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Iraq war veteran Sgt. Juan Arredondo can grasp tennis balls and door knobs with his left hand again, now that he's been outfitted with a bionic hand that has flexible fingers.
Holding focused meetings, also known as"sprints," over several days to develop, test, and document software is proving very helpful to the open-source Plone community in quickly adding more functionality to its content management software.
IBM Corp.'s India Research Laboratory has developed the Resiliency Maturity Index (RMI), a framework that quantitatively assesses the ability of an organization to recover from a variety of disasters such as floods, power outages, software glitches, epidemics, and terrorist attacks.
Facebook, a social-networking site that has become an open development platform, announced Thursday that it purchased startup Parakey for an undisclosed amount. The company, started by Mozilla Firefox cofounders Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, has been creating products to unify and integrate desktop applications and the Web.
Shipments of Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd.'s Eneloop ready-to-use rechargeable battery will soon hit 30 million thanks in part to the popularity of Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s Wii games console.
Google Inc. is testing a new homepage design in Taiwan and Hong Kong that takes advantage of faster broadband speeds in those markets, one of the company's founders said Thursday.
SEATTLE - Microsoft said Thursday it eked out a gain in net profit despite taking a$1 billion charge to pay for repairs to its Xbox 360 game consoles.
Swedish telecommunication equipment maker Ericsson on Friday reported a gain in second quarter net earnings but its sales performance fell short of market expectations.
IBM’s India Research Laboratory has developed the Resiliency Maturity Index (RMI), a framework that quantitatively assesses the ability of an organization to recover from a variety of disasters such as floods, power outages, software glitches, epidemics, and terrorist attacks.
More business schools are offering specialized MBA programs. Whether they come in the form of an Executive MBA degree in a particular industry or a separate certificate earned in addition to the MBA, they all have a common aim: to give students a foundation in general management, from basic finance to strategy, and an in-depth knowledge of a particular industry.
Perhaps Chinook, the checker-playing computer program, should be renamed"King Me."Canadian researchers report they have"solved"checkers, developing a program that cannot lose in a game popular with young and old alike for more than a thousand years.
