AP – European antitrust regulators have formally objected to Sun Microsystems Inc.’s planned $7.4 billion…
Month: November 2009
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NY, Texas settle with Tagged.com over e-mails (Reuters)
Reuters – The operator of Tagged.com will pay $750,000 and overhaul its practices to resolve…
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Motorola Droid: Updates Coming Soon? (PC World)
PC World – Well, that didn’t take long: Just three days after the Droid dropped,…
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Google buys mobile ad firm for $750 million (Reuters)
Reuters – Google Inc said on Monday that it was acquiring of AdMob, one of…
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Sneezing In Times Of A Flu Pandemic
The swine flu (H1N1) pandemic has received extensive media coverage this year. In times of…
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Computer Predicts Reactions Between Molecules And Surfaces, With ‘Chemical Precision’
An international team of scientists has shown how the chemistry of surface reactions underpinning catalysis…
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Heart Attacks Become More Common But Less Often Fatal In Women
Heart attacks appear to have become more common in middle-aged women over the past two…
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Ants Are Friendly To Some Trees, But Not Others
Tree-dwelling ants generally live in harmony with their arboreal hosts. But new research suggests that…
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Widely Used Cholesterol-lowering Drug May Prevent Progression Of Parkinson’s Disease
Simvastatin, a commonly used, cholesterol-lowering drug, may prevent Parkinson’s disease from progressing further. Neurological researchers…
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Harvesting Energy From Nature’s Motions
By taking advantage of the vagaries of the natural world, engineers have developed a novel…