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lucasmearian
Member since: April 2011
Bio: Lucas Mearian covers storage, disaster recovery and business continuity, financial services infrastructure and health care IT for Computerworld. Follow Lucas on Twitter at @lucasmearian.
Areas of Interest: Cloud Computing, Hardware
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Two leading wireless power companies, Powermat and PowerKiss, have announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to merge.
13 hours 57 min ago
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Google's Drive cloud storage service has been retooled for Android users and is now capable of capturing a document by converting a photo of it to text.<
1 day 4 hours ago
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Inspired by the latest James Bond movie, U.S. Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass) is pushing a bill that would require all U.S. handgun manufacturers to include "personalization technology" in their weapons.
2 days 10 hours ago
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HGST has announced its highest capacity 9.5mm-high mobile drive, a 1.5TB, three-platter model that is being targeted at the "prosumer" market.
2 days 13 hours ago
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Through a deal with Verizon, VMware is going to offer the ability for employees to download a app that allows their companies to run a standardized corporate version of Android OS on their phones along side their personal version.
1 week 1 day ago
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Google said it is increasing the amount of free storage for users of its Google Drive cloud storage service to 15 GB.
1 week 3 days ago
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Researchers are developing machine-to-machine (M2M) communication technology that allows cars to exchange data with each other, meaning vehicles will soon know what the cars all around you are doing on the highway.
1 week 6 days ago
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U.S. Department of Defense Trade Controls has apparently ordered Defense Distributed to removed the blueprints for a 3D printable gun from its website.
2 weeks 1 hour ago
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Western Digital has unveiled more information on its first hybrid solid-state drive, revealing that it worked with SanDisk to create the 500GB drive.
2 weeks 5 hours ago
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As part of its ongoing restructuring, EMC today announced its latest round of layoffs, which are expected to include 1,004 positions.
2 weeks 1 day ago
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lucasmearian wrote Seagate unleashes first consumer SSD; enterprise version gets blazing fast 12Gbps SAS connectivity Seagate Technology today announced its new portfolio of flash-memory devices, taking the wraps off its first consumer SSD and its next generation of enterprise models.
2 weeks 2 days ago
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HIPAA, along with outmoded communications technology, reduces the time available for patient care, according to a new survey of healthcare professionals
2 weeks 2 days ago
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The company producing a 3D-printable gun today test fired it successfully, demonstrating the viability of the technology that would allow anyone with a printer and special resin toner to make their own weapons.
2 weeks 3 days ago
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Hoping to usher in an age of low-cost solar power, Harvard's Clean Energy Project in June plans to release a list of 20,000 organic compounds that could be used to make cheap, printable photovoltaic cells.
2 weeks 3 days ago
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You'd expect a $35,000 car to have technology at least as good as a $200 smartphone, but it often doesn't. Although the auto industry has been slow to keep up with tech trends, that may soon change.
2 weeks 3 days ago
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lucasmearian wrote BYOD, or else. Companies will soon require that workers use their own smartphone on the job A Gartner study released today predicts that by 2017, half of all companies will require employees to bring their own smartphones for work purposes.
3 weeks 1 day ago
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IBM enters Guinness Book with world's smallest stop-motion movie made with atoms.
3 weeks 1 day ago
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Samsung began production of the industry's first ultra-high-speed, 4Gbit, LPDDR3 mobile memory, which it says has performance levels comparable to the standard DRAM used in personal computers.
3 weeks 2 days ago
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Novell and NTP today announced their own versions of mobile file-sharing applications, both of which take advantage of a corporation's existing infrastructure to offer access to data behind the firewall.
3 weeks 2 days ago
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Smart gun company SGTi is ready to begin production of a new prototype technology that would use a fingerprint scanner to enable a weapon to fire. But like similar ventures, the company is struggling for financial backing.
3 weeks 3 days ago
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Severe weather shifts are forcing companies to rethink their energy strategies; they're using both technology and geography to become more energy independent.
3 weeks 3 days ago
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Dr. Robert Walker, director of health innovation for the U.S. Army Surgeon General, has been more a frustrated data entry clerk in recent years than a physician, a frustration shared by thousands of his colleagues.
4 weeks 8 hours ago
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Cisco's new director-class switch for storage, unveiled today, increases throughput six-fold and offers N+1 resilience.
4 weeks 1 day ago
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Western Digital is now shipping what it said is the world's first 2.5-inch, 5mm hard drives and solid-state hybrid drives (SSHDs) for use in ultra-slim notebooks.
4 weeks 2 days ago
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USB SuperSpeed will move from 5Gbps bandwidth to 10Gbps in the coming year, but it's also leaping from 10 watts to 100 watts for charging, which could power monitors and even HDTVs.
4 weeks 3 days ago
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