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blueprinttoabillion.com: "The odds are one in 50 that an idea becomes a business, then one in 20 that a funded business sees an initial public offering (IPO) and, finally, one in 20 that a public company achieves $1 billion revenue.1 The odds of turning an idea into a billion-dollar business, then, are one in 20,000! "

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Broadband | News.blog | CNET News.com: "In particular, Transera has taken advantage of SIP, Session Initiation Protocol, and the use of IP in telephony networks. SIP allows Transera's software, for example, to queue up a call in the carrier's network before routing and monitor it remotely.'Everyone has talked about the transition of our networks to IP. The value proposition is not that bits are

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The State of Web 2.0 (web2.wsj2.com): "Web 2.0 is not a technology, it's a way of architecting software and businesses. Web 2.0 is really a set of related forces, design patterns, and business models that are increasingly emerging onto the world stage. "

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Problem Solving: "As part of our research we have conducted thousands of negotiation simulations and found that there are certain steps that must occur and if they occur in the right order, the chances of a successful outcome are greatly increased. We did not invent the steps, however, we have distilled a negotiation, mediation, and problem solving process from observing many negotiations, as

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Verizon SuperPages.com joins Google AdWords | CNET News.com: "Verizon SuperPages.com sends sales representatives out to businesses to sell them advertising that will appear in print and online, something Google and other big Internet companies don't have the resources to do, Eric Chandler, president of the Internet division at Verizon SuperPages.com, said here in a keynote at The Kelsey Group

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Today, Americans are feeling the gradual and subtleeffects of globalization that challenge the economic andstrategic leadership that the United States has enjoyedsince World War II. A substantial portion of our workforcefinds itself in direct competition for jobs withlower-wage workers around the globe, and leadingedgescientific and engineering work is being accomplishedin many parts of the world

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churchill club podcasts

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IBM's service science | Perspectives | CNET News.com: "The company's Almaden Services Research group, a 22-employee outfit based in Silicon Valley, has set out on a mission to discover--and then hopefully exploit--quantifiable, predictive principles that underlie the delivery of technology services.For many physicists and chemists, the social sciences often rank up there with numerology and

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An RFID solution to rush hour headaches? | CNET News.com: "That human factor is actually a concept being bandied about more at IBM these days. In conjunction with its push into services, Big Blue is beginning to conduct more research into human behavior and social sciences. The hope is that the company can better understand how large organizations function and apply technology to make them more

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Live: Google faces off with analysts - page 3 | CNET News.com: "He says the company is running on the 70-20-10 principle: 70 percent on core products, 20 percent on adjacent products and 10 percent on others."

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Live: Google faces off with analysts - page 3 | CNET News.com: "Schmidt shows a chart of the $283 billion market for advertising, including broadcast, radio, Internet, print, cable TV and direct mail. Google will be in all of those markets over time, either directly or with partners."

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Live: Google faces off with analysts - page 3 | CNET News.com: "Google's philosophy is to not be constrained by things like storage, bandwidth, CPU power, but to instead focus on the end-user, and revenue will follow."

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Live: Google faces off with analysts - page 3 | CNET News.com: "The company's management told the team to build a great product and not worry about putting ads in it."

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Live: Google faces off with analysts - page 2 | CNET News.com: "Google has built one of the largest computational infrastructures in the world. 'The reason that's important is because we are incredibly cheap.' Competitors can not deploy infrastructure faster, cheaper or at scale. This gives Google a two-, three- or five-year lead over competitors."

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Live: Google faces off with analysts - page 2 | CNET News.com: "Multiple dimensions to monetization. One is better end-user quality, from better algorithms. The second area is around user interface. Google has made subtle improvements. The third area is better advertiser effectiveness. For example: AdWords Power Editor. The fourth area is more inventory. The fifth area is geographic expansion.

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Live: Google faces off with analysts - page 2 | CNET News.com: "There's an enormous opportunity in click-through rate improvements. Traffic is basically traffic. As long as Google gains market share, traffic will improve. The most important thing is that Google's user experience continues to improve, and the company is targeting geographies with high growth rates. If the search experience is good

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Live: Google faces off with analysts | CNET News.com: "Revenue per employee is a key metric. Google's revenue per employee is double that of its competitors--$1.44 million per head versus $700,000 per head for rivals."

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Live: Google faces off with analysts | CNET News.com: "'Magazines are excited. This gives them a way to sell inventory that they couldn't sell before.' Schmidt: 'We're trying to bring our targeting and analytical technologies to industries that didn't have them before.' That can be a significant revenue driver. Advertisers don't really want to just be on text ads and just on Google. All are

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Live: Google faces off with analysts | CNET News.com: "Google's payments approach is a tactic to solve an important problem--to have an ad turn into a purchase. The quicker we can automate that--including payment, fulfillment, etc.--the more sales there'll be.'"

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: "'An Internet Exchange Point (IXP for short) is a physical infrastructure that allows different Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to exchange Internet traffic between their networks (autonomous systems) by means of mutual peering agreements, which allow traffic to be exchanged without cost. IXPs are typically used by ISPs to reduce the amount of traffic needing to be carried on their respective

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Google, Time Warner strike $1 billion deal on AOL | CNET News.com: "Under the new global advertising partnership, AOL will be able to sell all types of ads, including search, banner and display, across Google's network, which includes Google's own Web sites and the publisher sites that display Google-powered ads, said Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user experience.

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Nielsen's mobile-TV challenge | CNET News.com: "In larger markets, Nielsen has long used tools that can sense what channel a TV is tuned to. And since the early 1990s, Nielsen has been developing a way to instead identify specific programs, no matter when or how they are being viewed. To make this possible, Nielsen developed technology to insert a code into TV shows' audio tracks that makes a

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Nielsen's mobile-TV challenge | CNET News.com: "'The problem with the way Nielsen has approached the problem is that their focus has been completely on the program,' said Kate Sirkin, global research director for media buying giant Starcom MediaVest Group. 'We want to know the truth about who's actually watching the ads we're putting out on television.' For an industry that pulls in an estimated

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Power could cost more than servers, Google warns | CNET News.com: "'If performance per watt is to remain constant over the next few years, power costs could easily overtake hardware costs, possibly by a large margin,' Luiz Andre Barroso, who previously designed processors for Digital Equipment Corp., said in a September paper published in the Association for Computing Machinery's Queue. 'The

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Ajax (programming) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Traditional web applications essentially submit forms, completed by a user, to a web server. The web server does some processing, and responds by sending a new web page back. Because the server must send a whole new page each time, applications run more slowly and awkwardly than their native counterparts. Ajax applications, on the other

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http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/publishbook/publishbook2.html The first step to getting your name in print is to prepare a proposal. Remember, the proposal is a document that acts as a thorough outline of your idea for a book. Although you will ultimately contact agents by sending a query letter first, if any agent wants to follow up with you by reading your proposal, you will need to have

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FRB: Speech, Greenspan--Budget policy--December 2, 2005: "Our current, largely pay-as-you-go social insurance system worked well given the demographics of the second half of the twentieth century. But as I have argued previously, the system is ill-suited to address the unprecedented shift of population from the workforce to retirement that will start in 2008. Much attention has been focused on

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FRB: Speech, Greenspan--Budget policy--December 2, 2005: "Currently, 3-1/4 workers contribute to the Social Security system for each beneficiary. Under the intermediate assumptions of the program's trustees, the number of beneficiaries will have roughly doubled by 2030, and the ratio of covered workers to beneficiaries will be down to about 2. The pressures on the budget from this dramatic

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The “living camera” uses light to switch on genes in a genetically modified bacterium that then cause an image-recording chemical to darken. The bacteria are tiny, allowing the sensor to deliver a resolution of 100 megapixels per square inch. To make their novel biosensor, Chris Voigt’s team at the University of California in San Francisco, US, chose E. Coli, the food-poisoning gut bacterium.

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United States Patent Application: 0050021909: "A memory cartridge is disclosed. In one embodiment, the memory cartridge has a housing, and a memory unit in the housing, where the memory unit stores a plurality of data sets. An edge connector is electrically coupled to the memory unit. A selector is coupled to the housing and the selector is adapted to select at least one of the data sets. A

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FRB: Testimony, Greenspan--Economic Outlook--November 3, 2005: "So long as health-care costs continue to grow faster than the economy as a whole, as seems likely, federal spending on health and retirement programs would rise at a rate that risks placing the budget on an unsustainable trajectory. Specifically, large deficits will result in rising interest rates and an ever-growing ratio of debt

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Contributing to the disinflationary pressures that have been evident in the global economy over the past decade or more has been the integration of in excess of 100 million educated workers from the former Soviet bloc into the world's open trading system. More recently, and of even greater significance, has been the freeing from central planning of large segments of China's 750 million workforce

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New Scientist Premium- Light trap heralds optical revolution - Technology: "AN OPTICAL memory chip that senses, stores and then displays the light it has received has sent a buzz of excitement round the imaging world. 'We've never seen anything like this before,' says Trevor Whittley, an expert in optical devices at the University of Edinburgh in the UK. Such a device could delay light signals

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http://www.newscientist.com/channel/info-tech/dn8257.html Engineers have known for decades that it is more efficient to communicate with photons than electrons. Photons do not interact easily with stray electronic and magnetic fields nor with each other and so are better for long-distance communications. Today most of the world's communications networks rely on light and the optical fibres that

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Reining in Google?-?Commentary?-?The Washington Times, America's Newspaper: "Google envisions a world in which all content is free; and of course, it controls the portal through which Internet user's access that content. It would completely devalue everyone else's property and massively increase the value of its own. "

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Metaverse Second Life"'Second Life' is one of a very small number of so-called virtual worlds that eschew the traditional medieval fantasy-based role-playing game play common to such online blockbusters as 'World of Warcraft,' 'EverQuest' and 'Ultima Online.' As such, Linden Lab is loathe to call 'Second Life' a game, despite the accessibility of such a term. 'Second Life' has become something

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BBC NEWS | Technology | TVs and PCs 'take over US homes': "The average American spends more time using media such as TV and the internet than sleeping, a study has found. US researchers found that Americans spend nine hours a day watching TV, using the web or talking on a mobile. One-third of that time is devoted to using two or more media at once, noted Bob Papper, a Ball State University

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Segway rolls out technology licenses | CNET News.com: "Segway on Friday said it will license its smart-motion technology to third-party companies making different products. The company will also jointly develop new products with the companies by using Segway technology and know-how as tools, it said."

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Micro-organisms commonly found floating in oceans might someday be reborn as components in incredibly complex computer circuits. The single-celled algae, called diatoms, live in water and assemble a shell, or frustule, of silica by converting nutrients and light. They can adopt an incredible diversity of shapes – from simple geometric structures like triangles and squares to extremely complex 3D

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? Microsoft's unique innovation | John Carroll | ZDNet.com: "let's move on to the point of this post, which is to detail an area of invention Microsoft is singularly good at (one that the open source competition will have some difficultly matching). It's not so much of an invention per se. Rather, it's an awareness and understanding of the marketplace that has proved fertile ground for many of

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SCOTUSblog: Blog Round-up - Monday, October 3rd Supreme Court. Vacancy. Apply in Texas. No Experience Necessary.

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Google, Sun plan partnership | CNET News.com: "'You used what came bundled into Windows and got a new slug of functionality each time you upgraded. It was a good gig,' Schwartz wrote. Now the shift has gone further, as the Internet has allowed companies 'to bypass Microsoft's legendary distribution power,' he wrote, specifically mentioning Google as an example. 'Value is returning to the

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Broadband | News.blog | CNET News.com: "July 27, 2005 2:21 PM PDT Broadband catching on with TV producers Cable networks and TV show producers seem to be figuring out how to squeeze money out of broadband, according to Broadband Directions. Over 35 million homes in the U.S. now have broadband and 91 percent of the top 75 basic cable networks offer programs on their websites. While about half of

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BBC NEWS | Americas | The world's master minds: "So Professor Thomas is devising new materials with new properties. He's designing a suit for soldiers - what he calls a 'combat suit' - that would be as flexible and comfortable as a vest, but which would morph into a rigid protection in the time it takes a bullet to go through it. The bullet hits the suit which would cover the soldier from head to

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[print version] Microsoft's nightmare inches closer to reality | CNET News.com: "The memo now circulating shows that Microsoft execs are well aware of the search giant's impact. 'Google threatens Microsoft's position on the Internet, and could potentially lock Microsoft out of its existing distribution channels and reduce the value of Windows,' the memo said, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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Microsoft's nightmare inches closer to reality | CNET News.com: "Microsoft said Tuesday it would make hosted services a more strategic part of the company and fold its MSN Web portal business into its platform product development group, where Windows is developed."

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Google aims for Web developers' hearts and minds | CNET News.com: "But Google--in a technique perfected long ago at Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., headquarters--has made software developers an important target audience as well. As with nearly all its services, Google is supporting standards and providing hooks intended to let outside developers create add-on products. Of course, the ever-widening

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Intel dives into the ultra-low power pool | CNET News.com: "The chipmaking giant announced on Monday a new technique that it said could help cut back on wasted battery power in cell phones and mobile devices by as much as 1,000 times current levels. Active computing accounts for only half the power Intel processors use. The other half is gobbled up by a leakage current in transistors that exists

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A tale of Treo intrigue | Tech News on ZDNet: "The partnership is not totally out of the blue, of course. The two companies offered a glimpse at the detente last year, announcing a pact that allowed Palm OS-based Treos to connect directly with Microsoft's Exchange servers for corporate e-mail and calendar information."

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The Globe and Mail: New Palm to embrace Microsoft: "Palm Inc. is expected to end years of rivalry with Microsoft Corp. on Monday and announce that a version of its popular Treo handheld unit will run on the software giant's operating system. The move would be a huge shift in strategy for Palm, which has relied on its own platform since bringing the first handheld devices to the masses nine years

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Brainstorming Creative thinking requires tools such as the brainstorm and the affinity diagram. Brainstorming is simply listing all ideas put forth by a group in response to a given problem or question. In 1939, a team led by advertising executive Alex Osborn coined the term 'brainstorm.' According to Osborn, ' Brainstorm means using the brain to storm a creative problem and to do so 'in

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REPORTS | And now, the war forecast | Economist.com: "Microwave ovens, modified to operate with their doors open and emit radiation, were used as decoys to attract HARM missiles that home in on the radar emissions of anti-aircraft batteries."

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Utility Patent Applications By Country of Origin, Calendar Years 1965 to Present: "Number of Utility Patent Applications Filed in the United States, By Country of Origin,"

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Yahoo and Google Settle: "Google gave Yahoo 2.7 million shares of Class A common stock, which could be worth more than $280 million if Google's impending IPO garners at least the bottom of its suggested price. In return, Google got out from under a two-year-old patent infringement suit and a dispute over stock warrants owed Yahoo for a 2000 services agreement."

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http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2005/ Speeches of Federal Reserve Board Members

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New Scientist News - Stiff upper lips may impair memories: "James Gross at Stanford University in California and Jane Richards at the University of Texas at Austin showed 57 volunteers a disturbing film about a surgical procedure, then asked them questions about their emotional state, how much effort they put into hiding their feelings, and their memory of events in the film. They found people

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Parallel thinking In traditional adversarial thinking, A and B are in conflict. Each side seeks to criticize the other point of view. The Six Hats method allows Parallel Thinking. Both A and B wear each hat together as they explore all sides of an issue. Adversarial confrontation is replaced by a cooperative exploration of the subject. The Six Hats method allows us to unbundle thinking. Instead

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Wired soccer balls for World Cup?: "High-tech ID chips are turning up just about everywhere these days, including professional soccer fields. The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), which organizes the World Cup, plans to attach ID chips to the soccer balls it uses at an under-17 world championship in Peru this fall, according to an AP report. FIFA wants to use the

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http://news.com.com/Gates+on+Google/2008-1082_3-5863514.html "So Google is not offering development capabilities yet. Of course, I expect they will. But they're not in that game at all today. In fact, they have this slogan that they are going to organize the world's information. Our slogan is that we are going to give people tools to let them organize the world's information. It's a slightly

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"It's a different level of use than we've seen in the past," says Robert Novak, director of clinical education in audiology at Purdue University in Indiana. "It's becoming more of a full-day listening experience, as opposed to just when you're jogging."">BREITBART.COM - Just The News: "Researchers fear the growing popularity of portable music players and other items that attach directly to the

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845.pdf (application/pdf Object)

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law.com - Bill in Congress to Overhaul Patent Law Seeks to Quell Suits: "THE PATENT ACT OF 2005 PROPOSED REFORMS IN A NUTSHELL: • Changes the current 'first to invent' standard to 'first to file,' which means patent rights go to the first inventor to file for a patent who can provide sufficient evidence for a claimed invention (?3). • Eliminates the subjective 'best mode' requirement from ?112

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New Scientist Premium- A cellphone is the only gadget you need - Technology: "THE mobile phone has become the Swiss army knife of consumer electronics, becoming by turn a games machine, emailer, camera, or news browser. Heck, you can even talk to people on them. This feature creep has gone so far it's tempting to think it cannot go much further. But new technologies on the horizon in Japan, the

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New Scientist Breaking News - 4G prototypes reach blistering speeds: "Cellphones capable of transmitting data at blistering speeds have been demonstrated by NTT DoCoMo in Japan. In experiments, prototype phones were used to view 32 high definition video streams, while travelling in an automobile at 20 kilometres per hour. Officials from NTT DoCoMo say the phones could receive data at 100

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http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=13 Google's turf is the Internet. It's not interested in devices that don't connect to it — Microsoft is welcome to that market. It simply wants to extend its reach to any device that does go online. Meanwhile, Microsoft's focus on desktop capability is the crux of why it can't possibly succeed against Google (or any future Google equivalent). It's focusing on

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BP report on energy

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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725154.300 02 September 2005 * Rowan Hooper * Magazine issue 2515 Those practising spiritual meditation were more relaxed and better able to withstand pain than people performing secular meditation, a new study finds GOD can help you relax, according to a study of meditation. People practising spiritual meditation were more relaxed and

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Iraq war keeps oil from terrorists, Bush says: "Bush said the Iraqi oil industry, already suffering from sabotage and lost revenues, must not fall under the control of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida forces in Iraq led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. ''If Zarqawi and bin Laden gain control of Iraq, they would create a new training ground for future terrorist attacks,'' Bush said. ''They'd seize oil fields

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http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news.php?newsId=1587 Creative today announced that it has been awarded U.S. Patent 6,928,433, which Creative is referring to as the “Zen Patent.” The Zen Patent was awarded to Creative for its invention of the user interface for portable media players, including many of the Creative Zen and NOMAD Jukebox MP3 players. The Zen Patent covers the user interface that

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New Scientist Premium- Your very own personal search engine - Breaking News: "An upcoming search tool will comb your hard drive and work out your interests before serving up web pages tailored to you and your hobbies Is your search engine failing to serve up the pages you want? Do you wish it could understand your hobbies as well as you do? The solution may be on the horizon, in the shape of a

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John Ioannidis, an epidemiologist at the University of Ioannina School of Medicine in Greece, says that small sample sizes, poor study design, researcher bias, and selective reporting and other problems combine to make most research findings false. But even large, well-designed studies are not always right, meaning that scientists and the public have to be wary of reported findings. "We should

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http://noisebetweenstations.com/personal/weblogs/?page_id=1688 Design thinking is… * Collaborative, especially with others having different and complimentary experience, to generate better work and form agreement * Abductive, inventing new options to find new and better solutions to new problems * Experimental, building prototypes and posing hypotheses, testing them, and iterating

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TriSolver GmbH & Co. KG | The Innovation Knowledge Company The most important components of classical TRIZ include the following: 40 Inventive Principles for eliminating technical contradictions. The system of their application in the form of the Contradictions Table. System of 76 Standards for solving technical problems and substance-field analysis of technical systems. Step-by-step

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FRB: Speech, Greenspan--Closing remarks--August 27, 2005 At a symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming August 27, 2005 The Federal Reserve will almost surely face as many uncertainties over the next eighteen years as it has over the past eighteen. Technology continues to bring rapid change and, hence, considerable uncertainty, to the global

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FRB: Speeches of Federal Reserve Board Members, Release Dates for 2005: "Speeches of Federal Reserve Board Members "

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http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2005/20050827/default.htm "The Greenspan doctrine holds that these developments, on balance, improve the functioning of financial markets and the real economies they support. By allowing institutions to diversify risk, to choose their risk profiles more precisely, and to improve the management of the risks they do take on, they have made

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FRB: Speech, Greenspan--Reflections on central banking--August 26, 2005: "In the spirit of this conference, I asked myself what developments in the past eighteen years--both in the economy and in the economics profession--were most important in changing the way we at the Federal Reserve have approached and implemented monetary policy." - The Federal Reserve System was created in 1913 to counter

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/24/whalo24.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/08/24/ixworld.html By Hugh Davies (Filed: 24/08/2005) www.telegraph.co.uk The 34-year-old Londoner has adapted Halo, the software giant's hit video game, into a big-screen science fiction epic. The idea is to synchronise the summer 2007 release of Halo with the issue of a new version of the game,

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Skype opens up its access interfaces AMSTERDAM, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Free Internet telephony firm Skype will allow its instant messaging to be built into Web sites and software applications such as music playing programs and multiplayer online games, it said on Wednesday. The announcement by the Luxemburg-based firm, which has 51 million registered users of its free software to make telephone

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Google wants to turn its collection of services and add-on programs such as the Desktop Search sidebar into a helper that users can turn to no matter what they want to do. Google's Desktop Search has mutated from simple search software into a holder for lots of small applications that users can access as long as they have access to a web browser. Both the instant messaging and net telephony

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Invention workshop agenda (sample)# Evaluating if there is a need for your invention in the market# Creating your invention with customer benefits and competitive advantages in mind# Protecting your idea and how to perform a patent search# Calculating a profit potential# Getting feedback on your concept# Methods for producing a prototype# How to get companies to license your invention"

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The eye uses two types of vision, foveal and peripheral. Foveal, or direct vision, is excellent at picking up detail but is less suited to picking up shadows. "The elusive quality of the Mona Lisa's smile can be explained by the fact that her smile is almost entirely in low spatial frequencies, and so is seen best by your peripheral vision," Prof Livingstone said.">BBC NEWS | Entertainment |

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Managing Those Creative Types: "At Toyota, they aren't necessarily the first to invent something, but they excel at developing systems that institutionalize best practices in a stable and sustainable way."

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Managing Those Creative Types: "Managers must realize that their employees increasingly see themselves as free agents; they want security, they want a great job, and they want challenge, but they also want the opportunity to move around. So great management means harnessing the creativity and productivity of employees for the period of time you have them. Develop a great relationship with your

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At the height of the Internet bubble, Peter Drucker said that you cannot bribe the knowledge workers on whom these industries depend -- you need to treat them as if they are volunteers whose commitment to your organization is contingent. Creative people respond to intrinsic rewards; they are trying to enact their personalities in their creative work, and it's a mistake to think they're motivated

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Scientists' Belief in God Varies Starkly by Discipline: "Nearly 38 percent of natural scientists -- people in disciplines like physics, chemistry and biology -- said they do not believe in God. Only 31 percent of the social scientists do not believe. In the new study, Rice University sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund surveyed 1,646 faculty members at elite research universities, asking 36

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Compliance Pipeline | Electronic Discovery Software Delivers Huge Award In Patent Suit: "Michelson, a spinal surgeon and inventor, charged that Medtronic breached purchase and license agreements and infringed patents owned by Michelson. The suit involved more than 20 claims and JMBM had four months to review 50 million pages of documents."

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Tech Earnings May Lower Red Flags: "First, though it may not be showing it right now, the market is nervous about just how high the FOMC will raise the fed funds rate. I believe the Federal Reserve will raise the rate to 4%, then shift to a neutral policy stance. Investors also are concerned about volatile crude oil prices. The market's threshold of pain appears to be $62 per barrel on crude oil.

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50 Million Americans Visited Blogs During the First Quarter 2005, According to New comScore Study: "RESTON, Va., Aug. 8, 2005 – comScore Networks today released a report detailing the scale, composition and activities of audiences of Weblogs, commonly known as “blogs.” The report, which was sponsored in part by Six Apart and Gawker Media, found that nearly 50 million Americans, or about 30

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TheStreet.com: breaking financial news, market commentary and stocks coverage that is insightful, irreverent and thorough: "TheStreet.com - Personal Finance Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: When to Speculate 8/9/2005 7:02 PM EDT By TheStreet.com Staff When done right, it can enhance your portfolio. More "

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Google buys IM company? | News.blog | CNET News.com: "Combining Hello and Meetro, Google could create a special brew of IM that features social and local networking, photo-sharing and geographic search and mapping. A prospective 'Google ME (for messaging)' could help people meet and chat, then exchange photos to make sure there's potential chemistry. If so, two people could search for and read

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Scientific American: Brain Region Tied to Regret Identified: "August 08, 2005 Brain Region Tied to Regret Identified It's human nature to sometimes regret a decision. Now scientists have identified the brain region that mediates that feeling of remorse: the medial orbitofrontal cortex. Giorgio Coricelli of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences at the National Science Research Center in Bron,

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IBM joins podcast craze with audio think-pieces - Yahoo! News: "Now major companies are joining the trend. In a recent report, technology market research firm Gartner Inc. cited automaker General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM - news) and soft drink maker PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE:PEP - news) as among corporate podcasters. On a GM-sponsored site, listeners can hear Bob Lutz, its chief car designer, discuss new

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LookSmart's FindArticles - Psychology Today: Capturing creativity - includes information on exercises and games that promote creative ability: "Enough about myths. What about science? In the 1970s, in animal studies I began at Harvard with behaviorist B. F Skinner, I became intrigued--obsessed is more accurate--with the fact that much of the interesting behavior we observed in our subjects had

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Idea Management - Editorial - CMO Magazine: "How do you motivate people to contribute? Typically, paying people extra for ideas is a bad idea—money changes everything. The best way is to disassociate the value of an idea from the value of an award. Consider, instead, using points-based programs to reward staff. It sounds too easy. Is it? Idea management is a superficially simple process—collect

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Beware Product Death Cycles: "No doubt many consumers gained an expectation that product quality would naturally improve, year after year, during the late 1980s and early 1990s. This was the heyday of quality management, when Japanese-inspired continuous quality improvement was seen as essential to a manufactured product’s identity. But for the past decade or so, many corporations seem to have

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Google balances privacy, reach | CNET News.com: "Privacy advocates say information collected at Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN, Amazon.com's A-9 and other search and e-commerce companies poses similar risks. Indeed, many of those companies' business plans tend to mimic what Google is trying to do, and some are less careful with the data they collect. But Google, which has more than a 50 percent share of

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Video gaming | Chasing the dream | Economist.com: "Gaming has gone from a minority activity a few years ago to mass entertainment. Video games increasingly resemble films, with photorealistic images, complex plotlines and even famous actors. The next generation of games consoles—which will be launched over the next few months by Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo—will intensify the debate over gaming

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BitTorrent - Introduction: "BitTorrent is a free speech tool. BitTorrent gives you the same freedom to publish previously enjoyed by only a select few with special equipment and lots of money. ('Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one' -- journalist A.J. Liebling.) You have something terrific to publish -- a large music or video file, software, a game or anything else that many

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