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High tech needs patent reform

It isn't often that you see heavyweights in the tech world duking it out in a high-stakes match, with Congress as the referee. It's happening today over proposed reforms in patent law, which pits the software and information ...

Technology / Business

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Ex NASA expert attacks bosses in religious row

A former expert at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) claimed Monday he was falsely accused of harassing co-workers about religion, as he took the stand at an unfair dismissal trial.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (9) | comments 128

Alleged robo-calling may have significantly impacted voting

In a new paper, a Simon Fraser University economist finds that robo-calling, if the phenomenon did occur, could have significantly influenced voter turnout and ballot results in the last federal election. ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Suit alleges dismissal for intelligent design

(AP) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has landed robotic explorers on the surface of Mars, sent probes to outer planets and operates a worldwide network of antennas that communicates with interplanetary spacecraft.

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 11, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 61

Atop Meg Whitman's worries: H-P's size

(AP) -- Meg Whitman's primary job as Hewlett-Packard Co.'s new CEO will be to restore a sense of direction at a company that has lost its way after a decade of leadership lapses and disjointed deal-making.

Technology / Business

created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

HP shares up on CEO ouster reports

Hewlett-Packard shares surged on Wall Street on Wednesday amid reports that chief executive Leo Apotheker, hired less than a year ago, could be on his way out.

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created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bleaching and resilience: can reefs survive?

Red anthia fish and rainbow-coloured wrasse dart among the glittering reefs of Indonesia's Wakatobi archipelago, as eagle rays and barracudas cruise past in the blue depths.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 06, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

From Koogle to Yideotube, efforts to provide a kosher Internet

From a drab office in this ultra-Orthodox Jewish stronghold, three devout young women hunch over computers and surf the Internet - looking for pornography, celebrity gossip and a laundry list of other items banned by their ...

Technology / Internet

created Nov 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Oracle reaches for the business computing 'cloud'

Oracle on Sunday reached for the business computing "cloud," taking an unabashed shot at Salesforce.com's winning way of selling applications as services on the Internet.

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created Sep 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Crafting your image for your 1,000 friends on Facebook or MySpace

Students are creating idealized versions of themselves on social networking websites — Facebook and MySpace are the most popular — and using these sites to explore their emerging identities, UCLA psychologists report. Parents ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 18, 2008 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (13) | comments 1

Train Man romances Tokyo's computer geeks

Impoverished computer geeks are becoming hot commodities in Japan these days, thanks to one blockbusting book that originated on a weblog.

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created Oct 13, 2005 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0


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