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May 12, 2008
Female Concave-eared Frogs Draw Mates With Ultrasonic Calls

16:00 | ScienceDaily Headlines

Most female frogs don't call; most lack or have only rudimentary vocal cords. A typical female selects a mate from a chorus of males and then -- silently -- signals her beau. But the female concave-eared torrent frog, Odorrana tormota, has a more direct method of declaring her interest: She emits a high-pitched chirp that to the human ear sounds like that of a bird.
Fruit Fly Avoidance Mechanism Could Lead To New Ways To Control Pain In Humans

16:00 | ScienceDaily Headlines

At first, fruit flies eat like horses. Hatching inside over-ripe fruit where they were laid, they feed wildly in the sugar-rich environment until nature sends them an offer they can't refuse. To survive, they must leave the fruit, wander off and burrow into the earth where they avoid food as if it were poison. Only then can the larvae grow and hatch into flies that will take wing to lay their own eggs. Researchers have now discovered that the important developmental switch from food attraction to aversion in the fruit fly larva is controlled by a timing mechanism in the brain and its sensory system. The study shows how this important avoidance mechanism has been recruited into evolutionary processes to promote development and could lead to new methods of controlling pain in humans and other animals.
Hot-air Balloon Research May Improve Tornado Predictions

16:00 | ScienceDaily Headlines

Three hot-air balloons dropped asphalt shingles, lumber, sticks, leaves and pine needles onto a north Alabama landfill, so scientists could gather data needed to improve tornado warnings. The payloads dropped by the balloons were similar to the types of debris thrown into the air by tornados that touch the ground. Scientists hope the Doppler radar data collected will be a first step toward programming National Weather Service Doppler radar to recognize tornado debris, so more timely and precise tornado warnings might be issued.
Worms Triple Sperm Transfer When Paternity Is At Risk

16:00 | ScienceDaily Headlines

Scientists used to think that hermaphrodites, due to their low position in the evolutionary scale, did not have sufficiently developed sensory systems to assess the "quality" of their mates. A new work has shown, however, that earthworms are able to detect the competition by fertilizing the eggs that is going to find its sperm, tripling its volume when there is rivalry. This ability is even more refined as they are able to transfer more sperm to more fertile partners.
Gene Linked To Alcohol And Cocaine Dependence

16:00 | ScienceDaily Headlines

The search for genes associated with alcohol dependence has recently been extended to the tachykinin receptor 3 gene, located within a broad region on chromosome 4q. Researchers have found that seven of the nine single nucleotide polymorphisms -- DNA sequence variations -- in the 3' region of TACR3 have a significant association with AD as well as cocaine dependence.
Tomato Stands Firm In Face Of Fungus

16:00 | ScienceDaily Headlines

Scientists have discovered how to keep one's tomatoes from wilting -- the answer lies at the molecular level. Farmers and fellow agriculturalists are continuously battling the ability of plant pathogens to co-evolve alongside their host's immune system. In agriculture, the most environmentally friendly way to combat the evolutionary change in plant diseases is to make use of the innate immune system of plants.

Tanner likely to update CeBIT on policy

15:00 | AustralianIT.com.au | Breaking News

PEOPLE attending next week's CeBIT Australia technology trade show in Sydney are expected to get an early report card on the federal Government's recently announced review of IT procurement.
Facebook agrees to protect children

15:00 | AustralianIT.com.au | Breaking News

FACEBOOK will add more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies.
TorrentSpy to appeal $117m judgment

15:00 | AustralianIT.com.au | Breaking News

A TORRENTSPY lawyer has vowed to appeal against a $US110 million ($117 million) legal judgment against the website.
MySpace shares profiles with rivals

15:00 | AustralianIT.com.au | Breaking News

MYSPACE is opening the gates of its popular online community by letting users automatically transfer profile information to other social networking websites.
ISPs seek reprieve for copper

15:00 | AustralianIT.com.au | Breaking News

AUSTRALIA'S third-largest internet firm has called on the federal Government to ease pressure on internet service providers.
US takes up Aussie speed breakthrough

15:00 | AustralianIT.com.au | Breaking News

AN Australian-developed signal processing technology has been licensed to a US company to deliver faster internet speeds.
Westpac orders major IT reviews

15:00 | AustralianIT.com.au | Breaking News

WESTPAC has engaged two consultancies to review its business and IT operations ahead of its proposed $70 billion merger with St George.
Panasonic calls for e-waste scheme

15:00 | AustralianIT.com.au | Breaking News

THE federal Government is being pressed to speed up a national scheme for recycling Australia's growing pile of electronic waste.
Online Christian soldiers, join our happy throng

15:00 | AustralianIT.com.au | Breaking News

IF you're looking for God, you may find him on the internet.
Google young guns all grown up

15:00 | AustralianIT.com.au | Breaking News

IT'S official: the guys who founded Google have grown up.

Changing the World

14:00 | Computerworld Careers News

The generation holding most corporate leadership positions today has a lot to learn from the fresh concepts that are being introduced by the generation that's now entering the workforce.
Paul Major

14:00 | Computerworld Careers News

Paul Major, Aspen Skiing Co.'s CIO, talks about mapping business processes to renew the spirit, making pizza in a pinch and schussing for the company.
Career Watch

14:00 | Computerworld Careers News

Working more and sleeping less in the U.S.; and preparing inner-city youth for high-level IT careers.
Revenge of the Gamers!

14:00 | Computerworld Careers News

Stanford professor Byron Reeves argues that MMOGs like World of Warcraft, Eve and EverQuest may be the best simulators of tomorrow's business environment.
Who Makes What

14:00 | Computerworld Careers News

Average salaries for various help desk roles.
Global Dispatches

14:00 | Computerworld Careers News

Microsoft has broken ground on a $280 million, two-building R&D campus in Beijing, China; and Telstra was awarded a $153 million telecom pact by the Australian defense department.

Herd Those IP Addresses

14:00 | Computerworld Networking News

Mark Hall hears how it's possible to get a handle on all those IP addresses floating around your company.
Viva Las Vegas!

14:00 | Computerworld Networking News

MGM Mirage's $8 billion CityCenter -- the country's biggest private project ever -- rolled the dice on a little-known online project management system. So far, it looks like a winner.
Powerset unveils test version of Google-killer

14:00 | Computerworld Networking News

The public will get its first chance Monday to test a search engine from start-up Powerset that eschews convent...

GGGetting the Best From an Audit

14:00 | Computerworld Security News

Don't fear the audit. Learn from it. The important thing is that systems should be more secure in the end.

Recruiters reports clash again over IT&T jobs market

13:35 | iTWire - Latest Headlines

Two of Australia's leading monthly jobs market watchers, Olivier Group and Best People Solutions, are in sharp disagreement over the state of the IT T jobs market. Olivier has the...
iPhone times two in Australia and India - where next?

13:18 | iTWire - Latest Headlines

Australia and India will now get the iPhone from SingTel and Vodafone, just like Italy is getting the iPhone from Vodafone and Telecom Italia, showing a serious break from Apple’s previous stance...

Green House USB table fan totally blows

13:14 | Engadget

Filed under: Household
Sorry folks, it looks like Green House's USB table fan is strictly Japanese for the time being, so you'll have to settle for something a little smaller. Not that we're terribly confident a 500mA current is really all that capable of moving a lot of air in a table fan anyway.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Could Apple, NBC be patching up differences?

13:04 | Macworld UK

NBC shows appearing in the UK could point to a working relationship between Apple and NBC

Apple and NBC Universal engaged in one of the more spirited feuds of 2007, when the two companies parted ways over pricing at the iTunes Store. While NBC programming remains absent from the U.S. version of Apple's online digital media store, the two companies could be taking steps to resolve their differences-at least on the other side of the Atlantic.

Human Aging Gene Found In Flies

13:00 | ScienceDaily Headlines

Scientists have discovered a fast and effective way to investigate important aspects of human aging: a gene in fruit flies that means flies can now be used to study the effects aging has on DNA. The researchers found that flies with damage to this gene share important features with people suffering from the rapid aging condition Werner syndrome.
Number Of Fat Cells Remains Constant From Teenhood In All Body Types

13:00 | ScienceDaily Headlines

The radioactive carbon-14 produced by above-ground nuclear testing in the 1950s and '60s has helped researchers determine that the number of fat cells in a human's body, whether lean or obese, is established during the teenage years. Changes in fat mass in adulthood can be attributed mainly to changes in fat cell volume, not an increase in the actual number of fat cells.
Warming Up For Magnetic Resonance Imaging

13:00 | ScienceDaily Headlines

A new method of magnetic resonance imaging, much faster, more selective -- able to distinguish even among different target molecular species -- and many thousands of times more sensitive, has just been developed. The new technique has the capacity to choose among targets by slight adjustments in temperature.
Clues Into How Preeclampsia May Surface In Some Pregnancies

13:00 | ScienceDaily Headlines

The COMT gene -- known already for its role in schizophrenia -- has been found to play a role in preeclampsia, according to a report in Nature. The study further suggests that a steroid molecule, 2-ME, may serve as both a diagnostic marker and therapeutic supplement for the treatment of this dangerous pregnancy disorder.
Inventor, Engineering Students Explore New Type Of Solar Collectors

13:00 | ScienceDaily Headlines

A team of students led by a chemical engineering professor are working with a New Jersey inventor to advance a new solar thermal collector. The engineering students pointed out that this is the first truly new solar thermal system in more than three decades, and the company stated that it is unique among renewable energy technologies as it is cost effective without any government subsidies.
Braille Converter Bridges The Information Gap

13:00 | ScienceDaily Headlines

A free, e-mail-based service that translates text into Braille and audio recordings is helping to bridge the information gap for blind and visually impaired people, giving them quick and easy access to books, news articles and web pages. Developed by European researchers, the RoboBraille service offers a unique solution to the problem of converting text into Braille and audio without the need for users to operate complicated software.
Genetics Confirm Oral Traditions Of Druze In Israel

13:00 | ScienceDaily Headlines

DNA analysis of residents of Druze villages in Israel suggests these ancient religious communities offer a genetic snapshot of the Near East as it was several thousands of years ago. The Druze harbor a remarkable diversity of mitochondrial DNA types or lineages that appear to have separated from each other many thousands of years ago, according to a new study by multinational team.

Semantic start-up takes aim at Google search

12:46 | the INQUIRER

Sylvie Barak the Inquirer, Monday 12 May 2008. 12:19:00

Know what I mean?

A SILICON VALLEY start-up has just unveiled a new search system which in time should make it possible for people to search the entire Internet using natural language phrases and questions, instead of restricting them to keywords....
RIM slaps new phone and $150 mil on the table

12:46 | the INQUIRER

Stewart Meagher the Inquirer, Monday 12 May 2008. 12:19:00

Here's some cash, go write some software for our new phone, eh?

CANADIAN SMARTPHONE pioneer Research In Motion (RIM) has released a new Canuckberry/Crackberry/Blackberry which, suprprise, surprise, bears a passing resemblance to our old friend the Iphone. Complete with curvey corners and a gleaming chrome frame, the bafflingy-named Bold (does it get yer whites right too?) is a high-end device aimed squarely...

Farina arrested for allegedly bringing gun to LAX (AP)

12:40 | Yahoo! News: Entertainment News

AP - Actor Dennis Farina apologized for his arrest at Los Angeles International Airport after a loaded gun was found in his carry-on luggage.

China quake kills at least 100 people

12:40 | FT.com - World

An earthquake measuring 7.5 rocked China's Sichuan province on Monday, less than 100 km (60 miles) from the provincial capital of Chengdu, killing six children and injuring at least 100 others

Egypt optimistic about Israel-Hamas truce

12:39 | AlertNet Newsdesk

Source: Reuters (Adds Israel's Barak, paragraphs 4, 13; Hamas leader, 9) By Avida Landau JERUSALEM, May 12 (Reuters) - A top Egyptian mediator said on Monday he had "high expectations" that a ceasefire ...
Serbia in coalition scramble after ambivalent vote

12:38 | AlertNet Newsdesk

Source: Reuters (adds leaders meet paragraph 7, comment paragraph 9-10) By Ellie Tzortzi BELGRADE, May 12 (Reuters) - Serbia's pro-European alliance sought a coalition deal with smaller parties on Monday to stave ...

Paul McCartney granted preliminary divorce decree (AP)

12:38 | Yahoo! News: Entertainment News

AP - A judge in London has granted a preliminary decree of divorce for former Beatle Paul McCartney and Heather Mills.

Sprint Nextel loss widens

12:34 | Technology news - CNNMoney.com

Read full story for latest details.

Russia keeps key figures in new Putin cabinet

12:34 | Reuters: International

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Incoming Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced his cabinet line-up on Monday, re-appointing most key ministers and taking powerful figures from his previous Kremlin team with him to his new post.

FACTBOX-Rebel movements in Darfur

12:34 | AlertNet Newsdesk

Source: Reuters May 12 (Reuters) - Khalil Ibrahim, whose Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) attacked Khartoum at the weekend said on Monday he would launch more attacks on Sudan's capital until the government fell ...

Microsoft to appeal US$1.3 billion EU fine

12:34 | Macworld UK

Microsoft is set to appeal against the latest EU fine levied against the company

Microsoft is appealing the US$1.3 billion (€899 million) fine imposed on it by the European Union for failing to honor a 2004 antitrust agreement, the company said Friday.

China orders 'all-out' quake effort

12:33 | BBC News | World | UK Edition

Almost 900 students are reported to have been buried after an earthquake measuring 7.8 hit south-western China.

Indian tech companies give up on the US

12:31 | the INQUIRER

Sylvie Barak the Inquirer, Monday 12 May 2008. 11:43:00

Richer pickings elsewhere

INDIAN SOFTWARE SERVICES firms have started looking to emerging markets like the Middle East and Africa as the US economy continues to flounder. The sub-prime mortgage crisis has been a blow to the entire economy, including the IT industry, and to avoid getting significantly effected by it, India's export driven...

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