Archive for July 21st, 2011

How Salesforce.com Plans to Extend Its Enterprise Reach

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How Salesforce.com Plans to Extend Its Enterprise Reach

Rackspace/NASA cloud project one year old this week

A year after Rackspace and NASA unveiled OpenStack, Rackspace is planning to deploy the open source software across its entire cloud infrastructure.

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Stereo 3D devices can be such a headache–literally

A study out of Berkeley finds that a phenomenon called vergence-accommodation–focusing on both the distance to a screen and the content in front of or behind that screen–can lead to discomfort, fatigue, and headaches.

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Inside Sprint’s cell phone testing labs (photos)

CNET goes inside Sprint’s testing labs in its Kansas headquarters to see how the carrier evaluates new cell phones before bringing them to market.

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Study: 19 percent of people drop phones down toilet

A study by online address-book site Plaxo suggests that nearly 1 in 5 people accidentally drop their phones into the loo, thus losing all their contacts. (And their pride.)

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Study: 19 percent of people drop phones down toilet

Apple touts 1M Lion downloads on Day 1

Apple said today that customers had downloaded more than one million copies of Mac OS X Lion from the Mac App Store in the upgrade’s first day of availability.

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AMD: Finding a CEO a top priority, the timeline isn’t

Chipmaker’s second-quarter results get overshadowed by the issue of the company’s search for a chief executive.

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IBM Said to Name Kevin Reardon as Head of M&A, Replacing Mendoza

International Business Machines Corp., the world’s biggest computer-services provider, appointed Kevin Reardon as head of mergers and acquisitions, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation.

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Brain implant for always-on Internet goes awry in new Web series

Twenty years into the future, after a third of the world’s population decides to have a computer system called H+ implanted in their brains in order to have an always-on Internet, things go terribly wrong. A malicious virus strikes this network and billions die, leaving the computer geek who invented H+ devastated as he and other survivors attempt to overcome this botched merging of man and machine.

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NASA says robots are key to future space exploration

As NASA’s 30-year space shuttle program draws to a close, engineers at the space agency are focusing on building advanced robots that will delve deeper into space.

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