IBM could shake up Silicon Valley with Sun deal

If IBM Corp. scoops up Sun Microsystems Inc. for at least $6.5 billion in cash, as the companies are discussing, IBM would be making an opportunistic grab for a deep well of technology that Sun has nearly buried itself developing.

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Writing for Peanuts and Loving It

In her spare time, away from her duties as a chemicals specialist in the Army, Angie Papple fires up her computer and writes an article about something close to her, like life in the military. Other times she'll analyze a piece of software. Or she'll churn out advice for travelers to Hawaii, where she lives, or Puerto Rico, where she's never been.

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AMD Restructuring After 1Q Revenue Miss

With its sales shriveling even more than analysts feared, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is imposing a partial hiring freeze and clamping down on other major expenses as the slumping chip maker tries to weather a fierce battle with Intel Corp.

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An interview with the stars of the micro-film, 'Paranormal Activity', which did an astounding amount of business in its opening weeks for a thriller film that only cost $15,000 to make.

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MICROSCOPES revolutionised the study of life on Earth. Now a rugged, easy-to-use instrument is aiming to be equally influential in the search for alien life in locations such as the oceans beneath the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.

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An international team led by the Scripps Research Institute in California said on Thursday it is the safest method yet found to transform ordinary skin cells into what are called induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells. More Articles

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The British researchers discovered that the new auditory cells produced from the fetal cells, performed identically to existing cells in developing ears. Researchers are also studying the use of embryonic and adult stem cells for their studies on restoring hearing loss.

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Twitter for Project Management: Corporate Activity Streams

from Getting project members activity streams into a project management system is something everybody needs – the just don´t know it yet.

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"I just think it's immoral to create life and destroy it in the name of science," said Georgia State Sen. Ralph Hudgens. "In Nazi Germany they did experiments with human beings. I don't want to see that done here."

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If they are otherwise to be destroyed, then does not the good that can be done to heal disease outweigh protecting a non-existent potential? Theologians must advise the bishops that there is a difference between metaphysical potentiality and this specific case. More Articles

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A fossil of a primitive feathered dinosaur uncovered in China is helping scientists create a better model of how dinosaurs evolved into modern birds.

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Using the human hand as a model, scientists at Johns Hopkins University and its medical school have developed a microscopic tool that might one day be used inside the body.

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Twitter, the most famous micro blogging site, has just released a search function after being online for quite a while.

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Physicians at four European universities have completed what they say is the first successful transplant of a human windpipe using a patient's own stem cells to fashion an organ and prevent its rejection by her immune system, according to an article in the British medical journ …

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Started in 1974, The Nikon Small World Competition is held annually to recognize excellence in photographs taken through a microscope. This year more than 2,000 micrographs were received from around the world.

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Major leadership changes Thursday at Twitter renewed questions about its business prospects -- was the replacement of CEO Jack Dorsey by fellow co-founder Evan Williams a shuffling of deck chairs on the Titanic?

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Researchers now pondering physical cues for cell differentiation are rediscovering what has long both captivated and aggravated their colleagues studying chemical cues. "We create some external conditions," says Forgacs, "and then we have no control over the system.

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These are some seriously awesome pictures of some seriously tiny machines. The pictures come from Sandia (http://www.mems.sandia.gov), but the machines aren't science lab stuff, this is current technology. There are TVs you can buy today which use these micro mirror actuators.

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Word Hugger is a website about micro investments, which are the internet's newest virtual real estate gold. Investors can pick a word based on their hobby, business, interests, or expertise in a particular field.

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Former England Davis Cup captain turned entrepreneur, David Lloyd has purchased the remaining Willard Wigan collection of micro sculptured art, which has been insured by Lloyd's of London for £11.2 million.

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In olden times, when gamers wanted codes for unlimited lives, complete invincibility or the location of all the warp zones, the best resource would be a decent consumer magazine.

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A frree service that provides customizable mobile games. Personalized Mobile Games for your phone where you can upload your pics from your pc and send the game to your friend or download to your WAP / Internet enabled phone.

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The Sony VAIO UX50 trumps the Microsoft Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) initiative before it even gets off the ground. Not content to just run with the crowd, Sony reminds us all that they were doing UMPC since before UMPC was even an acronym in Intel's techy little dreams.

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SonyStyle Taiwan has now the Sony Vaio UX17TP (VGN-UX17TP) for pre-order. It comes with Windows XP SP2 - Traditional Chinese pre-installed. The price is about $1836 USD.

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What's With These iPod Cases?

It's odd. Everyone who buys an iPod is so impressed (and sometimes in love) with its design; look, feel, size, colours ("colors" if you live in the US), etc.

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