Businesses, schools and individuals are gearing up for the Oct. 22 launch of Microsoft’s new…
Month: October 2009
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Google Wave Has Business Value — But Not From Google
Google Wave is great, and companies should consider offering its functionality to their employees, a…
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First-of-kind Study Shows Model Can Be Used To Rate Courtroom Psychiatric Experts Performance
What does it mean when expert psychiatric witnesses in a court case reach opposing conclusions…
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Internet Services: Researchers Save Electricity With Low-power Processors And Flash Memory
Researchers have combined low-power, embedded processors typically used in netbooks with flash memory to create…
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Gene Mingling Increases Sudden Death Risk
Medical researchers report that variations in the gene NOS1AP increase the risk of cardiac symptoms…
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Culture Is More Important Than Genes To Altruistic Behavior In Large-scale Societies
Socially learned behavior and belief are much better candidates than genetics to explain the self-sacrificing…
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Earlier Flu Viruses Provided Some Immunity To Current H1N1 Influenza, Study Shows
Researchers studying the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, formerly referred to as “swine flu,” have identified…
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What Drives Our Genes? Researchers Map The First Complete Human Epigenome
Although the human genome sequence faithfully lists (almost) every single DNA base of the roughly…
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PC Sales Reverse Declines, with Windows 7 in the Wings
The global PC market is showing signs of a recovery, according to industry analysts. Gartner…
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Ellison Dares IBM To ‘Make Our Day,’ But Is It Bluster?
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison may have got his heroes mixed up, but there was no…