Scottish schools are ahead of the game when it comes to embracing new technology - a survey reveals.
"There's widespread recognition that Hadoop is a major new technology--a significant new tool in the enterprise, " Olson says.
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Second, building large, complex aircraft like bombers -- particularly those featuring sophisticated low observable technology -- from a cold and dissipated industrial base invites significant, costly operational problems with the finished planes.
Apple's close collaboration with Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ), and Intel's support for the new technology--basically a long-range version of wi-fi--gives the idea plausibility (see " Apple Cozies Up to Intel").
Sheboygan Falls, a modestly-sized city of about 7, 600 residents in northeast Wisconsin, is not commonly considered to be a hot-spot for clean-technology start-ups or a haven for green-minded consumers.
Even my wife, who is not a technology-oriented Type-A person, walks around these days with her cell phone all the time.
The two companies have a technology-sharing alliance, a pact to cooperate on biofuels development and joint ventures to develop offshore fields.
But the Bold 9900 also features a fixed-focus camera, no front-facing camera, only single-core processor technology and a sub-3 inch screen size.
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We also showcased several innovations from the intersection of fashion and technology -- a light-up Twitter dress, a pair of "Social Denim" jeans that let you update your Facebook status on the fly and a brilliant "Rocking Knit" chair that uses kinetic energy generated from the chair's gliding motion to knit a winter hat while you sit.
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Glasses.com, a new venture from 1-800 Contacts, which in turn is a subsidiary of the big insurer Wellpoint, is set to unveil a new try-on technology in a couple of months that will let you see how dozens of pairs look on a 3-D rendering of your face.
And, what's even more extraordinary, it is a world leader in technology - which is a bit like claiming that the world's best baseball team is British.
Liberty would use a first-stage that incorporated a larger, five-segment booster - a technology ATK has already been testing.
Verizon also is upgrading its network to a higher-speed technology, so Apple has said it believed CDMA was a short-term technology.
Its best hope is that the solar cell industry doesn't follow the curve of the dram market it is often compared with--a once high-margin technology that turned suddenly, brutally, into a low-profit commodity market.
By using the latest in rear-projection technology, a high resolution, colour 3D-like holographic image is projected onto a flat two-dimensional sheet of acrylic in the shape of a woman.
In 1997 a team led by Bernd Matthes, chief engineer at a BorgWarner transmission plant in Germany, came up with a concept for a dual-clutch transmission technology, which gives a fuel-efficient manual transmission the smooth feel of an automatic.
Through rapid iteration, a group of determined people using low-friction technology had created a vast, self-regulating system.
The M.mycoides genome contains over a million letters of genetic code and current DNA-technology can string-together perhaps a few thousand units in one go.
The Rosetta purchase gave Merck expertise in figuring out exactly which genes the body is reading--a technology called gene-expression profiling.
Their production is not a high-technology enterprise: a factory or laboratory that makes fertilizer, pharmaceuticals, or plastics can readily be adapted for the purpose.
Lawrence Summers, America's treasury secretary, attracted attention recently when he likened the new-technology boom to a positive supply-side shock, the converse of the oil-price shocks of the 1970s.
Jeff Hawkins, Numenta co-founder, and Michael Chui, a principal at the McKinsey Global Institute will discuss on Wednesday evening an alternative approach to big data, using brain-inspired machine learning technology and a cloud-based service called Grok that recognizes complex patterns from data streams and generates actionable predictions in real time.
KOR-fx, a new form of acousto-haptic technology being introduced in a device by the same name, will revolutionize the way consumers experience multi-media when it is introduced later this year.
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He recently placed a candidate he met 10 years ago at an association meeting into an information-technology-audit position at a large East Coast health-care company.
Instant messaging, that rat-a-tat chat technology that is catching up toe-mail in popularity, still hasn't overcome a critical hurdle that e-mail cleared years ago: utter incompatibility among rival brands.
This means that users can now transfer two full-length movies from a G-Technology USB 3.0 drive to a computer in minutes.
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"I'm definitely interested in making a career change, " said Kirsten Nordine, a 32-year-old product manager at a technology start-up who is taking Mr. Medford's class.
Mr. CLELAND: Well, you really can't project the future from looking at the past because when you start doing voice over technology--and we call it techcom, which is a convergence of technology and telecom--you're really changing from a service to an application.
Not surprisingly, the new EV1 is a one-of-a-kind hybrid that combines proven off-road racing technology with a cutting edge drivetrain.
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