Comcast simultaneously admitted and defended its practice of throttling peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic in comments filed…
Month: February 2008
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Google’s Android Stirs Mobile-Device Industry
Google’s Android platform is stirring up the mobile-device industry. Introduced this week at the Mobile…
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What Takeover Bid? Yahoo Buys Ad Vendor Maven
If Yahoo is supposed to be paralyzed by Microsoft’s pursuit, someone forgot to tell Yahoo….
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Sun Will Buy Innotek, Developer of Virtualbox
Sun Microsystems is acquiring German software developer Innotek and its Virtualbox technology. With more than…
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How To Live To 100: Remain Independent, Avoid Disability, Research Suggests
Researchers report that for a substantial proportion of their centenarian subjects, avoiding age-related diseases (i.e.,…
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Surgical Robot Triples Accuracy Of Medical Students Training For Hip Surgery
A new surgical robot is making medical undergraduates three times more accurate during practice hip…
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Bone Complications Due To Cystic Fibrosis Have A Genetic Cause, According To Study
A recent study sheds some new light on the bone problems that generally accompany cystic…
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Moss Protein Plays Role In Alzheimer’s Disease, Researchers Believe
Researchers working to prevent Alzheimer’s disease have looked for ideas in some unusual places, and…
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A Ray Of Sunshine In The Fight Against Cancer: Vitamin D May Help
It sounds too good to be true … a little inexpensive pill that could block…
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New Test Detects Early Stage Ovarian Cancer With 99 Percent Accuracy
A new blood test has enough sensitivity and specificity to detect early stage ovarian cancer…