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Researchers use Wi-Fi and gestures to make a ‘smart home’

University of Washington researchers have developed a new gestural recognition technology based on Wi-Fi signals

More than half of Americans own a smartphone. Now what?

Boosting smartphone ownership for low income earners and the elderly could be tough, analyst says

SAP buys e-commerce vendor Hybris in strike back at Oracle, Salesforce.com

The deal will give SAP an 'omni-channel' e-commerce offering

Texas Instruments, Qualcomm to power small cells for enterprises

The use of small cells by enterprises will open the door for services such as dedicated voice capacity and local switching of voice traffic

How will IT react to annual Server 2012 updates?

Microsoft plans a faster release cycle for its server OS, database and tools. How will IT take this news?

NASA teams with Lego to offer coolest, most realistic model competition

NASA says it wants to inspire future aerospace engineers

With WebRTC, Real-Time Communications Come to the Browser

Reader pines for a different kind of Microsoft store

Snap! Google updates key Glass feature — the camera

Google set to push out automatic software update for computerized eyeglasses

The time is right for an ‘IT petting zoo’

NASA's CTO of IT spends a lot of time playing with consumer toys, noting, 'the point is to be daring'