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Morning Rounds: Tainted Peanut Butter, Distracted Drivers and Black-Market Organs
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Palm's Pre smartphone blends best of iPhone, BlackBerry
The big story from this year's Consumer Electronics Show was the rebirth of Palm Inc., which introduced the new Pre smartphone to rave reviews.
India names new board for fraud-hit Satyam
Indian authorities Sunday installed three prominent business leaders to run scandal-hit software giant Satyam Computers in an effort to salvage the country's international business image.
Research checker lowers quality
A New Zealand system for assessing research quality may be promoting larger amounts of low-quality research, according to a recent study of economists.
EPA eCycling Program Hits New High
EPA announced a 30 percent increase in electronics recycling through its Plug-In to eCycling program.
Google's Grand Ambitions
Google stretched its wings in 2008, furthering an expansion beyond its core search and search-advertising business. But the economy and the government raised the possibility that those wings could be...
Citizens Stuck With Bill For Tenn. Cleanup
The tab for a toxin-laden ash flood at a coal-fired power plant in Tennessee could reach hundreds of millions of dollars, and ratepayers for the nation's largest public utility will...
Dick Tracy Watch Had Nothing On This One!
A device similar to the one used by the classic comic character was among many showcased on The Early Show from the mega tech trade show opening Thursday in Las...
New Computer Program Enables Powerful Data Analysis On Small Computers
A powerful new tool that can extract features and patterns from enormously large and complex data sets has been developed. The tool -- a set of problem-solving calculations known as...
Microsoft's Ballmer Headlines CES Keynotes [Slide show]
Las Vegas, NEV. -- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer this week gave his first CES keynote, during which he plugged Windows 7 (Vista’s successor) as well as new partnerships with...
Northeastern Wins Multi-Million Dollar Grant to Develop Critical Infrastructure Sensing Technology
Northeastern University has been awarded a $9 million federal research grant to develop new multi-sensor technology systems for cars and trucks that will allow for real-time assessment of road and...
Dish Network unveils 'Slingloaded' TV recorder
(AP) -- Satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp. on Thursday unveiled a digital video recorder that can send TV signals to a computer screen or mobile phone.
Dell to slash Ireland work force, shift to Poland
(AP) -- U.S. computer maker Dell Inc. announced Thursday it will slash its Irish work force and shift its European manufacturing operations to Poland in a move certain to...
China's Lenovo to cut 11 percent of workforce
(AP) -- Shares of Lenovo Group tumbled Thursday after the world's fourth-largest computer maker warned it expects a loss for its latest quarter and will lay off 11 percent...
Apple's Jobs takes $1 salary, but holdings suffer
(AP) -- As he's done for the last decade, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs took home his customary $1 annual salary in 2008, but the economic meltdown and...
Obama Says He Will Seek Overhaul of Retiree Spending
Should the president-elect take on a serious effort to address the growing costs of entitlement programs, he would be opening up a potentially risky battle.
Mobile phones - not the hazard we thought
Previously, the only good thing about being in hospital, apart from staying in bed all day, was the freedom from mobile phones. Not any more.
Toyota to roll out safety, driver-assist systems
(AP) -- Toyota Motor Corp. says it plans to roll out new features on certain models later this year that can summon help if you crash or call an...
Google cuts temporary workers but murky on details
(AP) -- Google Inc. has jettisoned a substantial number of temporary workers in a recent austerity drive spurred by the recession, although the Internet search leader still intends to...
Let's see more of these technological innovations in '09
As we begin 2009, let's take a look back at what 2008 brought us in technology. Here are four positive trends that I hope will continue.
Toshiba to expand the powers of the TV set-top box
(AP) -- Toshiba Corp. is planning to use the Cell processor, the brain of Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 game console, to create an ultra-powerful TV set-top box that can...
VIDEO: Bees Key to Better Missiles?
Scientists are studying bees' aggressive behavior and ocular and navigational skills in hopes of improving missile technology.
IBM Delivers New 'Social' Lotus Notes and Free Symphony Software for Macs
At Macworld, IBM today announced the availability of Lotus Notes 8.5 collaboration software with social computing features for all Mac OS X Leopard-powered computers. In addition, IBM's free Lotus Symphony...
Samsung Introducing High-Speed, High-Capacity 'Green' SSD for Enterprise Market
Samsung Electronics announced today at the Storage Visions 2009 Conference here that it has developed a 100 gigabyte (GB) solid state drive for use in servers for applications such as...
Recognise this image?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Image recognition is a long-standing challenge in science. But European researchers have achieved a breakthrough by developing a powerful image-recognition application with mass-market appeal. There is a bright...
Grab Your Glow Sticks and Ceremonial Robes
Apparently, Rupert Till, an expert in acoustics and music technology at Huddersfield University in northern England, knows where to find a good party. Till took a second look, or rather,...
Bush administration scraps updated fuel efficiency rules
The outgoing Bush administration said Wednesday it was scrapping efforts to implement better automobile fuel efficiency rules, leaving the update until after the presidential transition.
Can Thinking Make You Fat?
With about half of the United States’ workforce classified as “white collar”, a new study out of Canada is relevant food for thought-- but don’t think about it too much!...