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Scvngr's Hunt: Retailers Who See Dollars in Game Dynamics
Can location-based games for smart phones boost foot traffic at stores?
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What Twitter Learns from All Those Tweets
The company's head of analytics explains how Twitter mines the data users produce.
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Why Google Went Instant
The service, an engineering marvel, could boost Google's bottom line.
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Wireless Controlled From the Cloud
IBM China Research Lab scientists have developed Wireless Network Cloud, a new architecture that shifts the signal-processing requirements of wireless networks...
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New Life For Magnetic Tape
Music lovers may have long forsaken them, but magnetic tapes still reign supreme when it comes to storing vast amounts of digital data. And new research from IBM...
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Trading Shares in Milliseconds
Today's stock market has become a world of automated transactions executed at lightning speed. This high-frequency trading could make the financial system more...
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Splitting p Search
Searching the Web could become faster for users and much more efficient for search companies if search engines were split up and distributed around the world, according...
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Greener Computing in the Cloud
Researchers say that custom data centers being built for cloud computing systems are very energy efficient. "There are issues with property rights and confidentiality...
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Catching Fake Meds in a Snapshot
New York University researchers have proposed Epothecary, a system that uses cell phones to authenticate and track drugs distributed in the developing world. The...
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