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Exploring the Stone Age pantry

Exploring the Stone Age pantry

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The consumption of wild cereals among prehistoric hunters and gatherers appears to be far more ancient than previously thought, according to a University of Calgary archaeologist who has found the oldest example ...


Review: Dazzling Palm software beats the iPhone (AP)

Review: Dazzling Palm software beats the iPhone

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (16) | comments 12

(AP) -- Move over, iPhone. You've had two years on top of the smart phone world. Now there's a touch-screen phone with better software: the Palm Pre.


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Palm's webOS hasn't gotten the attention it deserves

Technology / Software

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Lost in the recent deluge of smart-phone news -- Apple's iPhone store hitting 100,000 applications, and the launches of the new Droid phone and the BlackBerry Storm, among other things -- have been the efforts ...


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Palm faces 'make-or-break' event with launch of the Pre

Technology / Business

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Few businesses rise or fall on a single product, but Palm Inc. has essentially banked its future as a company on a small, touch-screen wireless phone set to hit the market in just two weeks.


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Palm Pre Smartphone Takes CES 2009 By Storm

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Palm prē smartphone arose out of the doldrums and took CES 2009 by storm. Palm appeared to be down for the count among the likes of Apple, Samsung and Research In Motion. Palm lured ...


New orangutan population found in Indonesia (AP)

New orangutan population found in Indonesia

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 3

(AP) -- Conservationists have discovered a new population of orangutans in a remote, mountainous corner of Indonesia - perhaps as many as 2,000 - giving a rare boost to one of the world's most critically ...


Exxon believes algae produce over 2,000 gallons of fuel per acre

Exxon to make alternative fuel from algae: report

Technology / Energy

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 9

Oil giant Exxon Mobil plans to announce a 600-million-dollar investment to produce liquid transportation fuel from algae, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.


Predators key to sustainable farming

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Barn owls have emerged as the unlikely heroes in the fight against climate change, saving Malaysian farmers more than money, UQ PhD Student Chong Leong Puan has found.


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Apple disables iTunes sync feature on Palm Pre

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(AP) -- Apple Inc. has shut down one of the most compelling features on Palm Inc.'s rival Pre smart phone, crippling the Pre's ability to act like an iPod.


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Palm Pre reconnects with estranged iTunes

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Palm Inc.'s Pre phone can again connect to Apple's iTunes software - just a week after Apple Inc. shut it out.


Biofuels could hasten climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (9) | comments 2

A new study finds that it will take more than 75 years for the carbon emissions saved through the use of biofuels to compensate for the carbon lost when biofuel plantations are established on forestlands. If the original ...


The pluses and (mostly) minuses of biofuels

The pluses and (mostly) minuses of biofuels

Technology / Energy

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 7

Speakers at last week’s AAAS meeting presented abundant evidence that tropical rainforest destruction has accelerated in recent years, at least in part because of the worldwide push to produce more biofuels.


Review: BlackBerry App World simple, light on apps

Technology / Software

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- I'm typing this in between perusing Facebook, trying (and failing) to master a guitar-simulation game and listening to Internet radio on my smart phone.


Amazon carbon sink threatened by drought

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 2

The Amazon is surprisingly sensitive to drought, according to new research conducted throughout the world's largest tropical forest. The 30-year study, published today in Science, provides the first solid evidence that d ...


The new Palm Pre smartphone will cost 199.99 dollars after a 100-dollar mail-in rebate promotion

Palm Pre to go on sale June 6

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Palm Inc., a pioneer in handheld devices but suffering hard times lately, announced Tuesday that its much-anticipated new smartphone, the Palm Pre, would go on sale in the United States on June 6.