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. Nokia today announced that the highly anticipated Nokia N900 is now on sale in the United States and shipping to consumers who jumped on the opportunity to be among the first to pre-order the Maemo-powered mobile computer. With the Linux-based Maemo platform and with multiple ways to connect to the Internet, the Nokia N900 enables users to be online as it happens with a powerful computer in the palm of their hands. http://www.physorg.com/news177778483.html Electronics Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:20:02 EST news177778483 Samsung Electronics today announced it will launch its own open mobile platform, Samsung Bada [bada] in December. This new addition to Samsung`s mobile ecosystem enables developers to create applications for thousands of new Samsung mobile phones, and consumers to enjoy a fun and diverse mobile experience. http://www.physorg.com/news177275020.html Technology Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:10:02 EST news177275020 (PhysOrg.com) -- Into its second week in orbit, Proba-2's spacecraft platform has proven to be in excellent health. This leaves the way clear for commissioning the many new technology payloads aboard the mini-satellite, among the smallest ever flown by ESA. http://www.physorg.com/news177179866.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:50:01 EST news177179866 Before buying one of the new Google-powered "Droid" phones from Verizon Wireless, you may want to read the manual. Not the setup directions in the box. http://www.physorg.com/news177157967.html Technology Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:10:01 EST news177157967 (PhysOrg.com) -- The research, led by Wolfgang Fink, will aid both people with visual impairments and scientists involved in planetary exploration. http://www.physorg.com/news177152124.html Electronics Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:10:02 EST news177152124 (PhysOrg.com) -- Sharing small snippets of information about your daily life is a key feature of the online social networking revolution. Soon status updates and other social information could be generated automatically. http://www.physorg.com/news176578652.html Technology Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:50:02 EST news176578652 PayPal has opened its software platform to outside developers in a move designed to unleash a flood of creative uses for the online financial transaction service. http://www.physorg.com/news176534752.html Technology Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:50:01 EST news176534752 The rise of social media and real-time advocacy have re-written the community outreach rules companies followed for decades. But many American firms are dragging their feet as they approach "Community Relations 2.0," Boston College researchers report in the November issue of Harvard Business Review. http://www.physorg.com/news176134549.html Other Sciences Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:16:37 EST news176134549 (PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created the first integrated semantic search platform that integrates text, video and audio. The system can 'watch' films, 'listen' to audio and 'read' text to find relevant responses to semantic search terms. At last, computers are able to look for meaning in our multimedia searches. http://www.physorg.com/news176106806.html Technology Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:50:02 EST news176106806 Mobile phones are on the verge of becoming powerful tools to collect data on many issues, ranging from global health to the environment. http://www.physorg.com/news176044262.html Technology Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:40:03 EST news176044262 (AP) -- PlayStation 3 owners will soon be able to stream movies and TV shows from Netflix to their TVs using the gaming console, just as Xbox 360 owners have been able to do for a year. http://www.physorg.com/news175758261.html Electronics Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:45:31 EST news175758261 PayPal plans to throw open the doors of its software platform to enable outside developers to build innovative tools using the online financial transaction service. http://www.physorg.com/news175331007.html Technology Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:20:01 EST news175331007 Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a remote-controlled robot that is able to simulate the "visual" experience of a blind person who has been implanted with a visual prosthesis, such as an artificial retina. An artificial retina consists of a silicon chip studded with a varying number of electrodes that directly stimulate retinal nerve cells. It is hoped that this approach may one day give blind persons the freedom of independent mobility. http://www.physorg.com/news175183657.html Technology Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:08:24 EST news175183657 Rogue waves -- giant waves that spring up suddenly and tower over the seas around them -have inspired physicists to look for an analogue in light. These high-intensity pulses can cross large distances without losing information. Now a team of physicists have identified one set of conditions that produces optical rogue waves. Their findings are reported in Physical Review A and highlighted with in the October 19 issue of Physics. http://www.physorg.com/news175172691.html Physics Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:05:41 EST news175172691 The Emotions Jacket is a research platform that uses the sense of touch to take the cinematic experience to new levels, allowing viewers to experience the intense emotions felt by characters on-screen. While other viewing enhancement techniques focus primarily on audio and visual aspects, the Emotions Jacket instead stimulates the biggest, our heaviest and most sensitive sense; the human skin. This exploration is part of Philips` wider ‘sensory experiences` program. http://www.physorg.com/news174761284.html Technology Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:00:21 EST news174761284 US technology firm Mindjet has unleashed a Catalyst technology platform that "attacks a major problem" in business by helping turn online brainstorming sessions into real-world results. http://www.physorg.com/news174224304.html Technology Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:50:02 EST news174224304 Without advertisements or subscription fees, the micro-blogging service Twitter has had many wondering how the site makes money. http://www.physorg.com/news174157651.html Technology Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:00:01 EST news174157651 ASUS today unveiled the first motherboard in its newly-developed "TUF" (The Ultimate Force) Series, the SABERTOOTH 55i. http://www.physorg.com/news173430426.html Electronics Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:10:02 EST news173430426 (PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers are creating new technology that could, ultimately, make accessible the sum of humankind's knowledge. Hundreds of organisations and millions of documents are already linked to this "United Nations of knowledge". http://www.physorg.com/news173103456.html Technology Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:19:36 EST news173103456 To encourage the creation of innovative applications for Intel Atom processor-based products, Intel Corporation today launched the Intel Atom Developer Program for independent software vendors (ISVs) and developers. http://www.physorg.com/news172853053.html Technology Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:50:01 EST news172853053 (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 IBM today announced the industry's highest performance, highest throughput processor for system-on-chip (SoC) product families in the communication, storage, consumer, and aerospace and defense markets. http://www.physorg.com/news172243811.html Electronics Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:34:06 EST news172243811 Motorola today revealed its next generation encoding platform. This high-performance video processing platform supports both MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) encoding and transcoding and has been designed to meet future processing demands of both 1080P/50Hz and 1080P/60Hz resolutions using the MPEG-4 format. http://www.physorg.com/news171873804.html Technology Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:00:02 EST news171873804 Internet giant Google is developing a payment platform for newspapers that would allow them to charge for content online, according to a report on Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news171743236.html Technology Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:27:50 EST news171743236 (PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford photo scientists are out to reinvent digital photography with the introduction of an "open-source" digital camera, which will give programmers around the world the chance to create software that will teach cameras new tricks. http://www.physorg.com/news171209557.html Technology Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:13:07 EST news171209557 (PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a platform for trading computing resources that allows the selling and buying of standardised computing resources. In the process, they could make computing a utility like electricity. http://www.physorg.com/news170346655.html Technology Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:32:21 EST news170346655 (AP) -- Google Inc. says it plans to acquire On2 Technologies Inc., a provider of digital video compression technology, in an all-stock deal valued at $106.5 million. http://www.physorg.com/news168693094.html Technology Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:12:10 EST news168693094 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new open source, Web 2.0-inspired solution for building and managing business relationships online promises to level the playing field for small- and medium-sized enterprises. http://www.physorg.com/news168258378.html Technology Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:50:01 EST news168258378 (PhysOrg.com) -- Google has just announced it will be opening its public beta release of Google Wave Service on September 30. Google Wave is a real-time communication platform that combines aspects of email, web chat, IM, wikis, social networking, and project management into a single browser communication client. http://www.physorg.com/news167554353.html Technology Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:30:01 EST news167554353 Forty miles off the Jersey Shore, an international team of scientists is grappling with a worrisome phenomenon: The oceans are slowly rising. The researchers are not studying the sea itself. Living for weeks at a time on this drilling platform, they are burrowing down into the past, pulling up cores of prehistoric sediment from nearly half a mile below the ocean floor. http://www.physorg.com/news167211051.html Space & Earth Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:31:32 EST news167211051