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Bush backs computerized medical records
By John Henry X - Thu Jan 27, 2005 7:54:45 PM ET
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- President Bush said Thursday that the medical industry is behind the times, using paper and pen for many records and prescriptions when computerized records could reduce cost and errors. "Most industries in America have used information technology to make their businesses more cost ...

Modeling and Simulation of Turbulent Flows
By John Henry Xu - Thu Sep 30, 2004 3:12:28 PM ET
Charles G. Speziale was an important scientist specialized on turbulence modeling and turbulent theories. He was a professor at College of Engineering, Boston University before he suddenly passed away in 1999. Many researchers try to continue the topics. But Dr. Speziale's models still the best in the ...

Yahoo Launches Photo Upload for Camera Phones
By Steven Charles - Thu Jul 22, 2004 7:13:49 PM ET
LOS ANGELES - Seeking to tap the explosive growth in cell phones with cameras, Internet company Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday launched a service that will let users transmit pictures from their camera phones directly to their Yahoo Photos accounts. The company said Yahoo ...

Renewed calls for alternative browsers
By John Henry X - Sun Jul 4, 2004 9:17:10 AM ET
NEW YORK -- It's been a bad week for many users of Microsoft Corp.'s nearly ubiquitous Internet Explorer browser. A pair of virus attacks exploiting its vulnerabilities had led security experts to recommend that Web surfers consider such alternatives as Mozilla and Opera. Until Microsoft made a ...

Private craft soars into space, history
By Steven Charles - Mon Jun 21, 2004 3:50:22 PM ET
MOJAVE, California -- SpaceShipOne left the Earth behind on Monday morning and made its indelible entry in the history books as the first private spacecraft to carry humans into space. It touched down safely at Mojave Airport at 11:15 ET. "It looks great," said Burt Rutan, chief of Scaled Composites, ...

Free was the key, says Web founder
By James Williams - Fri Jun 18, 2004 9:05:58 AM ET
HELSINKI, Finland -- Tim Berners-Lee, who received a ?1 million ($1.2 million) cash prize for creating the World Wide Web, says he would never have succeeded if he had charged money for his inventions. "If I had tried to demand fees ... there would be no World Wide Web," Berners-Lee, 49, said Tuesday ...

Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD
By John Henry X - Wed Jun 9, 2004 11:20:56 PM ET
FreeBSD is often overlooked when people discuss the relative success of the rival operating system platforms in use on the Internet. However, it has a secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July ...

'Buffalo spammer' sentenced
By James Williams - Fri May 28, 2004 4:51:57 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A New York state man who sent out millions of "spam" e-mails was sentenced to 3-1/2 to seven years in prison, the state attorney general's office said Thursday. Howard Carmack, known as the "Buffalo Spammer," received the maximum sentence for 14 counts of identity theft and ...