Thursday 28 February 2013

Biggest Ever NBA Data Trove Will Settle Your Next Bar Bet

Biggest Ever NBA Data Trove Will Settle Your Next Bar Bet
The NBA has released its deepest set of statistics ever, a trove of data that will let you, among other things, settle once and for all such pressing questions as whether the 1992 Chicago Bulls were better than the '96 ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2013/02/nba-com-stats/

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Resurrecting the Rainbow Colors of Insect Fossils

Resurrecting the Rainbow Colors of Insect Fossils
After smashing, baking, and decaying the colorful outer layers that give some insects their sheen, scientists studying fossilized insects think they're closer to deciphering the original hues of today's dull and dark insect fossils.

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/fossil-insect-colors/

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Feb. 15, 1995: Mitnick Arrested

Perhaps the most celebrated cracking case in history begins with the arrest of Kevin Mitnick by the FBI on charges of wire fraud and breaking into the computer systems of several major corporations.

Source: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2013/02/feb-15-1995-mitnick-arrested-2/

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Full Green Ahead: Inside the Military’s Clean-Energy Revolution

Full Green Ahead: Inside the Military’s Clean-Energy Revolution
The Navy is tackling problems that freeze Congress solid. What it learns, what it implements, and how it adapts and innovates will drive market changes that could alter the course of the world.

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/full-green-ahead/

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10 network virtualization, SDN, and data center companies to watch

After years of venture capital and startup focus on consumer-focused tech companies, enterprise networks and the data center are back in vogue.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/10-network-virtualization-sdn-and-data-center-companies-watch-213585?source=rss_infoworld_top_stories_

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Yahoo: Hey, look, we can be infinite and social too

Yahoo: Hey, look, we can be infinite and social too

Credit: Reuters/Kimberly White

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/yahoo-hey-look-we-can-be-infinite-and-social-too-213235?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Firefox 20 Beta Brings Better Private Browsing

Firefox 20 Beta Brings Better Private Browsing
Firefox 20, currently in the beta release channel, changes the way Firefox handles so-called "private browsing" sessions. Now it's easy to have private windows right alongside normal windows, very handy for those who, for example, need to log in to two different Gmail accounts simultaneously.

Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2013/02/firefox-20-beta-brings-better-private-browsing/

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The Court of Public Opinion Is An Alternate System of Justice

The Court of Public Opinion Is An Alternate System of Justice
The court of public opinion is an alternate system of justice. It's very different from the traditional court system: This court is based on reputation, revenge, public shaming, and the whims of the crowd. Having a good story is more ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/the-court-of-public-opinion-is-an-alternate-system-of-justice/

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Wednesday 27 February 2013

Even road warriors can spin out and crash

Even road warriors can spin out and crash

Credit: iStockphoto

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/it-jobs/even-road-warriors-can-spin-out-and-crash-213534?source=rss_infoworld_top_stories_

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Where Windows 8 tablets could beat the iPad

Where Windows 8 tablets like the Dell Latitude 10 could beat the iPad

I know a lot of people in both health care and education, and almost everyone wants or has an iPad for use in the clinic or classroom.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/where-windows-8-tablets-could-beat-the-ipad-213185?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Windows Server 2012 makes storage cool again

Windows Server 2012 makes storage cool again

Storage is an area that's often ignored by outside specialists. That's too bad, because Windows Server 2012 makes a major push to improve its storage management and virtualization technologies.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/microsoft-windows/windows-server-2012-makes-storage-cool-again-212714?source=rss_storage

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Stunning Lava Fountains From Italy’s Etna

Stunning Lava Fountains From Italy’s Etna
Last week, Mt. Etna was just warming up. Saturday night, the volcano unleashed an explosive volley, producing lava fountains that soared 800 meters over the southeast slopes of the volcano. Wired Science blogger Erik Klemetti reports on the eruption, complete ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/stunning-lava-fountains-from-italys-etna/

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Apollo Returns to Its Earth-Orbital Roots (1971)

Apollo Returns to Its Earth-Orbital Roots (1971)
From late 1959 through President John F. Kennedy's May 25, 1961 call for a man on the moon by 1970, NASA saw Apollo mainly as an Earth-orbital spacecraft. The space agency planned to use Apollo spacecraft to ferry crews and ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/apollo-returns-to-its-space-station-roots-1971/

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Firefox 19 for Android Eases CPU Requirements

To go along with its desktop cousin, Mozilla has also released Firefox 19 for Android. You can grab the update from Mozilla or just search for Firefox in the Google Play Store. As with the desktop release, the Android release is light on new features, but it does add support for themes and, more importantly, [...]

Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2013/02/firefox-19-for-android-eases-cpu-requirements/

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Mozilla Wants to Put Your Phone Inside Firefox

Mozilla Wants to Put Your Phone Inside Firefox
Mozilla has teamed up with Ericsson and AT&T to bring simple, plugin-free phone calls to the browser. Connect your phone to Firefox, click your friend's name and Firefox will make the call.

Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2013/02/mozilla-wants-to-put-your-phone-inside-firefox/

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Data does the dirty work as Tesla takes it to the Times

Data does the dirty work as Tesla takes it to the Times

Credit: iStockphoto

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/data-does-the-dirty-work-tesla-takes-it-the-times-212994?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Tuesday 26 February 2013

Drug-Dog Alerts Are ‘Up to Snuff,’ Supreme Court Says

Drug-Dog Alerts Are ‘Up to Snuff,’ Supreme Court Says
The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it relatively simple for police to search vehicles after a trained police dog alerts to the smell of narcotics.

Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/scotus-drug-sniffing-dogs/

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Jaspersoft CEO: We're driving pervasive business intelligence

Jaspersoft CEO: We're driving pervasive business intelligence

Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/business-intelligence/jaspersoft-ceo-were-driving-pervasive-business-intelligence-213323?source=rss_infoworld_top_stories_

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BYOD, MDM, COPE -- don't drown in mobile's alphabet soup

BYOD, MDM, COPE — don't drown in mobile's alphabet soup

Credit: Yiap

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/it-management/byod-mdm-cope-dont-drown-in-mobiles-alphabet-soup-212777?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Review: HP brings sizzle to Windows Storage Server

Review: HP brings sizzle to Windows Storage Server

Reliable storage is a key building block for any enterprise application infrastructure. Traditionally, this translates into some type of network-attached storage (NAS) or storage area network (SAN).

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/review-hp-brings-sizzle-windows-storage-server-213243?source=rss_infoworld_test_center_articles

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Why Would I Fight a Horse-Sized Duck?

Why Would I Fight a Horse-Sized Duck?
There is a famous question often asked online: Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? For Wired Science blogger Rhett Allain, the answer is the horse-sized duck. Here, Rhett tells you how physics helped him select ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/why-would-i-fight-a-horse-sized-duck/

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Six-strikes piracy alert system being rolled out in the U.S.

A system that aims to curb Internet users from sharing copyrighted content is being rolled out in the U.S. after a number of delays. Backed by major Internet service providers, the Copyright Alert System (CAS) will require the ISPs to warn and educate users if alerted by owners of copyrighted material, and even throttle Internet speeds after six warnings, popularly referred to as "six-strikes."

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/internet/six-strikes-piracy-alert-system-being-rolled-out-in-the-us-213492

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Efforts to Protect Earth From Asteroids Are Under Way. But Will It Be Enough?

Efforts to Protect Earth From Asteroids Are Under Way. But Will It Be Enough?
In the wake of Earth's largest meteor strike in more than a century, the world’s attention has turned skyward. The 17-meter bolide exploded in the air over the Chelyabinsk region of Russia on Feb. 15, shattering windows and injuring around ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/asteroid-watching-mitigation/

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Review: The best network monitoring system on earth

Review: The best network monitoring system on earth

The trouble with network monitoring is that the more you know, the more you find you need to do.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/review-the-best-network-monitoring-system-earth-212335?source=rss_storage

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Monday 25 February 2013

Nowhere to hide: Video location tech has arrived

Nowhere to hide: Video location tech has arrived

Here's a scene you didn't see in Oscar-nominated film "Zero Dark Thirty": Osama bin Laden is ranting and waving his AK-47 automatic rifle as he denounces the great Satan in a video broadcast on Al Jazeera. The video is recorded by U.S.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/nowhere-hide-video-location-tech-has-arrived-213184?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Torture and Tough Questions: Why Zero Dark Thirty Deserves to Win Best Picture

Torture and Tough Questions: Why Zero Dark Thirty Deserves to Win Best Picture
This Sunday night at the Academy Awards, Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal's Zero Dark Thirty appears poised to lose the Best Picture race to Ben Affleck and Chris Terrio's Argo, and as much as awards shows ever actually matter, it'll ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/02/zero-dark-thirty-torture-oscars/

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Microsoft evangelists pull page out of BlackBerry handbook

Microsoft evangelists pull page out of BlackBerry handbook

Microsoft is starting to sound like the company once named Research in Motion, the stalwart maker of BlackBerry smartphones that has fought desperately against Apple's iOS and Google's Android as they became the mobile market lea

Source: http://podcasts.infoworld.com/t/windows-phone/microsoft-evangelists-pull-page-out-of-blackberry-handbook-212551?source=rss_applications

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Mars Sample Recovery & Quarantine (1985)

Mars Sample Recovery & Quarantine (1985)
In 1985, Eagle Engineering of Houston, Texas, proposed 10 ways that NASA might recover and place in quarantine Mars samples launched to Earth by an automated Mars Sample Return spacecraft. In the process, the company created a portrait of NASA's ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/mars-sample-recovery-quarantine-1985/

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Cut-throat culture sinks an IT project

Cut-throat culture sinks an IT project

Credit: Jutta Kuss

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/it-jobs/cut-throat-culture-sinks-it-project-212706?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Tape storage finds new life in the enterprise and beyond

On location in Africa, a movie crew wraps up the day's shooting on a nature documentary and camera operators shut down their rigs. NAND flash cards are removed from the cameras and the scenes that were just shot are transferred to another medium for delivery to a post-production facility. Magnetic tape, the oldest form of storage in digital computing, goes to work.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/storage/tape-storage-finds-new-life-in-the-enterprise-and-beyond-211384?source=rss_storage

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Government Not to Blame for Coal Industry Ills

Government Not to Blame for Coal Industry Ills
During the presidential campaign last fall, a single message was repeated endlessly in Appalachian coal country: President Barack Obama and his Environmental Protection Agency, critics said, had declared a “war on coal” that was shuttering U.S. coal-fired power plants and ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/coal-industry-analysis/

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An ode to BYOD

Sunday 24 February 2013

The Monitor Goes all Barry White on You

The Monitor Goes all Barry White on You
Our voice might be hoarse, but the show goes on. This week, we’ve got a new album from Major Lazer, a new comic from Marvel, and a new show from one of the minds behind South Park. That’s three for ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/02/the-monitor/

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AOL's dirty little business plan: Dial-up for dollars

AOL's dirty little business plan: Dial-up for dollars

Credit: Matjaz Boncina

Source: http://images.infoworld.com/t/cringely/aols-dirty-little-business-plan-dial-dollars-212535?source=rss_applications

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Software | Ubuntu Linux Primed for Life on Tablets

Software | Ubuntu Linux Primed for Life on Tablets
We all knew it was coming. Once Canonical unveiled the "Unity" interface for Ubuntu -- it's version of the open source Linux operating system -- we could see that the company was taking Ubuntu onto tablets. But now the new ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/02/ubuntu-tablets/

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DOJ uses Aaron Swartz's 'Open Access Manifesto' to justify harsh prosecution

How Hash Oil Is Blowing Up Across the U.S. — Literally

How Hash Oil Is Blowing Up Across the U.S. — Literally
How the popularity of the cannabis derivative hash oil -- and the apartments of people who try to make it improperly -- are blowing up across the U.S.

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/02/hash-oil-explosion/

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BYOD beyond the device: Information management is essential

BYOD beyond the device: Information management is essential

Credit: TongRo

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/consumerization-of-it/byod-beyond-the-device-information-management-essential-212752?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Etna Ends the Week with Lava Flows

Etna Ends the Week with Lava Flows
It was a busy, busy week for the folks at the Osservatorio Etneo. Etna ended up producing four separate fountaining events that culminated in a number of new lava flows (see above) issuing down the flanks of the volcano from ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/etna-ends-week-with-lava-flows/

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Wanted: Right Whale Caller ID

Wanted: Right Whale Caller ID
Identifying and locating endangered right whales in real time is crucial for protecting this species on the brink of extinction. Now, computer algorithms that can identify right whale vocalizations are the subject of a global competition. Wired Science blogger Jeffery ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/wanted-right-whale-caller-id/

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Saturday 23 February 2013

EMC combines 'bring your own storage' with cloud-based file sharing

EMC combines 'bring your own storage' with cloud-based file sharing

EMC today revealed the latest fruits of its acquisition of file-sharing service Syncplicity,

Source: http://akamai.infoworld.com/t/network-attached-storage/emc-combines-bring-your-own-storage-cloud-based-file-sharing-210864?source=rss_storage

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Drug-Dog Alerts Are ‘Up to Snuff,’ Supreme Court Says

Drug-Dog Alerts Are ‘Up to Snuff,’ Supreme Court Says
The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it relatively simple for police to search vehicles after a trained police dog alerts to the smell of narcotics.

Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/scotus-drug-sniffing-dogs/

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Grabbing for the Python name, a hosting firm gets bitten

Grabbing for the Python name, a hosting firm gets bitten

Who wouldn't want the sleek, muscular, menacing name "Python"?

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/grabbing-the-python-name-hosting-firm-gets-bitten-213223?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Lunar Get Away Special (1987)

Lunar Get Away Special (1987)
NASA's Get Away Special (GAS) Program was conceived as a low-cost way of flying experiments in the Space Shuttle Orbiter's Payload Bay. By the time NASA scrapped the successful GAS program in the aftermath of the 1 February 2003 accident ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/lunar-get-away-special-1987/

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Banksy Work Cut Out of Wall, Offered at Auction for More Than $500K

Banksy Work Cut Out of Wall, Offered at Auction for More Than $500K
How do you capitalize on the demand for an artist's work, if it exists on the side of a building? Simply cut off the chunk of the building in question.

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/02/banksy-work-auction/

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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Strange Cones on Mars

Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Strange Cones on Mars
A CTX image shows topographic cones in local depressions on Mars. What are these and how did they form?

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/wired-science-space-photo-of-the-day-strange-cones-on-mars/

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Freaky Ways Animals Woo Mates With Gifts

Freaky Ways Animals Woo Mates With Gifts
Across the land on Valentine's Day, lovers and partners exchange gifts. They're not alone. Many animals give gifts, too, and in some ways they're not so very different from us. From firefly spermatophores to bowerbird dens to the love darts ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/valentines-day-animal-style/

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Apple solves the mystery of debilitating chattiness between Exchange and iPhones

Apple solves the mystery of debilitating chattiness between Exchange and iPhones

Apple has solved the mystery as to why some iPhones and iPads are becoming excessively ch

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/ios/apple-solves-the-mystery-of-debilitating-chattiness-between-exchange-and-iphones-212938?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Friday 22 February 2013

How to buy a Microsoft volume license on the cheap

How to buy a Microsoft volume license on the cheap

Most people think of Microsoft volume licenses as the province of big companies -- as Microsoft's way of keeping the hoi polloi from buying some of its fancier products.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/office-software/how-buy-microsoft-volume-license-the-cheap-213214?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Microsoft enlists Dell to push Office 365 on new PCs

Some major computer makers are pushing Office 365 with their new PCs, but others have stuck with a more traditional bundling tactic of including a factory-installed, single-license trial.

"[Microsoft is] very clearly heading towards driving every consumer towards the Office 365 option that they can, in the hopes of a subscription," said Wes Miller, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft, in an interview Wednesday.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/computer-hardware/microsoft-enlists-dell-push-office-365-new-pcs-213208?source=rss_applications

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Feds Used Aaron Swartz’s Political Manifesto Against Him

Feds Used Aaron Swartz’s Political Manifesto Against Him
The prosecution of Aaron Swartz was motivated, in part, by the 2008 "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto" the internet activist had penned advocating for civil disobedience against copyright law, Swartz's attorney said Friday. The revelation underscores that the hacking charges against ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/aaron-swartz-manifesto/

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Everyone knew what China was doing -- now what?

Everyone knew what China was doing -- now what?

The report released this week by security firm Mandiant laid out damning evidence linking China to a sophisticated cybe

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/cyber-crime/everyone-knew-what-china-was-doing-now-what-213229?source=rss_infoworld_top_stories_

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New Whale Species Unearthed in California Highway Dig

New Whale Species Unearthed in California Highway Dig
Chalk yet another fossil find up to roadcut science. Thanks to a highway-widening project in California’s Laguna Canyon, scientists have identified several new species of early toothed baleen whales.

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/highway-whale/

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Record-Breaking Exoplanet Is Just Barely Bigger Than the Moon

Record-Breaking Exoplanet Is Just Barely Bigger Than the Moon
NASA's Kepler space telescope has spotted a rocky exoplanet tinier than Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system. Named Kepler-37b, the record-breaking planet is nearly half the size of the previous titleholder for smallest known exoplanet and is only ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/mercury-sized-exoplanet/

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SmartBall Keeps an Eye Inside the Ball

SmartBall Keeps an Eye Inside the Ball
The old sports cliche "keep your eye on the ball" is getting a modern twist by an Australian sports tech company that's putting an eye inside the ball. Catapult Sports is rolling out the first major trial of ball-tracking technology ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2013/02/catapault-smartball/

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iPad meets Windows: The new face of computer training