http://www.physorg.com/technology-news/ en-us PhysOrg Team PhysOrg.com provides the latest news on technology, software, computer science, internet, semiconductor, telecom and science technology. (AP) -- Ariana Leonard's high school students shuffled in their seats, eagerly awaiting a cue from their Spanish teacher that the assignment would begin. "Take out your cell phones," she said in Spanish. http://www.physorg.com/news178565351.html Technology 2009-11-27T17:29:38-07:00 (AP) -- For more than 20 years, Mike Nolan was known to radio listeners as the "eye in the sky." He flew over Southern California freeways in his single-engine plane, reporting on the nation's worst traffic. http://www.physorg.com/news178557435.html Technology 2009-11-27T15:40:01-07:00 (AP) -- The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are giving U.S. financial institutions an additional six months to comply with regulations designed to ban Internet gambling. http://www.physorg.com/news178551993.html Technology 2009-11-27T14:10:01-07:00 Fujitsu Laboratories today announced, as a world first, the development of a novel technology for forming graphene transistors directly on the entire surface of large-scale insulating substrates at low temperatures while employing chemical-vapor deposition (CVD) techniques which are in widespread use in semiconductor manufacturing. http://www.physorg.com/news178552799.html Technology 2009-11-27T14:00:59-07:00 (AP) -- James Cameron was thinking beyond the big screen when he created the alien world of Pandora. The "Titanic" director worked in tandem with video game developer Ubisoft Montreal on the game based on his upcoming sci-fi epic "Avatar." http://www.physorg.com/news178551980.html Technology 2009-11-27T14:00:04-07:00 (AP) -- Food banks across the country are undergoing a high-tech revolution, adopting sophisticated databases, bar coding, GPS tracking, automated warehouses and other technologies used in the food industry that increasingly supplies their goods. http://www.physorg.com/news178530466.html Technology 2009-11-27T08:00:02-07:00 (AP) -- Personal computer maker Lenovo Group said Friday it is joining the race to develop products that link phones and PCs by buying back a mobile phone business that it sold last year. http://www.physorg.com/news178530583.html Technology 2009-11-27T08:00:01-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created new tools for semantic technology development which are helping to set the next generation of official standards. The tools also unblock some key bottlenecks in semantic technology. http://www.physorg.com/news178529295.html Technology 2009-11-27T07:28:55-07:00 (AP) -- The iPhone's arrival in South Korea is generating considerable buzz among consumers and industry watchers amid expectations it will shake up a market dominated by world-beating domestic manufacturers. http://www.physorg.com/news178526606.html Technology 2009-11-27T07:00:01-07:00 Taiwanese researchers have developed a chip to treat backpain that is powered by mobile phone, a member of the team said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news178526728.html Technology 2009-11-27T06:46:05-07:00 A Briton accused of hacking into US military and NASA computers faces extradition to the United States after the British government Thursday rejected last-ditch requests to block the move. http://www.physorg.com/news178480644.html Technology 2009-11-26T17:58:08-07:00 More than half of all people who buy flights, hotel rooms and hire cars online risk being left without compensation if companies fail under outdated law, the EU said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news178476099.html Technology 2009-11-26T16:43:33-07:00 Owners of Roku's digital video player will soon have a bunch more channels to choose from. http://www.physorg.com/news178462170.html Technology 2009-11-26T14:10:03-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- Advances in computerized modeling and prediction of group behavior, together with improvements in video game graphics, are making possible virtual worlds in which defense analysts can explore and predict results of many different possible military and policy actions, say computer science researchers at the University of Maryland in a commentary published in the November 27 issue of the journal Science. http://www.physorg.com/news178458781.html Technology 2009-11-26T14:00:01-07:00 (AP) -- Online retailers hope the convenience of the Web, plus discounts and deals, spur still-nervous shoppers to spend more online this holiday season - even as traditional retailers brace for mediocre sales. http://www.physorg.com/news178457950.html Technology 2009-11-26T11:39:34-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- It may be a long time before we see robots shooting pucks and making saves in professional hockey, but second-year mechanical engineering students at the University of Alberta put some pretty impressive players to the test as part of a creative design course. http://www.physorg.com/news178449090.html Technology 2009-11-26T09:40:02-07:00 A computer glitch left Italian Post Office customers in the red by processing card transactions at 100 times their value, Italian press reported Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news178444022.html Technology 2009-11-26T07:47:31-07:00 (AP) -- A third to a half of the Sony Corp. TV sets sold annually will be packed with 3-D features by the year ending March 2013, a senior executive said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news178440806.html Technology 2009-11-26T07:30:01-07:00 For the first time guidelines are to be published on how broadcasters around the world can encourage audiences to produce better quality user-generated content and to improve media and information literacy. http://www.physorg.com/news178441530.html Technology 2009-11-26T07:06:10-07:00 Finding a financially viable way to provide local news is a challenge large metropolitan newspapers are confronting. But a Coral Gables, Fla., Web site is among a few locally with faith it can succeed. http://www.physorg.com/news178394543.html Technology 2009-11-25T22:10:02-07:00 Q. Our 6-year-old PC computer is dying a slow death and we are considering moving to a new iMac but have a few concerns. First, of all, we have several Word documents on our disk drive now that we want to keep and add to as well as many pictures that will be kept as well. What capabilities are available to transfer these files to an iMac? Is there a Word program for Apple? Finally, do you think our decision to change to Apple is the way to go, overall? http://www.physorg.com/news178394620.html Technology 2009-11-25T20:40:01-07:00 Comcast's bid to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal from General Electric could be sealed next week if GE reaches an agreement with Vivendi, a source close to the matter said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news178398660.html Technology 2009-11-25T19:11:30-07:00 US magazine publishers Time Inc., Conde Nast and Hearst are preparing to launch an online newsstand described as an "iTunes for magazines," according to published reports. http://www.physorg.com/news178393781.html Technology 2009-11-25T18:40:01-07:00 (AP) -- The Internet can be a powerful medium for politicians to get their message across but it is also a vital means for civilians to have a say in what politicians do, participants in a political conference say. http://www.physorg.com/news178393757.html Technology 2009-11-25T18:20:02-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- Oak Ridge National Laboratory has announced plans to conduct a series of deep energy retrofit research projects with the potential to improve the energy efficiency in selected homes by as much as 30 to 50 percent. http://www.physorg.com/news178389728.html Technology 2009-11-25T17:20:02-07:00 (AP) -- Time Warner Cable Inc. is asking the public for help as it tries to curtail increases in the programming fees it has to pay to carry cable channels and broadcast stations on its systems. http://www.physorg.com/news178391716.html Technology 2009-11-25T17:17:55-07:00 (AP) -- Online advertising revenue in the U.S. fell 5.4 percent in the third quarter from a year ago, as the sputtering economy kept its tight grip on even the fastest growing segment of industry, according to a report released Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news178383179.html Technology 2009-11-25T14:53:27-07:00 Whistleblower website Wikileaks began publishing on Wednesday what it said were hundreds of thousands of pager messages from the day of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. http://www.physorg.com/news178383122.html Technology 2009-11-25T14:52:47-07:00 (AP) -- The European Parliament has endorsed new telecom rules that would give phone and Internet users more rights and allow them to appeal to national courts if they are cut off for illegal file-sharing. http://www.physorg.com/news178374890.html Technology 2009-11-25T12:50:02-07:00 On September 11, firefighters, police officers and ambulance workers faced a terrifying rescue effort in the World Trade Center complex. They battled to save people from the collapsing Twin Towers, searched for survivors, tackled fires and evacuated as many people as they could in an area which contained an estimated 17,000 people. And making their jobs even harder was the problem of poor communications: frightened workers and their relatives jammed mobile networks with calls and the emergency services' own radio communications turned out to be incompatible with one another. http://www.physorg.com/news178369250.html Technology 2009-11-25T11:10:01-07:00