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(AP) -- Food banks across the country are undergoing a high-tech revolution, adopting sophisticated databases, bar coding, GPS tracking, automated warehouses and other technologies used in the food industry that increasingly supplies their goods. http://www.physorg.com/news178530466.html Technology Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:02 EST news178530466 (AP) -- U.S. senators are pressuring European antitrust regulators to hurry their investigation of Oracle Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc., citing Sun's "precarious" financial condition and fears about more layoffs at the struggling computing company. http://www.physorg.com/news178314527.html Technology Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:10:03 EST news178314527 Hospitals that make greater use of inpatient diagnostic imaging exams achieve lower in-hospital mortality rates with little or no impact on costs, according to a peer-reviewed study of more than 1 million patient outcomes in more than 100 hospitals nationwide published in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR). http://www.physorg.com/news175958319.html Medicine & Health Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:20:03 EST news175958319 Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison opened fire on US technology veteran IBM and expressed optimism about the pending 7.4-billion-dollar-deal to buy Sun Microsystems. http://www.physorg.com/news174544290.html Technology Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:32:24 EST news174544290 Declaring that Sun Microsystems is losing $100 million a month, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has expressed frustration over an extended European antitrust review that has delayed his plans to acquire the struggling computer maker. http://www.physorg.com/news173121770.html Technology Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:10:02 EST news173121770 (PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers are making an impressive effort to link up digital repositories to create a vast network of easy to search online data. The DRIVER project work - one of the largest efforts of its kind - aims to make some sense and better use of the growing online digital world, the 'data-sphere'. http://www.physorg.com/news172821794.html Technology Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:20:03 EST news172821794 Two University of Hertfordshire academics will release new evidence about the dangers of ‘Spice` drugs today at the first International Psychonaut Web Mapping Conference in Ancona, Italy. http://www.physorg.com/news172497147.html Medicine & Health Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:53:04 EST news172497147 (AP) -- With the fate of its proposed $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc. uncertain amid antitrust scrutiny, Oracle Corp. is moving ahead with a new product incorporating both companies' technology, and snubbing Hewlett-Packard Co. in the process. http://www.physorg.com/news172301350.html Technology Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:00:01 EST news172301350 (AP) -- Like so many great discoveries, it was an accident. British scientist Alec Jeffreys realized 25 years ago Thursday that individuals have "DNA fingerprints," unique patterns of genetic material that can be used to identify them. The discovery has solved thousands of crimes, put murderers behind bars, split and reunited families - and launched a fierce debate about privacy and human rights. http://www.physorg.com/news171801434.html Medicine & Health Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:41:00 EST news171801434 (AP) -- Oracle Corp. figured its $7.4 billion buyout for Sun Microsystems Inc. could skate through antitrust scrutiny, folding Sun into a technology powerhouse when Sun badly needs the lifeline. Both companies will have to wait. http://www.physorg.com/news171222688.html Technology Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:06:38 EST news171222688 Business software giant Oracle's 7.4-billion-dollar bid for Sun Microsystems is under investigation under EU merger regulations, the European Commission announced on Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news171178676.html Technology Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:30:01 EST news171178676 (AP) -- Uncertainty about Sun Microsystems Inc.'s future appears to have contributed to serious erosion in the company's market share for computer servers in the latest quarter, according to new data being released Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news171096388.html Technology Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:47:11 EST news171096388 (PhysOrg.com) -- As the amounts of data being stored by databases around the world enters the realm of the petabyte (the amount of data stored in a mile-high stack of CD-ROM disks), efficient data management is becoming more and more important. Now computer scientists at Yale University have developed a new database system by combining the best features of multiple approaches to create an open source hybrid system called HadoopDB. http://www.physorg.com/news170525347.html Technology Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:09:43 EST news170525347 (AP) -- Business software maker Oracle Corp. said Thursday it has received the Justice Department's approval to move forward with its $7.4 billion acquisition of former dot-com-era star Sun Microsystems Inc. http://www.physorg.com/news170007355.html Technology Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:17:39 EST news170007355 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 Global police agency Interpol said on Monday it is putting its database of stolen art online in a bid to stem the illicit traffic of artwork and cultural goods. http://www.physorg.com/news169734552.html Technology Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:29:36 EST news169734552 Use of a common antibiotic may be undercutting its utility as a first-line defense against drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB). Fluoroquinolones are the most commonly prescribed class of antibiotics in the U.S. and are used to fight a number of different infections such as sinusitis and pneumonia. They are also an effective first line of defense against TB infections that show drug resistance. New research shows, however, that widespread general use of fluoroquinolones may be creating a strain of fluoroquinolone-resistant TB. http://www.physorg.com/news169121029.html Medicine & Health Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:30:01 EST news169121029 (AP) -- The Internet's key oversight agency is considering a centralized database of trademark holders, to cut down on questionable registrations of new Internet addresses. http://www.physorg.com/news166728607.html Technology Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:30:05 EST news166728607 Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) are considered the 'gold standard' research method for assessing new medical treatments. But research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Trials shows that the design of a remarkable 93 percent of 2235 so-called RCTs published in some Chinese medical journals during 1994 to 2005 was flawed, casting doubt on the reliability of research that is likely to influence medical decision-makers. http://www.physorg.com/news165779714.html Medicine & Health Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:55:42 EST news165779714 (AP) -- Software maker Oracle Corp.'s results topped Wall Street's forecast for the latest quarter Tuesday, despite a 5 percent drop in sales and a 7 percent decline in profit. http://www.physorg.com/news164995938.html Technology Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:20:01 EST news164995938 The Obama administration has promised to end political meddling in scientific decisions, but some critics say the White House has botched an early test of that pledge on a key question of public health: how to assess the danger of industrial chemicals. http://www.physorg.com/news163991750.html Space & Earth Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:30:03 EST news163991750 High-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN) carries a high predictive value for future diagnosis of prostate cancer. Research published in the open access journal BMC Urology has shown that 41.8% of patients whose extended core biopsy led to an initial diagnosis of HGPIN were subsequently diagnosed with prostate cancer. http://www.physorg.com/news162626585.html Medicine & Health Wed, 27 May 2009 07:03:49 EST news162626585 (AP) -- The tough economy means the growing suburb of Apex can't replace some computers and police vehicles. So the town's mayor is pleased to save $13,000 by posting public notices of rezoning requests and major land development plans on the town's Web site, rather than in the local newspaper. http://www.physorg.com/news162232183.html Technology Fri, 22 May 2009 17:33:23 EST news162232183 (PhysOrg.com) -- A web browser that can understand technical terms in life sciences and automatically find additional resources and services has been developed by European researchers. It could lead to a new generation of intelligent search engines. http://www.physorg.com/news162052295.html Technology Wed, 20 May 2009 15:32:22 EST news162052295 The winner of the chilli cook-off, usually has a key secret ingredient, which is hard to identify. Similarly, many diseases have crucial proteins, which change the dynamics of cells from benign to deadly. http://www.physorg.com/news161951283.html Medicine & Health Tue, 19 May 2009 11:40:55 EST news161951283 Promoting the health of young children, before five years of age, could save society up to $65 billion in future health care costs, according to an examination of childhood health conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The results are published in the May 15, 2009, issue of Academic Pediatrics. http://www.physorg.com/news161607693.html Medicine & Health Fri, 15 May 2009 12:02:01 EST news161607693 Two decades ago a renowned statistician described a computer data set of 1 billion bytes as "huge" and 10 trillion bytes as "ridiculous." http://www.physorg.com/news161534202.html Technology Thu, 14 May 2009 15:37:47 EST news161534202 In a review of more than 2,000 patients coded for Barrett's esophagus, electronic diagnosis overestimated the prevalence of the disease according to researchers in California. They found that only 61.9 percent of patients assigned a billing diagnosis code for Barrett's esophagus actually had Barrett's esophagus after a manual record review. The study evaluated the accuracy of diagnostic codes for Barrett's esophagus by contrasting codes from electronic databases with diagnoses from a detailed medical record review. Researchers also evaluated the reproducibility of a pathologic diagnosis of Barrett's esophagus between two pathologists and between a single pathologist on two different occasions. The study appears in the May issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE). http://www.physorg.com/news161530388.html Medicine & Health Thu, 14 May 2009 14:34:04 EST news161530388 (AP) -- Google Inc. is about to add more features to its already dominant Internet search engine - and some of the changes could give Web surfers less reason to click through to other sites. That scenario might upset the creators of the material highlighted in Google's results. http://www.physorg.com/news161364058.html Technology Wed, 13 May 2009 05:00:08 EST news161364058 (AP) -- Britain said Thursday it will set up a system to remove details about the DNA of innocent people from its nationwide registry of genetic information - but it could take up to 12 years for some of that information to be erased. http://www.physorg.com/news160894054.html Other Sciences Thu, 07 May 2009 05:48:02 EST news160894054