One part virtual notebook, one part personal assistant, Springpad helps you remember stuff today so you can make better decisions tomorrow.
Bottom Line: the workforce of today is specialized and highly virtual: working part-time, mobile, from home, and often on a contract basis.
For each of the 30, 000 students on campus, another 10 are virtual students taking part in the free Massive Open Online Courses called MOOCs.
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And with the launch of Sony's PlayStation Home -- an online world for the games console -- this autumn, it seems the big players in the entertainment world are banking on virtual realms being part of the future, too.
Once you've installed these "virtual" machines on your Mac, you can for the most part install PC applications on the virtual machine as though it were a real PC--though few software vendors will actually help you out running their software in an emulated environment.
Since I can usually be relied upon to check my e-mail religiously, I felt that I needed to warn those who are part of my virtual world.
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Originally created for the U.S. Department of Defense at the University of Iowa as part of the Virtual Soldier Research (VSR) program to help reduce physical strain on soldiers, Santos has been heralded by ergonomists as a breakthrough in digital modeling.
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As part of the virtual stroll, observers can experience a tour of the Colts' locker room premises, a tunnel that was once graced with Peyton Manning's presence and plenty of other areas around the stadium -- such as the Quarterback, Field Level and Loge-Level suites.
During the 17-plus-months of their virtual voyage, the crew took part in various studies to assess the effect their isolation was having on their psychological and physiological well being.
Edinburgh's schools are also warned of the security risk in putting photographs and plans of their buildings on the web - something many schools do, often as part of a "virtual tour".
Virtual health assistants look seriously useful and likely will be part of a solution, but the new tiered regional framework for ubiquitous virtual health-specific connectivity has yet to be accepted, much less deeply attempted.
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All participants were informed that they were taking part in a study on virtual organisations and would be interacting with, but not meeting, a fellow student who worked in the same fictional consulting firm.
Brands will become part of the natural fabric of virtual space, especially in gaming.
Last month Parks Associates forecast that revenues in the social gaming market will increase five-fold from 2010 to 2015, due in large part to advertising and sales of virtual items.
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The tightening of America's trade rules has resulted in a virtual standstill in mining in the volatile eastern part of the country, until recently the source of rare metals used by American manufacturers.
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Facebook has up until now focused on e-commerce and payments through virtual goods, with social games being the large part of that.
Operating systems designed to run on hardware from multiple manufacturers and Java virtual machines promising portability across hardware and operating systems were part of the swing toward platform independence.
On Saturday, McCain, meanwhile, took part in what his campaign calls a "virtual town hall" conference call, which is designed to reach out to Democrats, independents and female voters.
For the most part most data centers are operating in the pre-virtual world, in which the pace of change is governed by the rate at which physical servers can come and go.
Additional work is being done at the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, part of the FDA. Researchers there have created a "virtual family" of adults and children in order to study how best to implant medical devices in children, such as heart defibrillators.
In the real - rather than virtual - world, Washington is known to favour a Palestinian state only as part of a negotiated agreement with Israel, with which it has strong ties.
The SBA should use part of the budget it already has for small business toward specifically boosting and supporting virtual business owners.
An important part of the elimination of criminal anonymity in the future will be making emerging digital, virtual, or private currencies illegal.
These ads prompt people to answer questions about a brand or purchase behavior, watch a video, or take part in other activities in return for in-game currency with which they can buy virtual tractors and cops.
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Pearman is calling for anyone who plays online shooters to take part in a cease fire on Friday, December 21st by not killing anyone in a virtual world as a sign of respect for the victims of the shooting.
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But part of the drag on margins was due to InPhonic's struggling Liberty Wireless business, a mobile virtual-network operator that InPhonic has now sold.
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