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"Cell phones are ubiquitous in today's world and nearly all crimes have a digital component to them," says Rick Mislan, an assistant professor of computer and information technology at Purdue University. Mislan, a former U.S. Army electronic warfare officer, is one of a handful of experts working on forensic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Your Cell Knows About You | 8/15/2007 | See Source »

According to Jupiter Research, annual growth in the $116 billion business, which reached 25% in 2004, is expected to slip to below 10% by 2010. A few retailers like Zappos.com, which sold $600 million worth of shoes and accessories last year, still entice shoppers with free overnight shipping. But that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Better Way To Get Your Packages? | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

The overall traffic has been disappointing: the site has nearly 8.7 million registered members, but the number of active users is closer to 600,000. One reason for this gap may be that the technology isn't intuitive. (I spent my first hour on Second Life wearing both sneakers and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Second Life's Real-World Problems | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

A team at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is working with the University of California at San Diego to design and power small sensors to place on bridges - or on any piece of infrastructure for that matter - that would measure structural problems like strain, deflection, cracks, corrosion or the loosening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Early-Warning System for Bridges | 8/6/2007 | See Source »

The chief problem with the sensor technology is how to find an inexpensive way of transmitting the sensors' data to computers. Sensors currently rely on batteries that often need to be replaced, and they require a fair amount of bulky hardware. "Right now, it wouldn't be a cost-effective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Early-Warning System for Bridges | 8/6/2007 | See Source »

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