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How to encourage big ideas

How to encourage big ideas

Other Sciences / Economics

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study suggests certain types of funding -- which provide more freedom and focus less on near-term results -- lead to more innovative and influential research.


Google has began weaving an automated language translation feature into its universal search service

Google adds translation to main search engine

Technology / Internet

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Google has began weaving an automated language translation feature into its universal search service.


Suit over search-engine keywords tries new angle

Technology / Internet

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company's link over a rival's.


P2P comes to the aid of audiovisual search (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Current methods of searching audiovisual content can be a hit-and-miss affair. Manually tagging online media content is time consuming, and costly. But new 'query by example' methods, built on peer-to-peer ...


Video fingerprinting offers search solution

Video fingerprinting offers search solution

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The explosive growth of video on the internet calls for new ways of sorting and searching audiovisual content. A team of European researchers has developed a groundbreaking solution that is ...


The search -- computers dig deeper for meaning (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Search engine technology is in a state of flux as it digs ever deeper for new meaning. Europe is poised to reap the benefits of the new age of semantic search thanks to the work of European researchers.


Social media require 'Community Relations 2.0'

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Auschwitz memorial launches Facebook page

Technology / Internet

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The memorial museum at Auschwitz has launched a Facebook page, hoping that the popular social networking site will help it reach young people around the globe and engage them in discussions about the former Nazi ...


CELL REGZA 55X1

Toshiba Unveils the CELL REGZA 55X1, First LCD TV Integrating the Cell Broadband Engine

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Toshiba Corporation today unveiled the future of home entertainment, the CELL REGZA 55X1.


A number of companies complained that Google had infringed their trademark rights

EU court adviser backs Google in ads row with LMVH

Technology / Internet

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An adviser to Europe's top court on Tuesday backed US Internet giant Google in a row with French luxury product maker LMVH over online advertising.


Pediatric strokes more than twice as common as previously reported

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Imaging studies along with diagnostic codes on medical charts show that the rate of strokes in infants and children is two to four times higher than commonly thought, researchers report in Stroke: Journal of the American He ...


Web-monitoring software gathers data on kid chats (AP)

Web-monitoring software gathers data on kid chats

Technology / Software

created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Parents who install a leading brand of software to monitor their kids' online activities may be unwittingly allowing the developer to gather marketing data from children as young as 7 - and to sell ...


Blinkx at work on search engine for online video

Technology / Internet

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

If you're like me, when looking for a video online, you reflexively go to YouTube or maybe to Hulu.


Inexpensive hypertension drug could be multiple sclerosis treatment

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Turning serendipity into science, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found a link, in mice and in human brain tissue, between high blood pressure and multiple sclerosis. Their findings suggest ...


Review: Evernote tops Yahoo for online note-taking (AP)

Review: Evernote tops Yahoo for online note-taking

Technology / Internet

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Like many people, I often find myself with a dozen open browser tabs and countless bookmarks as I plan trips or comb through reviews for a new gadget.