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(AP) -- For the second time in a little more than a year, a glitch at one of the two centers that handle flight plans for the nation's air travel system set off delays and cancellations for passengers around the country. http://www.physorg.com/news177854091.html Technology - Other Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:10:01 EST news177854091 (AP) -- Rogue employees at a major mobile phone company illegally sold millions of customer records to rival firms, Britain's information watchdog said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news177686561.html Technology - Other Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:23:43 EST news177686561 (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. co-founder and billionaire investor Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy. http://www.physorg.com/news177656394.html Technology - Other Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:04:46 EST news177656394 Billed as Europe's first "personalised paper", "niiu", a newspaper tailored to readers' individual wishes and delivered to their door before 08:00 am, made its first appearance in Berlin on Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news177604238.html Technology - Other Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:40:07 EST news177604238 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 - Other Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:10:01 EST news177157967 Carbon is usually typecast as a villain in terms of the environment but researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a novel way to miniaturise a technology that will make carbon a key material in some extremely green heating products for our homes and in air conditioning equipment for our cars. http://www.physorg.com/news177076423.html Technology - Other Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:10:02 EST news177076423 A team of Catalan researchers has developed a protocol to distort the user profile generated by Internet search engines, in such a way that they cannot save the searches undertaken by Internet users and thus preserve their privacy. The study has been published in the Computer Communications magazine. http://www.physorg.com/news176637348.html Technology - Other Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:50:01 EST news176637348 (AP) -- Lawmakers are moving to ban the use of computer laptops and other personal electronic devices in airline cockpits to prevent another incident like the Northwest Airlines plane that overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles. http://www.physorg.com/news176464605.html Technology - Other Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:57:19 EST news176464605 (AP) -- Two sophomore girls have sued their school district after they were punished for posting sexually suggestive photos on MySpace during their summer vacation. http://www.physorg.com/news176309192.html Technology - Other Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:00:03 EST news176309192 Two distracted US pilots were using laptop computers against company rules last week when they overshot their destination by some 150 miles (240 kilometers), federal investigators said. http://www.physorg.com/news175842300.html Technology - Other Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:10:01 EST news175842300 Ironically, it was located in one of the least-accessible areas of the Games for Health conference held a few months ago in Boston. Up a set of stairs and around a corner from the large conference halls and breakout rooms was the AbleGamers Accessibility Arcade. http://www.physorg.com/news175419560.html Technology - Other Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:40:58 EST news175419560 (AP) -- Two men accused of stealing computer chip blueprints - and trying to tap the Chinese government to help launch a startup built on the contraband - are becoming the first defendants charged with economic espionage to have their case heard by a jury. http://www.physorg.com/news175349977.html Technology - Other Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:10:01 EST news175349977 About a hundred houses float on a lake in the Amsterdam neighbourhood of Ijburg --a testament to how the Dutch are trying to turn their traditional enemy, water, into an ally against overcrowding. http://www.physorg.com/news175082967.html Technology - Other Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:14:09 EST news175082967 A Briton accused of hacking into US military and NASA space agency computers was on Saturday given more time to fight his extradition to the United States, officials and lawyers said. http://www.physorg.com/news175016908.html Technology - Other Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:49:06 EST news175016908 (AP) -- New York state wants to crack down on truckers who rely on satellite devices to direct them onto faster but prohibited routes and end up crashing into overpasses that are too low for their rigs. http://www.physorg.com/news174763350.html Technology - Other Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:50:01 EST news174763350 Two young German entrepreneurs presented what they described as a Europe-wide first on Tuesday: a newspaper tailored to readers' individual wishes and delivered to their door before 8:00 am. http://www.physorg.com/news174661210.html Technology - Other Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:00:06 EST news174661210 Two decades ago, studies showed that computer users were violating best practices for setting up hack-proof passwords, and not much has changed since then. What's clear, say researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and IT University in Copenhagen, is that until human factors/ergonomics methods are applied to the problem, it isn't likely to go away. They will present the results of their CIS study at the upcoming HFES 53rd Annual Meeting at the Grand Hyatt San Antonio in San Antonio, Texas on October 19. http://www.physorg.com/news174644203.html Technology - Other Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:25:31 EST news174644203 Who needs foreplay when you have a cell phone? http://www.physorg.com/news174593831.html Technology - Other Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:20:46 EST news174593831 (PhysOrg.com) -- How dependent have we become on mobile phones, and are social networking sites changing the nature of our relationships with other people? A three-year Oxford University study is to address these issues. http://www.physorg.com/news174222554.html Technology - Other Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:30:01 EST news174222554 Just in time for October's Cyber Security Awareness Month, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a guide to help small businesses and organizations understand how to provide basic security for their information, systems and networks. NIST has also created a video that explores the reasons small businesses need to secure their data (at right). http://www.physorg.com/news174077122.html Technology - Other Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:00:03 EST news174077122 (AP) -- Holly Kopczynski always prided herself on raising her kids the right way, teaching them etiquette basics like saying "please" and "thank you." Then it happened. http://www.physorg.com/news173620820.html Technology - Other Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:00:48 EST news173620820 (AP) -- Frustrated by inaction in Congress, a growing number of states are trying to reduce the rising tide of junked TVs, computers and other electronics that have become one of the nation's fastest-growing waste streams. http://www.physorg.com/news173615983.html Technology - Other Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:50:01 EST news173615983 (AP) -- You almost have to feel bad for Microsoft. The software maker isn't known for hip marketing tactics, and now that a Windows 7 video has hit it big online, people are laughing at the company, not with it. http://www.physorg.com/news173593228.html Technology - Other Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:00:04 EST news173593228 (AP) -- Targeting text messaging behind the wheel, the Obama administration plans to offer recommendations to address the growing traffic safety risk of distracted driving and the use of mobile devices by multitasking drivers. http://www.physorg.com/news173593654.html Technology - Other Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:28:19 EST news173593654 (AP) -- In television's latest quest to discourage viewers from skipping ads, actors from NBC and ABC shows are appearing in character in commercials to interact with products in parallel story lines. http://www.physorg.com/news173532302.html Technology - Other Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:00:11 EST news173532302 (AP) -- Driving while distracted is a growing peril in a nation reluctant to put down its cell phones and handheld devices even behind the wheel, the Obama administration declared on Wednesday. Officials said Congress and the public must team up to reduce the danger. http://www.physorg.com/news173526983.html Technology - Other Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:10:02 EST news173526983 Nokia, Samsung Electronics, Silicon Image, Sony and Toshiba today announced the formation of a Mobile High-Definition Interface Working Group that intends to create an industry standard for an audio/video interface to connect mobile phones or portable consumer electronics (CE) devices directly to high-definition televisions (HDTVs) and displays. http://www.physorg.com/news173456327.html Technology - Other Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:19:18 EST news173456327 More than 300 trained maritime law enforcement and first responder personnel from federal, state, local and tribal agencies participated in an operational maritime exercise in Puget Sound this week. Maritime law enforcement and first responders conducted non-intrusive small vessel radiological screenings at three Puget Sound security zones located at Admiralty Inlet, Bellingham Bay and North Skagit Bay. http://www.physorg.com/news173354722.html Technology - Other Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:20:05 EST news173354722 (PhysOrg.com) -- A law has been proposed in France that would see digitally enhanced images carry a warning to viewers that the image has been retouched to change the physical appearance of a person. The proposed statement may eventually apply to political campaigns, billboards, photos on packaging, art photos, and press photographs as well as advertisements in magazines and newspapers. http://www.physorg.com/news173345743.html Technology - Other Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:36:25 EST news173345743 (PhysOrg.com) -- Identity theft is increasingly prevalent in today's society, yet we have repeatedly failed to develop a reliable technology of identification to prevent misuse and forgery. http://www.physorg.com/news173097052.html Technology - Other Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:40:01 EST news173097052