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A computer glitch left Italian Post Office customers in the red by processing card transactions at 100 times their value, Italian press reported Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news178444022.html Technology Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:47:31 EST news178444022 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Innovative Partnerships Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington is offering an opportunity for the public to help shape the prize challenges the agency offers to America's future citizen-inventors. http://www.physorg.com/news173345638.html Space & Earth Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:40:02 EST news173345638 New UC Davis estimates say the federal government's Cash for Clunkers program is paying at least 10 times the "sticker price" to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. http://www.physorg.com/news169468231.html Space & Earth Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:31:08 EST news169468231 Few businesses rise or fall on a single product, but Palm Inc. has essentially banked its future as a company on a small, touch-screen wireless phone set to hit the market in just two weeks. http://www.physorg.com/news162672263.html Technology Wed, 27 May 2009 19:44:55 EST news162672263 Japan's top mobile telephone operator NTT DoCoMo said Wednesday it aimed to launch a new service enabling cash transfers simply by entering the recipient's cellphone number. http://www.physorg.com/news162627621.html Technology Wed, 27 May 2009 07:20:51 EST news162627621 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from North Carolina State University indicates that regulators need to do more to ensure that banks are adequately computing their Value-at-Risk (VaR) to reflect fluctuations in financial markets. The study finds that the tests used by regulators do not detect when VaRs inaccurately account for significant swings in the market, which is significant because VaRs are key risk-assessment tools financial institutions use to determine the amount of capital they need to keep on hand to cover potential losses. http://www.physorg.com/news162572745.html Other Sciences Tue, 26 May 2009 16:06:32 EST news162572745 Google's co-founders and the California Internet titan's chief executive Eric Schmidt each took only a dollar in pay last year, a filing with US regulators indicates. http://www.physorg.com/news157186301.html Technology Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:52:14 EST news157186301 (AP) -- The value of Intel Corp. Chief Executive Paul Otellini's compensation package rose slightly to $12.4 million in 2008, a year in which the chip maker's profit was whacked by a global slowdown in personal computer sales. http://www.physorg.com/news157055883.html Technology Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:38:38 EST news157055883 The small amount of money put toward fighting the tiny, yet destructive soybean aphid will pay big dividends in the coming years, said a Michigan State University economist, thanks to a research and outreach system developed during the last 50 years. http://www.physorg.com/news157046509.html Biology Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:02:28 EST news157046509 (AP) -- Oracle Corp.'s sales force pulled off a big feat in the business software maker's latest quarter, sustaining a healthy clip of contract signings amid a dreary time for technology spending. http://www.physorg.com/news156615382.html Technology Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:17:00 EST news156615382 (PhysOrg.com) -- In 2006, a team of researchers set out to examine what sorts of walking programs and incentives might induce sedentary people over age 50 to put on their sneakers. They found that small cash payments might just provide that extra push. http://www.physorg.com/news153506703.html Medicine & Health Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:45:36 EST news153506703 (PhysOrg.com) -- A revealing snapshot of the effect of the downturn in the UK economy on the small business sector has been uncovered by an online survey produced by The University of Nottingham Institute for Enterprise and Innovation (UNIEI). http://www.physorg.com/news151077478.html Other Sciences Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:57:58 EST news151077478 While a poverty-alleviation program launched by the Mexican government that has been modeled in the United States and around the world has led to improved health and cognition outcomes in children, a new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers says that the cash component of the program has a downside for adults. http://www.physorg.com/news143806861.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:21:01 EST news143806861 There is fresh evidence that people spend less when paying cash than using credit, cash-equivalent scrip or gift certificates. They also spend less when they have to estimate expenses in detail. These findings appear in the September issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, published by the American Psychological Association. http://www.physorg.com/news139977942.html Other Sciences Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:45:42 EST news139977942