy (Scientific Computing World)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177073</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Data analysis software is now being applied to the energy sector to address the three...</description>

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<title>Beyond the Ether (The Economist)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176983</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Ever since he invented Ethernet at 27 years old, the innovative Bob Metcalfe has taking...</description>

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<title>Sun + Water = Fuel (TECHNOLOGY REVIEW)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176973</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Daniel Nocera, a professor of chemistry at MIT, has created catalysts that enable sunlight to...</description>

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<title>It's All About the License (Information Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177090</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Karen Copenhaver, director of intellectual property strategy at the Linux Foundation and attorney with Choate...</description>

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<title>Google, AdMob draws consumer group scrutiny (San Francisco Chronicle)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177109</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The Center for Digital Democracy and Consumer Watchdog have together requested the Federal Trade Commission...</description>

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<title>Tips on Inexpensive Web Site Design (Folio:)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177091</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Industry veterans Joe Galarneau, CIO and SVP of operations at Newsweek, Inc. and Jason Brightman,...</description>

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<title>Keep the Meme Alive (Wired)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177081</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>While some websites live fast and die young, 'Homestar Runner' keeps going. 'Homestar Runner' was...</description>

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<title>As Facebook thrives, does privacy have to fade? (San Francisco Chronicle)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177111</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Social networking site Facebook recently introduced new privacy settings, triggering a spate of debates on...</description>

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<title>Fields of Automation (The Economist)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176981</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Via robotics, a new generation of agricultural equipment promises to make more of the toil...</description>

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<title>Reconnecting the Brain (Forbes)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177045</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The brains of individuals with paralyzed limbs don't 'know' that the limb is paralyzed. They...</description>

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<title>All On One Network (InTech)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177042</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Not many years ago few automated systems used wireless telemetry, and when they did it...</description>

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<title>Automotive Innovations Drive the Industry (Electronic Design)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177036</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Although 2009 was a very tough year for the auto industry, innovative technology solutions came...</description>

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<title>Race Heats Up to Supply E-Reader Screens (Wall Street Journal)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177112</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Prime View International Co. makes the E Ink screens used in e-readers such as Barnes...</description>

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<title>Smart phones - with apps - rule (San Francisco Chronicle)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177108</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Smartphones became a mainstream phenomenon in 2009, reshaping computing, web surfing, and information sharing. Computer...</description>

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<title>Spiders, Robots Obscure True Nature of Their Visit (News &amp; Tech)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177053</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Paywalls, copyright enforcement, and similar issues are hot topics of discussion in the online newspaper...</description>

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<title>Pioneers of the Private Cloud (Computerworld)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177031</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Private clouds are a growing presence in enterprise computing, as firms seek to gain some...</description>

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<title>New Solar Collector Materials Modeled with COMSOL Multiphysics (Desktop Engineering Magazine)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177056</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>COMSOL Multiphysics is being utilized by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems...</description>

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<title>Microsoft's 2010 Task: Make the Cloud Clear (Network World)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177063</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Microsoft wants to make the cloud clear in 2010, which is anticipated to be a...</description>

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<title>The Mobile Web Imperative (Information Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177020</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The mobile applications environment is bewildering, with mobile devices, operating systems, and applications proliferating, and...</description>

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<title>Free Them Vultures (eContent)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176967</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>This author is continuously amazed by how the world of online content and social media...</description>

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<title>An Electrifying Startup (TECHNOLOGY REVIEW)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176972</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>An innovative new lithium-ion battery developed by A123 Systems, a startup company in Watertown, Massachusetts,...</description>

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<title>Game Theory (Popular Science)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177049</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Could children playing video games be the future of education? Game designer and technology professor...</description>

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<title>Hackers' attacks rise in volume, sophistication (San Francisco Chronicle)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177107</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Security experts say that hacker attacks in 2009 were more sophisticated and prolific than ever....</description>

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<title>Robot roaches would be a benefit, not a pest (San Francisco Chronicle)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177106</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>UC Berkeley graduate student Paul Birkmeyer has designed a robotic cockroach that could save lives...</description>

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<title>Double Vision (Business Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177096</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The Nook ebook reader from Barnes &amp; Noble is able to perform most of the...</description>

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<title>9 Ways to Avoid Open Source Pitfalls (Information Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177089</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Companies that use open source codes to develop software need to plan and evaluate their...</description>

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<title>Business Models for News, Ebook Fever, and Search Engines Top the... (Information Today)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177084</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Newspapers and other news outlets are scrambling to find new business models, and the other...</description>

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<title>Serving Two Masters (Forbes)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177044</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The core challenge of globalization and development is that is that if the world's poor...</description>

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<title>Where Does Innovation Come From? (CRM)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177075</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Perhaps more than ever before, good ideas are needed, so this article examines where innovation...</description>

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<title>iPhone Apps Expand to Printing (Graphic Arts Monthly)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177066</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>With roughly 30 million iPhone owners globally, the market for new and innovative applications for...</description>

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<title>Green Ocean Energy Rides the Waves with ANSYS (Desktop Engineering Magazine)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177055</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Ironically, in the north of Scotland, a center of the oil &amp; gas industry thanks...</description>

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<title>Continuing Adjustments and New Opportunities in Enterprise and... (eContent)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176955</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>After various economic adjustments in 2009, publishers and content technology companies are hoping that the...</description>

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<title>Signing Electronic Documents (Macworld)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176896</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Digital signatures on PDF official documents are legally binding, and can incorporate your name, email...</description>

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<title>McAfee Wins Web Security Shootout (Network World)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177010</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>McAfee Web Gateway has topped the anti-malware gateways tests conducted by Barry Nance at Network...</description>

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<title>Cheap, Off-Grid Cooling (TECHNOLOGY REVIEW)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176970</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>An innovative new startup company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promethean Power Systems has developed a new...</description>

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<title>Make E-Mail Encryption Effortless (Baseline)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176988</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Email encryption is essential to enterprises, given their need to protect customer and corporate data....</description>

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<title>Read All About It (The Economist)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176979</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>One of the big surprises of 2009 has been the sudden surge in the popularity...</description>

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<title>Choosing the Best Protection (Photonics Spectra)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176942</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>According to Stephen Schanz, a teaching associate professor in the department of management innovation and...</description>

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<title>The Content Management Industry: Status and a Glimpse of the Road... (eContent)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176956</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Content management (CM) is a major problem that will keep growing an a rapid pace...</description>

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<title>Renault Bets on Electric Vehicles (TECHNOLOGY REVIEW)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176971</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>French automaker Renault has its doubts that hybrids can decrease emissions adequately, so it is...</description>

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<title>Divide and Conquer Your Busy, Busy Life (Mac Life)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177012</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Filemaker Inc.'s user-friendly database application software named Bento 3 has been designed taking into consideration...</description>

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<title>Forecast calls for more clouds in computing (San Francisco Chronicle)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177105</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Google, Workday Inc., and Authoria Inc. are hosting Avago Technologies' recruiting, human resources, email, and...</description>

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<title>What Goes Mobile? (Information Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177019</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Companies are finding smartphone applications that go well beyond such basics as email and browsing,...</description>

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<title>Nuclear's Next Generation (The Economist)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176980</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Six new blueprints for nuclear power-stations promise innovations in efficiency and safety, so this article...</description>

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<title>'War of Innovation' Will Change Face of Search (Computerworld)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177030</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Microsoft's challenge to Google's search dominance, Bing, has triggered a 'war of innovation' between the...</description>

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<title>Where's the Teaching Camera of Today? (Streaming Media Magazine)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177023</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Apple caused a lot of buzz by packing video recording capability into the iPhone 3GS,...</description>

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<title>Chrome OS Move Heats Up Microsoft-Google Rivalry (Computerworld)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176975</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>When Google Inc. finally released its Chrome operating system to the open-source community in November...</description>

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<title>Powering the Drive (The Economist)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176978</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Manufacturers of electric cars and potential purchasers will need to find ways to cope with...</description>

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<title>2D Communications Sheet Challenges 3D Trends (Electronic Design)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176946</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>In October 2009, Teijin Fibers introduced a 2D communication sheet that challenges 3D trends by...</description>

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<title>Take DAQ Beyond Tradition to Make Sense of Data (Automation World)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176949</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Third-party analytical assistance, such as that provided by ScientificConservation of Berkeley, California, is helping companies...</description>

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<title>Nuclear-Lite (Forbes)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177003</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>David Crane, chief executive of power company NRG Energy, hopes to build a two-reactor nuclear...</description>

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<title>Solar Dishes Popping Up in US Deserts (Photonics Spectra)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176941</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Next-generation solar dishes known as SunCatchers are appearing like desert cactus flowers, with a light...</description>

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<title>Follow the Money (CIO)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176998</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Smart retailers execute highly innovative--often technology-backed--projects to boost their revenue. Examples include coupons by text...</description>

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<title>With Lab-on-Chip Prototype, IBM Predicts 15-Second Flu Test (EE Times)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176992</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>IBM Research in Zurich has prototyped a lab-on-chip that allows point-of-care testing. The lab-on-chip processes...</description>

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<title>Auto Industry is Set to Reap Cost and Performance Benefits from... (Laser Focus World)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176948</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The compact, low-energy-consumption performance-rich attributes of photonic technologies solidify their spot in the automobiles of...</description>

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<title>A Look at Media &amp; Information Industry M&amp;A (eContent)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176954</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Mergers and acquisitions (M&amp;A) for the media and information industry went from one extreme to...</description>

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<title>Better Ways to Collaborate (The Economist)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176977</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>E-mail has significant restrictions as an online collaboration tool, yet it has the benefit of...</description>

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<title>Dual Solar Sailing Projects Eye Circumnavigation (Photonics Spectra)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176940</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Sailing under wind power has always been green, yet two innovative solar boat projects bring...</description>

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<title>Science Fiction Meets Science Fact in Today's Robot Research (Electronic Design)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176945</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>In modern-day robot research, variety is the spice of life as robots came in all...</description>

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<title>With Scant Jobs, Grads Make Their Own (Wall Street Journal)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177018</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The current unemployment rate--of 16 percent--for people in the 20-24 age group is forcing an...</description>

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<title>A Step Beyond Human (Forbes)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177002</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Hugh Herr, director of the biomechatronics group at MIT, is building advanced prosthetic feet. Himself...</description>

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<title>Prevent Blindness in the World's Poorest Preemies? There's an App... (EE Times)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176991</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Pediatric retinal surgeons in India are using the iPhone, along with software from i2i Telesolutions,...</description>

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<title>Taming IT Mgmt. Complexity (Network World)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177009</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Newcomers to IT management are adopting complex technologies such as virtualization, cloud computing, and other...</description>

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<title>Mint.com Takes a Fresh Approach (Target Marketing)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177005</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Mint.com, a personal financial management service that helps members track their investments online, has used...</description>

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<title>Painting the Roof with Solar Ink (Photonics Spectra)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176939</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Covering rooftops with solar cells came one notch closer to reality recently when JA Solar...</description>

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<title>Cellulolytic Enzymes (TECHNOLOGY REVIEW)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176969</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Frances Arnold, a professor of chemical engineering and biochemistry at Caltech, is tackling one of...</description>

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<title>Three Characteristics of Strategic Content Management (eContent)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176953</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The Gilbane Group says that the main considerations for purchasers in the 2010 digital content...</description>

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<title>Business Gets Social (Baseline)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176987</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Businesses need focused strategies to better utilize social media services. The 'many-to-many' broadcast model of...</description>

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<title>A Question of Character (The Economist)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176976</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Sending a text message is frequently the most time-consuming and costly way to transfer data...</description>

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<title>The Price of Biofuels (TECHNOLOGY REVIEW)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176968</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>It is debatable whether we really have any alternative to biofuels even though making ethanol...</description>

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<title>What Do You Want to Know About Tomorrow? (eContent)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176952</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The Software &amp; Information Industry Association (SIIA) is constantly talking with its members to make...</description>

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<title>Your iPhone Just Called: Your Blood-Sugar Is High (Wall Street Journal)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177017</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Polka, Ringful, and TheCarrot.com are services that are helping consumers to use their smartphones for...</description>

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<title>The Genomics Gold Rush (Bio IT World)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176947</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Beckman Coulter is betting that the mainstreaming of genomics-based research and the future growth of...</description>

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<title>Will Android Open the Set-Top Box? (Electronic Design)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176944</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>This author is hoping for an Android set-top box (STB) as part of the Open...</description>

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<title>The Photo Editor We Want to Hang Out With (Mac Life)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177011</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Adobe's Photoshop Elements 8 combines intuitive, helpful tools required by average users with new powerful...</description>

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<title>Making Virtual Games: In, Around and Out of the World (Photonics Spectra)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176938</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>A group of 22 sixth- to 10th-grade Girl Scouts at ASA Academy &amp; Community Science...</description>

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<title>Will Work for Nothing (Forbes)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177001</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Many computer programmers develop software programs and offer them as free downloads on the Web....</description>

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<title>TV on the Go (TIME)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177004</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Personal TV (PTV), a direct-to-consumer gadget from Flo TV, streams digital content--previously aired and live--on...</description>

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<title>Apple TV-Service Proposal Gets Some Nibbles (Wall Street Journal)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177016</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Walt Disney Co. and CBS Corp. are planning to participate in Apple's new service to...</description>

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<title>InSites (eContent)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176951</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Though outside the scope of the EContent 100 list, there are some websites, projects, and...</description>

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<title>Acer's Mobile Gamble (Forbes)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177000</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Computer maker Acer is entering the overcrowded mobile phone market. Acer, founded as a microprocessor...</description>

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<title>Apple firing on all cylinders in stellar year (San Francisco Chronicle)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177015</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The year 2009 has been good for Apple Inc. The company was able to achieve...</description>

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<title>Which Mobile OS is Best for Apps? (Network World)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177008</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Apple's iPhone and RIM's BlackBerry line of smartphones are popular with application developers. Paul Reddick,...</description>

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<title>Supercomputing's Top500: AMD Fuels Top Machines, but Intel Dominates (EE Times)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176990</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>According to the latest list of Top500 supercomputers in the world, processors from Advanced Micro...</description>

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<title>Telepresence for the Present (CIO)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176996</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Telepresence systems, which are high-definition video conferencing solutions, are offered by major vendors, including Cisco,...</description>

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<title>MEMS Inertial Sensor Combines Breakthroughs in Performance and Cost (Electronic Design)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176943</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>This author's interest was piqued by a recent request from company representative of Hewlett-Packard to...</description>

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<title>The Pulse of Innovation (CIO)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176995</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Heart device maker Boston Scientific is piloting Goldfire software from Invention Machine to enhance the...</description>

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<title>Snack Attack (Forbes)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176999</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Berkeley-based Cantaloupe Systems makes computer-monitoring hardware that can be installed in vending machines to streamline...</description>

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<title>Making the Most of Technology (Baseline)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176986</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID), business intelligence/analytics (BI/BA), and product lifecycle management (PLM)...</description>

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<title>Twitter search deals should push it into black (San Francisco Chronicle)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177014</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Microblogging site Twitter would earn a small profit in 2009 through its $25 million web...</description>

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<title>Ford Seeks iPhone-Like Apps for Its Cars (Wall Street Journal)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176929</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Ford Motor Co. plans to convince software developers to create smartphone applications--for its cars--by utilizing...</description>

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<title>New Company Allows Papers to Mash In Content (News &amp; Tech)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176904</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>A startup firm, MashLogic, is offering news publishers a new linking tool that allows more...</description>

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<title>Popularity of online group discount sites grows (San Francisco Chronicle)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177013</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Online group discount websites, such as Groupon, Living Social, and Groop Swoop, are gaining in...</description>

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<title>iPhone Winning Over IT Security Skeptics (Network World)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00177007</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Apple has enhanced its iPhones to match some of the security features available in Windows...</description>

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<title>Smartphones: Passion to Profit and Productivity (Information Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176915</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Smartphones are favored by users and IT personnel alike, given the numerous benefits the devices...</description>

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<title>RadioShack's Wireless Ambitions (Business Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176887</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>RadioShack, long associated with routine household electrical parts, is seeking to buff up it image...</description>

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<title>Has Natural Gas's Moment Come? (Wall Street Journal)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176925</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The seemingly stable prices of natural gas in North America are likely to transform the...</description>

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<title>The Surge in Electric Cars (Wall Street Journal)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176926</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Silicon Valley-based Tesla Motors Inc. has been selling all-electric cars named Roadsters during the last...</description>

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<title>Price Check: Finding Deals With a Phone (Wall Street Journal)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176927</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Mobile shopping applications, such as TheFind Inc.'s 'Where to Shop' and Big In Japan Inc.'s...</description>

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<title>Bento 3 (Macworld)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176893</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The Bento 3 database program release from FileMaker incorporates handy new features such as database...</description>

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<title>Clean Up Your iTunes Library (Macworld)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176894</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Any longtime fan of digital music is likely to have accumulated a somewhat disorganized library,...</description>

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<title>Schering-Plough's Search for Biomarkers (Bio IT World)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176837</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Schering-Plough has set up a Translational Medicine Research Centre (TMRC) biomarker discovery center in Biapolis,...</description>

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<title>So Now That They're Here, Who'll Read e-Readers? (News &amp; Tech)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176903</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Columnist Jim Chisholm notes that 2009 has been a very good year for electronic gadgets,...</description>

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<title>Selling and Software (Wall Street Journal)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176936</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>In his new book titled 'Behind the Cloud,' Marc Benioff, founder of Salesforce.com and an...</description>

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<title>Social Media Put to the Test (Washington Technology)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176917</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The Navy is exploring how new social media tools can be used during disaster relief...</description>

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<title>Philanthropy the Microsoft Way (Business Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176886</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Jeffrey S. Raikes, head of the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, is seeking to bring...</description>

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<title>Is It Possible to Have Predictive Metrics? (Supply Chain Management Review)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176918</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Supply chain metrics can be analyzed for identifying trends and possible problems. Linda Haydamous, a...</description>

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<title>Insider Pushes Ma Bell Beyond Just Phones (Wall Street Journal)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176924</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Glenn Lurie, head of the Emerging Devices group of AT&amp;T, is adding wireless capability to...</description>

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<title>Search Diversity (BtoB)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176899</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Search is evolving rapidly, expanding and fragmenting into specialties such as mobile, video, real-time, and...</description>

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<title>The Leading Manufacturing Innovations Are Being Driven By... (Industry Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176880</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>A revolution in manufacturing is underway, with innovation being driven primarily by globalization, the growing...</description>

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<title>The Promiscuity Problem (The Economist)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176889</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>When it comes to reading online news, Britons are 'shamelessly promiscuous.' And this is bad...</description>

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<title>The Man Behind the Netbook Craze (FORTUNE)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176910</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Jonney Shih, chairman of Asustek (Asus), joined Asus in 1994 as CEO. Shih was earlier...</description>

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<title>How kaChing may shift mutual fund industry (San Francisco Chronicle)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176935</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>California-based kaChing, an investment advisory startup company, plans to revolutionize the mutual funds industry, which...</description>

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<title>Cloud Storage the ParaScale Way (Bio IT World)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176836</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Sajai Krishnan, CEO of Silicon Valley's venture-funded ParaScale, believes that cloud computing and cloud storage...</description>

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<title>German Individualized Daily to Launch Nov. 16 (News &amp; Tech)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176902</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>A German publisher, InterTi GmbH, has partnered with printer Reprotechnik to produce an individualized newspaper...</description>

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<title>Apple May Ship Tablet as Early as March, Analysts Say (InfoWorld.Web)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176907</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Analysts say Apple may unveil its new 10.1-in. tablet within the next few months. According...</description>

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<title>Tesla hopes long car trip ends 'range anxiety' (San Francisco Chronicle)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176934</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Tesla Motors is planning to send Roadster, its all-electric sports car, on a long range...</description>

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<title>Secure Software Needs Careful Testing--and Lots of It (Information Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176914</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>When software modules are integrated to form larger systems, system testing and integration testing checks...</description>

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<title>Giving a Heart a Hand (Wall Street Journal)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176923</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Left-ventricular assist device (LVAD), an innovative mechanical pump, can be used for heart failure patients...</description>

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<title>Adventures in Mobile Marketing (Target Marketing)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176876</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>While the biggest buzz has centered on social media, another type of online marketing is...</description>

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<title>Google Set To Market Own Phone Next Year (Wall Street Journal)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176922</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Internet giant Google plans to directly sell its cellphone 'Nexus One' in 2010, signaling its...</description>

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<title>Upgrading the Children (The Economist)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176888</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The small African country of Rwanda has sometimes been called Africa's high-tech country, and it...</description>

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<title>Custom Publishing on the Upswing (BtoB)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176898</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Custom publishing used to mean little more than 'advertorial' sections in trade publications, or magazine-style...</description>

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<title>Hampton Sponsors USA Today Travel App (DMNews)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176882</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>USA Today has launched a new iPhone app, AutoPilot, that is aimed at travelers. The...</description>

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<title>A Web Presence Needs Sizzle, for Schizzle (Information Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176911</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Customer engagement is key to success on the Web though there is no sure-fire method...</description>

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<title>Google moving forward on Nexus One smart phone (San Francisco Chronicle)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176933</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Google is working on its smartphone Nexus One, which is expected to be launched in...</description>

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<title>The Corporate Facebook (Information Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176873</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Salesforce.com promotes its software-as-a-service (SaaS) model as liberating customers from the burdens of licensing software...</description>

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<title>Amylin, Amazon, and the Cloud (Bio IT World)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176835</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Amylin CIO Steve Phillpott realized he had a space problem in 2008, so rather than...</description>

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<title>The Omnipotence Machines (Scientific American)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176856</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Earlier in 2009, Hewlett-Packard announced the launch of its Central Nervous System for the Earth...</description>

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<title>Beware Social Media Snake Oil (Business Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176885</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The social media boom has caught the attention of business, which is fascinated by the...</description>

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<title>Microsoft's Azure Skies (Bio IT World)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176834</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Mike Naimioli, Microsoft's industry director for life sciences in the U.S., is a biopharma scientist...</description>

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<title>The Looming Crisis in Human Genetics (The Economist)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176855</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Human geneticists have reached a private crisis of conscience that will become public knowledge in...</description>

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<title>Google Gauntlet (The Deal)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176872</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>When Rupert Murdoch took a swipe at Google during a recent Australian television interview it...</description>

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<title>Can This Man Save AOL? (Business Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176884</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Tim Armstrong left Google in early 2009 to take on a tough assignment as head...</description>

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<title>Fla. Publisher Reaches for Cloud (News &amp; Tech)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176901</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Florida-based publisher Sun Coast Media Group has taken the leap into cloud computing and software...</description>

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<title>Google brings app-making to the masses (San Francisco Chronicle)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176932</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Google is involving the masses for developing application programs for its Android OS. For example,...</description>

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<title>Apple, Google Rivalry Heats Up (Wall Street Journal)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176920</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Apple and Google are competing with each other to acquire the same startup companies in...</description>

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<title>Space, the Fiscal Frontier (The Economist)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176854</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>For the first time in its history, NASA has decided to turn over the transport...</description>

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<title>Facebook, Twitter boost online sales (San Francisco Chronicle)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176870</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>A comScore survey has revealed that social media has been able to influence about 28...</description>

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<title>The Redemption of an Ogre (FAST COMPANY)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176793</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation, had been responsible for the re-emergence of animation as...</description>

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<title>Integration and Disintegration (eContent)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176843</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Multiple marketplaces were jolted in September 2009 when Adobe Systems, Inc. acquired web analytics vendor...</description>

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<title>Facebook fine tunes privacy controls (San Francisco Chronicle)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176869</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Facebook has recently introduced new privacy settings that would let the site's users enjoy better...</description>

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<title>Mobile as Marketing Medium (BtoB)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176897</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Mobile devices are rapidly emerging as a marketing medium, propelled not only by the growing...</description>

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<title>In Energy Innovation, Everything New Is Old Again (Wall Street Journal)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176919</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The adoption of new technologies in the renewable energy sector is expensive and slow. In...</description>

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<title>New Rules for Free Apps (Macworld)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176892</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>A change in Apple App Store policy promises to add opportunities for app vendors and...</description>

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<title>Pharma's Early Cloud Adopters (Bio IT World)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176833</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>There are many early adopters of cloud computing in the pharmaceutical industry, such as Giles...</description>

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<title>The Everything TV (Scientific American)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176828</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The Internet is ready to upend the television-viewing experience, but precisely how is a matter...</description>

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<title>Bandwidth on the Run (OMMA)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176692</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The enormous growth in online video is placing unprecedented demands on Internet bandwidth, and the...</description>

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<title>Open Source Companies to Watch (Network World)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176810</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Open source vendors, especially those focusing on cloud computing, security, and collaboration products, are making...</description>

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<title>Speech to Text (and 64-bit Performance) in Adobe Production... (eventDV)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176800</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The Speech to Text feature included by Adobe in its audio and video editing applications...</description>

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<title>Pennies from Heaven (CIO)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176798</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>TransUnion, a consumer credit reporting agency worth $1.2 billion, is providing revenue-creating applications for its...</description>

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<title>Cisco Pushes to Open Telepresence (Network World)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176811</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Cisco will be submitting its telepresence protocol to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The...</description>

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<title>Navigation devices going mobile (San Francisco Chronicle)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176866</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Personal navigation devices that registered increased sales in the first half of 2008 later suffered...</description>

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<title>Google search to incorporate blogs, Twitter (San Francisco Chronicle)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176867</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Fresh information from Twitter, blogs, and other popular news websites would be incorporated in Google...</description>

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<title>When Less is Less (Business Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176788</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>TwitterPeek is a new device that performs the task of managing Twitter streams of a...</description>

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<title>Google - from friend to foe? (San Francisco Chronicle)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176865</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Google today is a brand that is worth over $100 billion. The company has achieved...</description>

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<title>To Charge or Not To Charge (BtoB Media Business)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176796</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The ongoing paid-versus-free content debate among business to business (b-to-b) publishers is not likely to...</description>

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<title>Google Rolls Out New Tools As It Battles Rivals (Wall Street Journal)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176860</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Google has recently launched a range of new web initiatives to fend off competitors in...</description>

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<title>Vehicle Telemetry: Calling All Cars (The Economist)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176797</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Remote vehicle monitoring using telemetry systems could be valuable for new generation electric cars. An...</description>

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<title>Print Is Not Dead, but Paper May Be (RTC Magazine)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176823</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Arguments over the fate of print publishing often focus on print versus web advertising because...</description>

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<title>Buying in Bulk (Mac Life)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176777</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Innovative changes in Aspyr Media's Civilization IV video game have resulted in the development of...</description>

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<title>Blinded by the Tweet (OMMA)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176693</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Social media may be getting all the buzz, but the future of marketing will be...</description>

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<title>Cycle Computing's Tour de Cloud (Bio IT World)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176832</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Making practical use of resources such as Amazon's EC2 is not straightforward, in spite of...</description>

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<title>Know if Disease Grows Inside You (Scientific American)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176857</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The most difficult diseases to cure are those that take the longest to develop, but...</description>

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<title>Getting the Mobile Ad Message (eContent)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176841</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>This author sees a subtle yet major shift in the way publishers perceive and promote...</description>

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<title>Asia's Green-Tech Rivals (The Economist)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176850</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Intense battle lines are being drawn in Asia over clean-energy technologies, as governments adapt their...</description>

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<title>Young Turks, Indeed (FAST COMPANY)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176790</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Host Cenk Uygur of Internet-based talk show 'The Young Turks (TYT)' says he was aware...</description>

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<title>Hulu's Tough Choices (Business Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176786</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The Hulu online video service attracts about 40 million viewers per month. The site's catalog...</description>

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<title>New game for PlayStation 3: Crunching numbers (San Francisco Chronicle)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176864</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Sony's PlayStation 3--released four years back--for games and fun applications is being used by some...</description>

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<title>Intel/AMD Deal: Virtualization Boon? (Network World)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176808</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Chipmaker Intel has agreed to pay $1.25 billion to rival AMD, and the companies have...</description>

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<title>Wooden Performance (OMMA)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176691</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Facebook usually moves quickly to delete fake user profiles, but it made an exception for...</description>

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<title>The 'C' Word (Bio IT World)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176831</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>BioTeam co-founder and technology director Chris Dagdigian is a big fan of 'cloud computing' yet...</description>

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<title>Murdoch vs. Google (Business Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176785</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The proposed deal between News Corp. and Microsoft--to deliver content on 'The Wall Street Journal'...</description>

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<title>Hearst Plans Digital Magazine, Newspaper Service (Wall Street Journal)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176859</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Publisher Hearst Corp. is planning to launch Skiff, a service for selling digital versions of...</description>

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<title>Analysts Eye Intel's Moves in France (EE Times)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176802</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Aiming to make its presence stronger in France, chipmaker Intel has invested in a high-performance...</description>

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<title>Web-wide War (The Economist)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176806</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Microsoft is discussing an excusive content deal with News Corp. that would make content on...</description>

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<title>Microsoft Life Science (Bio IT World)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176830</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Soon after naming Merck &amp; Company a customer and development partner, Microsoft has attracted a...</description>

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<title>The New Synergy Between Print and the Web (Computers in Libraries)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176687</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Innovations in technology and the changing ways people use the Web may enable a 'new'...</description>

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<title>Microsoft, Google Take Maps in New Direction (Wall Street Journal)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176858</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Microsoft has recently launched the Bing Maps website, which supplements aerial views --of cities--with rich...</description>

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<title>iTunes LP at 33rpm (Mac Life)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176776</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>iTunes LP, the latest music format from Apple, covers image, video, and music files that...</description>

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<title>A New Place for IT (Information Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176705</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Heating, lighting, and air conditioning for buildings are not things we typically associate with information...</description>

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<title>No More Grid-Lock (Information Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176706</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Electric and gas utilities are moving toward adopting innovations in technology to produce a 'smart...</description>

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<title>Listen: All Things Audio (Mac Life)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176775</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>It looks as if the current iPod line is running out of capabilities and features....</description>

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<title>Beyond Street Smarts (Information Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176704</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Police agencies once suffered from a shortage of raw information, but now they are afloat...</description>

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<title>Augmented Reality: Not That Real Yet (Business Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176758</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Augmented reality (AR) integrates the ability of a smartphone to shoot pictures, pinpoint user location,...</description>

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<title>Virtual Desktops Are For Real (Information Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176762</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) software products seem ready for widespread use. Nine VDI products designed...</description>

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<title>OpenSUSE 11.2 Exposes, Integrates Community-Packaged Software (eWeek)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176767</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>OpenSUSE 11.2, the latest release of Novell's Linux distribution, incorporates the best and most recent...</description>

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<title>Social networking on the go (San Francisco Chronicle)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176818</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Mobile social networking services allow users to update their current locations to their friends. Foursquare,...</description>

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<title>Videos on TV With a Flip of a Channel (Wall Street Journal)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176822</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>FlipShare TV is a device that plugs into a TV and wirelessly receives home videos...</description>

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<title>The K--12 Online Evolution (MultiMedia &amp; Internet@schools)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176681</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Online learning is growing and evolving rapidly, pointing toward a learning environment that the author...</description>

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<title>Multitouch Gains Momentum (Information Week)</title>
<link>http://www.tectrends.com/cgi/showan?an=00176763</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Touchscreen devices with gesture-based, multiuser interfaces are changing the way users interact with computing devices....</description>

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