Japan's KDDI to offer Google-based PC, phone e-mail (InfoWorld)   30 Jul 2007 11:32 GMT
InfoWorld - Japan's number two cellphone carrier will launch an e-mail service based on Google's Gmail in September, it said Monday.
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Japan's KDDI to offer Google-based PC, phone e-mail   30 Jul 2007 11:32 GMT
Japan's number two cellphone carrier will launch an e-mail service based on Google's Gmail in September, it said Monday.
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Gates sees no Google threat in phone software: report (Reuters)   30 Jul 2007 10:01 GMT

Reuters - Microsoft Corp.'s Bill Gates does not see Google Inc. becoming a successful competitor in the market for software for cellular phones, the New York Times reported on its Web site on Monday.

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Weird tech: Vegetation taps VoIP to voice its needs   30 Jul 2007 10:00 GMT
Current studies indicate that working with or in proximity of plant life increases productivity and inspires a more upbeat demeanor. In fact, horticultural therapy has become a common component of the rehabilitation and coping regimens of persons afflicted with cancer or autism, for example.
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Weird tech: Clearing the fog of war with text messaging   30 Jul 2007 10:00 GMT
Regardless of one's stance on armed conflict, the death of servicemen by friendly fire is a troubling eventuality of war that stirs a very high level of discomfort in all. In the confusion of battle, the risk of being wounded or killed by comrades-in-arms is by no means trivial, and while the Pentagon states that the rate of deaths by friendly fire has diminished in recent conflicts, it still occurs in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Weird tech: IT-enabled self-service cow milking   30 Jul 2007 10:00 GMT
A boon to the dairy farmer's bottom line, dairy cows' constant milk production is a bane to farmhand productivity, as one fact rules every dairy farmer's life: Cows must be milked. Twice. Every day.
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Weird tech: RFID spells reflux relief   30 Jul 2007 10:00 GMT
Some innovators view RFID as a means for accelerating the enterprise supply chain with minimal human intervention. Others tout it for keeping tabs on us all more precisely as part of a totalitarian utopia of citizens "chipped" with an embedded national ID.
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Weird tech: Ensuring nut freshness with RFID   30 Jul 2007 10:00 GMT
Somewhere along the line, every IT manager has had a nutcase to deal with. None likely are as daunting as the one faced every year by Paramount Farms, the world's largest grower and processor of almonds and pistachios.
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Weird tech: Cell phones to cure road rage?   30 Jul 2007 10:00 GMT
Ever wonder why traffic reports are so wrong so often and what can be done about it? The answer may be in your cell phone.
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Weird tech: Raw fish ID   30 Jul 2007 10:00 GMT
When James Allard lived in Japan as a student in the 1990s, he frequented kaiten sushi restaurants, which keep prices low by circulating dishes on a conveyor belt rather than making nigiri, sashimi, and sushi rolls to order. The problem he observed was that dishes stayed on the belt too long, losing freshness and becoming unappetizing.
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