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Driving a car with disappearing doors will definitely grab everyone's attention. http://www.flixxy.com/high-tech-car-door.htm

And the winner of New York City's high-tech campus sweepstakes appears to be... Cornell, by $350 million dollars. Mayor Bloomberg is expected to announce the news later today at the New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and the Ithaca-based Ivy is apparently so eager to get started they want to have their first classes going by next September—a year earlier than the Bloomberg administration initially asked for! The rush to anoint Cornell ahead of the original January announcement deadline comes days after Stanford abruptly dropped out of the race just as Cornell announced a record-breaking $350 million donation to help it...

“High Tech-High Touch” was defined in John Naisbitt’s “Megatrends” in 1982. It defines two sides of human progress – technology and attention to beauty. I look for threesomes in human discourse. Add the broad field of High Finance. High Tech; High Touch; High Finance. The importance placed in the order of priority of the three determines the quality and strength of society itself. The love of and speculation on money is now first before its primary servant role as the medium of exchange, growth of high-tech and high-touch is limited to the desires of the despot. Those dreamers and entrepreneurs...

Steve Jobs Illustrates Age Discrimination by HR Employment Recruiters In High Tech, Social Media Unwarranted By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Ra'anana, Israel --- October 7, 2011 .... If Steve Jobs answered an ad today for work on LinkedIn.com or Monster.com chances are he would never even get a response. At the age of 56 he would be deemed a dinosaur who would be completely out of touch with modern technology and integrated marketing channels. That at 56, he would be lucky if he was using email. HR and executive recruiters in high tech, SEO, social media and digital marketing...

The company's new Kindle Fire tablet, a 7-inch touch-screen device powered by Amazon's content ecosystem and priced at just $199, may be an orange to Apple's iPad apple, but I'd argue that it's an iPad killer all the same. On paper, the Kindle Fire has half the features of the iPad. In fact, it's almost literally half the features--here's a handy comparison chart so you can see for yourself. There's no camera, front or rear; the 8GB of onboard storage is half the amount of the base-model iPad; the Fire has no cellular options, no built-in GPS, and no Bluetooth,...

Should bring forward Intel's Sandy Bridge Xeon launch CHIP DESIGNER AMD has announced that it has begun shipping its Bulldozer architecture chips to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The firm started making its first Bulldozer chips codenamed 'Interlagos' last month and is now shipping to OEM customers. Many of the first batches of the Interlagos chip, which AMD said is the world's first 16 core x86 processor, will be used in supercomputers. Rick Bergman, SVP and general manager of AMD Products Group said, "This is a monumental moment for the industry as this first 'Bulldozer' core represents the beginning of unprecedented...

FBI agents Tuesday arrested a Chinese national, Liu Sixing, who worked for a US technology company. Also known as Steve Liu, he's charged with exporting information about sensitive military know-how to China... ...arrested at his home in Deerfield, Illinois, and charged with one count of exporting defense-related technical data without a license...

President Barack Obama will visit the Bay Area Thursday to meet with high tech business leaders -- a session that will stress jobs, innovation, green tech and education themes, White House sources tell the Chronicle. So far, no information on where the meeting will be held -- or whether any part of it will be public -- but here's what we know from a White House official: the session is "a part of our ongoing dialogue with the business community on how we can work together to win the future, strengthen our economy, support entrepreneurship, and get the American people...

America needs more High Tech Engineers to boost production and lower unemployment Paul Owen, discusses America’s forgotten immigration problem: our need for high tech engineers. According to Owen, so much focus has been put the visible waves of immigrant and cheap factory laborers that we’ve forgotten about the invisible undertow in the form of a ‘brain drain’ that continues to erode America’s leading edge in technology. Paul Owen asks, “30 million illegal unskilled immigrants or 300,000 high tech scientists and engineers: Why is it so difficult to decide? We have two immigration problems. The first is the illegal unskilled immigrants...

China is aggressively building up military forces to strike U.S. forces in the western Pacific and elsewhere as part of what the Pentagon calls an array of high-tech "anti-access" missiles, submarines and warplanes in its latest annual report.

"SCHWARZENEGGER FLEXES MUSCLE FOR MOSCOW, WHILE OBAMA IGNORES WARNINGS FROM RUSSIAN DISSIDENTS" International News Analysis Today June 29, 2010 By Toby Westerman SNIPPET: "California governor, and former film superhero, Arnold Schwarzenegger has pledged to lead a trade mission to Russia and assist "in any way possible" Russia's drive to develop its own high tech "Silicon Valley." U.S. president Barack Obama has also promised his backing in facilitating the flow of U.S. technology to Russia. The eager participation of Schwarzenegger and Obama in exporting U.S. technological capabilities came during Russian president Dmitry Medvedev's three day visit (June 22-24) to the United...

BEIJING - US Commence Secretary Gary Locke said on Friday that the US government is expected to completely overhaul its export control policies by this summer, which might pave the way for the sale of more high-technology goods to China. "We are reviewing the entire list of our export control system as some of the protections and restrictions make very little sense," Locke said at a press briefing in Beijing. The US government is loosening controls over some commonly available high-tech goods, but will give more protection to the sensitive technologies that are important to national security, he said. Locke...

Helped by a spate of acquisitions, start-ups are getting funded, which gives them a chance to hire. It looked as if the economy had dealt a powerful blow to L.J. Mottel, a 35-year-old father of two, when his employer, the Fontainebleau hotel and resort in Las Vegas, filed for bankruptcy and laid him off. But unlike other victims of the downturn, Mottel had the luck of a high-roller on a hot streak: He was the Fontainebleau's director of information technology, and that made him a hot commodity. He didn't have to wait long before getting a new job at Service-now.com,...

Vimal Patel was studying for a master's in business administration in London when he saw an advertisement for work in the U.S. The ad offered a job in the tech industry, as well as sponsorship for the kind of work visa that allows foreign nationals to take professional-level jobs in the country. So Patel applied and paid his prospective employer, Cygate Software & Consulting, in Edison, N.J., thousands of dollars in up-front fees. But when Patel arrived, Cygate had no tech job for him. He ended up working at a gas station, and Cygate nevertheless took a chunk of his...

LOS ANGELES—In two separate cases, three men have been sentenced to federal prison for attempting to transport sensitive and advanced U.S. technology to the People's Republic of China (PRC). Two men were sentenced yesterday, and another man linked to one of the schemes was sentenced last week to five years in prison. William Chi-Wai Tsu, 61, a Beijing resident, was sentenced yesterday to 40 months imprisonment for his role in exporting high-tech integrated circuits with military applications to the PRC. In a separate case, Tah Wei Chao, 53, of Beijing, was sentenced yesterday to 20 months imprisonment after pleading guilty...

BANGALORE (Reuters) - At Microsoft's research center in a leafy lane in India's tech capital, a new generation of researchers are being groomed half a world away from the software giant's sprawling headquarters in Seattle. Complete with beanbags and coffee served in steel tumblers, the center is helping change the perception that India is no place for top-end research and development. Staffed with about 60 full-time researchers, many of them Indians with PhDs from top universities in the United States, the center is at the cutting edge of Microsoft's R&D. It covers seven areas of research including mobility and cryptography....

Note: The following text is a quote: 09 July 2009 EGYPT ARRESTS TERRORIST CELL OF 25 MEMBERS CAIRO, July 9 (Xinhua) The Egyptian authorities have arrested a terrorist cell of 25 members, 24 Egyptians and one Palestinian, for plotting to carry out terrorist attacks in Suez Canal, Egyptian Interior Ministry said in statement issued on Thursday. According to the statement, the members of the cell who believe in Jihad (Holy War) were located in Cairo, Alexandria and Daqahlia governorates and communicated through internet with other terrorist groups outside Egypt. The cell's members, mostly engineers, were developing high-tech and electronic devices...

I got up early, went down to very sketchy Sprint store and bought a Palm Pre on Saturday. I've been playing with it and testing it ever since and before I finish the full review I thought I'd share some data with you all.First, battery life: Phone Web Browsing (Cell Network) Web Browsing (WiFi) Talk Time Apple iPhone 3G 218 minutes 400 minutes 289 minutes Palm Pre 219 minutes 351 minutes 312 minutes T-Mobile G1 398 minutes (on Edge) 435 minutes 218 minutes (on Edge)  T-Mobile doesn't have any 3G coverage in NC yet so all of my tests for...

The technological and economical development of Scandinavia (including Finland) is today more groundbreking than anywhere else in the world. The investments being made in relation to population size is mind-boggling. Despite a mere population of 25 million inhabitants, the combined GDP of the Scandinavian countries today ridicules that of a Russia often viewed to be a "reborn" super power "on the go" (combined Scandinavian GDP is actually 125% that of of Russia - and the gap is widening!!) But, let's focus on telecommunications here; Five bidders have paid €226 million ($346 million) for fourth generation (4G), super-fast mobile telephony licences,...

After a short downturn, the tech economy is back on the upswing. Hi-tech careers are on the rebound and, with the right college education and on-the-job training, your future looks bright. Professionals with technical training or degrees from online technical schools will find prime-time opportunities to advance their careers. Some of the top job seekers poised to laugh all the way to the bank in this resurgent tech economy: IT specialists, database administrators, high-tech marketing pros, and digital designers. We'll take a closer look at these individual careers by type, but first the good news numbers that are putting smiles...

(AP) CAMBRIDGE -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers made a 60-watt light bulb glow by sending it energy wirelessly -- from a device 7 feet away -- potentially heralding a future in which cell phones and other gadgets get their juice without having to be plugged in. The breakthrough, disclosed Thursday in Science Express, the online publication of the journal Science, is being called "WiTricity" by the scientists. The concept of sending power wirelessly isn't new, but it has been dismissed as inefficient because the electromagnetic energy generated by the charging device radiates in all directions. One advance was announced...

The Tech Dragon Stumbles China's upstarts are finding life in the big leagues tougher than they reckoned by Bruce Einhorn In recent years, the world has watched with a mixture of fascination and trepidation as Chinese technology companies making everything from semiconductors to cell phones have pushed their way onto the global stage. Investors have piled in, hoping to reap the rewards that would flow from betting on an Intel (INTC) or Dell (DELL) in the making. Potential rivals, meanwhile, have feared that the Chinese, like the Japanese and Koreans before them, might elbow their way into prominence worldwide. From...

In Pictures: Robot menagerie An ethical code to prevent humans abusing robots, and vice versa, is being drawn up by South Korea. The Robot Ethics Charter will cover standards for users and manufacturers and will be released later in 2007. It is being put together by a five member team of experts that includes futurists and a science fiction writer. The South Korean government has identified robotics as a key economic driver and is pumping millions of dollars into research. "The government plans to set ethical guidelines concerning the roles and functions of robots as robots are expected to...

Virgin Lobster Fails to Spawn By Bill Ray Published Friday 19th January 2007 07:02 GMT Virgin mobile has sold "considerably less" than 10,000 of their mobile-TV-enabled Lobster handsets, despite Pamela Anderson’s advertising and cutting the price to below a hundred quid, according to The Guardian. Virgin won't confirm the figures, but it's clear that sales are disappointing. This should not come as any surprise: the Lobster was never an attractive handset, and in a business largely driven by owning the coolest-looking handset it was always going to be a hard sell. How this reflects on the viability of mobile video...

By James Kilner MOSCOW (Reuters) - A shortage of information technology graduates from Western universities is leading companies to call on developing countries to meet research demand, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said on Tuesday. After the break-up of the Soviet Union, Russia's internationally renowned education system became a cheap talent pool for the West. Now dozens of Russian language Web sites offer computer programming jobs in the United States, alongside visa support and language training. "Worldwide, a lot of the developed countries are not graduating as many IT students as they were in the past, which is kind of ironic...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, 2006 -- The same global positioning technology that helps fighter and bomber pilots deliver smart bombs with pinpoint accuracy now allows bundles dropped from cargo planes to steer themselves to drop zones. A new GPS-guided “Screamer” bundle from the Joint Precision Air Drop System falls out the back of a C-130 Hercules over Afghanistan Aug. 26. The drop was made from 17,500 feet above mean sea level and was the first joint Air Force-Army operational drop of JPADS in the Central Command area of responsibility. Four bundles were dropped from the Alaska Air National Guard C-130....

See for example this thread first. Some high-tech CEO's complain the SEC's causing them pain But despite all they say-- (you can go thank Ken Lay) we don't care much if "they can explain."

A new technique allowing virtual dissections of half-billion-year-old fossil embryos is producing the first three-dimensional images of the dawn of life. It reveals a universe of detail impossible using previous methods, and researchers said it was pushing back the frontiers of science much as the scanning electron microscope did half a century ago. [SNIP] In contrast to those methods, synchroton-radiation X-ray tomographic microscopy, or SRXTM, leaves the tiny fossils untouched but gives graphic details of their structure.

U.S. Sen. George Allen, R-Va., has co-sponsored a bill offered by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, that seeks to promote employer access to skilled employees. The Securing Knowledge, Innovation and Leadership Bill expands the number of visas allowed for high-tech workers educated in the United States who are employed as part of the H1-B visa program. "I want the United States to be the world capital of innovation. And to achieve that goal, we must adapt, innovate and compete by allowing them to attract highly skilled individuals so that they can become fully productive citizens," said Allen. Currently, the number of...

Washington, DC (April 19, 2006) – AeA, the nation’s largest trade association representing all segments of the high-tech industry, today released its ninth annual Cyberstates report detailing national and state trends in high-tech employment, wages, exports, and other key economic factors. The report, Cyberstates 2006: A Complete State-by-State Overview of the High-Technology Industry, covers all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Virginia's high-tech industry employment grew by 9,100 net jobs, to 253,300 in 2004, the most current state data available. A significant part of this job growth occurred in Virginia’s largest technology sector, computer systems design and...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.The National Association of Manufacturers Is Spinning the News on the High-Tech Trade Deficit So Fast It's Getting Dizzy "Advanced tech exports haven't even recovered to their level of five years ago," Vargo continued....He said he will urge the Commerce Department to begin a prompt analysis of what he called 'our advanced technology export problem.'" —National Association of Manufacturers Vice President Frank Vargo, February 10, 2006 "The good news is that this January's exports of advanced technology goods grew 21 percent over last year and actually brought this particular year-to-year deficit down."...

WASHINGTON - After a series of reports warning of the growing economic threat from China and India, ``competitiveness'' has become the latest catch-word of Silicon Valley's high-tech industry. President Bush elevated the issue for the nation Tuesday, announcing a decadelong ``American Competitiveness Initiative'' that would pour $136 billion into scientific research and the promotion of math and science education. --snip-- High-tech leaders praised the proposal Tuesday night. ``I was heartened by the amount of time he spent talking about competitiveness,'' said Carl Guardino, head of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group. ``To hear him focus on math and science, especially in...

Indeed, China's ability to hold on to the labor-intensive segments of the global marketplace as it climbs the technology ladder is one of the unique features of the country's ascent -- and a remarkable source of resilience for its economy. It's also a factor in the country's $100 billion-plus trade surplus with the rest of the world and double that figure with the U.S.

Digital’s venerable VMS just keeps going and going and going.... 01/09/2006 By Keith Parent and Beth Bumbarger MASS HIGH TECH : JOURNAL OF NEW ENGLAND TECHNOLOGY New Englanders old enough to have worked in the region’s computer industry in the halcyon days of the mid-to-late 1980s participated in one of the great entrepreneurial periods of our nation’s history. Those were the days of the Massachusetts Miracle, when technology titans such as Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), Wang Laboratories, Data General and Prime Computer Inc. employed tens of thousands of high-tech professionals in what then Gov. Michael Dukakis described in a famous...

Bay Area technology companies will get a crack this week at enticing some of the brightest from MIT, something that used to be much easier for Silicon Valley. More than 70 business students from MIT's Sloan School of Management will tour nearly 40 companies, including Apple Computer, Salesforce.com, Google and Hewlett-Packard as part of an annual meeting. For the students, it's a chance to kick the tires on the technology sector. Some have plenty of other options, including a career in consulting, working for influential and high-paying firms, such as Bain or McKinsey, said Paul Denning, spokesman for the Sloan...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate-passed measure to add more visas for foreign workers in high-tech and specialty fields was dropped from a budget bill that passed the House early Monday, disappointing high-tech and manufacturing firms in search of skilled workers. The Senate plan would have allowed 30,000 more of the popular H1-B visas each year, and increased fees for those visas to help trim the budget deficit. Congress capped the six-year H-1B visas at 65,000 per year in 2004, and that cap has already been reached for the 2006 fiscal year that began Oct. 1. The Senate language also would...

When Silicon Valley executives complain about soaring wages for computer engineers, they often blame a single company for their plight: Google Inc. The Mountain View search engine, they say, has pushed up salaries with its deep pockets and huge appetite for technology workers. "It's driven up software engineering wages by 50 percent in the past couple years," Reed Hastings, chief executive of Netflix, the online DVD rental firm in Los Gatos, said recently at a conference for the technology industry's lobbying group. Bill Cobb, who oversees North American operations for San Jose's eBay, chimed in from across the table, saying,...

China trumped the United States in 2004 as the world’s leading exporter of high-tech goods like laptop computers, mobile phones and digital cameras, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said on Monday. Official data from the Paris-based OECD highlighted how fast the country, still Communist Party-controlled, has emerged as an economic power that the United States and other long-industrialized countries can no longer ignore. China exported $180 billion worth of ICT (information and communication technology) goods in 2004, compared with U.S. exports of $149 billion, the OECD, a free-market organization whose 30-country membership does not include China, said.

WASHINGTON — U.S. high-tech industry executives met earlier this week with Vice President Dick Cheney to lobby for more U.S. support for basic science research, sources said Friday (Dec. 16). The meeting came as two U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation this week designed to boost U.S. innovation. The National Innovation Act of 2005 introduced Wednesday by Sens. John Ensign (R-Nev.) and Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) seeks to increase investment in basic research, improve science and technology talent and develop a robust innovation infrastructure. The proposal would also create a President's Council on Innovation to "develop a comprehensive agenda to promote innovation in...

NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 5, 2005 – High-speed vessel Swift, homeported at Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Norfolk, Va., played a major role in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Swift was pierside at Naval Station Ingleside, Texas, when the crew learned they were needed to deliver fresh food to federal, state and local agencies assisting with the relief efforts. “You can only eat MRE’s (meals ready to eat) for so long,” said Lt. Cmdr. Phillip Pournelle, Swift’s executive officer. " You can build all the high tech ships in the world, but unless you have the crew that’s capable and willing to...

MANHATTAN, Kan. - Hardly a day passes without news of U.S. troops being killed or wounded in Iraq, often from car bombs, roadside explosives and similar methods. ADVERTISEMENT Halfway around the world, Bill Dunn, a Kansas State University nuclear engineering professor, works on ways to detect such explosives at a safe distance. Since November, he has been applying technology about neutron and gamma ray radiation to detect improvised explosive devices, or IEDs in military jargon. Dunn isn't seeking just scholarly satisfaction for proving some abstract theory. "Everybody knows somebody affected by this war. Every single day somebody is being killed...

SEPTEMBER 12, 2005 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY A Poker Game For Samsung's Chips Austin and Albany are playing a high-stakes hand -- with a $3.5 billion plant on the table It's like a high-stakes game of Texas Hold 'Em. On one side of the poker table are the guns from Austin, Tex.; on the other the sharks from Albany, N.Y. The stakes are huge: The two sides are squaring off over a new, $3.5 billion Samsung semiconductor plant, which will come with about 900 high-paying jobs and a secure spot in the high-tech industry's future. Never mind that Korea's Samsung hasn't even...

IT SOUNDS like the stuff of science fiction, but the Japanese Government is quietly throwing huge financial and technical weight into the development of three-dimensional, virtual reality television. If the Communications Ministry succeeds in its ambitions, sports fans throughout the nation will be able to enjoy the 2018 World Cup final as if they were on the pitch itself, surrounded by the sights, smells and sounds of the real action. The ministry, fondly pretending that the final will feature Japan and Brazil, has even drawn up artist’s impressions of how fans will be celebrating goals in their living rooms...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. QUEENSLAND'S Bond University has axed its information technology faculty in a move reflecting a massive downturn in demand for computing courses at universities around Australia. Applications for IT courses have fallen by almost 50per cent in some states. The Gold Coast-based university has announced its IT faculty will merge with the faculty of business, which may lead to some academic staff being retrenched. Bond is pitching the decision as creating a "super-faculty" that is "in line with Bond's cutting-edge IT education". In a written statement, Bond said the move would not...

A group of legislators on both sides of the Washington aisle vowed on Tuesday to create a national plan for dealing with an alarming byproduct of the country's voracious appetite for electronics--mountains of potentially toxic waste. To that end, four lawmakers from the U.S. House of Representatives have formed the Congressional E-Waste Working Group. The group intends to build broad political support for a national law to reduce high-tech garbage--a cause that has been largely ignored in Washington. Leading the group's charge are Representatives Mike Thompson, a California Democrat; Randy "Duke" Cunningham, a California Republican; Louise Slaughter, a Democrat from...

Digitization is THE primary catalyst for offshoring. It is one of the biggest game changing developments in the 21st Century, just as the Industrial Revolution, the Automobile, electricity and others were in other centuries. This is where it all begins!Mark my words! If you think the Internet was a game changing development in the late 90's, digitization combined with the Internet is going to shake up many many people's lives as never before seen in this century.If you have missed the previous 4 installments, here they are:1. Preface 2. The Spread of Computing 3. The Spread of Knowledge 4. The...

VIENNA, Austria - Iran is quietly building a stockpile of thousands of high-tech small arms and other military equipment - from armor-piercing snipers' rifles to night-vision goggles - through legal weapons deals and a U.N. anti-drug program, according to an internal U.N. document, arms dealers and Western diplomats. The buying spree is raising Bush administration fears the arms could end up with militants in Iraq. Tehran also is seeking approval for a U.N.-funded satellite network that Iran says it needs to fight drug smugglers, stoking U.S. worries it could be used to spy on Americans in Iraq or Afghanistan -...

- The Jackson-Clinton metropolitan area in south central Mississippi is the largest single conglomeration of high-tech telecommunications and wireless companies in America, with more than 300 such firms calling the state capital region home. - Statewide, more than 10,000 Mississippians are employed in telecom jobs, as Mississippi has become a virtual "who's who" roll call of top firms in that sector: WorldCom, SkyTel, Tritel/SunCom, Air2Lan, WirelessOne and Telepak/Cellular South, just to name a few. - The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg is one of the top 10 graduate schools in the nation for polymer sciences and is home to...

Over 25000 jobs are open at various US high tech companies. While a lot of companies have outsourced, a cursory look at a lot of open jobs indicates most are high paying...

NEW DELHI: Bring those foreign scientists and engineers back! The plea from the US high-tech industry to the US government is simple: keep the bright Indians, Chinese and others coming into the US, because they hold the key to the US' economic and technological dominance. In a latest report, the AeA (formerly known as The American Electronics Association and now the biggest lobbying body for high-tech industry) said the US risked losing its competitive edge in science and technology for a number of reasons, but primarily because the tighter immigration policies post-9/11 were keeping away the ones that the US...