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Home security robots hit the market Cameras, software and other enhancements aid in home security Read more on San Jose Mercury News
Lego Robots Take Over JMU Robots run by middle school students took over part of the JMU campus Saturday. Read more on WHSV Harrisonburg
Hulu Plus Subscription Service Available Now On 2010 Bravia HDTVs with Bravia Internet Video Coming soon to all PlayStation 3 owners, Blu-ray products in the U.S. Read more on IGN PS3
Zynga Starts To Love Android, But Farmville Not On The Way When you hear that Zynga is coming to a new platform, you’d naturally think of Farmville. Well, that won’t yet be the case for Android, but the social games giant is starting to show support for… Read more on I4U
Droid, Wii Patent Complaints Investigated The U.S. International Trade Commission has launched investigations related to two recent patent-infringement complaints brought to the agency, one filed by Microsoft against Motorola for its Android-based smartphones and one focused on Nintendo’s Wii gaming system. Read more on PC World via Yahoo! News
Tuscarawas County results NEWCOMERSTOWN ” Voters in Tuscarawas County approved the Newcomerstown Public Library’s replacement levy Tuesday. “I”m very happy and relieved,” Newcomerstown Public Library Director Linda Hren said. Read more on The Daily Jeffersonian
Oracle buying Art Technology for one billion US dollars US business software giant Oracle announced Tuesday it was buying e-commerce software company Art Technology Group for one billion US dollars in cash. Read more on Brisbane Times
ColorTouch Touch Screen Thermostat From Venstar Delivers Customizable Backgrounds, Including Users’ Own Photos CHATSWORTH, CA–(Marketwire – 11/02/10) – Venstar, a leading thermostat and energy management systems supplier, today announced the launch of ColorTouch , the multi-functional, simple-to-use, richly featured, programmable touch screen thermostat that thinks it’s a digital picture frame. ColorTouch has customizable backgrounds, including
Blekko: Cool for the geekorati, but no Google killer Blekko is novel, interesting, and even useful, but only the geek elite are ready for it. Besides, Google knows what we mean anyway. Read more on ZDNet
Bedogni Prize Announcement The NZ Open Source Awards 2010 gala event in November is the clear choice for The University of Auckland’s Department of Computer Science to announce its inaugural winner of the biennial Clinton Bedogni Prize for Open Systems. Worth $10,000 and … Read more on Scoop.co.nz
Facebook saving face when it comes to energy efficiency? Facebook has kind of taken it on the chin when it comes to publicity about its energy sourcing choices, especially in contrast with some of the other big players staking claim on the cloud service… Read more on ZDNet
Franco, Weiler and More on Tap for 2011 New Frontier at Sundance Film Festival Fourteen installations from artists including James Franco and Lance Weiler are set to take part in the 2011 edition of New Frontier at Sundance Film Festival. Now in its fifth year, the event brings together established and emerging artists from film,
THQ and WWE® Announce Integrated Marketing Agreement AGOURA HILLS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) and World Wrestling Entertainment (NYSE: WWE) today announced a new, comprehensive marketing agreement. THQ-developed, WWE-branded video games will be integrated into domestic and international events, pay-per-view and television sponsorships, magazines, WWE.com, WWE DVDs, and more. In addition, for the first time,
Google’s 40 acquisitions in 2010: What about integration? 40 acquisitions? Can you say management nightmare? Read more on ZDNet
Doris B. Harvin, city educator, dies Former math instructor later became a master teacher and assisted in curriculum development for Baltimore public schools Doris B. Harvin, who was a city public school educator for more than three decades and was also a longtime active member of Leadenhall Baptist Church, died Oct. 23 of Alzheimer’s disease
Is China a supercomputer threat? (Q&A) Jack Dongarra, an expert at the University of Tennessee, discusses the potential threat China poses with its new supercomputer and the state of supercomputing in the U.S. Read more on CNET
Heads Up Most augmented-reality applications run on handheld devices (see “Tablet 2.0,” p. 25) , but these glasses can create a hands-free digital overlay on the user’s world. Two stereo cameras mounted in the front of the glasses feed a 3-D image to a computer that adds digital imagery to the scene. Read more on
New CHS robotics club seeking engineers and volunteers Local engineers and adult volunteers, the newly created Calhoun High School robotics club is seeking your assistance. The student club is in need of help from local engineers to reach its goal of participating in the US FIRST robotics competition. Read more on The Port Lavaca Wave
Computational research program launched for undergrads The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), at the University of California, San Diego, is launching a unique volunteer internship program for undergraduate students designed to provide valuable “on the job” experience in a cross-section of projects in computational research. Read more on UC Newsroom
EA Ships HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT 3 Sparking Excitement With Array of Five New Games The EA Play Label of Electronic Arts Inc. today announced it is offering consumers even more family fun this holiday season with the launch of HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT 3, the newest addition to the HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT video