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Google social network ad business "improving": Brin

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Google Inc co-founder Sergey Brin said on Thursday advertising on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace was getting better, but was still not perfect.

Apple says online stores out of iPhones

BEIJING, May 13 (Xinhuanet) -- Apple Inc. says its online stores in the United States and United Kingdom are sold out of the iPhone, an indication supplies are being winnowed ahead of the launch of the device's next generation that will feature faster Internet surfing speeds.

Yahoo SearchMonkey Is Out of Its Cage

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Dried fruit company's online store to benefit international children's charity

Slow dried fruit based snacks and cereals provider Southern Alps is now selling its entire range online via ethical virtual store Extraordinary Food.

Panasonic weighs in on GEMS scheme

Update: Yahoo Search Monkey opens to all developers

Yahoo will make its Search Monkey platform available to all developers on Thursday, another step in its wide-ranging effort to open up its sites and services.

Mobile Digital Commerce Services for Premium Content Reached $1.1 Billion in 2007

The market for mobile digital commerce services grew to $1.1 billion in 2007, according to recent research by MultiMedia Intelligence, provider of intelligence on the markets and technologies. Digital commerce service providers process the financial transactions that monetize premium content from music, video and gaming companies over the mobile operator’s network.

PA Consulting insight to outsourcing in telecoms - 'Sharing the pain and the gain' - MECOM, Abu Dhabi, 28 May

Jurgen Wittkopp, Wireless Technology at PA Consulting, will talk on 'Outsourcing in Telecoms - sharing the pain and the gain' on Wednesday 28 May, 15.00hrs at IIR's MECOM 2008 event, in Abu Dhabi.

Get Personal at The Scotch Whisky Experience's Online Shop

The Scotch Whisky Experience, the five-star visitor attraction located in the heart of Edinburgh, has launched a unique personal shopping service as part of its new online shop www.scotchwhiskyshop.co.uk. The complimentary service, which is the first of its kind in the industry, will enable whisky novices to select the perfect malt blend or liqueur through expert advice on an extensive range of Scotch whisky.

'Hacker shuts down government computers'

Royal Darwin Hospital ... a hacker allegedly took down servers for hospitals, a prison and a supreme court / Amy Brabin

Spoils of Blu-ray win may elude Sony

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Hacker unleashes SQL injector update

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Mother of man who died at Vcr airport makes tearful appearance at Taser inquiry

VANCOUVER - Her faith in the RCMP "shattered" following the death of her son at the Vancouver airport, the mother of Robert Dziekanski called for a moratorium on the use of the weapon Thursday at public inquiry into the use of Tasers.

Web-Based Genome Service Partners With Parkinson's Researchers

On Wednesday, the consumer genome service 23andMe announced that it will collaborate with Parkinson's disease researchers to collect patient information in an all-online format, the

MIT crafts bacteria-resistant films

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Having found that whether bacteria stick to surfaces depends partly on how stiff those surfaces are, MIT engineers have created ultrathin films made of polymers that could be applied to medical devices and other surfaces to control microbe accumulation.

Undergraduates develop 'dirt-powered' microbial fuel cells to light Africa

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – May 14, 2008 – A team composed of Harvard students and alumni was among the winners of the World Bank’s Lighting Africa 2008 Development Marketplace competition, held in Accra, Ghana from May 6 to 8, 2008. The innovation, microbial fuel cell-based lighting systems suitable for Sub-Saharan Africa, netted the group a $200,000 prize.

University of Minnesota to host world's largest conference on evolution

More than 1,400 of the world's top experts on evolution will gather in Minnesota June 20 through 24 for "Evolution 2008," the world's largest annual gathering of evolutionary biologists. The conference, the premier international event for scientists to share research related to evolution, is sponsored by the University of Minnesota's Bell Museum of Natural History, the university's College of Biological Sciences and Minnesota Citizens for Science Education.

NJIT doctoral students receive recognition at poster competition

Giuseppe Di Benedetto and Micaela Caramellino, two doctoral students in NJIT’s graduate chemical engineering program, recently received recognition at a student poster event organized for developing efficient and robust approaches to manufacture nano- and micro-sized drug particles. The New Jersey section of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering was the sponsor.

OSU technologies funded for development

Stillwater, Okla.—OSU’s Technology Business Assessment Group will fund four faculty research projects for spring 2008. The group identified these one-year projects from a number of excellent proposals submitted in response to a solicitation earlier this spring. Funding for the program is administered by the OSU Office of Intellectual Property Management, and is generated by royalties from OSU-licensed technologies. These funded projects show a significant probability of having commercial success.

Genes in mice act differently in humans

Although mice are used in medical research since they share 85 percent of their genes with humans, a U.S. study suggests genes behave differently in mice.

Space Rocks Could Reseed Life on EarthNew Idea Could Solve Black Hole Information MysteryEarth Extinctions Blamed on Cosmic Speed BumpYoungest Exploding Star DiscoveredPiece of Missing Cosmic Matter FoundAlien Life-Searching Techniques TestedSaturn's

Chroococcidiopsis, which was used in this study, is shown here living in a rock from the Negev Desert in Israel. The green line running across the top of the rock is a thin endolithic film formed by the organism. These microbes live just below the surface of the rock, protected from the Sun's UV radiation. Credit: Gerda Horneck

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Physicists have come up with a way to explain how information could escape from a black hole, an idea that's been debated since the 1970s.

Global biodiversity slumps 27% in 35 years

The latest data on the global biodiversity of vertebrates shows that it has fallen by almost one-third in the last 35 years. But experts say it may still underestimate the effect humans have had on global species counts.

Carnegie Mellon scientists unveil new tool to understand evolution of multi-domain genes

PITTSBURGHCarnegie Mellon scientists have discovered critical flaws in the standard method used to analyze gene evolution. Standard methods fail when applied to genes that encode multi-domain proteins, an important class of proteins crucial to human health.

Climbing just as easy as walking for some primates: study

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Scientists have long thought that walking is easier than climbing for primates -- explaining why we humans ended up on our feet all the time.