Recent posts
-
Little Headway Gained Against Spam and Malware
A report from Commtouch, a maker of antimalware, says the amount of spam on the Internet remains fairly constant, despite the efforts of companies to counter... Read more »
-
Hospitals Want Machines to Talk to One Another
Hospitals are taking on a vast array of new high-tech medical devices, but because the machines can’t interface, an opportunity to improve patient care is... Read more »
-
Crashes a Big Deal for Web Businesses
A few years ago, if a site like eBay went down for a couple of hours, it wasn’t such a big deal, because the number of users was relatively... Read more »
-
FCC Considers How to Save Birds from Cell Towers
No one is quite sure how many migrating birds are killed when they slam into cell phone towers at night, but the number... Read more »
-
Japan Challenges Detroit on Green Cars
General Motors is working hard at putting its electric car, the Volt, on the streets by 2010. But Business Week wonders if Detroit will be able... Read more »
-
Wireless Goes Mobile as Vehicles Tie into the Internet
A recent announcement by Chrysler that it will begin installing wireless connections in all Chrysler, Jeep, and Dodge models signals that the Web... Read more »
-
Call Out for Next-Generation Web Standards
The OpenAjax Alliance, an industry group trying to promote standards for the future of the Internet, is asking its members to vote for their favorite Web... Read more »
-
Is Ethanol Policy Counterproductive?
Citing a pair of wire stories, Salon asks whether current policies to promote the production of ethanol amount to bad economics. Federal ethanol mandates are driving up... Read more »
-
Who Should Be Obama’s Tech Czar?
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has proposed creating a Cabinet-level position for a chief technology officer. Washingtonian.com finds the idea intriguing, and reviews some of the names... Read more »
-
Everyone Needs a Gigabit by 2015
The government must take steps to push the availability of broadband Internet access if the U.S. is to remain competitive, a telecom law firm is recommending. The Baller... Read more »
-
Science Debate Needed, Tech Advisor Says
Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama ought to have a debate focusing on science and technology policy, a former White House technology advisor says. Mike Nelson, who... Read more »
-
Conference Looks at Web’s Effect on Politics
A two-day conference in New York this week is looking at the interaction of the Web and the political process, reports Ars Technica. At... Read more »
-
Study Finds Scientific Fraud
The National Institutes of Health may have to start policing their grants better, after a study found that as many as 1000 incidents of scientific misconduct may go... Read more »
-
Electrics Cars Coming to America
Think, a Norwegian company that makes cars that run only on electricity, has opened a North American division and hopes to start-selling its autos in the U.S. in 2009,... Read more »
-
Court Finds Text Messages Are Private
You can now text your BFF to your heart’s content and not worry about somebody reading the transcript, thanks to a federal court ruling. CNET... Read more »
-
Should the Law Limit Gene Tests?
Personal genomic testing is all the rage among people seeking to trace their ancestry or identify their risk of certain diseases, but last week... Read more »
-
Lots of the people I know who went into science and technology journalism did so after spending a year or two working in a lab. Personally, I never experienced what I hear is the tedium of... Read more »
-
Need a better AIDS drug? Want to turn plants into gasoline without going through that whole millions-of-years-buried-in-the-ground thing? The University of Massachusetts is hoping its researchers have figured out how to achieve... Read more »
-
Solar cells have been around for 30 years, but have never made huge inroads into the energy market because they’ve always been more expensive than other ways of producing electricity. Now... Read more »
-
You may remember a few weeks back, when Nanocomp Technologies of Concord, NH, announced that it was able to make what it called the world’s largest sheets of carbon nanotubes. Well,... Read more »
