Census Bureau to Go High-Tech
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CHICAGO - In the upcoming 2010 census, the Census Bureau for the first time will equip its temporary work force of 500,000 people with hand-held computers made by Harris Corp., to help them make a more precise count of more than 300 million people living in the 50 states and Puerto Rico.
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The web will be more interactive and will use tools to mine its vast pool of data, say experts.
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A new high-tech computer system that provides pinpoint weather forecasts for specific stretches of highway, tested in Iowa over the past two winters, is attracting interest from transportation officials worldwide.
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DigitalGlobe, provider of imagery  for Google Inc.'s  interactive mapping program Google  Earth, said a new high-resolution satellite will boost the  accuracy of its satellite images and flesh out its archive.
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IntelliScanner's portable barcode scanner helps small businesses organize their inventory, assets, and media.
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Cuyahoga county officials in Ohio are considering a switch away from touch-screen e-voting systems to optical scan devices -- a move that could mean scrapping a $17 million investment in Diebold Election Systems hardware.
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Facial and fingerprint data will be stored on an embedded chip.
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An America Online survey tells us what we want to hear.
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The search giant has started a project to help scientists exchange data sets many terabytes in size.
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The Census tries to keep tabs on the key, and overlooked, service economy.
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BOXBOROUGH -- Design engineer Alan Lear has rolled up his sleeves. His lab is crammed with motherboards and oscilloscopes. He scans a screen showing the signal quality of the transmission between a pair of Advanced Micro Devices' prototype chips.
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The Census Bureau must make changes to a new annual survey that collects demographic information on Americans or risk having to mail "long forms" again for the next head count in 2010, congressional watchdogs said Monday.
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Bug Labs, a company that wants users to build their own high-tech gadgets, prepares for a January rollout.
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The Census Bureauâs 2007 Statistical Abstract of the United States shows an eclectic portrait of the American people.
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By John P. McDermott, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Feb. 3--Lifting what had been a nearly impenetrable veil of secrecy,  Google Inc. elaborated for the first time Friday about properties it is  considering in Berkeley County and the Midlands for large data-processing  centers.
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By subjecting most visitors to scans of  their faces and fingers, the United States will this week  expand a mass surveillance system that threatens freedom and  race relations, a privacy watchdog says.
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An intelligent system that can recognise the content in photos and videos is being developed by researchers.