IDENTITY FRAUD HITS NET TELEPHONY

Usernames and passwords from voice-over IP accounts are being traded online, a telecoms firm finds.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/technology/7398676.stm

FUTURE ZONE

MICROSOFT TALKS UP USING PRINTERS TO MAKE DRUGS

In the not-too-distant future, people could use computer printers to make simple medicines as part of a do-it-yourself model of health care, a top Microsoft executive said.

http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3223903/121438482/113043/0/

HOMELAND SECURITY ZONE

VERIZON & AT&T WIN $1 BILLION HOMELAND SECURITY CONTRACT

Verizon Communications and AT&T announced they have won contracts with the Department of Homeland Security worth nearly $1 billion. Under the new contracts, Verizon Business, as the primary service provider, will deploy and manage a secure global IP network linking thousands of Homeland Security sites, in a deal valued at $678.5 million over 10 years. AT&T Government Solutions will serve as the secondary network service provider in the Eastern region as well as for the Western region for the network in a contract valued at $292 million.

http://www.wirelessweek.com/Verizon-ATT-Homeland-Security-Contract.aspx

NATURAL DISASTER ZONE

LOW TECH BEST IN CHINA, BURMA DISASTERS

We can send probes to the fringes of the solar system. Swap instant messages with friends on the other side of the world. So surely we have some hi-tech help for the hundreds of thousands of people in Burma and China.

http://abcmail.net.au/t/154183/681895/3218/0/

CHINESE QUAKE SURVIVORS RELY ON CELL PHONE TEXT MESSAGING

  "The first word about the massive earthquake in China" came via cell phone text messaging-China's "most popular form of communication," reports National Public Radio. With phone systems disrupted and no way to recharge cell phone batteries, the Chinese have depended on "text messages because they require less energy than a phone call.Š almost no one in China has voice mail."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90425687

ARMY SAYS CONDITIONS OF LEVEES IS UNKNOWN

"The Army Corps of Engineers, the federal agency that oversees levees, lacks an inventory of thousands of them and has no idea of their condition, Š Eric Halpin, the corps' special assistant for dam and levee safety," told the Associated Press. "Š about 2,000 levees are either operated by the corps or by local entities in partnership with the corps, generally protecting major population areas such as St.

Louis and New Orleans."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24580927/

CYBERZONE

HOUSE DEMOCRATS DIG UP OLD ANTITRUST LAW IN NET NEUTRALITY FIGHT

The long-running debate over net neutrality took another turn Thursday when two lawmakers introduced a bill that would make it a violation of antitrust law for broadband providers to discriminate against different types of content in routing traffic on their networks.

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/62946.html

BRAILLE CONVERTER BRIDGES THE INFORMATION GAP

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.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080508174310.htm

DO NEW WEB TOOLS SPELL DOOM FOR THE BROWSER?

Since its inception, the Web has been synonymous with the browser. Pundits hailed NCSA Mosaic as "the killer app of the Internet" in 1993, and today's browsers share an unbroken lineage from that humble beginning. Do new Web tools spell doom for the browser? The Web is evolving into a full-fledged app-delivery platform, calling into question the browser's ability to fulfill the needs of today's rich Internet apps

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/12/20FE-web-app-development_1.html?source=NLC-DAILY&cgd=2008-05-12

POWERSET DOES SEMANTIC SEARCHES OF WIKIPEDIA

Powerset is offering a new way to search Wikipedia -- with natural-language technology and conversational phrasing instead of keywords like Google uses. Microsoft is rumored to be interested in an acquisition.

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=030002R9B8BC&nl=2

THE BIOTECH WORK FORCE: UNIQUE EMPLOYMENT LAW ISSUES

About 10 percent of the biotech work force was born outside the United States. Although the tensions and challenges faced by employers with a melting pot of nationalities in their work force may be unique, application of labor and employment laws is not. Attorneys Mary Dollarhide and Hannah Cole write that biotech companies must apply the same vigor and creativity they use in developing new technologies and products to creating solutions that allow compliance with applicable employment laws.

http://www.law.com/jsp/ihc/PubArticleIHC.jsp?id=1202421396611

SCIENCE ZONE

DIAGNOSTIC CHIP TESTS SILIVA FOR A HEART ATTACK

A newly developed saliva-based test could give physicians and emergency-care technicians a quicker and easier way to diagnose heart attacks.

The nano-biochip test, developed at the University of Texas at Austin and supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), measures proteins, or biomarkers, in the saliva that researchers found corresponded with heart attacks.

http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/20749/?nlid=1063

IS QUANTUM INTERNET SEARCH ON THE WAY?

MIT researcher Seth Lloyd believes that a new architecture for low-energy quantum access memory

(QRAM) could be used to reduce the energy wasted by RAM, and also for completely anonymous Internet search.

http://www.physorg.com/news129289258.html

ALTERNATIVE TO SILICON CHIP INVENTED BY STUDENT

Even before Weixiao Huang received his doctorate, his new transistor captured the attention of some of the biggest American and Japanese automobile companies. The 2008 graduate's invention could replace one of the most common pieces of technology in the world -- the silicon transistor for high-power and high-temperature electronics.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080513112341.htm

ENERGY ZONE

ARE BACKYARD ETHANOL BREWERS AN ANSWER TO HIGH GAS PRICES

Company debuts ethanol home refinery system to offer consumers an alternative to gasoline http://cl.exct.net/?ju=fe211578716c0375751d71&ls=fdfb15737467027b72147874&m=ff3310707762&l=fef61c7471640d&s=fe2615717c670174701272&jb=ffcf14&t=

ENZYMES FOR WASTE TO ENERGY CONVERSION

Enzymes from Palo Alto lab to help produce ethanol DuPont and a Danish food company will use enzymes developed in a Palo Alto lab to produce ethanol from crop waste, the businesses announced Wednesday. DuPont, one of...

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/05/15/BU5F10MENH.DTL

HYDROGEN FUEL FROM FORMIC ACID

A simple new process generates hydrogen for fuel cells. New research shows that formic acid could be used as a safe, easy-to-transport source of hydrogen for fuel cells. Matthias Beller and his colleagues at the Leibniz Institute of Catalysis, in Rostock, Germany, have found a way to convert formic acid, a common preservative and antibacterial agent, into hydrogen gas at low temperatures.

http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20778/?nlid=1075&a=f

INVENTOR, ENGINEERING STUDENTS EXPLORE NEW TYPE OF SOLAR COLLECTORS

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 tech http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080508174310.htm>

ENVIRONMENT ZONE

NEW PROCESS MAY CONVERT TOXIC COMPUTER WASTE TO SAFE PRODUCTS

Discarded computer parts could one day wind up fueling your car. That's because researchers in Romania and Turkey have developed a simple, efficient method for recycling printed circuit boards into environmentally-friendly raw materials for use in fuel, plastic, and other useful consumer products.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080512090630.htm

ASIA PACIFIC ZONE

STARDOM WAITS FOR ONLINE NEW ZEALAND COMPANIES

Kiwi online start-up companies can register to star in a reality television show and win the chance to launch their product in the United States. - http://www.stuff.co.nz/4550222a28.html

NZ TELCO COMMISSIONER EYES MOBILE TERMINATION FEES

Telecommunications Commissioner Ross Patterson has written to telcos to advise them he is considering regulating the fees mobile carriers can charge to terminate mobile calls and text messages on their networks, saying these are set well above their actual costs. - http://www.stuff.co.nz/4521700a28.html

WIRELESS ZONE

SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS BY LASER LOOKS PROMISING

Satellites currently use radio waves to exchange data. Now the data rate has been increased a hundredfold by using lasers instead of radio signals. Two test satellites each carried a diode laser pump module. The data whizzed back and forth at the speed of light between German satellite TerraSAR-X and US satellite NFIRE, covering more than 5000 kilometers in space without any errors.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080513104004.htm

  THREE IN 10 PEOPLE GET ALL OR MOST CALLS ON CELL PHONES

For nearly three in 10 households, don't even bother trying to call them on a landline phone. They either only have a cell phone or seldom if ever take calls on their traditional phone.

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=03300128HLI9&nl=2

CABLEVISION PLANS WIFI NETWORK IN NEW YORK CITY

A day after Comcast and Time Warner Cable announced investments in a WiMax joint venture spearheaded by Sprint and Clearwire, Cablevision said it would build its own wireless broadband network, using Wi-Fi.

http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3232501/149763351/114035/0/

AT&T LAUNCHES WIRELESS BROADBAND SERVICE ON CAPE COD & THE ISLAND

AT&T has launched a third-generation (3G) high-speed wireless network on Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Visitors, businesses and full-time Cape and Island residents, will now have access to cool applications that had previously only been available "over the bridge."

http://www.tmcnet.com/enews/e-newsletters/Internet-Telephony/20080515/27978-att-launches-wireless-broadband-service-cape-cod-the.htm

EarthLink TO PULL PLUG ON WIFI IN PHILADELPHIA

EarthLink Inc. is pulling the plug on its troubled wireless high-speed Internet network in Philadelphia, once touted as a national model.

EarthLink, which pinned its future on...

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2008/05/13/financial/f091451D64.DTL

WiMAX vs. LONG TERM EVOLUTION: LET THE BATTLE BEGIN

In the upcoming battle over next-generation wireless, WiMax has generated a lot of attention, but it may eventually be drowned out by Long Term Evolution, another fast wireless technology backed by the nation's two largest wireless carriers.

http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3234161/1423585/114189/2/

SITE CITES

EIGHT WAYS TO GET EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT

Getting people to do what you want can be very handy, be it at work or at home. But why are some people more persuasive than others and what strategies really work? Did you know that mimicking someone is one of the most powerful forms of persuasion? And women are more likely to be persuaded when meeting face-to-face with someone, than over email. New Scientist lifts the lid on the science of persuasion.

http://email.newscientist.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/nBViG0MXqRm0keh0E1ay0Ea

FACT OR FICTION: CAN YOU CATCH UP ON LOST SLEEP?

To catch up on lost sleep, add on an extra hour or two of sleep a night, rather than attempt an extended sleep session, researchers from Stanford University Sleep Clinic and the Harvard-affiliated Sleep HealthCenters advise.

"Sleep debt"--the difference between the amount of sleep one should be getting and the amount one actually gets--can require several months to repay. As people erase their sleep debt, their sleep patterns will return to what best matches their individual (and likely genetically

determined) sleep needs.

Short-term sleep deprivation leads to a foggy brain, worsened vision, impaired driving, and trouble remembering. Long-term effects include obesity, insulin resistance, and heart disease.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=fact-or-fiction-can-you-catch-up-on-sleep

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