http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Samsung Electronics on Friday unveiled a compact version of its flagship Galaxy S III smartphone, with a touch screen sized to match that of arch-rival Apple's new iPhone 5. http://phys.org/news269236525.html Electronics Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:55:40 EST news269236525 After six years targeting the education sector, Google says it has more than 20 million students, faculty and staff around the world using Google Apps for Education. http://phys.org/news268386257.html Technology Tue, 02 Oct 2012 08:44:52 EST news268386257 (AP) — Dell is buying Quest Software for $2.4 billion to expand its offerings as its personal computer business weakens in an era of smartphones and sleeker devices like the iPad. http://phys.org/news260446663.html Technology Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:17:57 EST news260446663 India's biggest outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services warned Friday of "weakness" in global markets, marking the latest downbeat comment to emerge from the country's flagship software industry. http://phys.org/news260190827.html Technology Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:40:02 EST news260190827 (PhysOrg.com) -- Smartphone users who as pedestrians are not very smart about crossing and looking both ways now have a protective shield in the form of an Android app which they can download for free. A research team from Dartmouth College and the University of Bologna, Italy, are offering their new app, WalkSafe, which uses the camera on a smart phone to detect oncoming traffic. The phone then alerts the user. http://phys.org/news241721430.html Technology Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:51:01 EST news241721430 (AP) -- Venture capitalists invested more money in more U.S. startups in the third quarter than they did a year earlier - especially in the software industry. http://phys.org/news238213788.html Technology Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:40:03 EST news238213788 Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has said rampant software piracy in China has eaten into his company's revenue in what is soon to be the world's top PC market, a report said Friday. http://phys.org/news225691036.html Technology Fri, 27 May 2011 05:30:02 EST news225691036 Piracy cost the global software industry more than $20 billion in losses in the China market last year despite the increasing use of legitimate programmes, an official survey showed Thursday. http://phys.org/news224416613.html Technology Thu, 12 May 2011 10:57:05 EST news224416613 (AP) -- The Walt Disney Co.'s early release of its earnings report this month came down to a Dumbo move: The company made the information accessible through an easy-to-guess Web address. http://phys.org/news209828172.html Technology Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:36:34 EST news209828172 Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, news about 20-somethings becoming billionaires from the sale of their software companies flooded the media, giving the impression that a good idea was all it took to succeed in the software industry. Jennifer Shang, an associate professor of business management in the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, along with colleagues Shanling Li of McGill University and Sandra Slaughter of the Georgia Institute of Technology, investigated what caused software companies to succeed or fail. Their research study, titled "Why Do Software Firms Fail? Capabilities, Competitive Actions, and Firm Survival in the Software Industry From 1995 to 2007," has been published in the journal Information Systems Research. http://phys.org/news209318762.html Other Sciences Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:20:01 EST news209318762 A battle between two of the world's biggest makers of business software hinges on the value of a trove of millions of stolen customer-support documents. http://phys.org/news207937108.html Technology Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:18:54 EST news207937108 (AP) -- With the technology industry looking on, the Supreme Court on Monday will explore what types of inventions should be eligible for a patent in a pivotal case that could undermine such legal protections for software. http://phys.org/news176878623.html Technology Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:57:46 EST news176878623 (AP) -- A trade group that represents software and video game publishers sued the Chicago Transit Authority on Wednesday, saying a rule barring ads on trains and buses for "mature" and "adults only" games violates the right to freedom of speech. http://phys.org/news167507057.html Technology Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:44:47 EST news167507057