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Japan mulls high-tech economic stimulus

Technology / Business

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Japan may invest two billion dollars or more in new information and communication systems under an economic stimulus package with the aim of creating 400,000 jobs by 2011, an official said Tuesday.


National Semi CEO shifts from gadgets to megatrends

Technology / Business

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Founded in 1959, Santa Clara, Calif.-based National Semiconductor is one the oldest and best-established technology companies in Silicon Valley. But it's going through a big change under the leadership of its outspoken chairman ...





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Simplest bacteria unravelled at the cellular level

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 11 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Even the simplest cell appears to be far more complex than researchers had imagined. In a series of three articles in the journal Science, researchers including Vera van Noort at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) ...


Cockroaches offer inspiration for running robots

Cockroaches offer inspiration for running robots

Electronics / Robotics

created 11 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The sight of a cockroach scurrying for cover may be nauseating, but the insect is also a biological and engineering marvel, and is providing researchers at Oregon State University with what they call "bioinspiration" ...


New form of malaria threatens Thai-Cambodia border (AP)

New form of malaria threatens Thai-Cambodia border

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created 19 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- O'treng village doesn't look like the epicenter of anything. Just off a muddy rutted-out road, it is nothing more than a handful of Khmer-style bamboo huts perched crookedly on stilts, tucked among ...


Google sharpens aim on mobile marketing with AdMob

Technology / Internet

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

(AP) -- Four years ago, Omar Hamoui was just another ineffectual entrepreneur trying to spruce up his resume in graduate school. Now, he's poised to become Google Inc.'s newest weapon as the company aims to extend its dominance ...


High-tech vehicles pose trouble for some mechanics

Technology / Other

created Dec 27, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 5

(AP) -- A sign inside the Humming Motors auto repair shop says, "We do the worrying so you don't have to."


Apple may unveil a long-awaited portable tablet computer next month

Apple up sharply on tablet computer reports

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Apple Inc. shares hit a record high on Wall Street on Thursday following reports that the California company may unveil a long-awaited portable tablet computer next month.


Cost-cutting Yahoo to close offices for holidays

Technology / Business

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Yahoo says it will close its offices from Christmas through New Year's to help save money. The cost-cutting move ends a year in which Yahoo's revenue declined for the first time since 2001.


Foot binding and a biological approach to the study of Chinese culture

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Exaptation is a familiar concept to evolutionary biologists. It's the basic idea explaining that a trait can evolve because it starts serving a different function. Think of birds: at first, the most important ...


Temp workers not stuck in jobs and earn more than regular employees

Other Sciences / Economics

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rather than being trapped in dead-end jobs, many people hired by temporary help agencies actually earn higher hourly wages and are better educated than permanent employees, and move quickly between temporary ...


What's in health care proposals for 5 Americans (AP)

What's in health care proposals for 5 Americans

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 20, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 19

(AP) -- As Congress gets closer to a final health care bill, many Americans want to know: What's in it for me?



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