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Gmail tool catches misdirected messages

Gmail tool catches misdirected messages

Technology / Internet

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Google on Tuesday added an embarrassment-avoidance tool that catches misdirected Gmail messages before they are fired off by users of the free Web-based email service.


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Twitter partners with Indian firm for SMS tweets

Technology / Internet

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Twitter announced a deal with India's top mobile company Bharti Airtel on Wednesday that will allow users of the hot micro-blogging service to send "tweets" at standard SMS message rates and receive them for ...


The number of text messages that a mobile user in S.Korea can send out a day has been restricted to 500, down from 1,000

S.Korea halves ceiling on text messages to fight spam

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

South Korean authorities on Wednesday halved the daily limit on text messages sent out by mobile phones as part of a campaign against spam, officials said.


Comcast tries pop-up alerts to warn of infections

Technology / Internet

created Oct 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Comcast Corp. wants to enlist its customers in a fight against a huge problem for Internet providers - the armies of infected personal computers, known as "botnets," that suck up bandwidth by sending spam and facilitating ...


Next: the pill bottle cap with a cell phone

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- IPhones aren't the only cutting-edge devices on AT&T Inc.'s wireless network. A startup is set to announce that it's making pill-bottle caps that use Ma Bell's network to remind you to take your medicine.


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Poked: The difference between Facebook's News Feed and Live Feed

Technology / Internet

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First off, I'd like to thank Facebook for confusing its users yet again with a new feature that is hard to decipher and makes users grumpy. It really makes my job of picking a column topic so easy when they ...


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Scientists give flies false memories

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 9

By directly manipulating the activity of individual neurons, scientists have given flies memories of a bad experience they never really had, according to a report in the October 16th issue of the journal Cell.


Japan's H-2B rocket carrying the unmanned HTV transportation vehicle launches

Japan sends first cargo spacecraft to ISS

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Japan on Friday launched its first unmanned cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station, aiming for a share of space transport after the retirement of the US space shuttle fleet next year.


Neurons found to be similar to Electoral College

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A tiny neuron is a very complicated structure. Its complex network of dendrites, axons and synapses is constantly dealing with information, deciding whether or not to send a nerve impulse, to drive a certain action.


Interoperability overdue for instant messaging

Technology / Software

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 2

You would think it was crazy if your cell phone could call only people with phones on the same network. But we put up with that absurd situation when it comes to instant messaging -- and have for years. Worse, there's little ...


Tagged.com settles with NY, Texas in invite fight

Technology / Business

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

(AP) -- The social networking site Tagged.com has adopted reforms on the use of invitation e-mails after an attorney general alleged that the Web site essentially stole the identities of some 60 million Internet users.


Rain, wind keep space shuttle flying extra day (AP)

Bad weather further stalls shuttle landing

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Bad weather in Florida has stalled space shuttle Discovery's landing once more.


Wireless Internet will become gradually available on all Lufthansa's long-haul flights

Lufthansa, Panasonic deal for in-flight Internet

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

German flag carrier Lufthansa and Japanese electronics giant Panasonic have teamed up to offer passengers wireless Internet on long-haul flights from 2010, the airline said on Monday.


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Water Bears to Travel to Martian Moon, Test Theory of Transpermia

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 22

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny microscopic creatures commonly known as water bears (also called Tardigrades), along with a few other life forms, will be sent to the Martian moon Phobos to test whether organisms can ...


Experts: Man controlled robotic hand with thoughts (AP)

Scientists: Man controlled robotic hand with thoughts

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 2

(AP) -- A group of European scientists said Wednesday they have successfully connected a robotic hand to an amputee, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts.