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IBM will develop technology to monitor and analyze the state of buildings, roads, water lines and other urban infrastructure in a new laboratory it is opening with Carnegie Mellon University.

Nintendo reported a net loss for the April to June quarter as the strong Japanese yen and weak demand for its products hurt earnings.

Larry Wall’s annual State of the Onion talk at OSCON foreshadows the long-awaited release of Perl 6

The Western Australia Disability Services Commission is looking to upgrade its videoconferencing infrastructure to better communicate with remote staff, consumers, disability service organisations and other State and Federal Government agencies.

Mozilla has announced plans to launch a free iPhone Application that will let you access most of your Firefox browser data on the iPhone. Called Firefox Home , the native iPhone app gives you access to your Firefox browser history, bookmarks, and Awesome Bar. Home will also sync any currently open tabs from Firefox on your desktop to the iPhone, giving you “on the go” instant access to important Web pages.

On the morning of our conversation, Rick Swanborg isn’t grading papers or planning his next lecture. He’s dealing with some errors from his payroll processor and going back and forth with the State of Massachusetts on some money he’s already given them. Such is the nature of being part academic, part entrepreneur.

Google today shifted the Mac version of Chrome out of beta and into what it calls a “stable” channel, meaning that it considers the browser solid enough for day-in-day-out use.

Dr Ian Oppermann, the CSIRO’s new ICT Centre Director, talks about his new role, the state of Australian R&D and the commercialisation of CSIRO research.

Reader Mike ordered a new Dell system that came with a 21.5-inch LCD monitor. Although the monitor includes VGA, DVI, and HDMI inputs, it included only a VGA cable–even though the setup instructions recommend a DVI or HDMI connection! Mike wants to know why, and whether he should bother buying a different cable.

If you, like me, resort to using Spotlight for simple calculations rather than break out a calculator, Acqualia’s Soulver 2 may provide an alternative…solution to your problem. The program, updated this week, wants you to stop thinking in equals signs and calculations; instead, it lets you write an equation out the way you’d speak about it in conversation.