Tuesday - June 30, 2009
Apple has confirmed that CEO Steve Jobs has officially gone back to work, according to numerous media reports. Beyond saying that Jobs would be working both at his office and from home, and that the company was happy to have him back, Apple provided no details about its chief's future involvement with the company. There are signs that investor concerns are building over Apple's handling of information regarding Jobs' health status, Fred Ruffy, senior trading analyst with WhatsTrading.com, told MacNewsWorld.
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Tuesday - June 23, 2009
Once again, the technology mediasphere is engrossed with Apple CEO Steve Jobs' health, and the questions are ricocheting off the virtual walls: What did Apple know? When did it know it? What is it legally obliged to reveal? This latest round of speculation was prompted by a weekend Wall Street Journal report revealing that Jobs had a liver transplant in April.
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Monday - June 22, 2009
News-wise, it's been a big weekend for Apple. First came reports that its ailing CEO, Steve Jobs, recently underwent liver-transplant surgery. On the heels of that news, the world learned that sales of the new iPhone 3G S have passed the 1-million mark. Whether investors remain confident in Apple's strength despite Jobs' illness remains to be seen.
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Friday - January 23, 2009
When ubExact.com's CEO Wilhelmina Stephenson started work on her innovative beta platform last year for a new search engine concept, she had every reason to believe consumers would gravitate to the new search technology designed around the way they searched the Internet. However, what she did not count on was a marketing industry that failed to go for the money-making model she was pitching.
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Thursday - January 22, 2009
What started out on Sept. 2, 2008, as a potential innovation in the search engine space ended this month as the latest technology sacrifice to the economic gods. ubExact.com went out of business, unable to sustain enough financial traction to make the innovation viable.
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Wednesday - January 14, 2009
Struggling Internet portal Yahoo has tapped former AutoDesk CEO Carol Bartz as its new CEO. Bartz, 60, will face a monumental task in attempting to turn around Yahoo, which was the No. 1 destination on the Internet before being supplanted by search engine powerhouse Google a few years ago.
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Thursday - November 20, 2008
What's left to do after you've earned your first billion in the technology business? For some, it's legacy building -- finding a way to make a mark of a different sort in the world. Philanthropy calls. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is perhaps the archetype with its multipronged worldwide operations focused on eliminating poverty, disease and hunger.
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Tuesday - October 28, 2008
University of Delaware's Dr. Ian Appelbaum is looking to "spin" his research on the magnetic properties of electrons to get more electronic enhancements from semiconductors. Appelbaum's research is now funded in part with a nearly half-million dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.
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Sunday - June 22, 2008
In March of this year, Marathon Technologies announced everRun VM, a first-of-its kind, fault-tolerant, high availability software package for server virtualization. This product picks up where its first-generation kin -- everRun -- left off in providing companies the ability to prevent outages and data loss in Citrix XenServer virtual infrastructures.
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Thursday - June 5, 2008
Bhaskar Rao is known for his discoveries in the realm of space exploration. However, he's never ventured beyond the atmosphere of Mother Earth. His space-related technology expertise lies in innovative advances in the world of signal processing. His explorations resulted in the emergence of MIMO, or multiple input multiple output.
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Wednesday - May 28, 2008
Intel and Grameen Trust are joining forces in an effort to bridge the financial and digital divides separating many of the world's most wanting from basic services and economic opportunities. The two companies are forming a joint venture that aims to bring information and communications technology and microcredit facilities to poor communities throughout the developing world.
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