News tagged with channel


Future for Internet retailers: Compete on niche products advises management insights study

Other Sciences / Economics

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

In their competition with brick-and-mortar stores, online retailers will do best if they promote the ability to search out and obtain niche products online, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue ...


Broadcast pioneer NBC prepares for cable takeover (AP)

Broadcast pioneer NBC prepares for cable takeover

Technology / Telecom

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

(AP) -- Eight decades after pioneering the concept of broadcasting, NBC is on the verge of a startling move that illustrates broadcast television's decline.


US telecom firm Verizon launched a high-definition movie channel, EPIX, on Friday, letting subscribers watch films

Verizon launches TV-online movie channel

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

US telecom firm Verizon launched a high-definition movie channel on Friday, letting subscribers watch films on-demand on televisions or on the Internet.


Channels from Hale Crater

Channels from Mars Hale Crater

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows channels to the southeast of Hale crater on southern Mars. Taken by the orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) ...


Epilepsy drugs could treat Alzheimer's and Parkinson's

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers in the USA have discovered a potential new function for anti-epileptic drugs in treating neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. The study, published in BioMed Central's open access ...


Protein critical for insulin secretion may be contributor to diabetes

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A cellular protein from a family involved in several human diseases is crucial for the proper production and release of insulin, new research has found, suggesting that the protein might play a role in diabetes.


Novel findings shed light on how N-type channel function is modified by lipids

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The November 2009 issue of the Journal of General Physiology (JGP) contains two papers by the Rittenhouse laboratory that describe novel findings on how N-type voltage-gated calcium channel (VGCC) function is modified by lip ...


Researchers reveal mechanism for neuron self-preservation

Researchers reveal mechanism for neuron self-preservation

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tsuruta et al. find that a lipid kinase directs a voltage-gated calcium channel's degradation to save neurons from a lethal dose of overexcitement. The study appears in the October 19, 2009 issue of the Journal of ...


The British independent network Channel 4 will broadcast shows on Youtube

British TV channel says to broadcast on YouTube

Technology / Internet

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

British independent television network Channel 4 on Thursday announced a "pioneering" deal to broadcast its shows on YouTube after first being viewed on TV.


Chemistry Team Seeks to Use Artificial Photosynthesis and Nanotubes to Generate Hydrogen Fuel with Sunlight

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of four chemists at the University of Rochester have begun work on a new kind of system to derive usable hydrogen fuel from water using only sunlight.


Scientists find 'molecular trigger' for sudden death in epilepsy

Medicine & Health / Research

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

The most common gene for a syndrome associated with abnormal heart rhythms and sudden death triggers epileptic seizures and could explain sudden unexplained death in epilepsy, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine ...


Vietnam lauched its first 3G service

State-owned firm says Vietnam's first 3G service launched

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

State-owned mobile network operator Vinaphone said Tuesday it has begun offering Vietnam's first 3G service, bringing "a revolution" to the country's mobile system.


Video camera that records at the speed of thought

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers who created an ultra-fast, extremely high-resolution video camera have enabled dozens of medical applications, including one scenario that can record 'thought' processes travelling along ...


Lava flows in Daedalia Planum

Lava flows in Daedalia Planum

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars Express imaged Daedalia Planum, a sparsely cratered, untextured plain on the Red Planet featuring solidified lava flows of varying ages.


Vonage releases calling app for iPhone, BlackBerry

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Vonage Holdings Corp., a pioneer in Internet-based home phone service, is launching applications for the iPhone and BlackBerry that undercut the international calling rates of major wireless carriers.