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Palm, Once a Leader, Seeks Path in Smartphone Jungle
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:30:58 -0000
Palm is trying to revive itself as business users have embraced the BlackBerry and consumers have fell in love with the iPhone.
Advertising: A Small Empire Built on Cuddly and Fuzzy Branches Out From the Web
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:33:29 -0000
Given all the nastiness on the Internet — blog trolls, flame wars, vicious gossip, pornography, snark and spam — what better antidote is there than looking at pictures of cute animals?
EBay Is Planning to Emphasize Fixed-Price Sales Format Over Its Auction Model
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:35:22 -0000
The move is just one of the changes eBay has made in the last few months aimed at reducing its dependence on its auction business, which is growing more slowly than fixed-price sales.
Hewlett’s Printing Business Struggles
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:24:07 -0000
Hewlett-Packard, the world’s largest technology company, continues to roll along financially — except in one traditional core business — its printing business.
Bits: Lighting the Big Apple with L.E.D.'s
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:53:07 -0000
New York City has contracted with the Office for Visual Interaction, a lighting design group, to install and test L.E.D. street lighting.
Bits: I.B.M. Ups Its Bet on Business Recovery Services
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:53:07 -0000
I.B.M. is spending $300 million to build 13 data centers around the world, dedicated to helping corporate customers keep their businesses up and running despite calamity.

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NerdTV #13: Judy Estrin
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EBay lowering fixed-price sellers' listing fees
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:10:29 -0400
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - EBay Inc is cutting the fees U.S. sellers on its site pay for fixed-price items, in one of the company's boldest moves this year to boost merchandise for sale, lure new buyers and take on competitors.
Apple updates iPhone software to fix glitches
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:29:04 -0400
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc has issued a software update for the latest iPhone to help fix connection problems that led to a flurry of online complaints from customers, a European mobile service provider said on Tuesday as Credit Suisse reported strong U.S. sales of the device.
Microsoft to pay Novell $100 million more for Linux support
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:19:59 -0400
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp plans to pay software maker Novell Inc up to $100 million in additional subscription fees due to strong demand for Novell's open-source Linux software that partners with Microsoft's proprietary Windows software.

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HP posts 3Q profit jump; faces stiff competition
By JORDAN ROBERTSON Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:38:19 -0000
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. weathered economic turbulence remarkably well in the fiscal third quarter but the technology bellwether faces another big challenge - stiffer personal-computer competition - that threatens to slow its steady growth....
Some eBay sellers frustrated with rule changes
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Some people who sell things on eBay are fed up with new rules the company has been imposing in hopes of making the auction site more attractive to online shoppers. Now even more changes are coming in the next few weeks, but this time eBay Inc. hopes it can cool tempers....
China limits use of Olympians' names online
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BEIJING (AP) -- China has banned the use of its Olympic gold medalists' names as Internet addresses by anyone but the athletes themselves....

 

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Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology - By K. Eric Drexler; Anchor Books, 1986, ISBN 0385199732. With a Foreword by Marvin Minsky, this is the first and still the classic book on nanotechnology. [Foresight Institute, Online]

Micromachines - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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Micromachines - By Glenn Fishbine; John Wiley Sons, 2002, ISBN 0471443557. First investment guide to fast emerging industry. In 2000, government and private investment topped $1 billion, should grow exponentially in future. [John Wiley Sons]

AsiaNANO 2002: Proceedings of the Asian Symposium on Nanotechnology and Nanoscience 2002 - Edited by Masatsugu Shimomura, Teruya Ishihara; World Scientific Publishing, 2002, ISBN 9812383921. Conference proceedings, Tokyo, Japan, 27-29 November 2002, table of contents. [publisher website]
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Becoming Immortal: Nanotechnology, You, and the Demise of Death - By Wesley M. Du Charme; Blue Creek Ventures, 1995, ISBN 0964628201. Popular treatment of nanotechnology, cryonics. [Amazon.com]
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Chemistry at the Beginning of the Third Millennium - Edited by Luigi Fabbrizzi, Antonio Poggi; Springer-Verlag, 2000, ISBN 0387989889. Accessible treatment of molecular design, supramolecules, nanotechnology and beyond; 15 chapters by specialists. [Publisher website.]
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Designing the Molecular World - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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Designing the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier - Philip Ball; Princeton University Press, 1996, ISBN 0691029008. Accessible survey of new results in many major fields allied with chemistry: molecular electronics, artificial enzymes, smart polymer gels. [Princeton University Press]
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404 Electrochemical Nanotechnology: In Situ Local Probe Techniques at Electrochemical Interfaces - Edited by Wolfgang J. Lorenz, Waldfried Plieth; John Wiley Sons, 1998, ISBN 0471575186. Full treatment of interface phenomena at solid state surfaces by local probe methods such as near contact microscopy. [publisher website]

Electrochemical Nanotechnology: In Situ Local Probe Techniques at Electrochemical Interfaces - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology - Description, picture, links. [Anchor]
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Future Trends in Microelectronics: The Nano Millennium - Edited by Serge Luryi, Jimmy Xu, Alex Zaslavsky; John Wiley Sons, 2002, ISBN 0471212474. Based on ideas, discussions arising from 3rd Future Trends in Microelectronics (FTM) workshop series, summer 2001. [publisher website]

Future Trends in Microelectronics: The Nano Millennium - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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Hacking Matter: Levitating Chairs, Quantum Mirages, and the Infinite Weirdness of Programmable Atoms - By Wil McCarthy; Basic Books, 2003, ISBN 046504428X. Programmable matter, via quantum dots, will someday change our lives. Author visits labs of major firms, talks to researchers developing this extraordinary technology. [SFF Net]

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500 Handbook of Nanoscience, Engineering, and Technology - Edited by William A. Goddard III, Donald W. Brenner, Sergey Edward Lyshevski, Gerald J. Iafrate; CRC Press, 2002, ISBN 0849312000. Examines NEMS applications in many diverse areas. [CRC Press]

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Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology - Edited by Hari Singh Nalwa; Academic Press, 2000, ISBN 0125137605, Volumes 1-5. Won 1999 Award of Excellence in Engineering Handbooks from Association of American Publishers; 140 authors. [Academic Press]

404 Highly-Organized Substances and Nanotechnology: 2nd International Conference on Chemistry of Highly-Organized Substances and Scientific Principles of Nanotechnology - Edited by V.B. Alescovskii; John Wiley Sons, 1999, ISBN 3527298045. Part of macromolecular symposia series, meeting theme: combining isolated effects in studying covalent and non-covalent multinuclear chemical systems. [publisher website]

Integrated Chemical Systems: A Chemical Approach to Nanotechnology - By Allen J. Bard; Wiley-Interscience, 1994, ISBN 0471007331. Systematic, real world approach to nanosystems, many actual examples, scores of figures and photo illustrations. [John Wiley Sons]

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Introduction to Nanotechnology - By Charles P. Poole, Jr., Frank J. Owens; John Wiley Sons, 2003, ISBN 0471079359. Broad, practical overview of topic, gives researchers coverage of developments in nanotechnology outside their fields. [publisher website]

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Key Technologies for the 21st Century: Scientific American: A Special Issue - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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Key Technologies for the 21st Century: Scientific American: A Special Issue - Edited by Scientific American; W.H. Freeman Co, 1996, ISBN 0716729482. One of series; treats future of medicine, cyberspace, transport, production, energy, environment, with a nanotechnology focus. [publisher website]

500 MEMS and NEMS: Systems, Devices, and Structures - By Sergey Edward Lyshevski; CRC Press, 2002, ISBN 0849312620. Multidisciplinary, forms basis for MEMS, NEMS synthesis, modeling, analysis, simulation, control, prototyping, fabrication. [CRC Press]

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Microelectronics, Microsystems and Nanotechnology - Edited by Androula G. Nassiopoulou, Xanthi Zianni; World Scientific Publishing, 2000, ISBN 9810247699. Conference proceedings, Athens, Greece, 20-22 November 2000, table of contents. [publisher website]
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Molecular Engineering of Nanosystems - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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Molecular Engineering of Nanosystems - By Edward A. Rietman; Springer-Verlag NY, 2001, ISBN 0387989889. Technical introduction. It is growing possible to manipulate biotic tissues and materials the size of individual cells, organelles, molecules. [Publisher's description.]
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Nano- and Microelectromechanical Systems: Fundamentals of Nano- and Microengineering - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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Nano-Engineering in Science and Technology: An Introduction to the World of Nano-Design - By Michael Rieth; World Scientific Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9812380736. Technical introduction, starts with quantum mechanical treatment of many-particle problem; focus: molecular dynamics method. [publisher website]
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Nano: The Emerging Science of Nanotechnology - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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500 Nano: The Emerging Science of Nanotechnology - By Ed Regis; Little Brown Co., 1996, ISBN 0316738522. Overview of short, rapid history of this topic, proponents and opponents, prospects. [Time Warner Bookmark]

Nanocosm: Nanotechnology and the Big Changes Coming from the Inconceivably Small - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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404 Nanocosm: Nanotechnology and the Big Changes Coming from the Inconceivably Small - By William Illsey Atkinson; AMACOM, 2003, ISBN 0814471811. Lay description of topic, many opinions expressed, not as accurate as it could be. [American Management Association]
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500 Nanoelectromechanics in Engineering and Biology - By Michael Pycraft Hughes; CRC Press, 2002, ISBN 0849311837. Nanotechnology depends on abilities to manage nanoscale objects via interactions of electric fields, nanoparticles, ambient molecules. [CRC Press]

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Nanomedicine, Volume 1: Basic Capabilities - By Robert A. Freitas Jr.; Landes Bioscience, 1999, ISBN 157059645X, volume 1 of 3. About applying nanotechnology to medicine. [Online]

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Nanoscience: Friction and Rheology on the Nanometer Scale - Edited by E. Meyer, T. Gyalog, R.M. Overney, K. Dransfeld; World Scientific Publishing, 1999, ISBN 9812380620. Technical introduction to nanometer-scale tribology via friction force probe microscopy. [publisher website]
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NanoSPRINT - Visual Science - Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology, with a first volume dealing with carbon nanotubes, their properties, peculiarities and applications.
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Nanostructured Materials - Edited by Jackie Yi-Ru Ying; Academic Press, 2001, ISBN 0127444513. Course book and compact reference for academic and industrial readers. [Amazon.com]
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Nanosystems Book Review - By Chris Worth. K. Eric Drexler's textbook reviewed, followed by much interesting, lively debate. [Slashdot]
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Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation - By K. Eric Drexler; John Wiley Sons, 1992, ISBN 0471575186. Large, pioneering technical and mathematical text, may be author's greatest contribution to this field. [publisher website]

Nanotech Book Reviews - Steve Lenhert reviews his two favorite nanotech books, Travels to the Nanoworld and Nanotechnology.
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Nanotechnology Research Directions: IWGN Workshop Report: Vision for Nanotechnology in the Next Decade - Edited by R.S. Williams, P. Alivisatos, M.C. Roco; Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, ISBN 0792362209. Report based on consensus views of government, academia, private sector, by Interagency Working Group on Nano Science, Engineering, and Technology. [Amazon.com]
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Nanotechnology: A Gentle Introduction to the Next Big Idea - By Mark Ratner, Daniel Ratner; Prentice Hall PTR, 2002, ISBN 0131014005. For non-technical readers, simple, brief, survey, little math; shows how topic works, what's new and next, why it may be next $1 trillion industry. [Prentice Hall PTR]

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500 Nanotechnology: Basic Science and Emerging Technologies - Edited by Mick Wilson, Kamali Kannangara, Geoff Smith, Michelle Simmons, Burkhard Raguse; CRC Press, 2002, ISBN 0849311837. Accessible to nonspecialists, engineers, scientists outside the field, even undergraduates. [CRC Press]

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Nanotechnology: Molecular Speculations on Global Abundance - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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Nanotechnology: Molecular Speculations on Global Abundance - Edited by B.C. Crandall; MIT Press, 1996, ISBN 0262531372. Accessible to wide audience, with references to technical literature, shows wide range of uses of nanotechnology. [MIT Press]
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Nanotechnology: Research and Perspectives - Edited by B.C. Crandall, James Lewis; MIT Press, 1992, ISBN 0262031957. Overview of presently understood paths to molecule scale engineering. [MIT Press]
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Nanotechnology: Towards a Molecular Construction Kit - By Arthur ten Wolde; New World Ventures, 1998, ISBN 908044961X. Describes topic; where physical, chemical and biotic approaches meet; possible technologies for nano-fabrication, possible effects. [Amazon.com]
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Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World - By Douglas Mulhall; Prometheus Books, 2002, ISBN 1573929921. Examines vast potential of new technologies to help us cope with many problems. Site has table of contents, excerpts, news release. [Prometheus Books Publishers]

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Physical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes - By Riichiro Saito, Gene Dresselhaus, Mildred S. Dresselhaus; Imperial College Press, 1998, ISBN 1860940935. Introductory textbook for graduate students, researchers in condensed matter and solid state physics. [publisher website]
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Prospects in Nanotechnology: Toward Molecular Manufacturing - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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404 Prospects in Nanotechnology: Toward Molecular Manufacturing - Edited by Markus Krummenacker, James Lewis; John Wiley Sons, 1995, ISBN 0471309141. Result of Foresight Institute 3rd nanotechnology conference; introduction and overview, then topical presentations. [publisher website]

Quantum Dots - Edited by Elena Borovitskaya, Michael S. Shur; World Scientific Publishing, 2002, ISBN 9810249187. Technical review of all current aspects of quantum dot systems, theory, and technology. [publisher website]
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Review of Nanocosm - By Chris Phoenix. This anti-Drexler book reports on nanotech but suffers from many technical inaccuracies and distortions of work of nanotech pioneers. [KurzweilAI.net]

Semiconductors for Micro- and Nanotechnology: An Introduction for Engineers - By Jan G. Korvink, Andreas Greiner; John Wiley Sons, 2002, ISBN 3527302573. Textbook on properties and behavior of semiconductors, how to use them to design and make micro- and nano-systems. [publisher website]

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The First Immortal - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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The First Immortal - By James L. Halperin; Del Rey, Random House, 1998, ISBN 0345420926. Fictionally explores nanotechnology's impact on the human future, special focus on cryonics, life extension. Has author forum, news, information, opinion poll. [Random House]
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The Forge of Mars - By Bruce Balfour; ACE-Oryx, 2002, ISBN 0441009549. Futuristic thriller explores nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, colonizing Mars. Site has science news, author bio, reader's guide, links, Mars photos. [Scribbling Gargoyle Entertainment Corp.]

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The Next Big Thing Is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business - Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
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The Next Big Thing Is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business - By Jack Uldrich, Deb Newberry; Crown Publishing Group, 2003, ISBN 1400046890. Introductory lay treatment, very useful for understanding day-to-day and business implications. [Random House]
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Unbounding the Future: The Nanotechnology Revolution - By K. Eric Drexler, Chris Peterson, Gayle Pergamit; William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991; Quill (reprint), 1993, ISBN 0688125735. Clear, nontechnical introduction to molecular manufacturing: what it is, and may make possible, dangers and opportunities. [Foresight Institute, Online]

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500 Understanding Nanotechnology - Edited by Scientific American; Warner Books, 2002, ISBN 0446679569. Accessible overview of this topic, and many profound applications. [Time Warner Bookmark]

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