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With pay-by-phone startup, Aaron Greenspan rebounds from Facebook suit

The last time the tech world heard from Aaron Greenspan, he was settling a trademark lawsuit in which he charged that he, not his Harvard classmate Mark Zuckerberg, had come up with the idea for an online social networking ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 05, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Just in time for Black Friday: students turn iPhone into barcode scanner

(PhysOrg.com) -- Comparing prices over the Internet has become a common practice for consumers. Now, just in time for Black Friday, a group of Missouri University of Science and Technology students is putting ...

Technology / Software

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1




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Google completes Motorola deal, heralding new era

(AP) -- Google has completed its $12.5 billion purchase of device maker Motorola Mobility in a deal that poses new challenges for the Internet's most powerful company as it tries to shape the future of mobile ...

Technology / Business

created May 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Barcoding insects as a way to track and control them

Barcodes may bring to mind the sales tags and scanners found in supermarkets and other stores. But U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are using "DNA barcodes" to monitor insects that damage crops ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Handheld probe shows promise for oral cancer detection

A team of American researchers have created a portable, miniature microscope in the hope of reducing the time taken to diagnose oral cancer.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Genetic markers for tracking species

At the supermarket checkout, hardly anybody enters prices manually anymore. Using scanners that can read the barcodes is much faster. Biologists now want to use a similar procedure for identifying domestic animal and plant ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mobile marketing for the future

Bar code scanner apps turn smart phone cameras into a way for shoppers to receive instant, on-the-go, online price comparisons for any item with a Universal Product Code. Does this mean consumers are moving toward online ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Restaurants plan DNA-certified premium seafood

(AP) -- Restaurants around the world will soon use new DNA technology to assure patrons they are being served the genuine fish fillet or caviar they ordered, rather than inferior substitutes, an expert in genetic identification ...

Biology / Other

created Nov 27, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 14

Packaging expert sees a social revolution in the evolving barcode

What if you could trace the history of everything you buy back to its origins? Using your smart phone camera, you could learn what factory made the ingredients in your heart medication, what country grew the ...

Technology / Other

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Chinese firm Alibaba announces new smartphone OS - Aliyun

Alibaba Group, a Chinese e-commerce company has announced the development of a new OS for smartphones; called Aliyun, it will initially run on the K-Touch Cloud-Smart Phone W700, built by Beijing Tianyu Communications, a ...

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 report

New laser technique opens doors for drug discovery

A new laser technique has demonstrated that it can measure the interactions between proteins tangled in a cell's membrane and a variety of other biological molecules. These extremely difficult measurements ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Targeting diabetes: New agents track onset of disease

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Arizona researchers have received a prestigious grant to develop indicator molecules to track the onset of diabetes in patients before the disease develops – potentially ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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