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Google.org on Wednesday began using flu-related Internet search traffic in Mexico to create an online map that might provide clues to how influenza is spreading in that country. http://www.physorg.com/news160239104.html Technology Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:52:06 EST news160239104 (AP) -- First-quarter earnings at Qwest Communications International Inc. rose 37 percent, as the phone company was helped by cost-cutting and strong results from its business services unit. http://www.physorg.com/news160218703.html Technology Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:12:13 EST news160218703 Researchers from City University London have found that at least 75 percent of revenue can be lost and web traffic can actually fall when a newspaper moves from print and web to web-only. http://www.physorg.com/news160072337.html Other Sciences Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:32:38 EST news160072337 (AP) -- The British government said Monday it wants communications companies to keep records of every phone call, e-mail and Web site visit made in the country. But it has decided not to set up a national database of the information, a proposal that had been condemned as a "Big Brother"-style invasion of privacy by civil liberties groups. http://www.physorg.com/news160054173.html Technology Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:30:26 EST news160054173 The social networking site Twitter is closing in on one week A.O. -- After Oprah -- and, as expected, the media mogul has inspired a horde of new users to sign up. http://www.physorg.com/news159706957.html Technology Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:02:58 EST news159706957 In London, motorists pay a fee to drive into certain parts of the city during peak traffic hours, and the idea has been considered for implementation in New York as well. Now Dr. Itai Ater, an economist from Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Management, is suggesting that introducing "congestion pricing" at airports could save travellers time and airlines money. http://www.physorg.com/news159630364.html Other Sciences Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:46:32 EST news159630364 (PhysOrg.com) -- Technology is struggling to meet demands for high-performance, specialised computing systems. A European consortium is responding with a new kind of reconfigurable chip that is both efficient and flexible. http://www.physorg.com/news159548117.html Technology Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:55:48 EST news159548117 Computer spies have hacked into the Pentagon's most costly weapons program, a US newspaper reported Tuesday, raising the prospect of adversaries gaining access to top-secret security data. http://www.physorg.com/news159521246.html Technology Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:28:00 EST news159521246 Bowing to mounting public and political pressure, Time Warner Cable Inc. said Thursday it was shelving plans in four markets to charge customers based on how much Internet traffic they generate. But tests of metered billing will continue in Beaumont, Texas. http://www.physorg.com/news159119157.html Technology Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:46:15 EST news159119157 (AP) -- The U.S. government has dropped - for now - a plan to classify the use of "proxy" servers as evidence of sophistication in committing a crime. http://www.physorg.com/news159039299.html Technology Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:35:15 EST news159039299 (AP) -- Time Warner Cable Inc. is testing a new way of charging for Internet use - by the amount of traffic rather than solely based on download speed. http://www.physorg.com/news159039174.html Technology Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:33:33 EST news159039174 (AP) -- "Proxy" servers are an everyday part of Internet surfing. But using one in a crime could soon lead to more time in the clink. http://www.physorg.com/news158936745.html Technology Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:06:14 EST news158936745 (AP) -- The European Union started legal action against Britain on Tuesday for not applying EU data privacy rules that would restrict an Internet advertising tracker called Phorm from watching how users surf the Web. http://www.physorg.com/news158927479.html Technology Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:32:03 EST news158927479 (AP) -- When Milwaukee police wanted to get word of a murder out quickly, they did it in 113 characters on Twitter. http://www.physorg.com/news158856809.html Technology Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:54:08 EST news158856809 Kansas gravel roads have varying speed limits, but a study by Kansas State University researchers shows that instead of abiding by those limits, people are more likely to use their own judgment to gauge how fast they should drive on the roads. http://www.physorg.com/news158582974.html Other Sciences Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:50:14 EST news158582974 State laws that prohibit people under the age of 21 from purchasing or possessing alcohol, and from driving with any alcohol in their system save 732 lives a year in the United States, according to a study released today that has examined 23 years of research on the subject. The study further shows that if every state adopted 'use and lose' laws -suspending the license of anyone under 21 cited for possession, consumption or attempt to purchase alcohol -an additional 165 lives would be saved. http://www.physorg.com/news158345777.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:56:37 EST news158345777 (AP) -- Internet traffic dropped sharply in Sweden this week after a new law cracking down on online copyright violation went into force, experts said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news157978532.html Technology Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:56:01 EST news157978532 Two US senators introduced legislation on Wednesday aimed at creating a powerful national cybersecurity advisor who would report directly to the president. http://www.physorg.com/news157833561.html Technology Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:39:40 EST news157833561 Computer security top guns around the world watched warily as the dreaded Conficker worm squirmed deeper into infected machines with the arrival of an April 1st trigger date. http://www.physorg.com/news157783544.html Technology Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:46:21 EST news157783544 (PhysOrg.com) -- As highway traffic increases, you'd probably expect a traffic jam, where vehicles slow down due to the high density. While traffic jams are a common occurrence on our highways, high density traffic has completely different effects for ants traveling on trails. As a new study has found, ants don't have traffic jams. Rather, as ant traffic density increases, the traffic maintains the same average velocity as at low densities. http://www.physorg.com/news157627187.html Biology Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:20:19 EST news157627187 What possible connection could there be between an eighteenth century British Presbyterian minister and preventing road traffic accidents in Hartford, Connecticut. Everything, according to a report in the International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications. http://www.physorg.com/news157369297.html Other Sciences Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:42:10 EST news157369297 The risk of being involved in a traffic accident with personal injury is significantly higher among codeine users than non-users. However, sporadic or moderate use of codeine alone does not carry an increased risk, according to a newly published study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. http://www.physorg.com/news157128071.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:47:42 EST news157128071 People who were aggressive as children and young adults are likely to continue that behavior later in adult life and wind up with marital problems, traffic violations and even arrests, a new study shows. http://www.physorg.com/news156445160.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:07:26 EST news156445160 (AP) -- When the Seattle Post-Intelligencer transforms into an Internet-only operation Wednesday, it will try to do something it failed to accomplish for years as a traditional newspaper: make money. http://www.physorg.com/news156442164.html Technology Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:09:56 EST news156442164 (AP) -- Minutes after Neel Manglik illegally turned right on a red light in the Des Moines suburb of Clive, a video popped up on a computer at an office park outside Scottsdale, Ariz. http://www.physorg.com/news156180514.html Technology Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:29:05 EST news156180514 People who have had a heart attack are likely to report having been in traffic shortly before their symptoms began, researchers reported at the American Heart Association's 49th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention. http://www.physorg.com/news156180373.html Medicine & Health Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:26:26 EST news156180373 (AP) -- IBM Corp. wants to get really deep into water. http://www.physorg.com/news156162822.html Technology Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:34:45 EST news156162822 A new Rice University report released yesterday, exactly six months after Hurricane Ike slammed the Texas Gulf Coast, suggests that people did not practice the lessons learned from Hurricane Rita. http://www.physorg.com/news156159526.html Other Sciences Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:43:40 EST news156159526 A new study from North Carolina State University shows that painted road markings, such as the lines separating traffic lanes, are significantly better at reflecting headlights in the direction that the paint was applied. This finding will help determine how states comply with new federal safety regulations and save money on painting their roadways. http://www.physorg.com/news155908465.html Other Sciences Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:55:09 EST news155908465 In a study that challenges the mandatory retirement of air traffic controllers at the age of 56 in the U.S., researchers have found that air traffic controllers up to age 64 perform as well as their young colleagues on complex, job-related tasks. http://www.physorg.com/news155810737.html Medicine & Health Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:46:17 EST news155810737