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. (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is releasing an updated version of its mapping service with street-level views and new "apps" that tack on tweets, traffic and other location-specific data. http://www.physorg.com/news179002196.html Technology Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:20:03 EST news179002196 (PhysOrg.com) -- Comparing prices over the Internet has become a common practice for consumers. Now, just in time for Black Friday, a group of Missouri University of Science and Technology students is putting that ability to comparison-shop in the palm of your hand. http://www.physorg.com/news178227892.html Technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:10:02 EST news178227892 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new application for the Android smartphone shows users and software developers how much power their applications are consuming. PowerTutor was developed by doctoral students and professors at the University of Michigan. http://www.physorg.com/news177953946.html Technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:40:06 EST news177953946 In the waiting room, the patient's family members circled a Blackberry. About every 15 minutes, Dr. Carlos Wolf of Miami Plastic Surgery gave them a few keystrokes of information about how the patient was doing. http://www.physorg.com/news177234638.html Technology Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:50:01 EST news177234638 The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) has developed findNano, an application for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch that lets users discover and determine whether consumer products are nanotechnology-enabled. Nanotechnology, the emerging technology of using materials by engineering them at an incredibly small scale, has applications ranging from consumer electronics to improved drug delivery systems. http://www.physorg.com/news177249579.html Nanotechnology Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:30:03 EST news177249579 Apple on Wednesday announced that outside developers have crammed the virtual shelves of its App Store with more than 100,000 mini-programs for iPhones and iPod Touch devices. http://www.physorg.com/news176581391.html Technology Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:30:02 EST news176581391 The Republican leadership in the US House of Representatives unveiled a free application for the Blackberry on Thursday to keep users up to date on the latest in Congress through their cellphones. http://www.physorg.com/news176059726.html Technology Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:00:01 EST news176059726 (AP) -- The Walt Disney Co. is releasing an iPhone application that rewards users for poking through the Disney.com Web site and could one day offer exclusive bonuses for activities such as shopping at Disney Stores. http://www.physorg.com/news175929916.html Technology Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:25:45 EST news175929916 (AP) -- Headbangers will have a reason to steady their gaze a bit starting Tuesday, when rock band Metallica makes its way onto iPhones with a finger-tapping music app called "Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica." http://www.physorg.com/news175841716.html Technology Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:30:01 EST news175841716 Apple said Friday that it is allowing businesses to sell content or services through applications given away for free at the iPhone maker's online App Store. http://www.physorg.com/news174978470.html Technology Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:09:02 EST news174978470 University of Utah researchers created new iPhone programs - known as applications or "apps" - to help scientists, students, doctors and patients study the human body, evaluate medical problems and analyze other three-dimensional images. http://www.physorg.com/news174196463.html Technology Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:55:27 EST news174196463 Apple announced Monday that more than two billion applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch have been downloaded from its App Store, just five months after hitting the one-billion download mark. http://www.physorg.com/news173356700.html Technology Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:10:03 EST news173356700 Apple's iPhone has been a sensation from its launch -- even if, digitally speaking, it can't walk and chew gum at the same time. There are now more than 65,000 applications in the App Store, but the iPhone runs only one at a time -- a hobbling limitation for those apps that function best "in the background," as techies put it. http://www.physorg.com/news171826046.html Technology Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:30:01 EST news171826046 (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is giving its operating system for "smart phones" a new look in time for the holiday shopping season. http://www.physorg.com/news171017504.html Technology Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:52:18 EST news171017504 Companies are increasingly pitching their products using text messages and cellphone applications. But a South Florida entrepreneur is taking the idea to the next level by designing iPhone apps for large companies, and using new technology to alert every user whenever there's a coupon or sale. http://www.physorg.com/news170614562.html Technology Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:01 EST news170614562 Ninty nine cents doesn't buy you much these days. Some fast food places still offer a burger, chicken or drink item for that price. Dollar Stores offer some really good bargains but they're going to charge you an extra penny for them as well as sales tax. But when it comes to technology, 99 cents has some serious buying power. Take iTunes for example. While you can pay more or even less for some types of songs, the 99 cent tune is still the most popular. 99 cents will also buy you some really great apps for your iPhone and iPod Touch. There's also another valuable commodity that technology makes available to you for 99 cents: information. http://www.physorg.com/news170015474.html Technology Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:50:01 EST news170015474 Yeah, this is one of the big reasons why I opted for the Pre, which comes with free turn-by-turn GPS. http://www.physorg.com/news169930349.html Electronics Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:30:01 EST news169930349 Apple today announced that customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications in just one year from its App Store, the largest applications store in the world. The App Store is also growing at an incredible pace with more than 65,000 apps and more than 100,000 developers in the iPhone Developer Program. http://www.physorg.com/news166804644.html Technology Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:00:01 EST news166804644 (AP) -- I'm typing this in between perusing Facebook, trying (and failing) to master a guitar-simulation game and listening to Internet radio on my smart phone. http://www.physorg.com/news159038965.html Technology Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:30:03 EST news159038965 The iPhone is many things - business device, gaming console, instant-messenger buddy. Ge Wang turned it into a flute. http://www.physorg.com/news157295022.html Technology Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:04:07 EST news157295022 (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. plans a central market to sell programs for cell phones running the Windows Mobile system. It hews closely to the setup of Apple Inc.'s App Store for iPhones, with one notable exception - Microsoft promises to communicate more openly with outside software developers. http://www.physorg.com/news155990039.html Technology Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:34:41 EST news155990039 Amyloid precursor protein (APP), whose cleavage product, amyloid-b (Ab), builds up into fibrous plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients, jumps from one specialized membrane microdomain to another to be cleaved, report Sakurai et al in the Journal of Cell Biology. http://www.physorg.com/news143691751.html Biology Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:22:31 EST news143691751