Dec 01 2008
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- Despite Steady Black Friday Numbers, Online Shopping Falls
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PC World - The volume of sales at Internet retailers held steady Friday compared to last year, despite the worsening economic outlook and signs U.S. consumers are cutting back on spending.
- Singapore’s StarHub Offers Femtocell Service
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PC World - Singaporean operator StarHub is rolling out a femtocell service that allows mobile subscribers to make calls at home using their broadband Internet connections instead of the cellular network.
- London Hospitals Nearly Back Online After Worm Infection
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PC World - Three London hospitals whose computer systems were infected with a relatively old worm are now almost back online.
- Malware is Getting Smarter, CA Warns
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PC World - Online attacks will be dominated by smarter malware and bots targeting Web users ranging from gamers and social network users to the elderly and unsuspecting parents.
- Mumbai Terrorism, Worm Warning, Holiday Woe
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PC World - A wave of coordinated terrorist attacks across Mumbai late Wednesday dominated the news this week, with bloggers and people using Twitter helping to get information to families and friends of those affected. Multinational technology companies are not expected to change their business strategies as a consequence of the stunning attacks, which targeted westerners.
- UK Prosecutors Investigate BT Over Online Ad System
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PC World - British prosecutors are investigating whether incumbent operator BT illegally tested an online advertising system without users’ consent.
- Estonian ISP Cuts off Control Servers for Srizbi Botnet
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PC World - An Estonian ISP that temporarily hosted the command-and-control servers for the Srizbi botnet, responsible for a large portion of the world’s spam, has cut off those servers, according to computer security analysts.
- Wall Street Beat: Clouds Loom for IT Despite Holiday Break
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PC World - The U.S. Thanksgiving holiday is bringing momentary relief to weary IT investors, but forecasts of flat sales or absolute declines for semiconductors, mobile devices and online commerce mean that it will be a while before the clouds lift from the tech sector.
- Sling Media Goes Head-to-Head with Hulu: Updates Offerings
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PC World - Sling Media hopes to go head-to-head with Hulu, Joost and other online streaming sites with a newly launched video streaming destination of its own at Sling.com.
- Adobe Rules in Web Video
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PC World - Eighty-one per cent of worldwide online videos are viewed using Adobe Flash technology, making it the number one format for video on the Web. This is according to the independent research firm comScore.
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Dec 01 2008
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- Math Trek: The Noisy Game of Baseball
Predicting a baseball player’s future batting average (and many other things) is not as simple as relying on past performance, mathematicians say.
- Food for Thought: The Costs of Meat and Fish
The animal protein in our diets can have a high environmental cost.
- Timeline: From the April 9, 1938, issue
Mining limestone to make steel, a bright little bulb, setting a new record on the sun and finding buried thermos bottles.
- Science Safari: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary . . .
- Letter from the Publisher
is about to pause briefly before presenting itself to you in a new form, both in print and online.
- Antibiotic Alligator: Promising proteins lurk in reptile blood
Scientists are zeroing in on alligator blood proteins that show promise for fighting disease-causing microbes.
- Einstein’s Invisible Hand: Is relativity making metal act like a noble gas?
Element 114 should be chemically similar to lead, but controversial experimental data shows it behaves more like a noble gas, potentially subverting the periodic table’s structure.
- Web Extra: First Frog without Lungs
An aquatic frog in fast-flowing water in Borneo turns out to be the first frog species with no lungs.
- All in the Family
Contrary to popular belief, species of salamanders, birds, beetles and fish prefer to mate with close kin.
- Letters from the April 12, 2008, issue of Science News [Subscriber Only]
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