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Yahoo seeks to shake up search, Web browsing

(AP) -- Joining the battle to redefine Internet search, Yahoo is taking aim with a new browser enhancement it calls "Axis."

Technology / Internet

created May 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

News Corp shares rise on doubled share buyback

(AP) -- Shares in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. rose Thursday after the company posted upbeat quarterly results and doubled its commitment to buying back shares.

Technology / Business

created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Simulated skiers reveal mountain traffic jams

Millions of skiers and snowboarders escape to the mountains every winter, but some everyday stresses -- like traffic jams -- are unavoidable even on the slopes. In plenty of time to prepare for next season, ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Billard game in an atom: Physicists trace the double ionization of argon atoms on attosecond time scales

(Phys.org) -- When an intense laser pulse interacts with an atom it generates agitation on the micro scale. A rather likely outcome of this interaction is single ionization, where one electron is ejected from ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fujitsu technology puts big data to use in minutes

Fujitsu Laboratories today announced that it has developed new parallel distributed data processing technology that enables pools of big data as well as continuous inflows of new data to be efficiently processed ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Facebook focus guides Google CEO's 1st year on job

Google co-founder Larry Page has a Facebook fixation. When he replaced his mentor Eric Schmidt as Google's CEO last April, Page insisted that the company had to be more aggressive about countering the threat ...

Technology / Business

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

BlackBerry maker to focus on business customers (Update)

(AP) -- Struggling BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. said Thursday that it plans to return its focus to its corporate customers after failing to compete with flashier, consumer-oriented phones such ...

Technology / Business

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Americans not fans of online targeted ads: survey

Most Americans are satisfied with their Internet search engines but they are not fans of targeted advertising, seeing it as an invasion of privacy, according to a survey published on Friday.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New pilot survey reveals importance of intellectual property

New survey results indicate that trademarks and trade secrets are the most important forms of intellectual property (IP) protection according to most businesses, followed by copyrights and patents.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Hand counts of votes may cause errors, says new study

Hand counting of votes in postelection audit or recount procedures can result in error rates of up to 2 percent, according to a new study from Rice University and Clemson University.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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

Study proves plausibility of new pathway to life's chemical building blocks

For decades, chemists considered a chemical pathway known as the formose reaction the only route for producing sugars essential for life to begin, but more recent research has called into question the plausibility of such ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Google search gets more personal, raises hackles (Update)

Google is sifting through the photos and commentary on its blossoming social network so its Internet search results can include more personal information.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Research promises smaller, cheaper therapy machines that could revolutionise cancer treatment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Landmark technology that could revolutionise cancer therapy and pave the way for cleaner, safer nuclear reactors in the future, has been published in Nature Physics today. The pioneering EMMA ( ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Landscape architecture survey: Is plant knowledge passe?

Authors of a recent study examined an ongoing debate in the discipline of landscape architecture: exactly how much plant knowledge is required for professionals in the field? Robert Brzuszek, Richard Harkess, and Eric Stortz ...

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Survey reveals scientists have trouble accessing human embryonic stem cell lines

The promise of stem cell research for drug discovery and cell-based therapies depends on the ability of scientists to acquire stem cell lines for their research.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast