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HP's missteps culminate in loss of 27,000 jobs (Update)

(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman has quantified the painful price that must be paid for the missteps of her predecessors as she tries to turn around the Silicon Valley pioneer. The bungling will wipe ...

Technology / Business

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Whirr, click, hum: Robots go at it in 2.007 finale

MIT’s Johnson Athletic Center took on the aura of an old-fashioned county fair on Thursday night, complete with popcorn, balloons, jugglers, cotton candy and pitchmen wearing brightly colored jackets and bowties. But ...

Electronics / Robotics

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Co-workers can be as important as supervisors for effective student internships, researcher finds

Summer internships are beginning, and career-related research from Kansas State University is helping determine what can make those internships more meaningful for students.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A sociologist's guide to trust

Trust. The word gets bandied about a lot when talking about the Web today. We want people to trust our systems. Companies are supposedly building “trusted computing” and “designing for trust”.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The world's first sterilizable flexible organic transistor

An international research team has succeeded in manufacturing on a polymeric film the world’s first flexible organic transistor that is robust enough under high temperature medical sterilization process. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

iPad dispute signals new era in trademark troubles

(AP) -- iPotato, isock, icouch, istove, i-you-name-it. An Internet search for "i" words from A to Z will turn up just about any combination you might think up, from all over the world, only a handful of them ...

Technology / Business

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Family and peer relationships essential to Mexican-American college students' success

Hispanics are enrolling in the higher education system at a greater rate than ever, yet they are less likely than their non-Hispanic peers to enter college or earn degrees, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. A new study ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Media portrayal of race in sports reveals biases in corporate world

The U.S. may have its first black president and the Fortune 500 its first black female chief executive, but African American CEOs account for a mere one percent of the chiefs of those 500 largest companies.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bacterial plasmids -- the freeloading and the heavy-lifters -- balance the high price of disease

Studying self-replicating genetic units, called plasmids, found in one of the world's widest-ranging pathogenic soil bacteria -- the crown-gall-disease-causing microorganism Agrobacterium tumefaciens -- Ind ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Designing wildlife corridors in the digital age

Development is squeezing animals into smaller pockets of land, and without sufficient planning and protection, individual animal populations could find themselves increasingly isolated.

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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