Obama's State Of The Union To Utilize Technology
Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube are among the social networking and video platform the administration will use to connect with the public during and after the president's annual speech.
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AMD Updates Driver Support For OpenGL 4.1
Radeon, ATI FirePro, and ATI FireGL graphics card drivers for Windows and Linux support the latest OpenGL spec.
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Tibco Launches Social Computing For The Enterprise
Tibbr integrates Facebook, Twitter, and other social network stream with internal data to offer a single, contextual view of information.
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Inside Watson, IBM's Jeopardy Computer
IBM has spent four years and untold hundreds of millions of dollars developing Watson, a computer that can play Jeopardy. In fact, Watson answers questions so quickly and accurately that IBM challenged Jeopardy and two of the show's all-time champions to a match. Jeopardy's producers and the human contestants agreed. Taping took place January 14, and the three computer-vs.-human episodes will air February 14-16. Cynics may call it a publicity stunt, but the project has brought real advances in computer science. If IBM's previous (chess-playing) Deep Blue and (genetics-studying) Blue Gene supercomputers are any indication, advances in what IBM calls deep question-and-answer analytics could show up in the real world within three to five years. Here's a look inside the architecture, hardware, and advanced analytics that make Watson tick.
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Exclusive: Exgage Engages Brands and Social Media Networks
Company to Launch Valentine's Day, Sources Link it to Walmart, American Idol.
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IBM To Offer Vidyo Telepresence For Lotus SameTime
Comparable quality to Cisco telepresence, according to Vidyo, the plug-in will allow voice communication from an IM chat session and HD multi-point videoconferencing.
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No One Owns 'The Cloud'
Companies should think twice about pursuing trademarks around the term 'cloud computing,' as market saturation is making product differentiation increasingly difficult.
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Integration In The Cloud, The Sleeper Issue
It won't be enough to just move workloads into the cloud; it'll still be necessary to integrate with other apps residing there.
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Mozilla, Google Propose Defenses Against Ad Tracking
Will self-regulation will be any more effective in the future than it has been in the past?
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DoD, NATO Huddle On Cybersecurity
Deputy secretary of defense William Lynn is building a partnership on cyber defense with NATO and the European Union in meetings in Brussels.
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Exclusive: IBM Moves Hertz' IT Support To India
About 50 jobs shipped from Oklahoma to the Asian subcontinent as the car rental company looks to pare costs.
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HHS Expands Health Insurance Exchange Grants
Funding will help states develop infrastructure for the sites where individuals and small business will be able to shop for insurance plans by 2014.
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OpenText Adds Customized Messaging To ECM Suite
StreamServe Persuasion allows corporations to customize marketing messages and support responses from within the enterprise content management software.
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Ubuntu Ditches OpenOffice For LibreOffice
The April Linux release will include the Document Foundation's productivity suite instead of Oracle's software.
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NASA Spins Android App
Spinoff, the space agency's first software for Google's mobile platform, highlights NASA innovations used in people's daily lives.
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Facebook Defends Security Practices
The social network responds to report alleging it puts the safety of its 650 million users at risk by not better securing third-party applications.
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Foursquare Value Checks In At $250 Million
Social media location site is developing tools to help local businesses connect with customers and expects to hit 10 million users by June, said site co-founder.
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What's Driving Apple's 10 Billion App Success
The Google, Research In Motion, Palm/HP, and Microsoft app stores are all playing catch up with Apple, which just celebrated a major app download milestone, but without making one specific change, there's slim chance these competitors will narrow the gap.
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