News
Joost Sells Most of Its Assets to Adconion
November 24, 2009 11:57 am | by New York Times | CommentsThe struggling online video site is selling its name, trademark and other technology, but says it will keep operating in some form.
Asana Aims to Change the Way We Work
November 24, 2009 11:57 am | by New York Times | CommentsAsana, started by a Facebook co-founder, has raised money from well-known venture capitalists for its workplace productivity software.
TVs, Videogames Fill Holiday Carts
November 24, 2009 11:57 am | by Wall Street Journal | CommentsTrends suggest electronics sales may be solid during the holiday shopping season, while sales of apparel could get pummeled.
TV Price Drops Help Retailers Tout Deals
November 24, 2009 11:57 am | by Wall Street Journal | CommentsRetailers are trumpeting great deals on televisions heading into Black Friday, but the steepest discounts this year are limited to a few sets.
Facebook Creates Dual-Class Stock
November 24, 2009 11:56 am | by Wall Street Journal | CommentsFacebook has established a dual-class stock structure, a move that helps lay the groundwork for an eventual initial public offering.
Study examines link between religion and votes
November 24, 2009 10:52 am | by Cornell University | CommentsHow Americans vote is strongly linked to their religious identities, but it is not an independent influence that transcends race, socioeconomic class and gender, reports a new study.
MIPS Technologies Announces Availability of Arriba for Android Porting Kit
November 24, 2009 10:21 am | CommentsMIPS Technologies, Inc., a provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for home entertainment, communications, networking and portable multimedia markets, today announced availability of the Arriba for Android Porting Kit (APK) for its industry-standard MIPS architecture.
What it is...
November 24, 2009 9:54 am | by Screaming Circuits | CommentsDan got it. As for what it has to do with PCBs, well, not a whole lot except that my desk was all messy that day so I was using the carpet as a back
Oceans Absorbing Carbon Dioxide More Slowly, Yale Scientist Finds
November 24, 2009 8:53 am | by Yale University | CommentsThe world’s oceans are absorbing less carbon dioxide (CO2), a Yale geophysicist has found after pooling data taken over the past 50 years. With the oceans currently absorbing over 40 percent of the CO2 emitted by human activity, this could quicken the pace of climate change,...
New Results From T2K
November 24, 2009 8:53 am | by Brookhaven National Laboratory | CommentsPhysicists from the Japanese-led multi-national T2K neutrino collaboration announced today that over the weekend they detected the first neutrino events generated by their newly built neutrino beam at the J-PARC accelerator laboratory in Tokai, Japan.
Ten Trends for the Tens
November 24, 2009 6:16 am | CommentsA new decade is right around the corner. I expect we’ll start to see a lot of prognostication soon, so I will attempt to get out ahead of the crowd. At Catalyst we research growth industries and invest in businesses that have recurring, advertising or subscription-based revenue. Growth industries ride the big product adoption trends. Here are ten big industry trends we intend to capitalize on
Jail broken iPhones hacked by new virus
November 24, 2009 5:29 am | CommentsHackers have built a virus that attacks Apple Inc's iPhone by secretly taking control of the devices via their Internet connections, security experts said. The virus has been detected in the Netherlands and can only attack iPhones whose users have disabled some pre-installed security features...
Oak Ridge 'Jaguar' Supercomputer is World's Fastest
November 24, 2009 5:22 am | CommentsAn upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the Department of Energy has made the “Jaguar” supercomputer the world’s fastest. Located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jaguar is the scientific research community’s most powerful computational tool for exploring solutions to some of today’s most difficult problems.
Twitter eyes acquisitions, sees making money in 2010
November 24, 2009 5:21 am | CommentsMicro-blogging site Twitter is interested in making more acquisitions as it continues to grow in popularity, co-founder Biz Stone said on Tuesday. "That is something we are definitely interested in," Stone told a news conference in Tel Aviv. "We made an acquisition last year that turned out to be an outstandingly good decision."
Big Bang machine achieves first particle collisions
November 24, 2009 5:14 am | CommentsScientists have smashed together proton beams for the first time in a 27-kilometre tunnel under the French-Swiss border in an initial step toward discovering how the universe came into existence, they said on Monday. Scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) hope experiments will already start giving clues about the origins of the universe...
