Archive: 11/14/2005
U.S.: China must 'crack down' on piracy
The Chinese government must "crack down" on piracy and enforce intellectual-property rights, the top U.S. trade official said Monday in Beijing.
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Study: Many options equal extreme choices
Scientists in Canada and China are studying "range effect," to better understand what consumers do when faced with a range of price and quality options. Specifically, the authors found offering a wide range of options causes ...
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Older consumers prefer emotional appeals
UCLA and University of Pennsylvania scientists say their research indicates older consumers are more emotional. The researchers say additional emotion often causes susceptibility to misleading advertising. But in a study ...
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Light exercise a tonic to keep the brain young
People don’t have to run marathons to keep their brain cells in shape — regular, light activity may do the trick. In the first study to show that lifelong exercise decreases cellular aging in the brain, scientists from the ...
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Rapidly accelerating glaciers may increase how fast the sea level rises
Satellite images show that, after decades of stability, a major glacier draining the Greenland ice sheet has dramatically increased its speed and retreated nearly five miles in recent years. These changes could contribute ...
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Researchers approach quantum limit in third-order nonlinear light-light interaction
Unprecedented nonlinear optical efficiency could make small organic molecules useful for optical computing, data processing and telecommunication. Researchers from Lehigh University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technolo ...
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Physicists invent plastic diode
Ohio State University researchers have invented a new organic polymer tunnel diode – an electronic component that could one day lead to flexible, low power plastic computer memory and plastic logic circuits ...
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Brain memory modifies during female cycle
Scientists at Northwestern and Columbia universities say "wiring" in female rat brain memory areas expands and retracts during the menstrual cycle.
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Nations prepare to fight for Internet
As the United States and Europe prepare to slug it out over the ownership of the Internet at the upcoming United Nations conference on information technology, there is growing concern that the World Wide Web ...
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Cingular ties up with MobiTV
Cingular Wireless and MobiTV launched Monday a mobile music service delivered to handsets.
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Samsung Now Mass Producing First 90nm 512Mb Mobile DRAM
Samsung Electronics announced that it has started to mass produce 512Mb DRAM (dynamic random access memory) for mobile products, using 90nm circuitry. This marks the first time that 512Mb mobile DRAM will ...
Nov 14, 2005 |
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UK wind research blows away myths
The most extensive study yet of the UK’s wind resource has found it to be the best in Europe, underlining its ability to make a significant contribution to our energy needs. The research, conducted by Oxf ...
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Fujitsu Develops High-Quality Video Compression Technology Conforming to H.264 Standard
Fujitsu Laboratories today announced the development of core circuitry technology for video compression and decompression that features high-quality video processing and operation with world-class ultra-low power consumption ...
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Freescale and Cadence partner to innovate semiconductor product design
Freescale Semiconductor and Cadence Design Systems, Inc. have signed a multi-year agreement designed to help Freescale realize competitive advantages by boosting new product design efficiency and speeding the delivery of ...
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Together across a continent: Bridging time and place with 'Shared Spaces'
From the Jetsons to Back to the Future, videoconferencing has been a fixture in visions of how we imagine the world of tomorrow. Yet the dream of real-life interactions across a screen has stayed just beyond our grasp. Vi ...
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