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Mobile banking prospects seen better in Asia
Polillo, a remote island in the northeastern Philippines with poor road infrastructure and no public transport, is set to get a taste of mobile banking long before the developed world...
Analyst upgrades Yahoo, calling stock cheap
Needham & Co. analyst Mark May upgraded shares of troubled Internet company Yahoo Inc. on Thursday, after the shares skidded below $10 for the first time in more than five...
Knocking Off Knockoffs
Despite our niftiest holograms and watermarks, counterfeiters still manage to sneak billions of dollars of fake goods onto store shelves. Instead of slapping on authenticity seals, which can be copied,...
Google's virtual world Lively to die next month
(AP) -- Lively, a virtual reality service from Google Inc., is dying. The company plans to shut down the service at the end of the year, reflecting Lively's inability...
Dell 3Q profit falls as PC spending slows
(AP) -- PC maker Dell Inc. said Thursday its third-quarter profit fell 5 percent as businesses around the world bought fewer computers and other technology products.
Bots Get Smart
The multi-billion-dollar video-game industry has become increasingly keen to make use of developments in artificial intelligence (AI) research, and computer scientists--including those in the University of Alberta's GAMES research group--have...
New Research Helps Solve the Mystery of Déjà Vu
To some, it's a vague remembrance of a scene from a past life. Others attribute it to viewing something in real life they dreamed the night before. To the leather-clad...
Gene Discovery Will Double Production Of Rice In Times Of Drought
University of Alberta research has yielded a way to double the output of rice crops in some of the world's poorest, most distressed areas. Jerome Bernier, a PhD student in the...
Obama Set To Be 1st "Wired" President
Armed with millions of e-mail addresses and an Internet savvy political operation, Barack Obama will enter the White House with the chance to create the first truly "wired" presidency, writes...
Obama Plans Gone From Transition Web Site
Last week, President-elect Barack Obama launched a Web site with detailed information about his plans for technology, Iraq, and health care policies. Now they're gone, reports CNET's Declan McCullagh.
Whatever Happened To Google $1,000?
Computer scientists at the University of California at San Diego have developed software that can make a duplicate of a key from just a distant photo of it using technology...
Bush Moves To Shut Down Web Gambling
The Bush administration is moving in its last weeks to complete regulations to enforce a controversial law that seeks to block Internet gambling. The move is drawing hot protests from...
Supreme Court: No Limits On Navy Sonar Use
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Navy in a dispute over whether courts can limit training drills Navy sonar systmes may adversely affect whales. Separately, arguments commenced in...
Unlicensed News Stories Rampant On Web
Unauthorized copies of online news and magazine articles draw 1.5 times more viewers than the versions on publishers' official Web sites, a new study found.
The New Congress And Technology
Presidential elections may capture the public's attention, as Barack Obama's victory did last week, but the less glamorous work in the U.S. Congress tends to prove more important for technology...
After Virtual Affair, Real Divorce
Amy Taylor filed for divorce when she discovered her husband cheating in Second Life - an online community where players adopt personas called avatars, mingle with others and teleport themselves...
TiVo To Make Dominos On Demand
Digital video recording company TiVo Inc. said it is teaming up with Domino's Pizza Inc. to allow subscribers to order pizza for delivery or pick-up from their TV sets.
Stolen IDs Peddled In Murky Chatrooms
Thieves put millions up for bid online each year. Susan Koeppen gave Early Show viewers a peek at one such chatroom as she described the extent of the problem.
Female Directors Pay Less for Companies in Mergers and Acquisitions: Study
When taking over companies, female executives get a better purchase price than their male counterparts, according to researchers at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia.
What is Natural?
Correctly or incorrectly, consumers perceive that natural products are better for them and for the environment. This month's Food Technology takes a closer look at the regulatory agencies that set...
Latest and greatest in personal media players for the holidays
People craving a mobile media fix have an incredible array of choices these days, both in terms of price and features, and that means deciding which of the myriad players...
Iranian-Canadian 'blogfather' reportedly arrested in Tehran
A well-known Iranian-Canadian credited with leading Iran's blogging boom has been arrested in Tehran and accused of spying for Israel, say reports.
e=mc2: 103 years later, Einstein's proven right
It's taken more than a century, but Einstein's celebrated formula e=mc2 has finally been corroborated, thanks to a heroic computational effort by French, German and Hungarian physicists.
Lawyers, CEOs named to run Alberta's health services
Fifteen people were officially named to the Alberta Health Services Board on Thursday, the authority that oversees all health-care delivery in the province.
NIST Releases Final WTC 7 Investigation Report
NIST today released its final report on the Sept. 11, 2001, collapse of the 47-story World Trade Center 7 (WTC 7) in New York City. Strengthened by clarifications and supplemental...
E-mail In Zero G: Astronauts And The Web
In space, no one can hear you scream. But scoring an Internet hookup suddenly isn't out of the question.
Can't wait? MySpace streams long-delayed Guns N' Roses album
Just days before the long-awaited Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy hits stores, the band has released the complete album to social networking site MySpace.
Foundations for the World Wide Grid
The dream of using the internet to allow people to access as much computer processing and storage power as they need, when they need it, is a step closer thanks...