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Online Video Stats Show Staggering Growth Curve

August 10th, 2006 at 11:48 pm » Comments (0)

A recent report from technology research firm In-Stat indicates that the potential market for online video content worldwide will grow from 13 million households in 2005 to 131 million households in 2010. One of the drivers behind this growth is the widespread adoption of broadband, and In-stat predicts that by 2010 there will be 413 […]



Antarctic Study: No Evidence of Climate Change

August 10th, 2006 at 11:41 pm » Comments (0)

U.S. researchers say the most precise record of Antarctic snowfall ever generated shows no real increase in precipitation during the past 50 years.



Liquid Explosives Sitting on Bathroom Shelves

August 10th, 2006 at 11:28 pm » Comments (0)

Chemicals sitting in anyone’s bathroom at home could be used to make an easily smuggled bomb that would badly damage a passenger jet, and experts have been warning about this danger for years.



Drug Kills Prostate Cancer Cells

August 10th, 2006 at 11:11 pm » Comments (0)

U.S. scientists have developed an experimental RNA-based drug — the first of its kind — that kills prostate cancer cells, without harming normal cells.



India State Bans Coke and Pepsi

August 10th, 2006 at 7:04 am » Comments (0)

A southern Indian state on Wednesday banned the sale and production of Coke, Pepsi, Sprite and other soft drinks made by the Indian subsidiaries of Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc.



Robot Shopping Cart Designed to Follow You Around

August 10th, 2006 at 6:55 am » Comments (0)

It looks almost like any other shopping cart, except sensors allow it to follow the shopper around the supermarket and slow down when needed so items can be placed in it, and it never crashes into anyone’s heels.



How Google Could Change MySpace?

August 10th, 2006 at 6:41 am » Comments (0)

When Google ponied up $900 million this week for exclusive rights to provide search and keyword advertising to Fox Interactive Media, it set tongues wagging. How did News Corp. and FIM answer the question of how to make money off of MySpace? By making it Google’s problem.



Report: China Crackdown on Counterfeit Goods Pays Off

August 10th, 2006 at 6:36 am » Comments (0)

China Daily:  The ongoing crackdown on counterfeit goods has seen more than 39 million fake products seized in the first half of this year.



The Nine-Bladed Scissors

August 10th, 2006 at 6:19 am » Comments (0)

The recently accounced five bladed scissors just wasn’t enough for the Japanese. They’ve went and upped the ante to nine.



Introducing the GE Vapor Tracer: An Electronic Bloodhound Without the Blood

August 10th, 2006 at 6:09 am » Comments (0)

Here is a photo of the Vapor Tracer, a device being used in the drug wars to sniff out narcotics. Its nose is a mass spectrometry sensor, capable of finding tiny amounts of drugs by detecting the "mass-to-charge ratio of ions".