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Wikipedia and the nature of truth

December 2, 2005 Online encyclopedia's very strength sometimes turns out to be its Achilles' heel, says CNET News.com's Charles Cooper. TAGS: Wikipedia, encyclopedia, truth, nature, wisdom, mistake, article

Envisioning a wireless future

August 10, 2005 Author Dave Mock says the promise of omnipresent wireless communication will present society with unexpected dilemmas. TAGS: wireless communication, mobile communication, wireless technology, identity, nature, communication, payment

Rise of the patent trolls

October 12, 2005 HP's Joe Beyers urges the formation of a consortium to combat what he sees as a patent shakedown. TAGS: troll, patent, invention, innovation, consortium, nature, intellectual property, value, threat

BlackBerry outage: RIM a victim of its own success?

April 18, 2007 The very nature of RIM's network could have led to the outage that caused millions of BlackBerry users to go without e-mails for hours. TAGS: Research In Motion Ltd., outage, RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry E-Mail, subscriber, data center, nature, Asia, e-mail server, e-mail, Europe, server

Turning nature's design into scientific breakthrough

March 1, 2006 A start-up is trying to make everything from PC fans to water purifiers more efficient with a design inspired by nature. Images: From nature to the lab TAGS: spiral, nature, industrial design, aerospace, design, path, idea, PC

Manufactured diamonds move closer to nature

May 17, 2005 A new method for turning carbon gas into diamonds makes jewels big enough to put a twinkle in even J.Lo's eye. TAGS: diamond, nanotube, carbon, semiconductor, nature, method

Industrial design takes cues from bugs, leaves, crabs

October 27, 2006 Researchers are studying nature to find ways to do everything from conserving energy to creating better skid-resistance. Photos: Nature's brainstorms TAGS: industrial design, scientist, nature, sensor, research, field, researcher, idea

A technologist looks back, looks ahead

December 6, 2004 Notes inventor Ray Ozzie considers how the nature of work is being changed by inexpensive communications and IT. TAGS: IBM Lotus Notes, desktop publishing, nature, communication, corporation, information technology, IBM Corp.

Year in review: Back to nature

January 6, 2005 The natural world was the focus of much nanotechnology and energy research. Robots, meanwhile, were learning to mimic crabs and bees. TAGS: nanotechnology, wireless chip, robot, supercomputer, energy, researcher, nature, scientist, material, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., start-up, Intel, video

Robot talk turns practical at RoboBusiness 2007

May 15, 2007 The U.S. Army has a lot to learn from nature. Also: iRobot launches a contest for the next home robot. TAGS: iRobot Corp., robot, swarming, evolution, robotics, military, nature, Boston, collaboration

Gates foundation to promote synthetic biology

December 13, 2004 Most people associate E. coli with bad chicken, but researchers say the microbe can be used to produce new drugs. TAGS: drug, biology, production, nature, Microsoft Corp.
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