News tagged with protocol


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.


Greenhouse gas emissions have fallen thanks to the global downturn, a report has said citing an energy study

Carbon emissions fall with global downturn: report

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Greenhouse gas emissions have fallen thanks to the global downturn, handing the world a chance to move away from high-carbon growth, a report said Monday, citing an International Energy Agency study.


This year the hole began forming "earlier than before" said WMO's expert on the ozone Geir Braathen

Ozone hole smaller in 2009 than 2008: WMO

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The World Meteorological Organisation said Wednesday that the ozone hole is expected to be smaller in 2009 than a year ago.


Motorola Launches Advanced Multi-Format Encoding Platform for 1080P Content

Technology / Other

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

Motorola today revealed its next generation encoding platform. This high-performance video processing platform supports both MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) encoding and transcoding and ...


Wiretapping Skype calls: virus eavesdrops on VoIP

Technology / Internet

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(AP) -- Some computer viruses have a crude but scary ability to spy on people by logging every keystroke they type. Now hackers and potentially law enforcement have another weapon: a virus that can eavesdrop on voice conversations ...


Scientists say climate change mitigation strategies ignore carbon cycling processes of inland waters

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In the paper, The Boundless Carbon Cycle, published in the September issue of Nature Geoscience, scientists from the University of Vienna, Uppsala University in Sweden, University of Antwerp, and the U.S. based Stroud Water ...


Premium info for car drivers

Premium info for car drivers

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- What will the weather be like over the next few hours on the A3 between Nuremberg and Würzburg in Germany? Could fog be a problem? A new system will enable automakers to offer their customers ...


UN meeting: help nations adapt to global warming (AP)

UN meeting: help nations adapt to global warming

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 30, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(AP) -- As nations negotiate tough decisions on cutting greenhouse gases, the United Nations is holding a separate conference on coping with more floods, droughts and other effects of climate change already ...


Computer scientists scale 'layer 2' data center networks to 100,000 ports and beyond

Computer scientists scale 'layer 2' data center networks to 100,000 ports and beyond

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

University of California, San Diego computer scientists have created software that they hope will lead to data centers that logically function as single, plug-and-play networks that will scale to the massive ...


Effective treatment for infective endocarditis using a rigorous hospital management-based approach

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A clinical study carried out at Hospital de la Timone in Marseille, France, has demonstrated that a standardized management protocol for patients with infective endocarditis can dramatically reduce mortality rates.


Study finds widespread privacy failings in online social networks

Technology / Internet

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Furious competition between social networking sites is compromising the protection of users' data, a Cambridge University study has concluded.


Researchers establishing security standards for the internet

Researchers establishing security standards for the internet

Technology / Internet

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dartmouth researchers who were pioneers in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) - a system that secures and authenticates computer communications - are now playing leading roles establishing Internet ...


Researchers test new 'space Internet' system on International Space Station

Researchers test new 'space Internet' system on International Space Station

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

The University of Colorado at Boulder is working with NASA to develop a new communications technology now being tested on the International Space Station, which will extend Earth's Internet into outer space ...


Waste water treatment plant mud used as 'green' fuel

Waste water treatment plant mud used as 'green' fuel

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Catalan scientists have shown that using mud from waste water treatment plants as a partial alternative fuel can enable cement factories to reduce their CO2 emissions and comply with the Kyoto Protocol, as well as ...


Patients reveal willingness to trade hands-on medical care for computer consultations

Medicine & Health / Other

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

As President Barack Obama calls for streamlining heath care by fully converting to electronic medical records and as Congress prepares to debate issues of patient privacy, one question has largely gone unasked: What do patients ...