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Twitter to offer business accounts with expanded features -- and fees
Without advertisements or subscription fees, the micro-blogging service Twitter has had many wondering how the site makes money.
Comcast looks to future in bid for NBC Universal
(AP) -- Years ago, Comcast Corp. CEO Brian Roberts was asked at a conference what kept him awake at night. His answer: A new technology that would severely hurt...
Killer bees, native bees can co-exist
PANAMA CITY, Panama, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Africanized "killer bees" may be less of a problem for native bees than weather changes, scientists in Panama say.
In amoeba world, cheating doesn't pay
Cheaters may prosper in the short term, but over time they seem doomed to fail, at least in the microscopic world of amoebas where natural selection favours the noble...
One million award to address honeybee decline
Scientists at Rothamsted Research and Warwick University have been awarded GBP1M by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) in partnership with Syngenta, to research the decline of honeybees...
Financial aid rules influence household portfolio decisions
The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the Student Aid Financial Responsibility Act to address problems with the current financial aid system. The act calls for several changes to simplify...
Twitter testing tool to organize tweets
Twitter on Thursday began letting a small number of users test a "Lists" feature for dividing maelstroms of tweets into manageable sub-categories.
British court okays serving injunction over Twitter
Britain's High Court has approved the serving of a court order through social-networking tool Twitter.
Broadband quality study finds Canada lagging
Canada has some of the poorest-quality broadband among advanced countries, according to a study of global internet infrastructure.
France aims for two million electric cars by 2020: minister
France plans to invest 1.5 billion euros (2.2 billion dollars) on infrastructure for the two million electric and hybrid cars it wants on its roads by 2020, the ecology minister...
Homeland Security to hire up to 1K cyber experts
(AP) -- The Obama administration has given a green light to the Homeland Security Department to be more competitive and choosey as it hires up to 1,000 new cyber...
Probing Question: Where are all the cool robots?
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the better part of a century, they`ve promised us robots. From Elektro, the 7-foot metal man of the 1939 World`s Fair, to Rosie the robot maid on...
The eScience revolution: Creating semantic Web platforms for massive scientific collaboration
(PhysOrg.com) -- Web scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will use the World Wide Web to compile and share scientific data on an unprecedented scale. Their goal is to hasten scientific...
NVIDIA Unveils Next Generation CUDA GPU Architecture -- Codenamed 'Fermi'
NVIDIA Corp. today introduced its next generation CUDA GPU architecture, codenamed "Fermi". An entirely new ground-up design, the "Fermi" architecture is the foundation for the world`s first computational graphics processing...
Deer crashes continue to rise in North Carolina
(PhysOrg.com) -- Motor vehicles crashes involving deer rose to an all-time high in North Carolina in 2008, even as the total number of motor-vehicle crashes and total vehicle miles driven...
Sask. says 560 more nurses hired
A plan to get hundreds more nurses working in Saskatchewan has been making progress, the provincial government says.
Thailand's Nissan to introduce first eco-car next year
The Thai arm of Nissan Motor announced plans Thursday to produce the firm's first eco-car for the domestic and overseas market.
Morgellons updates
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Polaroid PoGo brings instant printing to the digital age
(PhysOrg.com) -- Polaroid, founded in 1937 by American physicist Edwin H. Land, invented instant photographic printing. Its first instant film camera went on sale in November 1948, but in February...
The Future of Public Transportation Will Involve Personal Helicopters, Mag-Lev Cars and Zeppelins
Ranging from the simple, like publicly available electric bikes and moving sidewalks, to the more futuristic, like a personal helicopter backpack and personal maglev car/pods, a new vision breaks down the future of...
EGNOS ‘Open Service’ available: a new era for European navigation begins today
During a press conference today, Mr Antonio Tajani, European Commission Vice-President for Transport Policy, announced the official start of operations for EGNOS, the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service. The EGNOS...
'Smart' phone software helps remote scientists
New software allows scientists in the field to send complex data to a central database — but not everyone can benefit from this service yet.
Is the sun setting on jatropha's biofuel promise?
Jatropha will not be saving the world anytime soon, say researchers, but it could work in local biofuel projects in developing countries.
MU researchers help identify cows that gain more while eating less
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- With more than 2 million cows on 68,000 farms, Missouri is the third-largest beef producer in the nation. Due to rising feed prices, farmers are struggling...
U.S. senator slams 'parasitic' Canada over drug prices
An American legislator called Canada "parasitic" on Wednesday for siphoning U.S. dollars to Canada with low prescription drug prices while his country does "all the innovation."
Feature: The forgotten farm labourer
Helping farm labourers access new technologies and knowledge should be a priority for policymakers, argues innovation expert Anil Gupta.
Study: Why the best soccer teams don't always win
(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent study, published in the October edition of the Journal of Applied Statistics, looked at soccer as being an experiment to determine which of two teams is...
NY publisher releases Deveraux novel as video book
(AP) -- The latest novel from best-selling romance author Jude Deveraux isn't exactly a book. "Promises" is a reading and viewing experience, a digital text in which videos not...