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Faster, easier way to access audiovisual assets
Millions of hours of old shows sit collecting dust in the basements of TV and radio broadcasters. Digging through these audiovisual treasure troves is becoming faster and easier thanks to...
Social media help find quake survivors
Social media such as Facebook and Twitter are providing a new tool for helping locate and rescue people missing after Tuesday's earthquake in Haiti.
Haiti text donations to Red Cross hit $4M
(AP) -- U.S. cell phone users have contributed about $4 million to the Red Cross in $10 increments, by far the largest outpouring of support via mobile devices in...
Iran redraws energy map to defy U.S.
TEHRAN, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- As Iran faces a growing Western threat of economic sanctions over its controversial nuclear program, Tehran has been quietly building up its defenses and...
What will jobs be like in 2030?
Insect-based food developers, personal branders and five careers in a lifetime. Would you hire these futurologists?Putting the final nail in the coffin for the idea of a traditional career for life is a...
New models allow proper assessment of IT risks
IT projects often go off the rails unnecessarily. Budgets are exceeded or projects come thundering to a halt. A Dutch researcher argues that the risks for projects can be calculated...
RealNetworks CEO Quits After 16 Years
Rob Glaser Pushed RealNetworks in Digital Music and Video , But in Recent Years Had Been Eclipsed in Both
Looming high court ruling could taint justice, legal expert says
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A pending U.S. Supreme Court ruling could aggravate the influence of corporate campaign spending that already has skewed justice in some of the nation's courts,...
Modified Mobile Phone Runs on Coca-Cola
Daizi Zheng, a Chinese developer who is currently based in London, has modified a Nokia cell phone to run on Coca-Cola or any other sugary solution.
Silver Crucial For WWII Bomb
In the middle of World War II, Secretary of War Henry Stimson asked Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau if he could borrow some of the government's silver on repository in West...
McCain launches additive-free frozen foods
McCain Foods unveiled an additive-free product line Wednesday and will continue revamping its frozen foods to remove most of the chemicals whose long, tongue-twisting names make up a good part...
Wind eyes February launch for Ottawa, Edmonton
Wind Mobile, the company that aims to be Canada's fourth national wireless carrier, will be launching service in Ottawa and Edmonton as early as next month.
Global PC shipments jumped 15 percent in 4Q
(AP) -- Researchers say worldwide shipments of personal computers came back strongly in the fourth quarter of 2009. U.S. consumers lured by low prices led the charge.
Activision Blizzard: 'Call of Duty' has made $1B
(AP) -- Video game publisher Activision Blizzard Inc. said Wednesday that the game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" has brought in more than $1 billion in revenue since...
Find £3.3m to buy Staffordshire Hoard for nation, public urged
Historian Starkey spearheads fight to save Anglo-Saxon 'gangland bling' unearthed in West MidlandsA public appeal was launched today to raise £3.3m in three months to buy the Staffordshire hoard, one of the most...
Is Taser Guilty of Over-Parenting?
Its New Hone-Monitoring Product Allows for Eavesdropping on Phone Calls, Texts & E-Mail
Sunflowers could provide food and fuel
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Determining the genetic makeup of sunflowers will lead to species that can be used for food and fuel, scientists in Canada said.
S. Asian monsoon driven by Indian heat
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 13 (UPI) -- The South Asian monsoon that supplies water to billions of people is driven more by heat from India rather than the Tibetan plateau,...
Do Clues Point to Global Hack Conspiracy?
Link Found Between Recent Spate of Attacks on U.S. Firms and Similar Hacks Last Summer
Denali pipeline open season in April
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- A BP-ConocoPhillips consortium overseeing the planned Denali pipeline from the Alaskan North Slope announced plans to invite bidders to the project in April.
Group Thinker: Researcher Gets $2.9 Million to Further Develop Swarm Intelligence
Swarm intelligence is a branch of artificial intelligence that attempts to get computers and robots to mimic the highly efficient behavior of colony insects such as ants and bees. Ants,...
Haier Exhibits A Wireless HDTV Video System at the 2010 CES (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Haier America Digital Products Group (Chinese company) demonstrated the first completely wireless 32 inch LCD TV that is powered wirelessly up to a distance of 1 meter (3.28...
Exxon wins Alaska gas case
JUNEAU, Alaska, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- An Alaskan court ruled the state wrongly terminated the leases for Exxon Mobil and its partners to develop the Point Thomson gas fields...
Apache ambitious after Egyptian finds
HOUSTON, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- American energy company Apache Corp. announced its latest discovery in the Western Desert of Egypt would double daily production by the third quarter of...
LG projects 2010 mobile phone sales at 140 million
(AP) -- LG Electronics Inc. said Wednesday that it expects a significant increase in mobile phone sales this year as it rolls out 20 new smartphones and aims to...
Sub-Saharan Africa news in brief: 31 December 2009–13 January 2010
Tanzania uses text messages to keep antimalarials in stock, Ghana takes the renewable road, Africa aims to harmonise ICT policies, and more.
Nonprofit, company team up for "artificial pancreas"
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Diabetes advocates and a company that makes insulin pumps announced plans on Wednesday to team up to make a so-called artificial pancreas -- a system of pumps...
Calorie Postings No Match for Holiday Gluttony
A study of Starbucks stores in New York City found that people picked lighter food after a law requiring calorie counts, but lost all control around the holidays.