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Marquette, Uwm Receive Grant For Freshwater Research Center
Marquette University to form an Industry & University Cooperative Research Center over the next five years focused on freshwater research, UWM said Thursday in a news release. The grant combines...


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Entorian Tech Voluntarily Delisting
Nasdaq Global Market . The Austin-based company received a warning from Nasdaq March 2 saying its securities fell below the minimum market value of publicly held shares. The note today asks its...
Arca Biopharma Reports 'going Concern' Opinion
Arca BioPharma Inc. -- which is struggling to get its experimental heart-failure drug Gencaro to market -- reported a "going concern" opinion from its accountants Thursday, and said it is...
Cary Greenway Section Closing Due To Roadwork
The town of Cary said Thursday that it plans to temporarily close a section of the White Oak Creek Greenway due to construction of the Triangle Expressway turnpike project. The central section of...
10% Of Iphone Apps Are Ipad Ready, So Far
Only 10 percent of the more than 140,000 apps available for the iPhone have reportedly been certified for the iPad so far, several weeks before the new tablet devices reach store...
Lenovo Plans Smartphone, Smart Pad
Lenovo is planning to roll out a new smartphone with the goal of becoming China’s leading phone supplier. Speaking at the annual Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference this...
T-mobile's First Hspa+ Modem Goes On Sale Sunday
Panasonic, Best Buy Begin Selling 3D HDTV Bundles Panasonic began selling its first 3D HDTVs on Wednesday, via a partnership with Best Buy's Magnolia specialty...
Readers Ask: What's Next For Microsoft's Bing?
Google and watching Yahoo fade. How is Microsoft doing it? What's next for Bing? Good questions, but when I sat down with Microsoft Bing Director Stefan Weitz, I thought it might be fun to let my...
Google Play Stumbles Upon The Web
Google Apps Marketplace Targets Biz Developers Google has already jumped into the consumer apps marketplace with the Android Market, but it is now tackling the enterprise side with a business...
Gaming Will Drive Myspace, Execs Say
losing Owen Van Natta as chief executive in favor of two co-presidents, the News Corp.-owned site announced Wednesday that its new focus will be on gaming. "Just as music was our springboard for...
Smartphones Vs. Personal Computers: The Battle Is On
www.rothmanresearch.com Recent updates on the smartphone sales charts estimate that 491.9 million units will be sold by 2012, compared to 2008 sales of 139.3 million. The Personal Computer market is...
Court Rejects Attempt To Halt Nextg Networks Installation
NextG Networks Inc. said Thursday a federal court in New York dismissed a lawsuit against the company by a homeowners' association. San Jose-based NextG said the suit, which also named the Town...
Savvis Names North Asia Exec
Thomson Reuters in Tokyo, as managing director for North Asia. The company also said it would expand its offerings in the Asia-Pacific region. Smith, based in Tokyo, will promote Savvis’ cloud...
Hands On With Opera Mini For Android
Google Apps Marketplace Targets Biz Developers Google has already jumped into the consumer apps marketplace with the Android Market, but it is now tackling the enterprise side with a business...
Networks Next Up On 3d Tv Experience
Panasonic, Best Buy Begin Selling 3D HDTV Bundles Panasonic began selling its first 3D HDTVs on Wednesday, via a partnership with Best Buy's Magnolia specialty...
Gates Deposed By Slim As World's Richest Man
annual list of the world's top billionaires, Forbes named Helú as the world's wealthiest, topping Gates and Buffett, now the world's second- and third-richest men. Helú's personal...
Sony Names Motion Controller: 'playstation Move'
announced in June 2009 . Looking something like a microphone with a big glowing ball at the end, the Move will cost about $100 when it ships this fall; that price is for a starter pack, which will...
Apple's Ipad Could Kill The Mac
EFF Breaks Down Apple's App Store License The EFF highlighted some of the more "troubling" aspects ofthe Apple's iPhone Developer Program License Agreement,the document all app developers must agree...
Now, Well Behaving Multi-processor Computers
A Washington University computer scientist is trying to conquer the chaos in modern, multiprocessor computers. Luis Ceze, a UW assistant professor of computer science and engineering, says a lot of...
Dell Mini 5 Slate To Take On Apple Ipad
Dell's upcoming Mini 5, which was first shown publicly at this years CES, will be made available in a range of colors and will also feature integration with a host of Amazon services, according to a...
News: Benq Reveals 5 V-series Monitors
BenQ has announced a small stack of computer monitors, for those of you considering upgrading from an old CRT. They run the gamut from 18.5-inch to 24-inch, and offer what BenQ calls "class-leading...
Lucid Imagination Raises $10m
has also invested. Eric Gries is CEO of the company. Marc Krellenstein, who started Lucid Imagination in 2007, is its chief technology officer. Ted Dunning...
Gateway Nv7915u: More Brawn Than Brains
PC World - I'm getting too old and lazy these days to travel much farther than to my desk, couch, or bed. The good news is that Gateway seems to have made the $649 NV7915u laptop just for people like...
Apple Beware: Dell Is Taking On Itunes
The Dell Streak is believed to have a five-inch screen, putting it somewhere between a smartphone and an e-book reader in size. The formidable triumvirate of Amazon, Dell, and Google is apparently...
Chinese Group Files Complaint Over 'faulty' Hp Laptops
More than 100 Chinese consumers have filed an official complaint against Hewlett-Packard Co (HP) over faulty laptop computers, leaving the door open for a lawsuit against the US technology company, a...
100 Chinese File Complaint Over Hp Laptops
SHANGHAI -- More than 100 Chinese consumers have filed an official complaint against Hewlett-Packard Co over faulty laptop computers, leaving the door open for a lawsuit against the U.S. technology...
Pentagon Trains Workers To Hack Defense Computers
"To beat a hacker, you need to think like one," said Jay Bavisi, co-founder and president of the International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants, or EC-Council. His company was...
Pentagon Trains Workers To Hack Own Computers
"To beat a hacker, you need to think like one," said Jay Bavisi, co-founder and president of the International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants, or EC-Council. His company was...
News: Western Digital My Passport Av Portable Media Drives Come Tv Ready
Western Digital has announced a range of new My Passport drives specifically for video storage and playback. The new My Passport AV portable media drives come with 320 GB of capacity and let users...
Officials: Ex-tsa Worker Tried To Sabotage Computers
Federal prosecutors have charged a former Transportation Security Administration employee with attempting to sabotage terror watch list computers by attempting to introduce a virus into the computer...
Onlive Streaming Game Service Due June 17
OnLive Inc. , the high profile startup that promises it can replace gaming consoles by delivering sophisticated video games live over the Internet, will start offering service on June 17, founder and...
Google Announces Bike Maps In Washington Area
Google has added bike directions in many cities to its Google Maps application, including in the Washington area. The search engine giant made the announcement at the National Bike Summit held in...
American Lecturers Banning Laptops From The Classroom
END: Module - Module - M24 Article Headline with portrait image (b) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> The perfect university lecture, it is sometimes said, involves the transmission...
Court Upholds Microsoft, I4i Word Judgment
filed a petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that requested a panel re-hearing and a re-hearing en banc in its case against i4i because Microsoft said the original judgment...
Conquering The Chaos In Modern, Multiprocessor Computers
— Computers should not play dice. That, to paraphrase Einstein, is the feeling of a University of Washington computer scientist with a simple manifesto: If you enter the same computer command,...
Dell Simplifies Data Backup and Recovery to Help Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Succeed
ROUND ROCK, Texas -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- To help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) more effectively respond to the challenge of efficiently storing, managing and protecting increasing...
Google adds bike directions to maps
Google Inc. added bicycling directions to its maps service. The Mountain View company (NASDAQ: GOOG) has its “biking directions team” in Seattle, and Shannon Guymon, who works there,...
Seagate wins patent appeal over Siemens
A three-judge, Federal Circuit Court of Appeals panel has upheld a 2008 hard disc drive patent verdict in favor of Seagate Technologies over Siemens AG. Announcing the ruling for its client...
Google China talks conclusion seen soon
Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly said Wednesday that a conclusion is likely soon in negotiations with the Chinese government regarding the search company's future in that country. ...
Google smartphone share more than doubles, Blackberry still No. 1
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Nimsoft to be sold for $350 million
, a Redwood City-company that sells information technology performance and availability monitoring products. CA, based in Islandia, N.Y., said in a statement that Nimsoft will help the company gain...
CA to buy Nimsoft in $350M deal
in an all-cash transaction valued at $350 million. Redwood City-based Nimsoft was No. 9 on the Business Journal's 2009 list of fastest-growing private companies. The company had revenue in 2008...
OnLive Remote Gaming Service Turns On in June
After eight years of development, remote gaming service OnLive is scheduled to roll out on June 17. The company also announced its service pricing: users will need to pay $14.95 per month, which will...
AMD to Introduce Netbook Chip in 2011
Advanced Micro Devices plans to release a processor in its "Fusion" line that will be positioned for the netbook market, putting it in competition with the Intel Atom, and, to a lesser degree, the...
Source R&D Intros Wireless Notebook Docking Station
Source R&D offers with the Warpia Easy Dock ($150), a Wireless USB docking station for notebook, netbook, and MacBook users. The dock consists of a USB dongle that plugs into a laptop and a...
MSI 12-Inch Netbooks Include Dual-Core
MSI Computer has announced a pair of 12.1-inch portables for users seeking a netbook with the power of a notebook (optical drive excepted, of course). Both versions of the Wind12 U230 ship with 2GB...
Colorado Springs man allegedly sabotaged TSA computers
A former employee of the Transportation Security Administration has been indicted by the Denver federal grand jury for attempting to sabotage TSA computers that enable TSA airport personnel to spot...
Report: Former Brocade CEO seeks mistrial
Brocade Communications Systems Inc. wants the court to declare a mistrial in his stock-options backdating case, according to reports Wednesday. Bloomberg's BusinessWeek online reported that...
Google still big gorilla of online search
Google Inc. still dominated online searches in the United States in February, to no one’s surprise. The Mountain View behemoth (NASDAQ: GOOG) had about 71 percent of online searches last...