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Featured Articles » Sushi Robots Nearly Break World Record » Telepresence Robot Users Get Information Source Online » QUAN Pursues Robotics Industry with Force   Sponsored By: M2M Evolution Conference & Expo - Austin, Texas At M2M Evolution Conference in Austin, Texas, you can meet and mingle with experts in transportation, security, health, cold chain, automotive, and safety to discuss the strategies for M2M growth as well as the new business of proactive response centers - people who use M2M technology to buy time and avoid risk. Technology companies ranging from wireless carriers, platform companies, and device manufacturers will present and discuss their roles in creating effective technologies and procedures that work to create an ecosystem for actionable data and information. At M2M Evolution, you are face-to-face with companies merging M2M Technology with the business needs of the deploying enterprise.   Top Stories » DARPA Launches $2 Million Robotic Challenge » Philips Selects Adept Technology Robotics to Manufacture High-Tech Shavers » Adept Technology to Present Advanced Robotics Technology at 3rd Annual National Robotics Week   From The Expert Corner April 16, 2012 For Robots, March Madness Extends Well into April By Jacqueline Lee Contributing Writer The NCAA doesn’t have a robot league yet, but that hasn’t stopped high school students from all over the world from pitting their robot basketball teams against one another. The prizes? Bragging rights and the chance to compete for a national title in St. Louis in late April. Temple University served as the latest site of the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) competition. Robot teams from Delaware, New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania took the floor with their human operators to compete for basketball glory. FIRST was created by Dean Kamen in 1989 with the mission of creating a culture in which science and technology are celebrated. Kamen’s vision is to encourage today’s students to become the science and technology leaders of tomorrow. “Rebound Rumble” is the theme of this year’s competition, in which teams of up to 10 high school students designed, built and programmed robots to compete on a 12’ x 12’ field against robots from other schools... Read More   From The Blogs Is the Post-PC Era a Myth? April 16, 2012 By: Rich Tehrani The way one should interpret the term "Post-PC" is "after PC" - implying that the world has changed from era to the next. Sarah Perez at TechCrunch does an admirable job of laying the case for what she calls the Post-PC era or alternatively - "PCs Everywhere" which I agree isn't quite as catchy. In her article she discusses how Apple sold 37M iPhones in Q4, 15% of the official PC market is made up of tablets (mostly iPads) and Apple is now the leading "PC" vendor. Moreover smartphone shipments last year hit 487.7M while PC shipments hit 414.6M and the smartphone growth rate is 63% versus 15% for PCs... Read More    Featured Videos Five Best Apps for Baseball Season    Featured Resources » 2012 Lead Industry Report » 5 Ways to Increase User Adoption » Sales Forecasting: Turning Data, Analysis and Process into a Realistic View of your Business's Future   Featured Channels » Industrial Robotics » Healthcare Robotics » Military Robotics   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here      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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