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Internet set for change with non-English addresses (AP)

Internet set for change with non-English addresses

Technology / Internet

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 31

(AP) -- The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-decade history with the expected approval this week of international domain names - or addresses - that can be written in languages ...


Strain on nanocrystals could yield colossal results

Putting a Strain on Nanowires Could Yield Colossal Results

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In finally answering an elusive scientific question, researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown that the selective placement ...


Study of protein structures reveals key events in evolutionary history

Study of protein structures reveals key events in evolutionary history

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 1

A new study of proteins, the molecular machines that drive all life, also sheds light on the history of living organisms.


Proof of Principle for Domain-Wall Applications

Domain walls that conduct electricity

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 1

The logic and memory functions of future electronic devices could shrink dramatically - to one or two nanometers (billionths of a meter) instead of the many tens of nanometers that characterize today's most ...


In future it will be possible to write an entire website address in any of the world's language scripts

Multilingual web address system approved

Technology / Internet

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 7

The nonprofit body that oversees Internet addresses approved Friday the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not based on Latin characters in a decision that could make the Web dramatically more ...


US to share Internet review amid worldwide growth

Technology / Internet

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

(AP) -- As Internet use expands worldwide, the United States said Wednesday it will give other governments and the private sector a greater oversight role in an organization whose decisions affect how computers relay traffic ...


Changes appear to be in store this week for the low profile but powerful body that administers the Web.

Changes loom for ICANN

Technology / Internet

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

Changes appear to be in store this week for the low profile but powerful body that administers the Web.


NJ man is first to be charged with Web name theft

Technology / Internet

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A northern New Jersey man is charged with stealing a prime piece of Internet real estate and reselling it to basketball player Mark Madsen in one of the nation's first prosecutions of a suspected domain name thief.


The future of personalized cancer treatment: An entirely new direction for RNAi delivery

The future of personalized cancer treatment: An entirely new direction for RNAi delivery

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

In technology that promises to one day allow drug delivery to be tailored to an individual patient and a particular cancer tumor, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, ...


Botnets

Botnet Hijacking Steals 70GB of Data

Technology / Internet

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Security researchers have uncovered one of the most notorious zombie networks, the Torpig botnet, by collecting 70GB of data that was stolen in just 10 days.


OpenDNS service is an alternative to major Internet providers

Technology / Internet

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

You turn on your computer and try to log onto your favorite sites. Nothing happens. A message at the bottom of your screen tells you your computer is trying to connect, and trying and trying.


Sony e-book reader gets 500,000 books from Google (AP)

Sony e-book reader gets 500,000 books from Google

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(AP) -- Google Inc. is making half a million books, unprotected by copyright, available for free on Sony Corp.'s electronic book-reading device, the companies were set to announce Thursday.


Obama's CIO: Gov't data can drive innovation

Technology / Business

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

(AP) -- The White House's first chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, wants Americans to have access to more government data to drive innovation and help stimulate the economy.


Researchers Isolate Protein Domain Linked to Tumor Progression

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When a promising cancer drug reached clinical trials in the 1990s, researchers were disappointed by the debilitating side effects that limited the trials. The drug inhibited a family of enzymes known as matrix ...


New insights into growth factor's role in brain development

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research sheds light on a neural growth factor called proBDNF, finding that it is present and potentially active during the perinatal period when the brain's circuitry and memory-encoding regions are being refined. Led ...