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Point/Counterpoint: Do you support patent reform?
For more than five years, the U.S. Congress has tried to forge a compromise on how to update the U.S. patent system. What follows are views representing two sides in the debate.

Patent - Intellectual property - Law - Services - Patent Services
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PC shipments actually grew in '09, says iSuppli
Thanks to a better than expected fourth quarter, PC shipments eked out marginal growth in 2009, defying a widely held belief that the market would contract after a terrible start to the year, according to market research firm iSuppli.

Market research - iSuppli - Personal computer - Business - Marketing and Advertising
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Source: Samsung explores gate-last high-k
In a major departure, South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is reportedly exploring an alternative in high-k dielectrics: It is looking at gate-last technology, according to sources.

South Korea - Samsung Group - Asia - Government - Technology
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Interview with Chuck Thacker, PC pioneer
Charles Thacker won the 2009 Turing Award for his work in the early 1970's on the Xerox PARC Alto, a forerunner of the Apple Macintosh and IBM PC, and is now a Microsoft researcher testing out parallel programming concepts on a multi-core FPGA development system he designed.

Microsoft - PARC - Charles P. Thacker - IBM - Macintosh
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Analyst: Apple to ship 5 million iPads in first half of year
Apple plans to build at least 5 million units of its forthcoming iPad tablet in the first half of 2010, according to an analyst, who cited production checks.

Apple - Tablet - IPhone - Companies - Microsoft
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Software makes data centers greener
Data centers can go green without adding hardware by installing the artificially intelligent (AI) inference engine in the Sentilla Energy Manager software.

Data center - Artificial intelligence - Inference engine - Business - Databases
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Cisco rolls router for 100 Gbit core networks
Cisco Systems announced its next generation core router, the CRS-3 which can route 100 Gbit/second streams and sports an aggregate throughput of up to 322 Terabits/second.

CiscoSystems - Router - Throughput - Data Communications - Cisco
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