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Apple's iPhone

Modified iPhones Are Compromised By New Worm

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Several research security firms have reported a new worm attack against jail broken iPhones, dubbed "Ikee.B or "Duh", this worm searches for personal and banking information.


Protecting the future: How plant stem cells guard against genetic damage

Protecting the future: How plant stem cells guard against genetic damage

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

Scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK, have shown how plants can protect themselves against genetic damage caused by environmental stresses. The growing tips of plant roots and shoots have an ...


Samsung to pay Qualcomm 1.3 bln dlrs in new licensing deal

Technology / Business

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Thursday it will pay 1.3 billion dollars plus royalties to US wireless chip supplier Qualcomm under a new 15-year licensing deal.


Flemish researchers develop revolutionary technology for use in plant breeding

Biology / Biotechnology

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

In collaboration with researchers at VIB-UGent and the University of Antwerp (Belgium), scientists at the BioScience business group of Bayer CropScience AG in Gent have developed a technology that can significantly increase ...


Software That's Resilient Against Hacker Attack

Software That's Resilient Against Hacker Attack

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 7 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers headed by Martin Rinard, a professor of computer science at MIT, have developed new software that automatically patches errors in deployed software in a matter of minutes.


Travel book goes mobile with scannable QR code (AP)

Travel book goes mobile with scannable QR code

Technology / Hi Tech

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Many travelers still rely on comprehensive printed guidebooks for tourism information. But travelers are also increasingly using mobile technology to plan a trip or find their way around.


White House opens Web site programming to public

Technology / Internet

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 5

(AP) -- A programming overhaul of the White House's Web site has set the tech world abuzz. For low-techies, it's a snooze - you won't notice a thing.


Parallel course

Parallel course: Researchers help ease transition to parallel programming

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1995, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about 100 megahertz. Seven years later, in 2002, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about three gigahertz -- a 30-fold increase. And ...


Psychology Researchers Recommend Ethical Ban on Torture by Psychologists

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Arkansas psychology professor Jeffrey Lohr and colleague David Tolin have documented the history and criticisms of the ethics policy of the American Psychological Association and recommended ...


Securing the web

Securing the web: New tool would automatically plug holes that hackers exploit

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- More and more, malicious hackers are exploiting web site security holes to attack their victims' computers. Programmers try to identify those holes in advance and plug them with code that ...


Jumping genes, gene loss and genome dark matter

Jumping genes, gene loss and genome dark matter

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

In research published today by Nature, an international team describes the finest map of changes to the structure of human genomes and a resource they have developed for researchers worldwide to look at the ...


Genome-wide study of autism published in Nature

Genome-wide study of autism published in Nature

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In one of the first studies of its kind, an international team of researchers has uncovered a single-letter change in the genetic code that is associated with autism. The finding, published ...


Researcher solves mystery about proteins that package the genome

Researcher solves mystery about proteins that package the genome

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Florida State University College of Medicine researcher has solved a century-old mystery about proteins that play a vital role in the transfer of the human genetic code from one cell to ...


Novel polymer delivers genetic medicine, allows tracking

Novel polymer delivers genetic medicine, allows tracking

Chemistry / Polymers

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Theresa M. Reineke, associate professor of chemistry in the College of Science, and colleagues in her lab at Virginia Tech and at the University of Cincinnati have developed a new molecule that can travel ...


Good hackers meet to seek ways to stop the bad hackers

Technology / Internet

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The world of hackers is kind of like the "Star Wars" universe: There's a light side and a dark side of cracking computers.