VeriSign sells Jamba mobile to News Corp. 9 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Internet infrastructure company VeriSign announced on Tuesday it had sold its minority share in a mobile entertainment joint venture to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for 200 million dollars. | |
'Mail Goggles' might prevent e-mail regrets 9 hours ago | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Here's the scenario: It's Friday night, and what began as an innocent happy-hour margarita morphed into a few pitchers. After all, those tacos were salty. | |
Web ad sales dipped from previous quarter 9 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- U.S. Internet advertising revenue dipped slightly in the second quarter from the previous three-month period, which likely is a ripple effect from the bad economy given that prior to 2008 the market had seen several ... | |
Study provides insight on a common heart rhythm disorder 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
University of Iowa researchers and colleagues in France have identified a gene variant that causes a potentially fatal human heart rhythm disorder called sinus node disease. Also known as "sick sinus syndrome," the disease ... | |
Killing 'angry' immune cells in fat could fight diabetes 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
By killing off "angry" immune cells that take up residence in obese fat and muscle tissue, researchers have shown that they can rapidly reverse insulin resistance in obese mice. The findings reported in the October Cell ... | |
Judge orders RealNetworks to pull copying software 19 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- RealNetworks Inc. said Monday it had temporarily stopped distributing its DVD copying software, RealDVD, at a federal judge's request in a copyright case brought by Hollywood studios. | |
 Ultrananocrystalline-diamond coating improves mechanical pump seals 7 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- From petroleum to food and beverage to pharmaceuticals, most industries use mechanical pumps, and all these pumps rely on seals to reduce leaks and maintenance costs. Argonne researchers, ... | |
Hack-a-vote: Students learn how vulnerable electronic voting really is 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
This week undergraduate and graduate students in an advanced computer security course at Rice University in Houston are learning hands-on just how easy it is to wreak havoc on computer software used in today's voting machines. | |
Deadlines set for designating polar bear habitat 19 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 4
(AP) -- The federal government will designate "critical habitat" for polar bears off Alaska's coast, a decision that could add restrictions to future offshore petroleum exploration or drilling. | |
Pneumococcal vaccine associated with 50 percent lower risk of heart attacks 20 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Pneumococcal (pneumonia) vaccination was associated with a 50% lower risk of heart attacks 2 years after vaccination, suggests a large hospital-based case-control study published in CMAJ. | |
 2008 ozone hole larger than last year 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
The 2008 ozone hole – a thinning in the ozone layer over Antarctica – is larger both in size and ozone loss than 2007 but is not as large as 2006. | |
C. difficile and antibiotics not necessarily linked 20 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
The latest study by Dr. Sandra Dial from the Research Institute of the MUHC, McGill University, and Attending Staff in the Intensive Care Unit at the Jewish General Hospital, questions the assumption held by a vast majority ... | |
 Atomic-resolution views suggest function of enzyme that regulates light-detecting signals in eye 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
An atomic-resolution view of an enzyme found only in the eye has given researchers at the University of Washington (UW) clues about how this enzyme, essential to vision, is activated. The enzyme, phosphodiesterase ... | |
Future of flagship Mars mission up in the air 6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Will NASA's flagship mission to Mars fly next year? The space agency could decide as early as Friday whether to cancel, delay or proceed with plans to launch a nuclear-powered, SUV-size rover to the red planet. | |
Children's experts say doctors and parents can sort out symptoms with a checklist 20 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
A young child arrives at the emergency room after several days of abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea and is sent home with a diagnosis of viral gastritis and treatment for the symptoms. The child seems better for a while, ... | |
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