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Featured Articles » Man vs. Mannequin-Kick It Up a Notch » Liquid Robotics Appoints Renowned Scientist and NASA Astronaut, Edward T. Lu, as Chief of Innovative Applications » Mini Robot Tries Its, Well, Robotic Hand at Ironman Triathlon   Sponsored By: Transverse WEBINAR: Evolve Your Subscription Business With Dynamic Revenue Management Wednesday September 28, 2011 12:00pm ET/ 9:00am PT A Webinar about how companies building subscription businesses can build personal and sustainable relationships with customers, as well as long-term profitability and loyalty, will take place September 28th at 12:00 EDT. The panelists will define and educate listeners about the critical elements of Dynamic Revenue Management, including: Sophisticated, real-time rating engines; Rapid-fire analytics capable of converting flat data into dynamic sources of information; Business-friendly front-ends and dashboards that empower business users to make decisions without having to wait for IT resources to free up.   Top Stories » A.I. in the O.R. » Will Robot Workers to Replace Human Financial Traders? » NASA, VASC Hosting Robotics Merit Badge Events for the Local Boy Scouts   From The Expert Corner September 16, 2011 Adept Technology to Launch OctoMation Robotic Workforce for Food Packaging Companies By Rajani Baburajan TMCnet Contributor Adept Technology, a provider of intelligent robots and autonomous mobile solutions and services, announced that the food packaging industry can reduce the cost and complexity of deploying and owning automation utilizing their methods. At this year's PACK EXPO 2011 show, Adept will demonstrate how their OctoMation Robotic Workforce makes owning and operating robotic packaging automation simple for food packaging companies. The OctoMation Robotic Workforce assists users to reduce operating costs to less than $5 an hour. With this kind of robotic packaging automation, OctoMation has set a new standard among packaging solutions for total cost of ownership, company officials said... Read More   From The Blogs Netflix DVD Now Qwikster - I Hate it! September 19, 2011 By: Tom Keating Netflix is owning up to their mistake when they raised their price. I received an email from Reed Hastings, Co-Founder and CEO, Netflix which is quite interesting. I messed up. I owe you an explanation. It is clear from the feedback over the past two months that many members felt we lacked respect and humility in the way we announced the separation of DVD and streaming and the price changes. That was certainly not our intent, and I offer my sincere apology. Let me explain what we are doing... Read More    Featured Videos Plantronics - Innovation Makes Business Communications More Personal   Featured Channels   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here      Contact Us   Company Directory    |    All Editors' Info   Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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