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Bing has gained search market share

Bing gains search market share, nears 10 percent

Technology / Internet

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Microsoft's new Internet search engine Bing increased its share of the US search market in October, edging up half-a-point to nearly 10 percent, online tracking firm comScore said Tuesday.


Pandemic flu vaccine campaigns may be undermined by coincidental medical events

Medicine & Health / Health

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

The effectiveness of pandemic flu vaccination campaigns - like that now underway for H1N1 - could be undermined by the public incorrectly associating coincidental and unrelated health events with the vaccines.





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Bush rats fight back

Bush rats fight back

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sydney's native bush rats were unintended victims of a campaign to exterminate foreign black rats during a plague epidemic in 1900, according to new research by scientists who plan to reintroduce ...


Plague on their house, but bush rats fight back

Plague on their house, but bush rats fight back

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sydney's native bush rats were unintended victims of a campaign to exterminate foreign black rats during a plague epidemic in 1900, according to new research by scientists who plan to reintroduce ...


Drug ads ineffective for boosting sales, could cost taxpayers: study

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US Taxpayers may be on the hook for the high cost of drug advertising that does little to boost sales, according to a new study led by a University of British Columbia health policy researcher.


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.


Prioritizing low-cost, simple health measures would save 2.5 million child lives a year

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Almost a third of the children under age five who die each year could be saved if governments rebalance health spending to ensure low-cost, simple interventions such as safe water and hygiene, bed nets and basic maternal ...


CDC: Swine flu vaccine safe; no big problems seen

Medicine & Health / Medications

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

(AP) -- U.S. health officials say there's no evidence that the swine flu vaccine is causing any serious side effects.


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Twitter to overhaul user list seen as partisan

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Social-networking site Twitter plans to end a service that links prominent message posters with new users, a service that was criticized in California because of perceived unfairness toward GOP gubernatorial ...


Internet activists push for greater democracy

Technology / Internet

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

(AP) -- The Internet can be a powerful medium for politicians to get their message across but it is also a vital means for civilians to have a say in what politicians do, participants in a political conference say.


Ginzburg helped develop the Soviet Union's hydrogen bomb in the late 1940s and early 1950s

Russian bomb physicist Ginzburg dead at 93

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Nobel Physics prize winner Vitaly Ginzburg, who helped develop the Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died at age 93, the Russian Academy of Sciences said Monday.


Survey: Awareness of COPD is rising, but understanding is still low

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Awareness of COPD—chronic obstructive pulmonary disease—continues to grow in the United States, according to national survey results released today by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National ...



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