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GPS tracking system unveiled for Alzheimer's patients

The Alzheimer's Association has unveiled a Web-based application that allows Alzheimer's patients to roam within a pre-established area. If they leave that area, a GPS tracking system alerts loved ones or caregivers who can then locate them.

| News | Mobile & wireless | Tech & society | 10/29/09 at 9:43 pm |


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Extra Life raises more than $150,000 for sick kids

Charity gaming marathon Extra Life announced this morning that more than $150,000 in donations were collected worldwide during the 2009 event, topping last year's $115,000 record.

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Notable deaths in IT during 2009

Among those lost this year have been a co-founder of storage giant EMC, a Dungeons & Dragons creator and an adviser to the Google founders in the company's infancy.

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You may be on Facebook, but you're still no Rockefeller

Does using Facebook make you more affluent? Or is it a chicken/egg kind of thing?

| Opinion | Internet | Offbeat | Tech & society | 10/23/09 at 10:09 am |


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Python institution promotes diversity

The Python Software Foundation welcomes all shapes of programmers.



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