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Negroponte of $100 One Laptop Per Child Sued for Patent Infringement

Lagos Analysis Corp. (LANCOR) files lawsuit against Nicholas Negroponte and OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Association for patent infringement. Negroponte's OLPC is accused of unauthorized use of LANCOR's Multilingual Keyboard Technology invention in XO Laptop computers.

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Toward greater reliance on computer simulation

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is taking its nuclear energy research into new territory – virtual territory that is.

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Iranian inventor designs PC paralleling high performance super computers

Chancellor of computer at the faculty of Science and Technology University Mohsen Sharifi who got his Ph.D on a parallel high performance machine has invented a new system which increases the speed of personal computers (PC) to those of super computers, it was announced on Saturday.

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Windows Live OneCare Helps Simplify Multi-PC Environment

With more than one-third of U.S. adults (35 percent) now owning more than one home computer, households have an increasing need to simplify the way they secure and care for all their PCs. Microsoft Corp. today released the next version of the Windows Live OneCare service.

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IBM's Blue Gene Pulls Away from Pack

IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) Blue Gene®/L supercomputer sprinted to a new world record as it continued its four-year domination of the official TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list. The world’s fastest computer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is now nearly three times faster than the rest of the pack.

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Inefficient desktop PCs cost top UK businesses more than £61m each year

Research shows that blade PC technology can cut energy costs by 50%

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Home computers to help researchers better understand universe

Want to help unravel the mysteries of the universe" A new distributed computing project designed by a University of Illinois researcher allows people around the world to participate in cutting-edge cosmology research by donating their unused computing cycles.

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New approach builds better proteins inside computer

With the aid of more than 70,000 home computer users throughout the world, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have, for the first time, accurately predicted the three-dimensional structure of a small, naturally occurring globular protein using only its amino acid sequence.

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Study reveals how ferroelectric computer memory works

A collaboration of University of Pennsylvania chemists and engineers has performed multi-scale modeling of ferroelectric domain walls and provided a new theory of behavior for domain-wall motion, the "sliding wall" that separates ferroelectric domains and makes high-density ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM) possible.

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Researchers' material may lead to advances in quantum computing

Scientists at Florida State University’s National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and the university’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry have introduced a new material that could be to computers of the future what silicon is to the computers of today.

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Technology could enable computers to 'read minds' of users

Tufts University researchers are developing techniques that could allow computers to respond to users’ thoughts of frustration — too much work — or boredom—too little work. Applying non-invasive and easily portable imaging technology in new ways, they hope to gain real-time insight into the brain’s more subtle emotional cues and help provide a more efficient way to get work done.

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Dell announces deal with China's largest electronics retailer

Computer giant Dell Inc. announced a deal Monday with China's largest electronics retailer to sell PCs in stores throughout the country as the world's second-largest computer maker tries to expand in the booming Chinese market.

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