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SunCatcher - Better Dish, Better Solar Energy

Sandia's concentrating solar-thermal power team has been working closely with SES over the past five years to improve the system design and operation.

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Related Topix: Solar Energy, Solar Energy, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy, Electric Vehicle

11 hrs ago | www.sciencecodex.com | Cash

Study identifies potential fix for damaged knees

Investigators from Hospital for Special Surgery have shown that a biodegradable scaffold or plug can be used to treat patients with damaged knee cartilage.

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12 hrs ago | technologyexpert.blogspot.com | Iria

Teen Falls Into Open Manhole While Texting

In the past, bills have been introduced to prevent pedestrians from text messaging while crossing the street, though I am unaware of any that made it into law. Perhaps such a law would have saved this teen from a ton of embarrassment.

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21 hrs ago | technologyexpert.blogspot.com | Iria

The App Store Celebrates Its One Year Anniversary

On Friday, July 10th, the iTunes App Store turned one year old. Yes, it was only shortly over a year ago that Apple launched the iPhone 3G, an SDK, and the App Store to hold the (currently more than 50,000 apps).

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Related Topix: iPod, iPhone

Fri Jul 10, 2009

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Green industrial lubricant developed

A team of researchers from the University of Huelva has developed an environmentally-friendly lubricating grease based on ricin oil and cellulose derivatives, according to the journal Green Chemistry .

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Related Topix: Chemistry, Science

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Oldest dinosaur burrow discovered

A burrow photographed from above, showing a cross section, with the entrance on the left side and chamber on the right The world's oldest dinosaur burrows have been discovered in Australia.

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Related Topix: Dinosaur, Science, Paleontology, Atlanta, GA, Emory University, Australia, World News, Japan,

technologyexpert.blogspot.com | Iria

iPhone MMS, Tethering Delayed to September?

When the iPhone 3GS was announced, AT&T was ridiculed by some because the wireless carrier in the U.S. for the iPhone would not be enabling either MMS or tethering, services that consumers have been waiting for since the first generation iPhone. Now a report by AppModo is stating that both services will be delayed, all the way to September.

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Related Topix: iPhone, Emerging Technology, Wireless

snafu-ed.blogspot.com | Iria

Scientists Say Bush Administration Suppressed Research

A new survey by the Pew Research center focuses on science. While the survey says Americans like science, it also confirms, by asking scientists themselves, what we already knew: the Bush Administration suppressed any results scientific research which did not comform to its own narrow POV.

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85 Cell Phone Tips, Tricks and Hacks for a More Streamlined Life

Every generation is presented with new technologies of which the previous generation would and, in all likelihood, could never have imagined.A With the realization of each new idea arrives a more efficient and easier method of performing a common task.A While the basic premise behind this process of simplification is good, for those who do not know ...

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics

technologyexpert.blogspot.com | Iria

Google's Image Search Adds Usage Rights Filtering

Want to find a reusable photo for a blog or web site post, but concerned (naturally) about possible licensing issues? While there are already some ways to search for such images and content, Google remains the first search engine of choice for most folks. On Thursday they added functionality to Image Search to help in these sorts of queries.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Internet

Thu Jul 09, 2009

technologyexpert.blogspot.com | Iria

Retailers Leak Windows 7 Family Pack Info

To be honest, I expect Microsoft to announce some sort of Family Pack for Windows 7, much as they did for Windows Vista. To this point, there's been no official announcement, but as retailers prep their sites for the October launch of WIndows 7, they have made a few mistakes.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Microsoft Windows

technologyexpert.blogspot.com | Iria

Spellcheck This: a Funny Office 2010 Ad

"From the visionary creators of Office 2007 and 2003." Hilarious. This latest promo video for Microsoft's upcoming Office 2010 features the grave of Clippy, the annoyingly helpful Office Assistant that thankfully vanished with Office 2007.

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Related Topix: Microsoft Windows

technologyexpert.blogspot.com | Iria

iPhone, webOS to Take Market Share from RIM?

Nokia has seemingly been the device manufacturer feeling most of the global pain from the iPhone, but a note issued on Wednesday by Piper Jaffray’s T. Michael Walkley notes that in June both Palm's Pre and the iPhone grabbed market share from BlackBerry as well.

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technologyexpert.blogspot.com | Iria

Survey Highlights the Biggest Emailing Faux Pas

One of the causes of erroneously sent emails is the human at the end of the Send button. This is why Gmail Labs' Undo Send feature is helpful. Of course, that's Gmail. What about the mistakes we humans make in the workplace?

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Related Topix: Marketing

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Black Hat: Your Social Security Number Can Be Predicted With Online Information, Say Researchers

You may have thought there was a smarter system in place by now. Not so, and it's actually easy to glean a social security number

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Social Security

sciencecodex.com | Cash

New solar power collection dishes raise energy efficiency

Stirling Energy Systems and Tessera Solar recently unveiled four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories' National Solar Thermal Test Facility .

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Related Topix: Solar Energy, Solar Energy, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy, Technical Services, Electric Vehicle

Wed Jul 08, 2009

technologyexpert.blogspot.com | Iria

SEC Continues to Investigate Apple's Treatment of Steve Jobs' Health

The SEC continues to investigate disclosures Apple made regarding Steve Jobs' health earlier this year, specifically how his condition escalated from relatively simple to a six-month leave of absence in a period of nine days, according to a Bloomberg report.

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Related Topix: Steve Jobs, Computers, Apple Computer

snafu-ed.blogspot.com | Iria

New Research Shows Suicides Spike on Wednesday

For many, Wednesday is known as "hump day," when people begin the downward slide toward (yea!) the weekend. New research shows that Wednesday is also the deadliest day of the week for suicides, however.

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Related Topix: Snafu, Pop/Rock, UC Riverside

technologyexpert.blogspot.com | Iria

Google Announces Their Own OS, Built Out of Chrome

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is likely downing a ton of aspirin this morning, as Google has announced that it is developing a PC operating system based on its Chrome browser. Unlike Microsoft's current OS (Vista) and upcoming one (7), it will be all shiny and new (like Chrome!), not full of legacy code.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Microsoft, Software, PC, Computers

Tue Jul 07, 2009

technologyexpert.blogspot.com | Iria

AT&T Wants to Keep You Wired, Even If It Has to Scare You to Do It

As more and more Americans ditched their landline in exchange for cell phones only, AT&T is looking to keep people locked into landlines, using the same sort of methodology some seem to use to advance their political aspirations: fear.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics

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