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UK incidence of children living with substance-misusing parents considerably underestimated

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Current figures underestimate the number of children who may be at risk of harm from parental substance use. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health have generated new estimates using five nation ...


SKorea unveils new guidelines on mobile fees

Technology / Telecom

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

South Korea's telecoms watchdog on Sunday unveiled new guidelines on mobile phone fees following mounting complaints over high charges.


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Online payment startup Zuora wants to rescue newspapers

Technology / Internet

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tien Tzuo on Wednesday called on fellow technology entrepreneurs to join him on a quest to rescue newspapers that are dying as their readers get stories free on the Internet.


A visitor checks out Google's Book Search site at the Google stand of the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2008

Google introduces new commenting tool 'Sidewiki'

Technology / Internet

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Google unveiled a new tool on Wednesday which allows notes and comments to be posted alongside Web pages for others to read.


Samsung Extends Reach to Youth Audience with Launch of the Corby Family

Samsung Extends Reach to Youth Audience with Launch of the Corby Family

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Samsung Electronics has followed the successful launch of the Samsung Corby (model: S3650) by announcing two new mobile phones designed around the Corby concept, which aims to deliver stylish devices to support ...


France approves Internet piracy bill

Technology / Internet

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

(AP) -- France's lower house of parliament has approved a pioneering bill allowing authorities to cut off Internet access to people who download illegally.


The Google headquarters in Mountain View, California

Google users loyal: comScore

Technology / Internet

created Aug 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

The planned Microsoft-Yahoo! online search tie-up has promise but must overcome people's fierce loyalty to market king Google, industry tracker comScore said Friday.


Newspaper sites draw 36 percent of Web audience in June

Technology / Internet

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Newspaper Web sites attracted 70.3 million unique visitors in June, representing about 36 percent of all Internet users, according to a new Nielsen Online study commissioned by an industry trade group.


Microsoft sees size as search answer in Yahoo deal (AP)

Microsoft sees size as search answer in Yahoo deal

Technology / Internet

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Microsoft is hoping that a long-term partnership with rival Yahoo will give it the size and insight it needs to bring in more traffic, more advertisers and ultimately more revenue.


Micro-blogging service Twitter has unveiled a new frontpage

Twitter unveils new frontpage

Technology / Internet

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Micro-blogging service Twitter has unveiled a new frontpage featuring a prominent search box in a bid to attract new users.


Review: Yahoo's shift to Bing could be risky bet (AP)

Review: Yahoo's shift to Bing could be risky bet

Technology / Internet

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

(AP) -- Is Microsoft's Bing really a better search engine? Since it debuted last month, it has earned praise for the smart way it presents results and how it lets users preview Web sites without clicking ...


Mobile giving is catching on

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

For most nonprofits, raising money means asking donors to write a check. But like music, maps and movies, charitable giving is also going mobile.


Intel project seeks to mark disputed Web information

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Do Eskimos have more words for "snow" than we do? You're probably not alone if you thought the answer was yes.


Chinese Web sites close amid tightening controls

Technology / Internet

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Two more Web sites dedicated to social networking went offline in China on Tuesday amid tightening controls that have blocked Facebook, Twitter and other popular sites that offered many Chinese a rare taste of free ...


Promising new trends in Web search engines

Technology / Internet

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The Internet is a vastly different place than it was 15 years ago, but the way consumers search it has changed very little.