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McNeil Consumer Healthcare Over-The-Counter Products: Recall
January 15, 2010 9:51 am | by FDA MedWatch | CommentsDecember 2009 recall expanded to multiple products.
Sitebrand Announces relevance7 Beta Release
January 15, 2010 8:01 am | by The Associated Press | CommentsSitebrand Inc (TSX VENTURE: SIB), a leader in online marketing solutions today announced the start of its beta program for relevance7, Sitebrand's long anticipated new personalization platform."Kicking off the beta phase of relevance7 represents another great step forward for Sitebrand. Product and...
China faces tough challenge over Google dispute
January 15, 2010 7:01 am | by JOE McDONALD - AP Business Writer - Associated Press | CommentsAt a time when they wanted to focus on the economy, Chinese leaders face a surprise political challenge: A possible Google pullout that could anger China's public and embolden other companies to vent grievances.Google Inc.'s threat to shut down its China-based site Google.cn over censorship and...
Software Makers See a Market in Censorship
January 15, 2010 6:58 am | by New York Times | CommentsWhile China's censorship policies are prompting Google to consider quitting its operations in the country, some technology companies see the restrictions as an golden business opportunity.
Burst of Mobile Giving Adds Millions in Relief Funds
January 15, 2010 6:58 am | by New York Times | CommentsAmericans are using their cellphones and social media like Facebook to make a donation to the Haiti relief effort.
After Google’s Stand on China, U.S. Treads Lightly
January 15, 2010 6:58 am | by New York Times | CommentsThe difficulty of proving that the Chinese government was behind a cyberattack has frozen the U.S. response.
Men More Evolved? Y Chromosome Study Stirs Debate
January 15, 2010 6:58 am | by Product Design & Development | CommentsWomen may think of men as primitive, but new research indicates that the Y chromosome — the thing that makes a man male — is evolving far faster than the rest of the human genetic code.
Harnessing the divas of the nanoworld
January 15, 2010 6:58 am | by EurekAlert | Comments(Michigan Technological University) Boron nitride nanotubes have been notoriously difficult to grow, requiring special instrumentation, dangerous chemistry, or temperatures of over 1,500 degrees Celsius to assemble. As it turns out, they just needed a little encouragement. Now, Michigan...
Holditch selected vice president and president-elect of prestigious Texas academy
January 15, 2010 6:55 am | by Texas A&M University | CommentsDr. Stephen A. Holditch, head of the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University and holder of the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Chair, has been selected vice president and president-elect of The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas...
Company Name to Be Changed to Integrated Freight Corporation
January 15, 2010 5:01 am | by The Associated Press | CommentsPlanGraphics, Inc. (OTCBB: PGRA) (www.integrated-freight.com (http://www.integrated-freight.com) ), announced the completion of a merger with Integrated Freight Corporation on December 24, 2009. Integrated Freight was merged into PlanGraphics following an acquisition of more than 90 percent of...
Microbes Flourish In Healthy People
January 15, 2010 3:53 am | by Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog | CommentsBugs Inside: What Happens When the Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Disappear? by Katherine Harmon The human body has some 10 trillion human cells—but 10 times that number of microbial cells. So what happens when such an important part of our bodies goes missing? … “Someone who...
China's population of Web users hits 384 million
January 15, 2010 1:01 am | by The Associated Press | CommentsChina's population of Internet users, already the world's largest, soared nearly 30 percent last year to 384 million as the number of people surfing the Web by mobile phone more than doubled, a research group reported Friday.The 28.9 percent growth rate was below 2008's eye-popping 41 percent...
China tries to limit Google dispute fallout
January 14, 2010 10:01 pm | by JOE McDONALD - AP Business Writers - Associated Press | CommentsChina tried Friday to keep its censorship row with Google from damaging business confidence or ties with Washington, promising good conditions for foreign investors but giving no sign it might relax Internet controls.U.S.-China trade and economic ties will not be affected by any Google Inc....
Google's future in China unclear, despite praise for standing up to Chinese censorship
January 14, 2010 8:01 pm | by Foster Klug@ - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS@ - Associated Press | CommentsGoogle Inc. is enjoying an avalanche of goodwill because of its threat to leave China over email hacking attacks against dissidents.Does the Internet giant deserve the praise?It took four years for Google to reconsider its decision to help China control Internet information in return for access...
Hardware boosts December video game sales
January 14, 2010 3:01 pm | by BARBARA ORTUTAY - AP Technology Writer - Associated Press | CommentsAmericans spent a record $5.53 billion on video games in December, the most money ever in a single month, according to market researcher NPD Group.But even that wasn't enough to make up for the rest of 2009, and so the year ended with a sales decline. It had been a rough 12 months for the...
