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Opera Browser Share Up After EU Decision

13 years ago from CBSNews - Science

Company Says Its Web Browser Downloads Double After Microsoft Forced To Offer Choice To Users

Conservationists urge treaty panel to reject ivory sale by Tanzania, Zambia

13 years ago from

An international convention will meet next week to decide whether to grant requests from Tanzania and Zambia to lower the protection status of their elephants, allowing them to conduct one-time...

Google denied Nexus phone trademark: report

13 years ago from Physorg

Google has been denied a trademark application for its Nexus One smartphone after the US Patent and Trademark Office said the name had been taken by a related product, a...

MP3 tax bill opposed by Conservatives

13 years ago from CBC: Technology & Science

Conservatives voiced their opposition Wednesday to a private member's bill that would add a tax to MP3 players and extend users' rights to make copies of digital content.

Microsoft Bing Gets a Boost

13 years ago from CBSNews - Science

Microsoft's Search Engine Nabs Larger Share Of US Web Queries In February

China planning high-speed rail networks to Asia, Europe and UK

13 years ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- China is planning high-speed rail networks in the next decade between China, Europe, the UK, Asia and India, with trains running at over 320 kph. Train passengers will...

Study: Ads with plus-size models unlikely to work

13 years ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- Advertisements and catalogs featuring plus-size models are unlikely to work on their intended customers, according to a new study by an ASU researcher and her colleagues.

Dotcom celebrates 25th birthday

13 years ago from Physorg

Recognize Symbolics.com? Probably not. But 25 years ago this week the Massachusetts computer maker played a bit role in history -- it was the first company to register a .com...

Web creates snowball effects in real life

13 years ago from Physorg

To understand how information spreads among people, Swedish physicists and sociologists have studied a Brazilian Web forum for discussing escorts, high-end prostitutes. The study is probably the first to demonstrate...

Stimulus package 'Making Work Pay' credit may lead to bigger tax bills this year

13 years ago from Physorg

The small increase in take-home pay that began in April 2009 through the Making Work Pay Credit (MWPC) could mean an unexpected bump in your tax bill, says Cheryl Block,...

Cornell collaboration with IBM to speed up 'the cloud'

13 years ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- More and more of today's computing is happening in "the cloud" -- not just on the desktop or even on the big servers in the basement but all...

New Smartphone App Helps Shoppers Make Greener Food Choices

13 years ago from Live Science

A new smartphone application aims to help eco-conscious consumers make greener choices at the grocery store.

Should NIH-Funded Researchers Be Required to Publicly Reveal Conflicts?

13 years ago from Science NOW

A government watchdog group is urging the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to require...

Big Drug Makers Lag in Emerging Markets, Study Says

13 years ago from NY Times Health

As pharmaceutical sales in countries like China and India overtake established markets, leading drug companies risk losing market share to local players, a study said.

McGovern Institute for Brain Research Launches New Website

13 years ago from Newswise - Scinews

The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT announced today the launch of its new website at http://mcgovern.mit.edu.

Intel Launches Xeon 5600 -- its Most Secure Data Center Processor

13 years ago from Physorg

Combining unprecedented security, performance and energy efficiency, Intel Corporation today launched the Intel Xeon Processor 5600 series.

IU 'Twister' software improves Google's MapReduce for large-scale scientific data analysis

13 years ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Twister," a new software tool released by Indiana University, supports faster execution of many data mining applications implemented as MapReduce programs. Developed by researchers from the Pervasive Technology...

Tech startup City Sourced zaps gripes to city halls

13 years ago from Physorg

Technology startup City Sourced is making it easy for folks to complain to city hall about anything from graffiti to drug dealers in their towns.

Software: running commentary for smarter surveillance?

13 years ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cutting-edge surveillance software that automatically detects human motion, behaviour and facial expressions, generates a running commentary of what?s happening and re-enacts events virtually could soon be helping police...

New research counters risky image of popular financial investments

13 years ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- They have been called "financial weapons of mass destruction" and blamed for a number of catastrophic losses and bankruptcies. New research by a finance professor at Virginia Tech's...

UCLA Internet pioneer Leonard Kleinrock looks toward future, helps students do the same

13 years ago from Physorg

Leonard Kleinrock has come to be known as a father of the Internet as a result of his creation of the basic principles of packet switching, the technology underpinning the...

FDA targets unapproved nitroglycerin pills

13 years ago from UPI

WASHINGTON, March 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Tuesday ordered Glenmark Generics and Konec Inc. to stop marketing unapproved nitroglycerin tablets.

Cash crisis looms for vaccine drive

13 years ago from News @ Nature

Rising demand for immunization programmes in developing countries could outstrip funding.

An express-lane for the Internet

13 years ago from Science Daily

The Internet is expected to be inundated in the future with billions of gigabytes (or exabytes) of data as high-definition video and other bandwidth-busting downloads become the norm. The cost...

Grisham Goes the E-book Route

13 years ago from CBSNews - Science

Best-seller John Grisham Goes Digital, Offers 'Pelican Brief,' His 22 Other Works As E-books

India withdraws nuclear power bill

13 years ago from UPI

NEW DELHI, March 16 (UPI) -- The Indian government withdrew Monday the introduction of a bill that seeks to limit the liabilities of companies setting up nuclear power plants...

S.Korea to offer software to fight web addiction

13 years ago from Physorg

South Korea will offer gamers and other Internet addicts free software from next year to limit the time they spend on the web, the prime minister's office said on Tuesday.

Prescriptions found on street spark probe

13 years ago from CBC: Health

Ontario's privacy commissioner is investigating after thousands of medical prescriptions were found blowing around on a street in Gatineau last week.