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Colleges Switch To EBooks To Cut Costs 27 Oct 2010 | 05:34 am
According to The New York Times, today’s technologically adept college student still prefers traditional textbooks. “It wouldn’t be the same without books. They’ve defined ‘academia’ for a thousand ye...
New Polio Vaccine Could Lead To Global Eradication 27 Oct 2010 | 05:26 am
A new oral polio vaccine that hits both wild strains of the disease still in circulation in polio-endemic areas could boost global eradication efforts, researchers suggested. Based on head-to-head tr...
Ford Report Healthy Profit 27 Oct 2010 | 05:19 am
Ford reported healthy profit gains in the third quarter and announced that its was paying down debt at a faster clip than earlier planned. The U.S.-based auto company reported net earnings of $1.7 bi...
Godard Will Skip Oscar Dinner 26 Oct 2010 | 10:39 am
Reclusive French-Swiss director film Jean-Luc Godard will skip a gala Hollywood dinner next month where he will be awarded an honorary Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on Mo...
Imagine Learning Releases New iPad and iPhone Reading App 26 Oct 2010 | 08:01 am
Imagine Learning, developer of the award-winning children’s language and literacy software Imagine Learning English, entered the arena of mobile learning last week with the release of its first mobile...
House Sales Increase By 10% 26 Oct 2010 | 07:51 am
The National Association of Realtors said existing home sales increased 10% in September, but subdued prices and ongoing scrutiny over the foreclosure practices of America’s largest mortgage lenders m...
Dow Continues Slow Climb 23 Oct 2010 | 06:33 am
Dow Jones industrial average added 7.03 points, 0.06 percent, to 11,153.60. The Standard & Poor’s 500 gained 0.29 percent, 3.45, to 1,183.71. The Nasdaq composite index rose 0.34 percent, 8.46, to 2,4...
Facebook Says Encryption A Solution To Security Flaw 23 Oct 2010 | 06:25 am
Facebook has proposed a solution to a recent security flaw that allowed apps to transmit personal data that involves encrypting the relevant string of numbers, according to a post on its Developer Blo...
New MacBook Air The Death Of The Hard Drive ? 22 Oct 2010 | 10:43 pm
On Wednesday, Apple unveiled a range of new products: a new operating system called Lion, an App Store for Mac OS X widgets, and FaceTime on the Mac. But perhaps the most hotly-followed announcement c...
Cabbage And Broccoli Could Reduce Breast Cancer Risk 22 Oct 2010 | 10:50 am
Eating lots of carrots and cruciferous vegetables — collard greens, cabbage, broccoli — could reduce breast cancer risk, particularly an aggressive form common among African American women, suggests a...
