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Ask What Technology You Can Buy For Your Country

Kim Nelson (Chevy Chase, MD) — It’s the holiday season, and as usual there is a media frenzy over consumers, what they are buying, and more importantly, what it may or may not mean. In the issue of Time that I received on Cyber Monday an article by Stephen Gandel titled “The Shopping Bag Indicator” outlined ... Read more »
Citizen 2.0, Education, Gaming, Government, Health, Next at Microsoft, Retail, Social Software, Video
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R&D And The Magic Ampersand

Lewis Shepherd (Reston, VA) – According to Wikipedia, the lowly ampersand or “&” is a logogram representing the conjunction word “and” using ”a ligature of the letters in et,” which is of course the Latin word for “and.” In my line of work I most frequently encounter the ampersand in the common phrase “R&D” for research ... Read more »
Academia, Augmented Reality, By the Numbers, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Next at Microsoft, Quantum Computing, Real Impact, Shepherds Pi, Social Software
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Automotive Mobile

Cars are now electronic mobile devices – at least according to Toyota and Microsoft, that is. These two companies recently announced a strategic partnership to build the Ultimate Mobile Device. Through a 1 billion yen investment in Toyota Media Service, the partnership teams the companies to collaboratively build a global cloud platform to ... Read more »
Cars, Gadgets and Mobile, Geo, Green Tech, Next at Microsoft
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