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Motorola Invests in Universal Touch Screen Technology

As simple and effective as onboard navigation has become on mobile hardware, Motorola believes there’s still room for improvement. The company has recently announced an investment in a firm called Sensitive Object (a spin-off of the French National Center for Scientific Research), who cla...

Motorola Droid to get Platform Update

You may not hear about this on those cool Droid commercials currently occupying airwaves for the upcoming Holiday season, but Verizon says it’s time to release an Android update for the Motorola Droid. The patch would intend to improve the camera's auto-focus feature and the phone's voice...

Sarbanes Oxley on trial

...est or for the protection of investors"—has cost the economy nearly $1 trillion, according to a study by AEI and the Brookings Institution. The benefit is supposed to be investor protection. But despi...

Swype Hopes to Obsolete Mobile Typing

Since the advent of the mobile computing device, inputting data, especially text, has always been a conflicting issue in terms of size. Tiny QWERTY thumb boards, T9 (text completion) and multi-purpose numeric keypads have all been released to remedy this situation. One company believes t...

Free Blackberry App Helps With Holiday Shopping

Let’s face it, Holiday shopping can be stressful! Fortunately Blackberry users are about to have the power of technology on their side. Poynt, a free, all-in-one local search application for BlackBerry smartphones is the perfect application to help users with their Christmas shopping and part...

The History of the Internet in a Nutshell

... vs. females in social networks • NASA's New Altair Lunar Lander Simulation • 10 minutes of Avatar footage for your viewing pleasure • Not-so-mobile battery life: Time to force the issue • ...

Anticipated Nook Digital Reader Postponed Again

Well at least there’s Amazon’s Kindle! Barnes & Nobel were hoping to have their competitive product (the Nook) on shelves and in cyber space before the holidays but now it doesn’t look like they’re going to swing it. According to the latest rumors, the release date has been pushed back t...

AT&T Announces Voicemail to Text Service

While there’s no denying the convenience of voicemail, dialing in to your account then listening in can be tough in public. AT&T’s got a new service that aims to eliminate such inconveniences. Calling the service Voicemail to Text, AT&T will translate a vocal message into onscreen display....

HP reduces carbon footprint in its supply chain

...ger trucks and HP was estimated to have emitted 6,400 tonnes of CO2 in 2008. “We conducted a study with our worldwide office at the end of our third quarter in July and found that there has been a ...

Seen that? - Cheating to be fit?

... For the really heavy stuff you need a doctors prescription but that is usually not a problem. Case study shows that not even half of [...] Read More 31 years of dieting at ...

Seen that? - CFIB States 2 Million Jobs To Be Impacted Due to Lack of a Succession Planning

...n Planning at Small Business Unplugged According to a study by Canadian Federation of Independent Business, 40% of small business owners plan to leave the...

Seen that? - Hormone replacement therapy and hot flashes

...ement therapy and hot flashes at Straightfromthedoc A study from JAMA suggested that more than half of women who started taking hormone replacement therap...

Acer Looks to Android to Boost Handset Sales

In an era where handset makers are venturing into PC production, we have the opposite effect going on with Acer. Until now the company has relied largely on Microsoft's mobile Windows operating system to power its phones by that may soon change thanks to warm reception their Android-powered...

Nokia's 6700 Has Photogs in Mind

Nokia’s forthcoming 6700 looks to combine stylish form with powerful camera functionality. This mobile handset will be available in six color options - pink, red, petrol, blue, aluminum, lime and purple. Perhaps most appealing to customers will be the equipped 5 megapixel camera with Car...

Wine Prices: Lowering the Ceiling

...l State of the Wine Industry Report, Silicon Valley Bank warned that wineries need to adjust... The study found that for most American wine buyers, purchasing a $50 bottle of wine was "permanently out...

Carmangi's Official Site Launches

You still can’t buy one yet but that hasn’t stopped Carmangi from launching an official website for its forthcoming Android-based Web Station tablet / MID. The unit will feature a 7-inch glass touchscreen and some of the usual goodies like WiFi and GPS capabilities. Powering the tablet...

New HP iPaq Coming to AT&T

AT&T’s latest smartphone comes from HP and wears the iPaq brand label. Calling it the HP iPAQ Glisten, the Windows Mobile 6.5 touch-screen smartphone will be equipped with 3G world capabilities. The Glisten will feature a large, AMOLED touch screen for brighter, more vivid colors and a...

siRNA Drug to Treat Genetic Skin Disease Pachyonychia Congenita

...he mutation from being expressed but permitting the healthy keratin genes to function normally. The study marked the first time that the skin of a human subject was treated with this type of drug. Res...

RIM & Motorola in the Legal Hot Seat

It seems like no matter what innovations come down the pipe these days, there’s someone else claiming to have invented it first. Such is the case with handset giants RIM and Motorola who find themselves on the receiving end of legal action over visual voicemail. Making the allegations of...

Motorola i410 Coming to Boost Mobile

If you need proof of the slow economy, look no further than the cellular phone industry and the recent resurgence of consumer demand in the prepaid sector. To that end, Boost Mobile, the prepaid phone service business of Sprint Nextel, has recently acquired the Motorola i410 to its growing st...

Allergic Reactions to Heparin

... © Blind Grasshopper A newly published study ( pdf file ) reports that in some patients undergoing heparin injections , the blood anticoagulant has been shown to cause skin lesions due to allerg...

Bad economy, suicides and compensation

... people in 1929, rising to 17 in 1930 and 18.6 in 1932. Earlier this year, the Lancet reported a study by experts at Oxford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine showing...

5 Exercises Shown to Reduce Neck and Shoulder Pain

... A new study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology identified five exercises that can significantly reduce shoulder and neck pain particularly among women who worked in offices on repeti...

A Good Read for the Tech Lover

Well it may not technically be a gadget, it is a book about how gadgets have changed the world we live in. Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in a Silicon Valley garage 11 years ago with ambitions of changing the world. Did they succeed? In the opinion of the author, absolutely only t...

Verizon Targets Outdoorsy-Types With Their Latest Phone

Verizon realizes that not all mobile handset users want to simply make and receive phone calls. As such their latest collaborative effort with Casio, a rugged clamshell model will have six operating modes including one tells the user the best time for fishing. Calling the handset the R...

Seen that? - Globetrotter

...ent worldwide - Young people tend to be more [...] Read More Global Entrepreneurship Study 2004 at TJ's Weblog Anita has all the details fr...

Depression During Pregnancy May Make Flu Worse

...her (and the baby she's carrying) more vulnerable to some diseases. Now, in addition to that, a new study from Ohio State University Medical Center shows that depression during pregnancy , a very com...

China with the most English speakers

Which country will have the most English language speakers? It will be China with the Financial Times reporting that China is about to get more English-language speakers than India. Whereas an estimated 55 million speak English in India, China is increasing its English language speakers by ...

New Wound Dressing with Drug Releasing Fibers

... fibers that can be loaded with antibiotics, then dissolve when the healing process is completed. A study published in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research – Applied Biomaterials demonstrate...

Seen that? - Non Diabetics Abuse Diabetic Drug

...own to play an important role in the metabolism of carbohydrate, fat and protein. Last April, in a study presented at a meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in San...

Seen that? - Money talks: Health report cards do not improve patient care

...t improve patient care at Straightfromthedoc A recent study in JAMA suggests that "health report cards" do not improve patient care: To see if t...

Seen that? - Infertility Drugs Requires Beta Estrogen Receptor � Gene

... doesn't provide answers as to how infertility in women may be reversed, results form a recent study offers an explanation why infertility drugs may not work in some women. In the August issue of ...

Students Take to Online Gambling to End Their Debts

...t to relieve their growing debts, are turning to online gambling and in particular poker . One US study has apparently found that 7.8% of students have a gambling problem, with some debts amounting ...

Cooking on the Road

People and lawmakers complain that drivers don’t need additional distractions from the task at hand and hence love to crack down on talking on the phone, texting, or even putting a cell near one’s head. As such, as hard as it is top believe, one company believes there will be a market for tho...

Cooking on the Road

People and lawmakers complain that drivers don’t need additional distractions from the task at hand and hence love to crack down on talking on the phone, texting, or even putting a cell near one’s head. As such, as hard as it is top believe, one company believes there will be a market for tho...

T-Mobile to offer Prepaid Blackberry Plans

Like the idea of the business-powerhouse applications of the RIM Blackberry but fearful of getting caught up in a huge monthly bill or long-term commitment? T-Mobile understands where you’re coming from and has announced that it will begin selling a prepaid BlackBerry plan that doesn't requir...

就这样吧，谷歌也就是家中国公司

• 就这样吧，谷歌也就是家中国公司 • Windows Azure opens for business on Jan. 1, 2010 • BlackBerry Internet Service hit with data outages worldwide • 狮子座流星雨 • Google Chrome 4.0.249.0 Dev • Avatar Machine • 狮子座流星雨光临地球：流星将达数千颗 • 网易邮箱里的即时通讯组件 • Central Desktop Integrates Zoho Sheet • Twitter...

Apple overtakes Nokia in phone profits

...ld Pay for Online News, Study Finds • How To Use An Apostrophe • Mobile Fitness Tracking | Gym Technik • Leica M7 "Hermes" 特别版正式发布了，原来还有其他两款颜色 • Welcome - Boostpost | Rankings, Social Netw...

Seen that? - Water Cooled 360

...Months Photo Credit: Linda BadnerAccording to a recently published study, drinking chlorine-treated tap water during pregnancy may increase the risk of having children...

Hitachi Offers 2TB Version of its SimpleDrive

Hitachi realizes that there’s no such thing as too much storage space when it comes to external hard drives. The firm has just introduced a 2TB (terabyte) edition of its popular external SimpleDrive, and it also announced that all of its 3.5-inch retail drives are now available in 2TB capaci...

LG's Shine 2 Coming to AT&T

AT&T’s latest handset from LG is set to launch in under a week. The Shine 2, a stainless steel slider with reflective screen and polished round edges, will hit shelves on November 22 for $120. Successor to LG’s original Shine, the Shine 2 makes use of a reflective 2.2-inch screen with "Mul...

Soy Isoflavones and Bone Loss in Women

...enopausal women: supplementation with soy-germ derived isoflavones. That's according to an American study that involved over 400 postmenopausal women. Over 400 postmenopausal women participated in...

Greenland melting fast

... its ice, seas will rise seven meters. Combine that with a new University of Colorado at Boulder study showing that Antarctic is also melting at a faster rate and we have trouble. Scientists say...

Hikari to Release Google Android Tablet

Aside from the obvious iPhone – inspired name, Japanese firm Hikari is set to release a new tablet PC running Google’s Android operating system. Calling it the iFrame, this unit is set to feature a 7-inch touchscreen display, SD memory card slot, and WiFi capabilities (802.11 b/g/n). Oth...

AT&T responds to Verizon’s Ad Campaign

You know ad tactics are getting down and dirty when Verizon’s campaign forces AT&T to take action. AT&T (currently the exclusive domestic carrier of the popular Apple iPhone) says that while they typically don't respond to competitors' advertising, Verizon’s recent ads are so blatantly fals...

Plug Your Phone Into My... Coffee Cup?

If you’re like me, you’ve at some point wondered why nobody thought to include “standard” electrical outlets in your car. The bad news is that there’s no solid answer to this question. The good news is that someone out there with more technical knowledge (and motivation) has decided to do ...

Motorola's New Handset Built to Military Spec

Motorola’s latest handset looks to appeal to those users who make a habit out of destroying their phone. Calling it the Quantico, it features an exterior shell forged from chrome, glass, mesh and rubber and designed to survive in up to one meter of water for up to 30 minutes. A rubberize...

Nanospheres Used in Drug Delivery May Treat Spinal Cord Injuries

...celles treatment boosted the axon recovery to about 60 percent. The researchers used the chamber to study how well micelles repaired damaged nerve cells by measuring the "compound action potential," o...

RIM Gets Serious With Developer Tools To Edge Out iPhone

Research In Motion and Adobe announced a collaboration to integrate Flash technology into the BlackBerry development platform. This new level of integration will grand developers access to Adobe Flash and Adobe Creative Suite tools to create content and applications for RIM’s BlackBerry device...

Verizon Targets Music Lovers with New Chocolate

Verizon Wireless today launched the LG Chocolate Touch, a touch screen music phone with surround sound Dolby Mobile for a richer and clearer listening experience. The handset comes standard with a 3.0-inch touch screen display, FM radio, stereo Bluetooth, 1GB of internal memory for music ...

Seen that? - Gordon’s Jewelers Grants Wishes

...in the day: " As New York [...] Read More Keck Foundation Grants $1.6 Million to Study Biological Interactions with Nanomaterials at The Biotech Weblog ...

Seen that? - Germany in trouble?

... The Outsourcing Weblog Do you remember the often cited McKinsey study? the study outlined how outsourcing creates value for American GDP? As the study says the bala...

Seen that? - Online social networking

... supplements, rather than replaces, the communication people have with others in their network. The study concludes that one major payoff comes when people use the Internet to press [...] Read More ...

Sprint Reports Losses Despite Improvements

Sometimes it seems like Sprint must be scratching their collective head in effort to figure out what gives with the domestic wireless market. The company reported a large third-quarter loss as subscribers continued to leave for rivals AT&T and Verizon despite an improved selection of phones a...

Verizon Releases $100 Android Handset

In effort to boost publicity of the Android platform, Verizon Wireless plans to sell the HTC Droid Eris, a Google Android equipped wireless device, today for $100. The Droid Eris is nearly identical to HTC's Hero smartphone, which Sprint is currently selling for $180. In fact the Droid E...

Researchers Find Nanoparticles Can Damage Nearby DNA

...ns a very wide door to new safety concerns," writes Cold Truth's Andrew Schneider . "The study, conducted on cells grown in culture, suggests that the indirect effects of nanoparticles on c...

Seen that? - Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy

...ces of hormone therapy. There might be a better answer. According to The Doc Is In tells us about a study currently underway: Patches and gels are already known to be effective for relieving the hot f...

Sonos iPhone Music Player Ships

Sonos has confirmed initial shipments of its much-anticipated ZonePlayer S5 all-in-one wireless music system that can be controlled by the iPhone or iPod touch. The Sonos ZonePlayer S5 is a high-performance wireless music system with 5 speakers powered by 5 dedicated digital amplifiers. ...

Sony Hopes to Increase Market Share with Android Phone

Sony may rule the roost in several areas of consumer electronics but the smartphone industry hasn’t been one of them. To potentially remedy this reality, Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10 (their first Google phone) will go on sale in 2010. X10 will run Google's Android software and feature a larg...

Feature Packed Motorola Droid Hits Stores this Week

Verizon’s highly-anticipated answer to the iPhone is set to go on sale this week for $200. This new handset, called the Motorola Droid, will run Google's Android 2.0 operating system, offering a new mapping application that has voice-guided turn-by-turn directions, satellite imagery and h...

Flixster Expands Its Reach By A Factor of 8 Million

Flixster, the world’s biggest online movie community, looks like it's going to be bigger still by last week's announcement to release its first Blackberry application and overhaul its successful Android app. The announcement represents the company's simultaneous addition of 8 million mobi...

Seen that? - A Poor Diet While Pregnant Can Increase Child's Diabetes Risk

... Apparently, it's never too early to join the fight against diabetes: a recent study shows that developments toward the disease can start as early as in the womb. Although the stu...

Seen that? - Is there hope for female sexual dysfunction?

...le sexual dysfunction? at Straightfromthedoc A recent study suggests that the testosterone patch may help with female sexual dysfunction in a selected pop...

Seen that? - Pillow Talk

...nts", Near Field Communication (NFC) remains far from consumers' reach, according to a new study from ABI Research. Ironically, the deterrents lie in its inherent complexity and lack of enthu...

Novel Antifungal Protein from Pumpkin Rinds

...ginal yeast infections, diaper rash in infants, and other health problems. From the abstract of the study published in J. Agric. Food Chem. : A novel antifungal protein (Pr-2) was identified from p...

Seen that? - Soap and Water Eliminate Peanut Allergen

...ether early exposure to peanuts reduces the risk of developing peanut allergies later in life. The study will test 480 children between the ages of four and 11 months who already have eczema or egg a...

Seen that? - Outsourcing to Africa

...his year, by Barloworld Logistics operations manager Vince Boswell, who will be presenting his case study on "Real World Inventory Optimization" to the delegates, an Association for Operatio...

9 月 Twitter 用户访问量 5840 万

comScore 发布的 最新数据显示 ， Twitter 今年 9 月的全球用户访问量较 8 月份增加 6.7%，达到 5840 万。 倘若按照同比数据计算，则增幅高达 949%。其中，2090 万来自美国，但该数据自从今年 6 月以来便没有太大变化。 上述数据不包括通过手机和电脑客户端应用使用 Twitter 的访问量。但业内人士认为，如果 Twitter 希望成为首个获得 10 亿用户的服务，就必须要加快增长速度。即使以百分比计算，Facebook 在美国本土的增长速度也快于 Twitter ，其今年 9 月的全球用户访问量达到 4.11 亿，较 8 月增长 5...

Cell phones and brain cancer

...ce that heavy users face a higher risk of developing brain tumors later in life. This is no small study. It was conducted in 13 countries and some 2800 people were interviewed between 2000 and 2004....

How to run Windows 7 under Mac OS X 10.6 for free

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