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Microsoft Moving Surface Off the Table and Into Your Home

BY Kit EatonThu May 14, 2009 at 7:05 AM

Microsoft's Surface shows off the capabilities of multi-touch computing admirably, but it's still limited by the machine's box. It's no surprise then to find plans to take Surface off a flat screen and dot it all over your home. ...READ»

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EU Punishment For US Companies

BY Somnath BanerjeeWed May 13, 2009 at 5:32 PM

After Microsoft and Intel who else would be the next candidate for being punished? Will the other US companies be targeted? Will it be Google? Just wondering.READ»

MICROSOFT SURFACE | 16 comments

11 Killer Apps for Microsoft Surface [Video]

BY Chris DannenFri May 8, 2009 at 1:07 PM

Microsoft's interactive table, dubbed Surface, brings the heady dream of interactive computing closer reality. As developers find ways to make Surface's gorgeous multi-user interface shine, more and more companies are turning ...READ»

DIGITAL SCHOOLS | 3 comments

Three Rs to Become Three Rs Plus Google in U.K. Schools

BY Kit EatonThu Apr 30, 2009 at 9:16 AM

Taking an apple to class for teacher could soon take on a whole new meaning. There's a plan underway to overhaul the curriculum in U.K. primary schools--nothing special there, since there's always some attempt underway to improve ...READ»

COMPUTING | 6 comments

Women - The Ultimate Entrepreneurs

BY James RickmanFri Apr 17, 2009 at 4:26 PM

More than one-third of entrepreneurs in the United States are women, and the growth in the number of woman-owned firms is more than double the rate of all U.S. firms. Stay-at-home moms are multi-tasking more than ever. In between childcare, cooking and cleaning, they are cranking out inventions that are making them millions. In America, women start 424 new enterprises every day that’s more than twice as many as men. READ»

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Microsoft's Surface 2.0-aka SecondLight-Due in Two Years

BY Kit EatonMon Mar 16, 2009 at 12:07 PM

Microsoft's Surface has always been a slightly baffling product: It's a real multi-touch large-screen PC with almost sci-fi levels of cleverness, but costs a whopping $10,000, so it's out of most people's reach. But clearly ...READ»

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Intel's Phone-Media Hub Mash-Up is a Curiously Dated Idea

BY Kit EatonThu Mar 5, 2009 at 5:58 AM

Intel doesn't think that the home phone is dead--despite some pretty compelling evidence that more and more people are using cellphones as their main telecommunications systems. And it wants to combine a home phone with another ...READ»

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New Chip Technology Could Help Computers Think on Their Own

BY Kit EatonFri Feb 27, 2009 at 5:54 AM

While there's a lot of work to push nanotechnology as the future of computer chips, good old-fashioned semiconductors still have a lot of life in them yet: and they've recently been given a boost with a radical new type of circuit ...READ»

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Next Generation Interaction: Are Virtual Worlds Waiting in the Wings?

BY Donald SchwartzTue Feb 17, 2009 at 4:26 PM

About: This is the revised transcript of the Fast Company.com Call-In titled, Next Generation Interaction: Are Virtual Worlds Waiting in the Wings? that took place on November 2008. Portions of the dialogue have been re-written ...READ»

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Intel Plans to Beat Downturn by Innovating

BY Kit EatonWed Feb 11, 2009 at 6:37 AM

Just a few weeks ago, Intel announced it would lay off thousands of employees due to the recession, but the company has just revealed another more positive tactic that it will use to beat the financial downturn: Innovation. In ...READ»

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