Forbes | CIO Central: The Blurring Line Between Science And Science Fiction "According to a few cult-like
science fanatics, Gene Roddenberry’s USS Enterprise is hovering just above the stratosphere – and at its helm sits
Ray Kurzweil and his futurist colleagues, crusading for the next science bonanza and embracing ideologies that two
decades ago would have been considered science fiction..." 110309
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Bloomberg Businessweek: Obesity Alone Raises Risk of Fatal Heart Attack, Study Finds "Obese men face
a dramatically higher risk of dying from a heart attack, regardless of whether or not they have other known risk
factors for cardiovascular disease, a new study reveals..." 110215
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Yahoo | Autos: America's Worst Speed Traps "If you've ever been pulled over for speeding, you know it
feels like you're a gazelle that just got taken down by a lion. And, while this recession, and the gaping
budget holes that resulted, have turned most cities into a jungle for motorists, there are some cities that
have far more speed traps than others. And automated traffic cams have only egged them on. Now, they
can snag just as many motorists for speeding, if not more, with less manpower..." 110218
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CNN Money: Will IBM's Watson put your job in jeopardy? "If IBM's supercomputer outperforms some of
Jeopardy!'s greatest minds, what does that spell for the rest of us working stiffs? As it turns out, workers may have
some cause for concern..." 110215
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Bloomberg Business Week: Sprint Says Most Tablet Makers Will Abandon Market "Competition
will force more than half of the manufacturers to drop out of the market within two years .." 110215
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The Washington Post: Evernote helps you get organized "Trying to get it together? Evernote might
be the app for you. Download it and you can sync notes, lists, voice memos, Web clips, pictures and more
between computers, phones, tablets and other gadgets. The app is free and comes with 60 MB of Web
space a month. Install it on all of your favorite devices and suddenly you have access to your thoughts via
computer, Web browser and mobile device..." 110129
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Los Angeles Times: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox announce tools to block Web tracking by
advertisers "Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox Web browsers are each gaining new features that
will block advertisers from tracking Web surfing habits. Firefox's feature, announced Sunday, will be called
Do Not Track and is under development. Chrome's utility, announced Monday, is called Keep My Opt-Outs
and available now..." 110124
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Bloomberg Businessweek: Killer Feature of Windows Phone 7? Hint: Not the Phone "The
cornerstone for the potential success of Microsoft's launch of its new smartphone operating system is at
least $400 million in marketing support..." 100829
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foxnews.com: YouTube Entering Movie-Rental Business "Movie rentals are coming to the Internet's
most popular video site. The Google-owned YouTube is making its debut as a rental outlet Friday to help promote
some of the movies that will be shown at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival..." 100120
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Scientific American: The New Science of Temptation "The power to resist temptation has been
extolled by philosophers, psychologists, teachers, coaches, and mothers. Anyone with advice on how you
should live your life has surely spoken to you of its benefits. It is the path to the good life, professional and
personal satisfaction, social adjustment and success, performance under pressure, and the best way for
any child to avoid a penetrating stare and a cold dinner. Of course, this assumes that our natural urges are
a thing to be resisted – that there is a devil inside, luring you to cheat, offend, err, and annoy. New research
has begun to question this assumption..." 091118
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Herald Tribune: Individual privacy under threat in Europe and U.S., report says "LONDON: Individual privacy
is under threat in the United States and across the European Union as governments introduce sweeping surveillance
and information-gathering measures in the name of security and controlling borders, an international rights group
has said..." 071231
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CNN Money: Live chat: your new online salesperson "Website operators are tapping the potential of
instant messaging as a new powerful sales tool. A year or two ago, it looked like instant messaging and
other forms of online chat had reached their full potential as a business tool. Millions of people were using
IM to interact with corporate colleagues. Live chat had also become a fixture on websites, giving customers
a way to inquire about products and receive answers in real time..." 071129
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Fortune: The iPhone's broken connections "For Steve Jobs and his touchy-feely telephone, it's been a
bumpy ride, says Fortune's Brent Schlender..." 071119
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LA Times.com: Online work emerges as big issue in Hollywood "A steamy new NBC soap opera,
"Coastal Dreams," is coming soon to a small screen near you. But not the TV -- the PC..." 070927
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Forbes: Caution: High Voltage "Electric vehicle companies are sparking to life all over. What happens
to them if GM or Toyota electrifies autos?..." 070926
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Science: How Will Nanotech Fare in Europe? "At 23 years old and as a part-time bass guitarist in a
rock band, Bregt Verreet seems an unlikely pioneer, in science at least..." 070926
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Wall Street Journal: Is This Man Cheating on His Wife? "Alexandra Alter on the toll one man's virtual
marriage is taking on his real one and what researchers are discovering about the surprising power of
synthetic identity..."
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MSN Real Estate: Does going solar pay off? "he race is on to install solar panels in American homes
thanks to generous government incentives such the $3.2 billion solar initiative California launched in
January..."
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Business Week: Wherever You Go, You're On The Job "The dramatic shift toward mobility is changing
the way we work -- and shaking up the status quo among tech titans..."
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Global Technology Forum (from the LA Times): Ensnared on the wireless Web "As Los Angeles
and hundreds of other communities push to turn themselves into massive wireless hotspots, unsuspecting
Internet users are stumbling onto hacker turf, giving computer thieves nearly effortless access to their
laptops and private information, authorities and high-tech security experts say..."
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Live Science: Futuristic Workstation Moves Freely in Space "The Gravitonus Ergonomic Workstation
may be just what you've been looking for. Forget those cumbersome chair/desk/computer combos you've
been looking at. This Space Age system is designed to keep you comfortable while you're "piloting" your
way into the future..."
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