http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Publishers, booksellers and authors are holding a major annual convention in New York this week as the industry reels from a global recession and readers migrate to digital formats. http://www.physorg.com/news162885472.html Technology Sat, 30 May 2009 07:01:36 EST news162885472 Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos said Thursday that the online retail giant may never reveal sales figures for the Kindle and a color version of the electronic reader is "multiple" years away. http://www.physorg.com/news162740980.html Electronics Thu, 28 May 2009 14:50:09 EST news162740980 A new species of yeast has been discovered deep in the Amazon jungle. In a paper published on-line in FEMS Yeast Research, IFR scientists and colleagues from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador describe the novel characteristics of Candida carvajalis sp. nov. http://www.physorg.com/news162129782.html Biology Thu, 21 May 2009 13:03:15 EST news162129782 US online retail giant Amazon has filed a lawsuit against Discovery Communications alleging it infringed four of Amazon's e-commerce patents, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news161974355.html Technology Tue, 19 May 2009 17:52:59 EST news161974355 Palm Inc., a pioneer in handheld devices but suffering hard times lately, announced Tuesday that its much-anticipated new smartphone, the Palm Pre, would go on sale in the United States on June 6. http://www.physorg.com/news161949327.html Electronics Tue, 19 May 2009 10:55:58 EST news161949327 (AP) -- Hoping to do for the written word what iTunes did for music, the online document-sharing service Scribd is opening an Internet store that will offer new sales opportunities for authors and publishers, and possibly spawn more bargains for book lovers. http://www.physorg.com/news161845792.html Technology Mon, 18 May 2009 06:10:21 EST news161845792 Coral reefs could disappear entirely from the Coral Triangle region of the Pacific Ocean by the end of the century, threatening the food supply and livelihoods for about 100 million people, according to a new study from World Wildlife Fund. http://www.physorg.com/news161413022.html Space & Earth Wed, 13 May 2009 05:57:27 EST news161413022 Aggressive, vengeful behavior of individuals in some South American groups has been considered the means for men to obtain more wives and more children, but an international team of anthropologists working in Ecuador among the Waorani show that sometimes the macho guy does not do better. http://www.physorg.com/news161281260.html Other Sciences Mon, 11 May 2009 17:21:20 EST news161281260 With its pleasure boats dipping on the horizon and clustered tourist restaurants, the Indonesian island of Nusa Lembongan looks little like the edge of a great wilderness. http://www.physorg.com/news161180140.html Space & Earth Sun, 10 May 2009 13:28:05 EST news161180140 (AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. hopes a bigger version of its Kindle electronic reading device can be a hit, even if it's more expensive, and the company is aiming it in part at college students who are eager to save money on their textbooks. http://www.physorg.com/news160842961.html Electronics Wed, 06 May 2009 15:36:30 EST news160842961 Online retail giant Amazon.com unveiled a large-screen version of its popular Kindle electronic reader on Wednesday designed for newspapers, magazines and textbooks. http://www.physorg.com/news160831260.html Electronics Wed, 06 May 2009 12:23:16 EST news160831260 (AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. will release a larger - and more expensive - version of its Kindle electronic reading device that is geared toward periodicals and textbooks. http://www.physorg.com/news160827414.html Electronics Wed, 06 May 2009 11:17:24 EST news160827414 Amazon.com is widely expected to lift the wraps on a new large-screen Kindle device this week, which could be the first in a line of electronic reading devices geared toward newspapers and textbooks. http://www.physorg.com/news160681757.html Electronics Mon, 04 May 2009 18:49:53 EST news160681757 As online shopping continues to grow in popularity around the globe, shoppers increasingly depend upon consumer-based rating systems that vendors like Amazon.com and eBay use to rate products and sellers. But those rating systems are easily manipulated, misleading many online shoppers and causing them to make purchases they otherwise may not. http://www.physorg.com/news160152872.html Technology Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:55:59 EST news160152872 (AP) -- Amazon.com says first-quarter earnings and revenue climbed thanks to strong sales of products such as books, DVDs and electronics. http://www.physorg.com/news159723695.html Technology Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:42:16 EST news159723695 Publish a book on paper, says a sheepish Beth Collins, and "I'm hesitant to read it." But send it through the ether to her feather-light Kindle 2, Amazon's whiz-bang electronic reading machine, and she's eager to get lost in its pages_virtual though they may be. http://www.physorg.com/news159703011.html Electronics Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:57:36 EST news159703011 (AP) -- If you aren't sure whether Amazon.com Inc.'s latest Kindle electronic reading device is worth its $359 price tag, an analysis by research firm iSuppli may shed some light. http://www.physorg.com/news159642940.html Electronics Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:16:22 EST news159642940 (AP) -- Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. said Tuesday it is adding high-definition video to its on-demand service, offering consumers the ability to rent movies and purchase television episodes shown in HD. http://www.physorg.com/news159598956.html Technology Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:03:08 EST news159598956 Amazon has blamed an "embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error" for the removal of tens of thousands of books from the sales rankings and search engine of the online retail giant. http://www.physorg.com/news158936903.html Technology Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:09:13 EST news158936903 (AP) -- Amazon.com apologized Monday for an "embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error" that led to the sales ranking being removed from tens of thousands of books. http://www.physorg.com/news158906465.html Technology Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:42:09 EST news158906465 Rainforest reserves - even those disturbed by roads - provide an important buffer against fires that are devastating parts of the Brazilian Amazon, according to a new study by a trio of researchers at Duke University published April 8 in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE. http://www.physorg.com/news158394763.html Space & Earth Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:33:07 EST news158394763 (AP) -- A group representing the blind and other people with disabilities protested limitations to the new read-aloud feature on Amazon.com Inc.'s latest Kindle electronic reader Tuesday, arguing that the restrictions unfairly limit their access to e-books. http://www.physorg.com/news158344374.html Electronics Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:33:38 EST news158344374 Yahoo! on Tuesday will launch "artist pages" that let users connect to digital music at YouTube, iTunes, Pandora and other websites. http://www.physorg.com/news158253108.html Technology Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:12:26 EST news158253108 The Xingu River, the largest tributary of the Amazon, runs wide and swift this time of year. Its turquoise waters are home to some 600 species of fish, including several not found anywhere else on the planet. A thick emerald canopy of trees hugs its banks, except in places where man has carved out pastures for cattle. http://www.physorg.com/news158154937.html Space & Earth Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:56:33 EST news158154937 (AP) -- While the potentially dangerous Conficker worm was being tracked throughout April Fools' Day, more harmless hoaxes were being fired out across the Internet. http://www.physorg.com/news157889089.html Technology Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:05:24 EST news157889089 The Kindle 2, the second version of Amazon's breakthrough electronic book reader, is cheaper ($359), thinner (0.36 inches), can hold more books (more than 1,500 compared with 200), and has a longer battery life (Amazon says you can read for four to five days with wireless turned on and for longer than two weeks with it turned off) than the original. http://www.physorg.com/news157807394.html Electronics Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:23:36 EST news157807394 The recent hubbub about cloud computing -- how to define it and where it's heading -- has me wondering something. What about India? http://www.physorg.com/news157806896.html Technology Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:16:22 EST news157806896 (PhysOrg.com) -- The spread of malaria, one of the world's most prevalent insect-borne diseases and a leading killer of children, may have more to do with landscape than precipitation as the world warms, according to a new study. http://www.physorg.com/news157739485.html Medicine & Health Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:32:15 EST news157739485 Oil palm cultivation is a significant driver of tropical forest destruction across Southeast Asia. It could easily become a threat to the Amazon rainforest because of a proposed change in Brazil's legislation, new infrastructure and the influence of foreign agro-industrial firms in the region, according to William F. Laurance, senior scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. http://www.physorg.com/news157115219.html Space & Earth Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:07:29 EST news157115219 (AP) -- Google Inc. is making half a million books, unprotected by copyright, available for free on Sony Corp.'s electronic book-reading device, the companies were set to announce Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news156663310.html Electronics Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:35:47 EST news156663310