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INSIDE WASHINGTON: GOP raising money from docs

16 years ago from AP Health

The Republican Party is harnessing the furious debate over health care to raise campaign cash from doctors, dangling the promise of including donors' names in advertising that attacks President Barack...

Canadian broadband is world-class: ISP-funded report

16 years ago from CBC: Technology & Science

Canada is doing very well in broadband availability, speeds, affordability and coverage as compared to other countries, according to a new study funded by the country's largest internet providers.

Ciena bids $521M for Nortel business units

16 years ago from Physorg

(AP) -- Ciena Corp. is offering cash and stock worth $521 million to acquire some of Nortel's most-prized remaining business units as the fallen telecommunications company continues to liquidate.

Mobile phones ring in growth in emerging markets

16 years ago from Physorg

Once just a simple telecommunications tool, the mobile telephone has in recent years become a driver of economic growth in emerging countries, experts said at one of the industry's biggest...

Police sketch artist evolves

16 years ago from

Criminals are having a harder time hiding their faces, thanks to new software that helps witnesses recreate and recognise suspects using principles borrowed from the fields of optics and genetics...

Closing race, poverty and gender gaps in advanced high school course-taking

16 years ago from

The latest research from the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management explores the wide disparities in advanced high school course-taking (such as Advanced Placement courses) among race, poverty, and gender...

National Briefing | Health: Schools Selling Fewer Sugary Snacks

16 years ago from NY Times Health

A new government report finds that fewer American high schools and middle schools are selling candy and salty snacks to students.

World-first sustainable racing car to take on Formula 3 at Brands Hatch (w/ Video)

16 years ago from Physorg

Can the idea of 'green motorsport' actually work? Yes, according to Dr Kerry Kirwan at the University of Warwick, who led the research team which designed and built the worldfirst...

Adobe to offer Flash to iPhone developers

16 years ago from Physorg

(AP) - Adobe Systems says developers for Apple's iPhone will be able to use its video-enabling software, Flash, to create applications for the device for the first time.

Blogger payola getting a pass in Canada

16 years ago from CBC: Technology & Science

U.S. authorities are using the threat of big fines to force bloggers to disclose their relationships with the companies they write about, but jurisidictional confusion means no similar mechanisms exist...

Obama Supports Technology Mandate

16 years ago from C&EN

Plant Security: Administration endorses requirement for safer technologies in chemical security bill.

Net neutrality rules face mounting GOP opposition

16 years ago from Physorg

(AP) -- Republican opposition is mounting as federal regulators prepare to vote this month on so-called "network neutrality" rules, which would prohibit broadband providers from favoring or discriminating against...

Video: The New Google Wave

16 years ago from CBSNews - Science

Shira Lazar takes a look at Google Wave, a collaboration and communication tool that can be used as a form of instant messenger or as an e-mail replacement.

Recovery Seen For Europe's Industry

16 years ago from C&EN

Business: But chemical executives warn of legislative obstacles to success.

Corporations rethinking IT's role in cutting corporate costs, boosting productivity

16 years ago from Physorg

The current recession has focused top information technology executives on cost-cutting, but they are not slashing jobs the way they did in previous economic downturns, according to a 2009 benchmark...

Innovation summit panelists debate Canada's future

16 years ago from CBC: Technology & Science

The West is going to have to change the way it teaches science and math if it wants to stay competitive with the rest of the world, a panel of...

IBM was only bidder for Ontario eHealth contract: Caplan

16 years ago from CBC: Technology & Science

Health Minister David Caplan says the provincial Liberal government was never advised not to award a $30-million computer contract to IBM.

Hormone discards plant pesticide residue

16 years ago from UPI

HANGZHOU, China, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Chinese scientists say they've discovered a plant hormone applied to crops can help plants eliminate certain pesticide residues.

Shroud of Turin Called a Fake

16 years ago from Live Science

An Italian scientists says he has created a fake Shroud of Turin ... just like the other one, he says.

Intellectual property vital for agricultural innovation

16 years ago from SciDev

Intellectual property must be protected to encourage technical innovations in agriculture, says Javier Fernandez of CropLife Latin America.

Video: On The Street: Living Forever

16 years ago from CBSNews - Science

In The Future of Us, we looked at the astonishing strides being made in life expectancy. Our new Tomorrow Show correspondent Shira Lazar hit the streets of Los Angeles to...

U.S. food retailers to fight child obesity

16 years ago from CBC: Health

Retailers and food manufacturers in the U.S. launched a national effort Monday aimed at helping to reduce obesity, especially in children, by 2015.

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Some Affy Tapple caramel apples recalled

16 years ago from UPI

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of certain Affy Tapple-brand caramel apples due to a labeling error.

US online ads fell 5 pct to $5.43 billion in 2Q

16 years ago from Physorg

(AP) -- Newly released statistics show that Internet advertising in the U.S. fell 5 percent in the second quarter as the recession continued to crimp marketing budgets.

Post-Racial? NC State Expert Weighs In On the Current State of Race Relations

16 years ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many pundits professed the dawn of a `post-racial` era following the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president.

Court halts Ohio execution, cites injection flaws

16 years ago from AP Science

CINCINNATI (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Monday halted the execution of an inmate three weeks after problems with a lethal injection attempt....

Motorola Provides World's First Live 2.6GHz TD-LTE Drive Demonstration

16 years ago from Physorg

Motorola announced today that it has successfully deployed a Time Division Duplex Long-Term Evolution (TD-LTE) network in the streets of Geneva to support China Mobile Communications Corporation`s presence at the...