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Global postal services will soon have their own address on the Internet, after the web's authority for assigning domain names ICANN, said on Friday that it had approved the new address dot post (.post). http://www.physorg.com/news179751446.html Technology Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:58:18 EST news179751446 (AP) -- Egypt's technology minister says the country has applied to register an all-Arabic domain name. http://www.physorg.com/news177592819.html Technology Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:20:42 EST news177592819 The nonprofit body that oversees Internet addresses approved Friday the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not based on Latin characters in a decision that could make the Web dramatically more inclusive. http://www.physorg.com/news176099055.html Technology Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:30:01 EST news176099055 (AP) -- The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-decade history with the expected approval this week of international domain names - or addresses - that can be written in languages other than English, an official said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news175758399.html Technology Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:47:09 EST news175758399 The first fundamental studies of the dependence of ferroelectric domain configuration and switching behavior on the shape of epitaxial BiFeO3 (BFO) nanostructures has been reported by users from Northwestern University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, and Argonne`s Materials Science Division working collaboratively with CNM`s Nanofabrication & Devices Group. http://www.physorg.com/news175236233.html Nanotechnology Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:44:24 EST news175236233 (AP) -- As Internet use expands worldwide, the United States said Wednesday it will give other governments and the private sector a greater oversight role in an organization whose decisions affect how computers relay traffic such as e-mail and Twitter posts. http://www.physorg.com/news173526908.html Technology Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:55:46 EST news173526908 Changes appear to be in store this week for the low profile but powerful body that administers the Web. http://www.physorg.com/news173295776.html Technology Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:43:40 EST news173295776 (PhysOrg.com) -- In finally answering an elusive scientific question, researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown that the selective placement of strain can alter the electronic phase and its spatial arrangement in correlated electron materials. This unique class of materials is commanding much attention now because they can display properties such as colossal magnetoresistance and high-temperature superconductivity, which are highly coveted by the high-tech industry. http://www.physorg.com/news172408968.html Nanotechnology Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:24:07 EST news172408968 Scientists at Fox Chase Cancer Center have discovered a unique method of attack that may be used to inhibit signaling enzymes called kinases, which often have a role in sustaining drug-resistant cancerous cells. They have confirmed that IPA-3, a small molecular inhibitor of a kinase called PAK1, targets the enzyme's regulatory domain, mimicking how enzymes are naturally regulated within cells. http://www.physorg.com/news171609385.html Medicine & Health Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:40:01 EST news171609385 (AP) -- A northern New Jersey man is charged with stealing a prime piece of Internet real estate and reselling it to basketball player Mark Madsen in one of the nation's first prosecutions of a suspected domain name thief. http://www.physorg.com/news168526197.html Technology Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:00:03 EST news168526197 The eBook Store from Sony, together with Google, today announced it is providing access to more than 1 million free public domain books - from classics such as Robert Louis Stevenson`s Treasure Island to biographies, historical texts, romance novels and hundreds of other genres. The announcement reinforces Sony`s commitment to providing consumers with the largest, most comprehensive selection of eBooks available. http://www.physorg.com/news168099320.html Electronics Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:16:51 EST news168099320 U.S. Department of Energy laboratories fight off millions of cyber attacks every year, but a near real-time dialog between these labs about this hostile activity has never existed - until now. http://www.physorg.com/news166978396.html Technology Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:54:05 EST news166978396 (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 Computer storage giant EMC raised its offer to purchase data storage firm Data Domain on Monday in a bid to top a rival offer for the company by data management firm NetApp. http://www.physorg.com/news166100867.html Technology Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:08:26 EST news166100867 (AP) -- Television host Jay Leno has won control of a Web address using the name of his new show. http://www.physorg.com/news165752529.html Technology Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:22:33 EST news165752529 The Internet agency with key oversight of the monikers behind every Web site, e-mail address and Twitter post named former U.S. cybersecurity chief Rod Beckstrom Friday as its next chief executive. http://www.physorg.com/news165124720.html Technology Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:38:12 EST news165124720 (AP) -- NetApp Inc. has claimed victory over EMC Corp. in a bidding battle for Data Domain Inc., a company whose products help cut unnecessary data storage. http://www.physorg.com/news163313505.html Technology Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:52:20 EST news163313505 US computer storage giant EMC Corp. offered 1.8 billion dollars on Monday for Data Domain in a bid to counter a rival offer for the data storage company from NetApp. http://www.physorg.com/news163100309.html Technology Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:39:10 EST news163100309 (AP) -- Data storage company NetApp Inc. said Wednesday it agreed to buy data backup and disaster recovery systems provider Data Domain Inc. for $25 per share in cash and stock, or about $1.5 billion. http://www.physorg.com/news162108222.html Technology Thu, 21 May 2009 07:08:17 EST news162108222 In technology that promises to one day allow drug delivery to be tailored to an individual patient and a particular cancer tumor, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, have developed an efficient system for delivering siRNA into primary cells. The work will be published in the May 17 in the advance on-line edition of Nature Biotechnology. http://www.physorg.com/news161750021.html Biology Sun, 17 May 2009 03:34:29 EST news161750021 (PhysOrg.com) -- Security researchers have uncovered one of the most notorious zombie networks, the Torpig botnet, by collecting 70GB of data that was stolen in just 10 days. http://www.physorg.com/news160749834.html Technology Tue, 05 May 2009 13:44:23 EST news160749834 You turn on your computer and try to log onto your favorite sites. Nothing happens. A message at the bottom of your screen tells you your computer is trying to connect, and trying and trying. http://www.physorg.com/news159012239.html Technology Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:04:42 EST news159012239 (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 (AP) -- The White House's first chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, wants Americans to have access to more government data to drive innovation and help stimulate the economy. http://www.physorg.com/news156083642.html Technology Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:34:52 EST news156083642 A new study of proteins, the molecular machines that drive all life, also sheds light on the history of living organisms. http://www.physorg.com/news155940241.html Biology Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:44:33 EST news155940241 (PhysOrg.com) -- When a promising cancer drug reached clinical trials in the 1990s, researchers were disappointed by the debilitating side effects that limited the trials. The drug inhibited a family of enzymes known as matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). Now, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have shown that creating drugs that inactivate a different part of the MMP enzyme could have the capacity to target the tumor without the damaging side effects. Their findings, which hold promise for improved cancer therapies, were published Feb. 5 in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). http://www.physorg.com/news154118182.html Medicine & Health Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:36:57 EST news154118182 University of Massachusetts Amherst biologists have discovered a secret of how cells organize chromosomes to prepare for dividing. Their unexpected finding is reported in this week`s issue of the journal, Current Biology. http://www.physorg.com/news152807696.html Biology Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:35:32 EST news152807696 New research sheds light on a neural growth factor called proBDNF, finding that it is present and potentially active during the perinatal period when the brain's circuitry and memory-encoding regions are being refined. Led by Weill Cornell Medical College investigators with those at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), and reported in the Jan. 11 issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience, the study could lead to a better understanding of brain development and the formation of memories. http://www.physorg.com/news152803626.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:28:33 EST news152803626 The logic and memory functions of future electronic devices could shrink dramatically - to one or two nanometers (billionths of a meter) instead of the many tens of nanometers that characterize today's most advanced elements - if a way can be found to control domain walls, the ultrathin transition zones that separate regions of a material having different magnetic, electric, or other properties. http://www.physorg.com/news152470937.html Physics Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:03:17 EST news152470937 (PhysOrg.com) -- With the same type of fiber optic cables used in telecommunications systems, researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a way to detect and pinpoint the excavation of tunnels during times of war, such as those used for smuggling weapons into Gaza. The findings will be presented at the Defense, Security and Sensing Conference of SPIE (an international society advancing light-based research) in April 2009 in Orlando, Florida. http://www.physorg.com/news150998298.html Technology Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:58:18 EST news150998298