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Motivating Question: When an Elephant Charges, Is It Walking or Running?
Anyone who watched Ethiopia's Derartu Tulu win the 2009 New York City Marathon would agree: She was running. But what about high-speed elephants ? Their five-ton frames preclude them...
Bobby Flay's Recipe for Love
The Superstar Chef Offers Food Ideas That Can Make Love Richer
Positioning with awiloc
Awiloc WLAN localisation technology is software for navigation devices and mobile telephones. It makes use of the existing broad-coverage WLAN transmitters in cities and buildings. Awiloc software on mobile terminal...
Breakthrough for mobile television
Clumsy page layouts, slow page load times of podcasts and videos: Today's mobile surfing on the Internet can be really a hassle. The available bandwidths on mobile phone networks vary...
Microsoft to Revamp Smartphone Software
Company Hopes to Regain Momentum in a Crucial Market Where it's Fallen Behind
Web video site Veoh filing for bankruptcy protection
Video website Veoh, which has been locked in a two-year legal battle with Vivendi's Universal Music Group over copyright infringement, is filing for bankruptcy protection, its founder announced.
Smarter than Google?
Dutch mathematician Nicole Koenderink obtained her PhD yesterday. Her thesis involved a search engine that is smarter than Google. This machine taps into the knowledge of experts and poses questions...
DirecTV suing Dish for ads saying it's cheaper
(AP) -- Satellite TV provider DirecTV is suing its rival, Dish Network, for running an advertisement claiming that Dish delivers the same programs for less money.
Safe Internet Day
This morning, upon leaving Brussels to go back home after my seminar in Louvain-la-Neuve, my attention was caught by a big green banner hanging from a tall building at Place...
Announcing The Return Of The University Science Writing Competion
Last fall, ScientificBlogging introduced our first ever University Writing Competition. We were blown away by the quality of science articles we received, and are excited to announce that we’re doing...
Kenyan scientists berate government for GM 'slowness'
Kenya's biotechnology community is concerned about the gap between the passing and the implementation of the country's biosafety legislation.
EU competition regulator clears HP buyout of 3Com
The European Commission on Friday cleared the purchase by US computer giant Hewlett-Packard of networking company 3Com, saying it would not harm competition in Europe.
What Really Makes a Good Cell Phone Camera?
The great megapixel race may finally be slowing down in digital cameras, but it's picking up steam in cell phones.
Computational Science Programming Model Crosses the Petaflop Barrier
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated that the PNNL-developed Global Arrays computational programming model can perform at the petascale level. ...
Battle over e-book prices may be nearing truce
Since Amazon.com debuted its first Kindle e-book reader late in 2007, the reaction within the book industry has been some mix of welcome and scorn.
Motorola Packs More Punch into WiMAX USBw 200 Dongle with New Docking Station
The Home & Networks Mobility business of Motorola today announced a new docking station, or cradle, for its WiMAX USBw 200 dongle. The docking station significantly improves the indoor performance...
Telus earnings fall 45%
Vancouver-based Telus Corp. reported Friday its profit fell 45 per cent in the fourth quarter.
Iraq to switch oil pricing index
BAGHDAD, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Iraq will switch the pricing mechanism for its U.S.-bound crude oil to the Argus Sour Crude Index beginning in April, executives announced.
Alaska reacts to Obama energy plan
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Alaskan lawmakers were divided over environmental regulations and the clean energy future outlined by U.S. President Barack Obama.
Gadgets: Canon PIXMA printer delivers quality prints, easy use
This past week I opened a Canon PIXMA MX870 all-in-one printer, and it did exactly what I would want a printer to do right out of the box: print great...
Rethinking networking
Today, data traveling over the Internet are much like crates of oranges traveling the interstates in the back of a truck. The data are loaded in at one end, unloaded...
ASU report: Foreclosures still cloud housing market
(PhysOrg.com) -- Foreclosures continue to play a major role in the Phoenix-area housing market. Almost half of the existing-home transactions in the Valley last month -- 45 percent -- were...
Virtual tutoring program uses videos to aid students of math, science
Leo Shmuylovich knows a lot about how tutoring can take a student from confused to confident. The Washington University graduate student has worked as a tutor for several test preparatory...
Corky, The Little Brown Mouse That's 100 Percent Green
(PhysOrg.com) -- A computer mouse that`s made from recycled and biodegradable cork and recycled plastic components is one of 18 finalists in the Greener Gadgets Design Competition. But its...
Google rebuts DOJ objections to digital book deal
(AP) -- Google Inc. wants the digital rights to millions of books badly enough that it's willing to take on the U.S. Department of Justice in a court battle...
Robot bomb defusers and kneepad goo
Innovative technology at the Centre for Defence EnterpriseA robotic hand that could defuse bombs remotely, a camera with the ability to detect minute changes in the landscape and a mysterious orange goo that...
Rolls-Royce chief: industry needs more UK science and engineering graduates
Sir John Rose says that many overseas students return home, leaving a skills gap in UK manufacturingNot enough British students are studying engineering and science in the UK, hampering efforts to revive industry,...
Advertising: For G.E., a Human Face on Its Role in Health Care
G.E. will spend more than $80 million in the United States this year on the campaign, which will have TV, print and digital components.