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The 24 Hours at LeMans is shaping up to be a really competitive race this year at the hands of an unlikely racing technology powering the 2 leading teams, Audi and Peugeot – diesel. Audi has been dominating the ALMS for 2 seasons, going undefeated in their first year out with a diesel powered race [...]
Here’s the PR blurb I received on Business Objects’ Insight launch next week: Insight takes the concept of an online community and moves it beyond transactional relationships, like MySpace and LinkedIn, to true collaboration. Additionally, it’s a way for number crunchers to gain access to some very powerful tools and network with others in their [...]
TCS Daily – The Euro’s Day of Reckoning: Within the constraints of a currency union, the Mediterranean countries cannot resort to currency devaluation to restore competitiveness. Nor can they use interest rate policy to stimulate domestic demand. Instead, the rules of the currency union require them to endure deflation or to increase productivity as the [...]
There was a time when military R&D fed the commercial sector, but of course it’s very apparent that commercial off the shelf (COTS) technology is moving the other way. The army has long envisioned something like WiMax for battlefield use, but has not got their own technology even close to the point where WiMax is [...]
I’m kinda obsessive compulsive about having a clean laptop… it just bothers me when I see dirty keyboard keys and I feel my pulse quicken when someone starts poking their fingers close to my fingerprint free screen. Yesterday I picked up a Speck hard case for my MacBook Pro. It’s a hard plastic shell that [...]