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Some Sidekick users may recover data: Microsoft
Microsoft said Tuesday that some Sidekick mobile phone users may recover personal data such as contacts, calendar items and digital photos believed to have been permanently lost in a server...
2,200 applicants in play for federal Internet grants
The federal government is sorting through 2,200 applications seeking $28 billion to bring high-speed Internet access to more people, officials said at an Orlando technology conference Monday.
Berkeley's Oliver Williamson shares Nobel Prize in economics
(PhysOrg.com) -- UC Berkeley's Oliver Williamson, a professor emeritus of business, economics, and law, has been named a winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, cited along with...
Onyx To Buy Proteolix
Pharmaceuticals: Cash payment of $276 million gives Onyx entry into hematologic malignancies market.
The New Literacy: Stanford study finds richness and complexity in students' writing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Today's kids don't just write for grades anymore. They write to shake the world. Moreover, they are writing more than any previous generation, ever, in history. They navigate...
Radio waves track people behind walls
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. engineers say they've developed a wireless technology that can track people moving behind solid walls to help in police, fire and...
Two from MIT elected to the Institute of Medicine
MIT Professor of Economics Amy Finkelstein and Tyler Jacks, director of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, were elected today to the Institute of Medicine, an arm of...
Google board member steps down
(AP) -- Google Inc. said Monday that a board member who also serves as a director for computer maker Apple Inc. is stepping down, removing a potential conflict of...
Lufthansa, Panasonic deal for in-flight Internet
German flag carrier Lufthansa and Japanese electronics giant Panasonic have teamed up to offer passengers wireless Internet on long-haul flights from 2010, the airline said on Monday.
Philips posts surprise profit as cost cuts help
Dutch electronics giant Philips reported on Monday a surprise profit for the third quarter as a series of cost cutting measures to cope with the global slump helped the bottomline.
Software Helps Design Energy Stingy Buildings (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new quick, easy to use and free software tool created by NREL developers seamlessly combines the building energy simulation of EnergyPlus with the popular drawing interface of...
NASA picks students for education program
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- NASA says it has selected 1,732 high school students from 48 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico to participate in an education...
African food production on the rise
Africa is starting to produce more food for its people by embracing farming technology, according to a new UN report.
Intelligent Traffic System Predicts Future Traffic Flow on Multiple Roads
(PhysOrg.com) -- In urban areas, there`s almost always more than one way to get somewhere, but often it`s difficult to predict which road will be fastest. In an attempt to...
Kraton To Go Public
Materials firm plans to raise up to $230 million with initial public offering of stock.
Climate Bill: Economy Killer or Job Maker?
In the Rust Belt, America's Manufacturing Mainland, Legislation to Cap Emissions is Viewed with Apprehension
Borlaug and the bankers
Perhaps one of the worst effects of financial
Science Weekly: Penisology
Ed Sykes is hosting a lecture at University College London called Penisology. Everything you never wanted to know about sex. He talks about the strange world of animal mating and looks at the...
Commercial focus 'is harming scientific research'
• Scientists warn lower funding will hit environmental research • Report calls for Lord Mandelson's department to be broken up
US army to be powered by waste
(PhysOrg.com) -- Defense company Qinetiq has been awarded a contract to supply the US army with a system that generates electricity from garbage.
Oracle plays up promise of Sun take-over
Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison opened fire on US technology veteran IBM and expressed optimism about the pending 7.4-billion-dollar-deal to buy Sun Microsystems.
Opinion: Abandoning Babylonian principles to rebuild irrigation infrastructure
It is time to bring our outdated irrigation infrastructure into the information age in order to save water and agriculture, writes Iven Mareels.
Training to Climb an Everest of Digital Data
Google and I.B.M. are offering help to universities to get students to cope with vast amounts of data.
In Amoeba World, Cheating Doesn't Pay
Researchers are peeling back the layers of strategy that determine how colonies of social amoebas resist the efforts of cheaters to alter the balance of power.
Logging not harming waterways
Research has revealed that Western Australia's timber industry is not having a detrimental impact on local waterways.
Crime often pays for relic looters
Despite high-profile arrests and indictments, most people convicted of illegally digging up, collecting and cashing in on artifacts in the United States don't go to prison, statistics show.
Video: Directing Traffic With Dance
What if every intersection had a dancing cop? Traffic wouldn't seem like such a grind. Mo Rocca visits with Tony Lepore who shows him the ins and outs of directing...
Video: The Future of Traffic
New car innovations like seatbelts, airbags, anti-lock brakes and attention alerts may seem like they have taken the danger out of driving, but they haven't. Mo Rocca examines the future...