Fans of downloaded movies could get licenses to burn DVDs they purchase online. Broadband video-on-demand service Movielink and digital media software company Sonic Solutions have signed a licensing agreement for technology, ...
Internet
Jul 17, 2006
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A Chinese company says it has reverse-engineered the Skype protocol, allowing it to place calls over Skype's Voice over Internet Protocol network.
Internet
Jul 17, 2006
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Scientists have devised the first sensors only nanometers or billionths of a meter long that can detect how acidic the environment around them is, experts told UPI's Nano World.
Bio & Medicine
Jul 17, 2006
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Consumer spending on mobile networking applications -- mobile search, movie downloads and other innovative applications -- surged in the United States and overseas during the just-completed quarter, sources tell UPI's Networking.
Internet
Jul 17, 2006
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Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have made an important breakthrough in understanding a pathway plant cells take to silence unwanted or extra genes using short bits of RNA. Basically, they have made it possible ...
Jul 17, 2006
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In the second it takes you to read these words, tens of thousands of vesicles in your optic nerves are released in sequence, opening tiny surface pores to pass chemical signals to the next cell down the line, telling your ...
Jul 17, 2006
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In a forthcoming study from the American Journal of Sociology, Emily Erikson and Peter Bearman (Columbia University) demonstrate that an early example of globalization was the direct result of individual malfeasance, specifically, ...
Other
Jul 17, 2006
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The IST-funded WIN project is using what happened during the Prestige oil spill as one scenario with which to test the integrated risk management solution it is developing to help prevent, contain and respond to similar catastrophes ...
Other
Jul 17, 2006
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"Paint-on" antennas, designed to establish new high-altitude communications and surveillance platforms, successfully transmitted voice and data links as well as teleconferencing capabilities during test flights in the Nevada ...
Engineering
Jul 17, 2006
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The molecule Antascomicin B has the potential to both regenerate nerve growth and help scientists better understand immune system suppression in organ transplants, but its scarcity in nature means it must be synthesized in ...
Jul 17, 2006
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