Technology

Miltenyi Biotec Is Picking Up Good VYBrations

ORLANDO, Florida, April 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/-- Miltenyi Biotec today announces the worldwide release and availability of the MACSQuant(R) VYB, a compact, benchtop flow cytometer featuring violet, yellow, and blue lasers, and detection of 10 optical parame ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 4 2011 - 7:19pm

IPTC Releases RNews Standard Draft For Embedding Metadata In Online News

LONDON, April 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/-- Publishers large and small struggle to make sure that search engines and social media sites find their stories and refer to them appropriately. They want to provide highly targeted adverts while dealing with users who ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 5 2011 - 12:05pm

Wikipedia More Accurate For Political Information Than In The Past

Wikipedia is commonly derided as inaccurate and partisan but, at least when it comes to verifiable facts (rather than slant) that isn't the case, at least in political biographical information. Brigham Young University political scientist Adam Brown f ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2011 - 9:07am

SciPlanner Provides Chemists New Ways To Plan Their Research

COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/-- Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) today introduced major enhancements to its SciFinder(R) research tool. One new feature is SciPlanner(TM), a ground-breaking interactive workspace that enables scientists to mor ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 19 2011 - 11:14am

U.S. Supreme Court Today- I4i V. Microsoft

WASHINGTON D.C., April 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/-- In Washington DC today, eight Supreme Court justices heard oral argument of the appeal for i4i v Microsoft. Microsoft has asked the Supreme Court to lower the standard of proof, for challenges to the validity ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 19 2011 - 11:13am

Ephemeral clouds

I’ve talked about cloud computing before in these pages. It’s a model of networking that in some ways brings us back to the monolithic data center, but in other ways makes that data center distributed, rather than central. A data cloud, an application clo ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Apr 27 2011 - 9:08pm

SETI Shut Down- Aliens Who Sent Radio Signals 400 Years Before Radio Was Invented Will Be Disappointed

Citing a lack of revenue, the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California has shut down the Allen Telescope Array of radio dishes that have been scanning the skies for signals from extraterrestrial life for decades. And that's the problem, isn't ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 4 2012 - 2:39pm

Tablets, Computers, Science. We Have Failed- Up To Now

I have once before put down some thoughts about computing devices and the situation for scientific use of computer technology, hoping to get some response and start some fruitful discussion. It remained with the hopes, some comments appeared there, but not ...

Article - Ladislav Kocbach - Apr 28 2011 - 12:45pm

Who is Stalking you on Facebook? Who is your biggest Fan? (Updated Methods).

Facebook has always been plagued with privacy issues, such as revealing to third parties personal information which may be used to sell you goods and services.  Recently it was denounced by the founder of wikileaks for being a platform for domestic and for ...

Blog Post - Ed Chen - May 15 2011 - 4:20pm

Did You Make Out With Your iPhone Today?

Mobile Make Out is is an iPhone app that claims to make it possible to make out with someone you are not supposed to be making out with and totally not be called unfaithful by your wife or girlfriend.   Why didn't the iPhone exist when Bill Clinton w ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 9 2011 - 2:44pm