Tweet The real-world benefits of space travel are sometimes condensed to little more than astronaut ice cream and zero-gravity pens. But the aerospace industry has contributed thousands of practical technologies for use on Earth – and Nasa wants to tell you all about it. For the last 35 years Nasa has released an annual publication
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Tweet Could a Facebook competition encourage users to cut their utility usage? Can a mobile communication network help rural farmers share crop tips? Bringing together activists, world leaders and tech influencers, the second annual Social Good Summit seeks to answer these questions and more. The summit, which kicked off on Monday in New York, aims
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Tweet Though they might not yet be household names, these companies are among this year’s Technology Pioneers of 2012, a select group of twenty-five startups identified by the World Economic Forum for their potential to “significantly [disrupt] the way business and society operate,” according to the WEF. These twenty-five companies were chosen from among hundreds
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Tweet Apple is slipping when it comes to providing customers with automated over-the-phone assistance, according to Vocal Laboratories, a company that helps measure the quality of businesses’ contact centers. The findings are part of The National Customer Service Survey (NCSS), which “tracks customer service quality in several industries, using telephone interviews conducted with a customer
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Tweet Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) have put together a four day space exhibit Bengaluru Space Expo 2010 which starts from today. The second edition of the international space exhibition andconference began in India’s Tech hub Bangalore today. Jointly organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry and Indian
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