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Irrigation systems soak up top prizes in software contest

Not content with putting its software on the world's computers and mobile phones, Microsoft has its eye on the world's cornfields as the next software platform to dominate.

| News | Green IT | Tech & society | 07/08/08 at 2:15 pm |

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IBM software enhances Web accessibility for the blind

IBM launched on Tuesday an application that seeks to harness the power and time of Internet users around the globe to make the Web more accessible to the visually impaired.


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Microsoft Imagine Cup attracts projects aimed at poor

Microsoft added an award for Rural Innovation for the first time to its Imagine Cup competition this year, and it attracted a number of projects aimed at solving problems faced by people in developing nations.

| News | Tech & society | 07/08/08 at 10:42 am |

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Latest Automotive X Prize entry: a 1987 Ford Mustang

The Progressive Automotive X Prize, modeled after the competition that brought privately built craft into space a few years ago, offers $10 million to anyone who can build a road-ready 100 MPG car. While all sorts of high-tech entries are in the works, one Ohio man claims he's gotten his 20-year-old Ford up to 110 MPG with electronic tweaks to the engine.

| News | Offbeat | Tech & society | 07/07/08 at 3:59 pm |

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