Google Inc. is hoping to gain greater control over how personal computers work by developing a free operating system that will attack Microsoft Corp.'s golden goose — its long-dominant Windows franchise.
Google Inc. is hoping to gain greater control over how personal computers work with its plans to develop a free operating system that will attack Microsoft Corp.'s golden goose — its long-dominant Windows franchise.
Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley has ended a joint venture between a hospital system founded by the archdiocese and a Missouri-based health insurer, fearing it linked Catholic hospitals too closely to abortion providers.
Hackers defaced the home page of the Oregon University System, posting a caustic message telling President Barack Obama to mind his own business and stop talking about the disputed Iranian election.
Despite efforts to clean up Russia's legal system, its courts still suffer widespread political abuse, including prosecutors with too much power and subservient judges, according to a report by Europe's top human rights watchdog.
Orchestras for children and teenagers inspired by Venezuela's trendsetting network of youth orchestras have been springing up from Sao Paulo to Scotland as international interest explodes, the program's founder said Friday.
Mexicans will do almost anything to avoid a public hospital emergency room, where ailing patients may languish for hours slumped on cracked linoleum floors that smell of sweat, sickness and pine-scented disinfectant.
A hospital network is suing its much larger competitor, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and the region's dominant health insurer, claiming they are conspiring to put UPMC's competitors out of business through an illegal monopoly.
A month after Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal complained about wasteful spending in President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package — including money he sneered was for "something called 'volcano monitoring'" — Alaska pilots were grateful for such expenditures.
That guy meandering back and forth on a downtown street could be seriously lost. Or serious trouble. A computerized surveillance system in the works could help decide which, with its wide-angle panoramic shots, location tracking software and ‘smart’ video cameras that flag suspicious behavior.
Financial disclosures by public companies and mutual funds will be provided in an online interactive format in the next few years under rules adopted Wednesday by federal regulators.
When viewed from the rest of the galaxy, the edge of our solar system appears slightly dented as if a giant hand is pushing one edge of it inward, far-traveling NASA probes reveal.
A violin case slung over her shoulder, 10-year-old Daniela Fagundez trudges home along a row of muddy yards where chickens scratch among banana trees and laundry hangs drying on wire fences.
Federal mine-safety regulators on Thursday said they approved the first wireless-tracking system to locate miners trapped underground.
With the government set to allow food from cloned animals onto the market — and consumers not yet convinced it's safe — meat and dairy producers are promoting an industry-led system to track cloned livestock.
A new planet was discovered orbiting a sun-like star 41 light years away, making it the first known planetary quintet outside our solar system, astronomers said Tuesday.
A car circles a high-rise three times. Someone leaves a backpack in a park. Such things go unnoticed in big cities every day. But that could change in Chicago with a new video surveillance system that would recognize such anomalies and alert authorities to take a closer look.
The European Union on Tuesday approved a European visa data system which will store biometric information like fingerprints and photos on 70 million visa-holders who pass through the EU's borderless travel zone each year.
Smart surveillance systems capable of automatically detecting violent crimes could soon be available.
Caption: Ibeo's laser scanner keeps track of vehicles in the road ahead (Image: Ibeo)
The number of people with mental illness filling Florida's jails and prisons is growing at an alarming rate, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and threatening to exhaust the entire budget for mental-health programs, advocates warned Wednesday.
Child-welfare doctors and case managers routinely failed to complete legally required treatment plans, share information or properly document the prescribing of powerful psychiatric drugs for children, according to a new state study of 6- and 7-year-olds medicated in state care.
Like millions of people around the world, the tragic death of Neda Soltan has affected me tremendously. I felt a temptation to scream and run to the end of the world and say my prayers with unusual earnestness and a heavy heart.
Today, all Iranian expatriates are united in solidarity with the Iranian people in Iran. Today, we are all standing tall to let the world hear our continuous aspiration for a free and democratic Iran.
Now that the danger appears to have passed, Wall Street honchos, with support from some in Congress, are telling themselves that the financial system was perfectly sound all along. We can't afford their delusion.
We have been warned of three kinds of people: charlatans, demagogues, and politicians. And, more often than not, someone will rise up who is all three of these characters wrapped into one. Our liberty is the most precious possession.
PORTLAND, Maine—Swine flu has made its way into the Cumberland County Jail, where WGME-TV reports that there are at least two cases. Sheriff Mark Dion is to address the media Friday afternoon.
Leave it to Government to shoot themselves in the foot when it comes to Public Relations. Here we have a toll approved for the use of a stretch of H.O.V. lane on I85 in downtown Atlanta during rush hour traffic.
Is democracy the killer of liberty? The dictionary defines democracy as the rule of the people. Even at its best, "democracy is the worst form of government except for all the rest," according to Winston Churchill.
Grameen helped drive the effort to create Mifos, an open-source management information system designed for microfinance. "The beauty is anybody with technical skills can have access to the source code and enhance it," he said.
What options do landlords and tenants have in Arizona if the AC system breaks down... read a top landlord/tenant attorney's thoughts.
As I've mentioned in a previous Linux Line post, I am not a programmer. Yet Linux is built on the philosophical principle of freely sharing source code. This is how those who create Linux frequently advocate it.
A REVOLUTIONARY sat nav that directs guide dogs for blind people has been invented by a British boffin. The device clips on to the dog's harness and vibrates on the left or right side to tell the handler which direction to go in.
For the first time, superstring theorists can point to a place where their formulas help other physicists understand something they can see in their experiments.
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"There is also the possibility that as conditions grow worse, there could be a rise in racism against Obama and other minorities in the guise of right-wing populism--as racists and the right intensify their efforts to scapegoat and blame sections of the population for the crisis"
Scientists warn of the dangers of sleepless nights after discovering how brain clears out day's mental rubbish
A family court judge wanted him to get a job, find a home and stop harassing his ex-wife. So Connolly took a sales position, rented an apartment and behaved for nine months.
The city's gunshot locator system, which will triangulate the sound of gunfire to pinpoint its location, should be operational within two months, police said.
The past couple of weeks I have been blogging about the racial quota system that Brazilian government is trying to apply in Brazil. This week I'm going to write about the new adjustments that have been made to this system.
The more I think about all the issues related to the quota system that Brazilian Government is trying to apply in our educational system, the more I'm convinced that it is not a good idea.
Brazilian high school students spend their whole senior year studying for a test called "vestibular" that opens doors to the best universities in the country.
Gametrailers has posted their review for Killzone 2 in amazing HD quality. It simply LOOKS incredible and isn't half bad as a game either.
A fired computer engineer for Fannie Mae has been arrested and charged with planting a malicious software script designed to permanently destroy millions of dollars worth of data from all 4,000 servers operated by the mortgage giant.
Everyone should be concerned about the fate of our healthcare system. Please do what you can to help affect change by writing your Representative and demanding that they support H.R. 676 when it comes up for a vote.