23/05/2006

Latest weapons in spam battle are images

Like all wars, the campaign against junk e-mail -- spam -- is marked along the way with victories and casualties. It's an "ever-escalating battle," the senior director of marketing at anti-spam company Commtouch, Rebecca ...

.mobi registration kicks off

Members of mobile-industry associations began applying for their .mobi domain names, kicking off registration Monday that runs until May 29.

Google leads in search, trails elsewhere

While recently released numbers show Google continuing to dominate the search-engine market, statistics from industry researchers Hitwise suggest other Google products and services have a way to go to catch search competitors ...

Nano World: Nano-loaded wireless sensors

Devices the size of a dime armed with reprogrammable sensors, laden with nanoparticles and wirelessly networked with each other could help sniff the air for bombs and toxins on battlefields, experts tell UPI's Nano World.

Traces of a tsunami in Sweden

145 million years ago Scandinavia was hit by a tsunami, probably more intense than the one that hit Southeastern Asia in December 2004. Traces of this ancient tsunami are still left and these have been discovered by the geologists ...

Counting the cost of water

Economic expansion in China is threatening the country’s scarce water resources, according to a new study by the University of Leeds. Uneven development of trade across the country means that water-intensive or polluting ...

Prestigious award for the generation of attosecond pulses

Professor Ferenc Krausz, Director at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, receives the 2006 IEEE/LEOS Quantum Electronics Award This award recognizes truly excellent and time-tested work in any of the fields of interest ...

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