Archive: 06/08/2006
Microsoft opens Zurich Developer Center
Microsoft announced Thursday it has opened a Microsoft Developer Center in the Greater Zurich Area.
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Broadband Report: Web video on your TiVo?
TiVo announced Wednesday that customers will be able to view Web video on their TiVo-based DVR devices. The new service dubbed "TiVoCast" will work with the company's new Series 2 TiVo set top DVR boxes, as long as it's connected ...
Jun 08, 2006 |
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Apple files 2nd countersuit against Creative
(AP) -- Apple Computer Inc. has filed a second countersuit against SIngapore-based Creative Technology Ltd., intensifying its legal battle against the smaller media player rival that sued the iPod maker for ...
Jun 08, 2006 |
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Triple threat polymer captures and releases
A chemist at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a remarkable nanostructured material that can repel pests, sweeten the air, and some day might even be used as a timed drug delivery system — as ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 08, 2006 |
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Probing Question: What makes a song catchy?
A catchy tune isn't always a good thing. If it contains an infectious chorus, even a song you dislike might refuse to leave your head. ("Achy Breaky Heart," anyone?) The choice of descriptors is not lost on Keith Duffy, a ...
Jun 08, 2006 |
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Hubble Sees Galaxy on Edge
This is a unique NASA Hubble Space Telescope view of the disk galaxy NGC 5866 tilted nearly edge-on to our line-of-sight.
Jun 08, 2006 |
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U.S. scientists develop disaster software
U.S. government scientists have developed software for managing collection, visualization, and analysis of environmental sampling data.
Jun 08, 2006 |
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Global warming might affect Hawaii area
Scientists say many Northwestern Hawaiian Islands might be submerged by 2100 because of global warming, National Geographic News reported.
Jun 08, 2006 |
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Samsung Intros First 1.98'' LCD to Achieve VGA with Amorphous Silicon
Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed the industry's first 1.98” LCD panel to achieve VGA resolution, using the company's amorphous silicon (a-Si) technology. Mobile phones equipped with ...
Jun 08, 2006 |
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New mathematical method provides better way to analyze noise
Humans have 200 million light receptors in their eyes, 10 to 20 million receptors devoted to smell, but only 8,000 dedicated to sound. Yet despite this miniscule number, the auditory system is the fastest of ...
Jun 08, 2006 |
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NIST Bullet Tests Make Frangibles More Tangible
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology are measuring precisely the disintegration of “frangible” bullets when they strike a surface to better understand how the ammunition might affect ...
Jun 08, 2006 |
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Designer Gradients Speed Surface Science Experiments
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated an elegantly simple technique for synthesizing a wide variety of complex surfaces that vary in a controlled fashion across ...
Jun 08, 2006 |
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Football fans may drink to compensate for not playing
Men across the nation will be getting the pints in and staring at the big screen this month as the World Cup kicks off in Germany. But what do football and alcohol have to do with being a man? A recent psychological study ...
Jun 08, 2006 |
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VSNL launches global Ethernet network
VSNL Singapore announced Thursday the launch of a private-line Ethernet service that will connect major cities on three continents.
Jun 08, 2006 |
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In Brief: Cisco to buy back additonal stock shares
Cisco Systems Thursday named a new chairman of the board and authorized a stock repurchase that could be worth up to $5 billion.
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