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New Tools Help Compa |
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| Ten years ago, it appeared that corporations were about to enter the golden age of information management. For decades, businesses had been gathering data about their customers, expecting that someday they would find a way to make sense of it. |
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The Surge in Text Me |
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| Mobile phones that can send and receive text messages have finally reached critical mass in the United States. Some 90 percent of the nearly 200 million phones in the U.S. now have that capability. As one CEO put it, the cell phone has become ��쐔he third screen��� in people��셲 lives, after the TV and the PC. |
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Software as a Servic |
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| Barely are any of the problems encountered in the day-to-day use of a computer or network the fault of the hardware. The glitches, stops, starts, and crashes are the result of bad software ?programs that are too complex, poorly written, crammed with too many features, or that conflict with other programs. |
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Domestic Robots Are |
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| Modern medicine offers the possibility that we will all live longer and be healthier. But inevitably the last few years of most people��셲 lives will find them needing caretaking of some sort. As many Baby Boomers already know, taking care of aging parents is a labor-intensive task. Even a moderately disabled person can require around-the-clock care and more than one helper to move from place to place. |
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The Rise of the Mega |
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| With few exceptions, human history can be viewed as an upward trend in population density. We evolved from nomadic ��쐆unting and gathering��� societies to tribal villages, then to small towns, and ultimately to the grand and glittering cities we see today throughout the industrialized world. |
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