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IBM claims ‘Quicksilver’ flash sets data-speed record

Friday, August 29th, 2008

A project under development from IBM is setting new records for data-transfer speeds using solid-state technology with one million input/outputs per second. IBM has said its ‘Project Quicksilver’ is setting new records for data-transfer speeds on solid-state technology, with its tests showing a disk-storage solution hitting one million input/outputs…
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Zenn swaps motors in latest electric cars

Friday, February 1st, 2008

It doesn’t go far, but the new vehicle from Zenn Motor doesn’t use gas either.Photo: Zenn’s new low-speed electric car Zenn Motor plans to release a new line of cars in a few weeks that will run on more powerful AC motors–but consumers will have to wait for…
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The productivity paradox

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Smartsheet’s Brent Frei and Mark Mader offer their take on why productivity growth has mysteriously slowed since 2004. If there were a Productivity Hall of Fame, John Deere would definitely occupy a place of prominence. The 19th century inventor introduced his cutting-edge steel plow with…
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On ‘creative capitalism,’ Gates gets it

Friday, January 25th, 2008

perspective More people should follow the lead of Microsoft’s co-founder in freeing up innovative thinkers to help the developing world, and not just cause it feels good. Editor’s note: CNET News.com editor at large Michael Kanellos and chief political correspondent Declan McCullagh are facing off over Bill Gates’…
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Nokia finds Romania’s hidden labor force

Friday, January 25th, 2008

The village of Jucu doesn’t have a full-time doctor, a school-house, or indoor toilets. But it does–still–have relatively cheap labor. The tiny village of Jucu in northwestern Romania, which will host a new factory making Nokia mobile phones, currently earns its livelihood from farming vegetables such as…
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Database assembles U.S. warnings of Saddam threat

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Comments totaling around 380,000 words were made by eight top administration officials before the March 2003 Iraq invasion. The Bush administration’s warnings about prewar Iraq, from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s “mushroom cloud” to Vice President Dick Cheney’s statements on weapons of mass destruction, were released on Wednesday…
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