In Brief: SK Telecom's new SMS tops 1 million users
SK Telecom's Emoticon SMS (short messaging service) has grown to more than 1 million subscribers in the 10 months since its launch.
Telecom
May 2, 2006
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Telecom reform boosts vid franchising
A rewrite in the Senate of the Telecommunications Act is under way, pushed by Monday's introduction of draft bill S. 26868, known as the Communications, Consumer's Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006, from Senate ...
Telecom
May 2, 2006
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Nano World: Water for denser nano-memory
Water and electronics ordinarily do not mix, but water fragments might help control memory bits in electronics only nanometers or billionths of a meter in size, potentially leading to simpler, incredibly dense computer data-storage ...
Nanophysics
May 2, 2006
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Is Microsoft a role model for tech aid?
International organizations including the United Nations should improve the way they finance and implement technology projects by learning more from how the private sector goes about doing business in developing countries, ...
Business
May 2, 2006
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The Greenbeards Have Blue Throats In The Evolution Of Altruistic Behavior
A new study of side-blotched lizards in California has revealed the genetic underpinnings of altruistic behavior in this common lizard species, providing new insights into the long-standing puzzle of how cooperation and altruism ...
May 2, 2006
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Arsenic found in water at Seattle schools
Bottled water is being distributed to all Seattle public schools after tests found arsenic in drinking fountain water at five elementary schools.
Environment
May 2, 2006
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Incredibly short light pulses capture our microscopic world
An international collaboration including researchers from Amsterdam, Paris, Baton Rouge (USA) and Lund University, (Sweden), has made a breakthrough which moves some of the mathematics of quantum mechanics off of the blackboard ...
General Physics
May 2, 2006
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New laser lab shows fastest physical processes known
The University of Reading has developed a laser laboratory that is capable of showing some of the fastest physical processes known. The Ultrafast Laser Laboratory (ULL) can generate high energy laser light pulses with durations ...
General Physics
May 2, 2006
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New software protects confidentiality of data while enabling access and sharing
Penn State researchers have developed software that allows databases to "talk to each other" automatically without compromising the security of the data and metadata because the queries, data communicated and other information ...
Software
May 2, 2006
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Biotech cotton provides same yield with fewer pesticides
Arizona farmers receive the same yield/acre, use fewer chemical insecticides and maintain insect biodiversity when they plant the biotech cotton known as Bt cotton, according to new research.
May 2, 2006
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