Governments and academics from the three countries are teaming up, putting aside troubled histories to avert a common disaster.
The issue: Asia’s well of available IP (Internet Protocol) addresses is running dry rapidly. Without an IP address–a 32-bit string of numbers–a 3G phone, PC or handheld has no identity and cannot send or receive data. [...]

A study involving over 60,000 people suggests that people prone to anxiety are more likely to get cancer.
The findings will add to the controversy over whether purely psychological factors such as stress, anxiety and depression can trigger cancer. Part of the problem with this kind of study is that it is hard to exclude with [...]

Digital Cyclone is one of several companies taking weather forecasting to new levels of usefulness and precision. The Weather Channel in Atlanta, GA, for one, now provides eight-kilometer-resolution maps and an alert service for desktop computers. And AccuWeather in State College, PA, generates one-kilometer-resolution weather maps that are available on personal digital assistants and Internet-enabled [...]

Sanswire Technologies Inc. will move forward with its plan to launch a nationwide wireless broadband network, following the reworking of its agreement with Telesphere Communications Inc., a division of Techsphere Systems International L.L.C.
Sanswire’s network calls for high-altitude airships called Stratellites to offer high-speed wireless Internet access to subscribers throughout the United States as well [...]

Facing budget cuts, libraries find help on the Internet
Like libraries across the nation, the Oakland Public Library is facing budget cuts that will probably result in layoffs, fewer public hours and a one-third cut next year in its $1.2 million book-buying budget.
So the library staff looked to the Internet for help, putting a [...]

Last year the UK spent nearly £200m on advertising online and, significantly, most of it came from traditional brands, an increase in online spending of more than 18% on the previous year.
Its market share of ad spend across all media is still only small – up to 1.4% for the year from 1.2% in 2001 [...]

A German university is claiming a world record for having cultivated the tallest flower ever, a bloom naturally found in the rain forests of Western Sumatra reaching 274 centimetres (almost nine feet) into the air.
Bonn University said the Titan Arum (Amophophallus titanum), which weighs 78kg (171.6 pounds), budded on March 14 and reached its record [...]

Unmanned aerial vehicles have lately been generating headlines as never before. When a Predator fired a Hellfire missile into a car full of suspected terrorists in Yemen last November, it seemed a watershed validation of the “hunt and destroy” role for UAVs. Days before the start of the Iraq war, Secretary of State Colin Powell [...]