Daily technology news - 05-Mar-2007

Technology creates extreme genealogists (AP via Yahoo! News) Lee Drew had a chat with some cousins the other day.

Car leads technology (Florida Today)Florida Tech's award-winning Racing Electric Vehicle will never trudge through a daily commute, but the technology developed for the speedy little auto may one day be incorporated into mass-produced vehicles.

Westaff Establishes a Technology Division, West-Tek (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) WALNUT CREEK, Calif.----Responding to growing demand for skilled technology personnel, leading global provider of staffing services Westaff, Inc. today announced the formation of its new technology division, West-Tek.

Expand Networks Announces Wide Ranging Agreement with Huawei-3COM for Its Compass Platform Technology (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) ROSELAND, N.J. & HANGZHOU, PRC----Expand Networks , a leading provider of application acceleration solutions over WAN networks, recently positioned in the Gartner's Leaders Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers 2006, and Huawei-3COM , one of the global IP technology leaders, today announced a strategic alliance.

Don?t miss the new Technology page in Monday?s Bulletin. (Norwich Bulletin)On this week?s Technology page, local columnist John Gillespie of Oakdale talks about cyberspace attacks aimed at Internet root servers and how to protect yourself from these parasites.

Wireless Technology Speeds Health Services in Rwanda (New York Times)Cellphones are now being used to report from the field in Rwanda, enabling health care workers to better track and manage patients.

New technology helps break 1994 murder (The Herald News)For more than 10 years, Joliet police Detective Phil Valera sought answers to the 1994 murder of Linda Dooley. Last month, new technology provided them. After the murder, police recovered a small amount of semen and hair from the scene, but not enough to investigate. At the time, the technology didn't exist to process such a small amount of biological evidence, police chief Fred Hayes said.

QUALCOMM, China Network Systems and Taiwan Television Agree to Conduct MediaFLO Technology Trial in Taiwan (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) QUALCOMM Incorporated , a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, and China Network Systems , together with Taiwan Television Enterprise Ltd. , today announced that the companies have signed an agreement to conduct a technical trial of QUALCOMM's MediaFLO technology in Taipei.

Is Search Technology Pulling its Weight? (WebProNews) Tom Foreski in SiliconValleyWatcher lists all the ways that we the people are expected to help search engines do their jobs - so search technology isn't pulling its weight as compared with the human element. Eye-opening at first, but rather than a blow-by-blow response, why not sum it up this way: Should you do extra work to label your content or install sitemaps? Hmm, only if you want ...

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