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Fox Interactive Media Purchased Strategic Data Corp. |
 ...On Thursday Fox Interactive Media, owned by News Corporation, stated that it has acquired Strategic Data Corp., a company that deals with interactive advertising technology. This step was made to improve Fox's advertising, and mainly the way marketers perform it.
MySpace's officials stated that the technology used by Strategic Data is to help Fox Interactive Media automatically match advertisements with those users that ... |
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Google's New Purchase Called Adscape |
 ... Adscape Media Inc. is a company that provides in-game advertising. Google has agreed on purchasing the company for $ 23 million. This information was provided by Red Herring, a technology site which cited in a report made on Thursday the sources that are familiar with the matter. However, the spokesman of Google did not leave any comment stating that the current policy of the company is not to respond to "rumor or specul... |
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Scientific contribution in Iraq war undermined |
 ...Britain's Armed Forces may no longer take part in operations countering Iraq's threat without considerable funds in essential technology advancements, where scientists make their greatest contribution, announced a committee of MPs.
As it was disclosed by the Commons Defense Committee report, scientists from Dstl (Defense Science and Technology Laboratory), an agency of the Ministry of Defence, have their final word for... |
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Only 13 % People Have Internet Access |
 ...net have access to the Internet. This statement was made by the United Nations News Center. The majority of Internet users (90 %) live in industrialized countries. The gap in the field of information technology between the developed countries and those that are in development, is continuously increasing.
In its statement the UN News Center mentioned that most developing countries cannot benefit from the progress of the i... |
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Scientist's call upon policy makers on global warming |
 ... warming danger, showed that there is a necessity for scientific appeal to policy makers. Thus a new committee was called to deal with the issue.
The exploration of both poles will draw the latest technology, including robots and satellites, to make an observation on minor changes in ice thickness. The meetings held on previous polar year sessions were mainly focused on the discovery of Arctic and Antarctic areas, thes... |
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Search Information Will Go Private |
| ...or the majority, other search engines could adopt this policy too and produce the same effect as Google will.
On the other hand, Ari Schwartz, deputy director at the Group Center for Democracy and Technology, was more optimistic. He said he was glad that Google finally tried to find a compromise between being the world's major information collector and, at the same time, an Internet privacy defender.
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Japanese Scientists Work on a Flexible Battery |
 ...nducted for several years, but the scientists, working on this battery are Drs. Hiroyuki Nishide, Hiroaki Konishi and Takeo Suga, all of them from the Waseda University, are considered to improve the technology. Their development is based on a redox-active polymer film, which is about 400 nanometers thick. The charge carriers of this battery are the Nitroxide radical groups. Due to a high radical density these thin batter... |
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Nearly one third of Americans think Internet is useless |
| ...not have any access to the Internet. But what is even more surprising they do not intend to get one. The reason is that households do not consider Internet to be useful for their every day lives.
A technology market research firm located in Dallas, called Park Associates, outlined that 29% of households from the United States (which is about 31 million homes) do not even intend to get access to Internet in the next 12 m... |
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Now one blood group fits everyone |
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The finding can revolutionize medicine as it means there will be no lack of blood supplies. The study conducted by experts from University of Copenhagen published their results in Nature Biotechnology journal, where it is stated that O blood group can be a source for all the other blood types (A, B and AB).
If earlier the mistake of giving wrong blood group could lead to hazardous reactions from the immune s... |
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Invisibility is now one step closer |
| ...Using the nanotechnology scientists were able to make a significant step towards inventing an "optical cloaking", which represents a device able to make objects invisible. The device guides light around anything that is placed withing the so-called "cloak".
The engineers at Purdue University have followed mathematical guidelines that were devised last year by the UK physicists to create a theoretical design, which in i... |
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The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity |
 ...hth entry in the list;
- ninth position was taken by the discovery of diffraction of Roentgen rays in 1912 by Max von Laue;
- the last, but not the least, was named Henry Bessemer's iron processing technology, invented in 1856.
It should be mentioned that the entire list contained about 50 most important discoveries, among which the most important were the Gutenberg's alloy of plumb tin and stibium (used for printing... |
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Microsoft once again pressed by EU over patents |
| ...ation on its protocols than it will have to pay fines of up to 3 million Euros a day.
An independent trustee, endorsed by the software giant, Neil Barrett, told Neelie Kroes that even the patented technology, meant to ensure interoperability with Microsoft's operating system, could be found elsewhere, and it will be royalty-free. He mentioned that it would take the company's competitors seven years for recouping the co... |
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Men look at face, women look down there |
| ...omen and men were tested on visual response to erotic photographs that depicted sexual act to make clear the nature of sexual urges and its influence on health. The tests were made using eye-tracking technology that show the visual focus on various body parts. It was supposed that typical response to sexual stimuli would be women looking at faces and men looking at genitals. However, the results were unexpected and quite ... |
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Google buys DoubleClick, Microsoft still too far from online ads |
| ...the necessary first clientèle. Mr. Rosenblatt has also mentioned that his company will strive to maintain a neutral position towards its clients. The CEO has also said that Google didn't buy the technology, but they have bought the DoubleClick's relationships with its clients. This way Google will do absolutely everything to keep those clients near and will do they best to make the clients become even nearer.
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