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. With the sun setting before 5 p.m., solar power may be the last thing on your mind these days. But declining panel prices ans a federal tax credit make now a good time to at least investigate whether solar power might make sense for your home -- and your budget. http://www.physorg.com/news179137753.html Technology Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:29:54 EST news179137753 Forest dwellers must be included in the design of the upcoming forest deal at Copenhagen in order to avoid a humanitarian crisis, according to a scientist at the University of Leeds. http://www.physorg.com/news179067868.html Space & Earth Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:20:01 EST news179067868 (PhysOrg.com) -- Plastic cards with security features are ubiquitous these days, having a wide variety of uses such as credit cards, employee cards, licenses, and so on. Many have holographic images, but they are relatively easy to tamper with. Now researchers at SABIC Innovative Plastics and GE Global Research have developed a new class of thermoplastic holographic materials that embed holograms within the plastic of cards, making them virtually impossible to copy or alter. http://www.physorg.com/news178869483.html Technology Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:00:01 EST news178869483 (AP) -- The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are giving U.S. financial institutions an additional six months to comply with regulations designed to ban Internet gambling. http://www.physorg.com/news178551993.html Technology Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:10:01 EST news178551993 NetSecure Technologies SmartSwipe credit card reader is a new device to help Internet shoppers or small business owners. http://www.physorg.com/news178462072.html Electronics Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:10:01 EST news178462072 (PhysOrg.com) -- Cambridge researchers have identified a group of traders consistently able to outperform the market, even during the credit crisis. http://www.physorg.com/news178349551.html Other Sciences Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:28:40 EST news178349551 (PhysOrg.com) -- An October survey of 3,800 consumers by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling found that more than two thirds (68 percent) planned to pay in cash for their holiday purchases this year, while only 22 percent planned to charge them to their credit cards. http://www.physorg.com/news177846854.html Other Sciences Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:55:01 EST news177846854 (AP) -- A couple suspected of helping spread some of the Internet's most aggressive computer viruses has been arrested in the English city of Manchester, police said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news177773189.html Technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:50:01 EST news177773189 China can become the world's top exporter of "green technology" if it carries out crucial energy and ecological reforms, leading environmental campaigners said here Saturday. http://www.physorg.com/news177394676.html Space & Earth Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:40:02 EST news177394676 Firms with heavy long-term debt that came due amid the nation's recent credit crisis slashed investment more than three times as much as companies whose paybacks ducked the meltdown, a new University of Illinois study found. http://www.physorg.com/news177006702.html Other Sciences Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:32:48 EST news177006702 (AP) -- Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography. http://www.physorg.com/news176909257.html Technology Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:40:04 EST news176909257 (AP) -- You're probably used to typing your name, address and credit card number when you buy things online. Amazon.com is guessing you don't enjoy it, though, and wants to simplify the process by letting you purchase items with a short phrase such as "Shopping Fanatic" and an identification number. http://www.physorg.com/news176013541.html Technology Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:39:45 EST news176013541 (AP) -- Comcast Corp. wants to enlist its customers in a fight against a huge problem for Internet providers - the armies of infected personal computers, known as "botnets," that suck up bandwidth by sending spam and facilitating cybercrime. http://www.physorg.com/news174366185.html Technology Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:20:03 EST news174366185 The American Solar Energy Society's 2009 National Solar Tour took place Oct. 3 in 3,000 communities. http://www.physorg.com/news173971060.html Technology Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:30:02 EST news173971060 The internet is one innovation helping small business bosses deal with strategic decision-making and survive the current recession, according to results revealed by the latest UK Business Barometer and Business Adviser Barometer surveys. http://www.physorg.com/news173546556.html Other Sciences Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:40:01 EST news173546556 (AP) -- Simmons Co., the maker of Beautyrest mattresses, said Friday that it plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a move that will put new owners in charge of the bedding unit and significantly lower the company's debt. http://www.physorg.com/news173096454.html Technology Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:30:03 EST news173096454 (AP) -- Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. has developed a new way to resell tickets that shuts out the brokers and scalpers it has long scorned, and instead keeps the profits for itself, musicians and venue owners. http://www.physorg.com/news172416740.html Technology Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:33:01 EST news172416740 (AP) -- Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting small and medium-sized businesses that don't have the resources to keep updating their computer security, according to federal authorities. http://www.physorg.com/news172144674.html Technology Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:58:33 EST news172144674 (AP) -- A computer hacker could spend more than 15 years in prison now that he has pleaded guilty to some of the largest thefts of credit card numbers. http://www.physorg.com/news171900428.html Technology Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:20:02 EST news171900428 (PhysOrg.com) -- Solar power manufacturers in the US are cutting prices to shift their stock, the government is chipping in with tax credits, and innovative leasing or financing arrangements spreading payments over up to 20 years are being introduced. All of which makes solar power much more affordable than before. http://www.physorg.com/news171534509.html Technology Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:29:03 EST news171534509 Years before his arrest in the nation's largest credit card heist, Albert Gonzalez launched a bold plan from a computer in his high school library: hack into the government network of India. http://www.physorg.com/news170015734.html Technology Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:40:01 EST news170015734 (AP) -- Nestled near a row of sultry, silvery-green palm trees and a 205-foot-long infinity pool, room 1508 at the National Hotel on South Beach is a portrait of Art Deco luxury. It is also where, on May 7, 2008, federal agents seized two computers, $22,000 in cash and a Glock 9 gun from a man known on the Internet as "soupnazi." http://www.physorg.com/news169958749.html Technology Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:46:36 EST news169958749 (AP) -- Radisson Hotels & Resorts said Wednesday its computer systems have been accessed without authorization, affecting an unknown number of people. http://www.physorg.com/news169899410.html Technology Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:30:02 EST news169899410 (AP) -- This week's indictment of a hacker believed responsible for the biggest retail-store data breaches in U.S. history doesn't necessarily make shoppers safer from having their credit card numbers plundered. http://www.physorg.com/news169835746.html Technology Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:36:57 EST news169835746 Scientists at the University of Mainz have discovered a close correlation between over-indebtedness and obesity. According to the report published in the journal BMC Public Health, over-indebted Germans are more likely to be overweight or obese than the population in general. http://www.physorg.com/news169230244.html Medicine & Health Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:50:01 EST news169230244 A system that allows biometric data to be used to create a secret key for data encryption has been developed by researchers in South Africa. They describe details of the new technology in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics this month. http://www.physorg.com/news168257774.html Technology Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:16:53 EST news168257774 Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites are inceasingly being targeted by cyber-criminals drawn to the wealth of personal information supplied by users, experts warn. http://www.physorg.com/news168151908.html Technology Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:00:01 EST news168151908 Why are so many students deep in debt before they finish college, only to take on more debt as they begin their careers? The answer may be found by looking at the social forces that shape the attitudes and behaviors of today's youth - forces influencing them in ways that will determine their financial success or failure as adults. http://www.physorg.com/news167911998.html Other Sciences Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:13:52 EST news167911998 What would happen if credit card holders no longer received rewards? Not much - but it could cut consumer credit card debt, says a new study on the impact of rewards programs on credit and debit card use. http://www.physorg.com/news167311101.html Other Sciences Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:18:42 EST news167311101 A hacker believed to have struck celebrity Twitter accounts previously has reportedly broken into accounts of the microblogging service's workers including co-founder Evan Williams. http://www.physorg.com/news166855578.html Technology Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:50:01 EST news166855578