Court affirms online content law unconstitutional July 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- A federal appeals court agreed Tuesday with a lower court ruling that struck down as unconstitutional a 1998 law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the Internet. | |
 Dutch researchers take flight with three-gram 'dragonfly' July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On Wednesday 23 July, TU Delft will be presenting the minute DelFly Micro air vehicle. This successor to the DelFly I and II weighs barely 3 grams, and with its flapping wings is very similar ... | |
 Grow your mobile in a pot? Maybe someday, say Nokia researchers July 22, 2008 | User rating: 2.8 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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With a mobile phone you can make calls on the go, shoot photos and pinpoint your position on a map. And who knows, maybe one day you'll be able to grow your phone in a pot, if the futuristic ideas of technology ... | |
 Portuguese team makes first paper based transistor July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Elvira Fortunato and colleagues from the Centro de Investigação de Materiais (Cenimat/I3N), at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, made the first Field Effect ... | |
 Facebook asks US court to unplug German website StudiVZ July 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Facebook is asking a US court to shut down German website StudiVZ on the grounds it is an illegal "knockoff" of the online social networking superstar. | |
Brocade deals for Foundry Networks in Cisco salvo July 21, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Brocade Communications Systems Inc., dominant in an obscure corner of the data storage market, wants a piece of a bigger pie: Cisco Systems Inc.'s cash cow business of networking equipment that shuttles Internet ... | |
Texas Instruments hit by weak 2Q wireless sales July 21, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Shares of Texas Instruments Inc. took a beating after its second-quarter earnings missed Wall Street estimates. | |
Scholars plan to reunite ancient Bible -- online July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, a 4th century version that had its Gospels and epistles spread across the world, is being made whole again - online. | |
Summary box: Yahoo's truce with Icahn July 21, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- PEACE PLAN: After two months of sniping at each other, Yahoo Inc.'s leadership and activist investor Carl Icahn negotiated a cease-fire that will give Icahn three seats on Yahoo's board, which will expand to 11 directors ... | |
 Apple stock drops despite jump in Q3 profit July 21, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Shares of Apple Inc. fell sharply as investors focused more on the company's cautious guidance for the current quarter than on the blockbuster Macintosh and iPod sales during the previous three-month ... | |
 Ousted AOL chief Miller could guide Yahoo strategy July 21, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Given that he was ousted from the top job at a struggling AOL, Jonathan F. Miller might not seem a natural candidate to advise its Internet rival Yahoo Inc. But Miller was instrumental in transforming ... | |
Keeping up with your peers, securely July 21, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Mobile peer-to-peer (P2P) applications allow a team or group to create new levels of ad hoc co-operation and collaboration around a specific, real-time goal. But developing compelling and secure applications is a challenge. ... | |
SAP shuts down support arm sued by Oracle July 21, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- German software maker SAP AG said Monday it will shut down TomorrowNow, a subsidiary that provided support for Oracle Corp. software and was accused of stealing information from Oracle. | |
 Yahoo settles with Icahn to avert August showdown July 21, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. is relinquishing three seats on its board of directors to activist investor Carl Icahn, ending a battle for control of the Internet company while still leaving the door open for a possible ... | |
Closing the hydrogen economic loop July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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The inventor of the nickel metal hydride (NiMH) technology used for building batteries for countless portable electronic gadgets and now hybrid gas-electric cars believes the hydrogen economy is already upon us. | |
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