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Threatened by iPad, PCs start to look like tablets

The response by computer makers to the iPad stealing sales from them: Make their PCs more like iPads.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (7) | comments 15

Hunting for deadly bacteria

(PhysOrg.com) -- You can't see them, or smell them or taste them. They can be in our water and in our food, multiplying so rapidly that conventional testing methods for detecting pathogens such as E.coli, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Newspaper ads sag to a 25-year low in 2010

(AP) -- Newspaper advertising in the U.S. has sunk to a 25-year low as marketing budgets followed readers to the Internet, where advertising is far cheaper than what publishers have been able to command in print.

Technology / Business

created Mar 15, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Magnetic switching under pressure

(PhysOrg.com) -- A material’s properties are a critical factor in the way that material can be used for practical applications. Magnetism is one such property, and magnetic switches are key components ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 03, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover a new class of highly electronegative chemical species

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers has discovered a new class of highly electronegative chemical species called hyperhalogens, which use superhalogens as building blocks around a metal atom. The new chemical ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 08, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Apple expected to launch iPad subscriptions for newspapers

Apple is expected to announce soon a new subscription plan for newspapers, which hope that tablets like the iPad will eventually provide a new source of profit as media companies struggle with declining print circulation ...

Technology / Business

created Sep 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

IPad subscriptions could boost mag circulation

(AP) -- Magazine publishers may have a new way to boost flagging circulation: the iPad.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 16, 2010 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Newspaper circulation may be worse than it looks

(AP) -- While U.S. newspapers are losing subscribers at a staggering rate, a few dailies stand out because their circulation is rising. But they aren't necessarily selling more copies.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

USA Today tests online edition at colleges

(AP) -- Penn State, Indiana and Missouri are the first schools to participate in a USA Today initiative meant to test how students respond to electronic versions of printed newspapers.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wall Street Journal to charge for mobile access from Oct 24

The Wall Street Journal announced on Thursday that it will begin charging for access to the newspaper on mobile devices such as the Blackberry or Apple iPhone from October 24.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Microsoft apologizes for changing race in photo

(AP) -- Software giant Microsoft Corp. is apologizing for altering a photo on its Web site to change the race of one of the people shown in the picture.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Movie theaters cut print show times as Web gains

(AP) -- Filmgoers who have long turned to the local newspaper to find theaters and show times for movies may have to start looking elsewhere as theater chains rethink the value of paper and ink in a digital age.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wired editor acknowledges lifting Wiki material

(AP) -- The author of a new book about the wisdom of free products on the Web has acknowledged taking some liberties in his own work.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Online news fees: financial salvation or suicide?

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is a rarity among large U.S. newspapers - it's selling more weekday copies than a decade ago. In Idaho, the Post Register's circulation has remained stable, while many other print publications ...

Technology / Internet

created May 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Online magazine tries to be a lab for media future

(AP) -- The Web edition of a cover story from Fortune this spring took a sharp turn from what you might expect at a 79-year-old magazine.

Technology / Internet

created May 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0