Menlo Park :: CA :: USA
| updated Wed Sep 30 09:05:40 -0700 2009
| technology-news
Sixty-one percent of Americans say individuals rather than the government have "primary responsibility" for ensuring healthcare, a Gallup Poll indicates. But in a survey released Wednesday, Gallup pollsters also found that a majority of Americans -- 54 percent -- agree...
Menlo Park :: CA :: USA
| updated Fri Oct 09 21:26:36 -0700 2009
| technology-news
More than half of US companies do not allow employees to visit social networks such as Facebook, MySpace or Twitter while at work, according to a new survey. Fifty-four percent of the chief information officers (CIOs) for 1,400 companies surveyed...
Menlo Park :: CA :: USA
| updated Thu May 14 20:13:12 -0700 2009
| technology-news
Metaphors are a characteristic of human language and cognition. When we are unaware of how to describe a peculiar object or sensation, we compare it to something else that we are familiar with. A jeweler might describe his lover’s eyes...
Menlo Park :: CA :: USA
| updated Sat Feb 07 03:40:31 -0800 2009
| technology-news
Not content with indexing the world's information, Google is now tracking where users of its maps service are, and making that location data searchable by others. The tracking feature, called Latitude will appear on compatible mobile devices in a new...
Menlo Park :: CA :: USA
| updated Sat Oct 03 23:56:45 -0700 2009
| technology-news
On Sunday, former Google engineers unveiled a new search engine that will attempt to outdo the namesake of its previous employer, a service that has not only come to be rarely contested as the leader in internet searches but also...
Menlo Park :: CA :: USA
| updated Thu Nov 19 00:27:26 -0800 2009
| technology-news
The drugstore, a Santa Cruz Avenue fixture since 1947, will be merging with the Safeway pharmacy on El Camino Real effective Friday morning, owner and pharmacist John Celedon said in a statement. "In recent years the practice of pharmacy has...
Menlo Park :: CA :: USA
| updated Wed Nov 18 20:44:13 -0800 2009
| technology-news
Monday, police received several 911 calls about a robbery in progress on the 700 block of Pierce Road, police said in a written statement. A male victim at the scene said he had left his home to get something when...
Menlo Park :: CA :: USA
| updated Fri Nov 06 20:03:07 -0800 2009
| technology-news
Whitman Charitable Foundation in 2007 contributed $100,000 to the Environmental Defense Fund, which is now at odds with Whitman over water policy. The foundation also invested $3 million in hedge funds based in the Cayman Islands — a Caribbean tax...
Menlo Park :: CA :: USA
| updated Tue Nov 03 01:13:00 -0800 2009
| technology-news
Fermi telescope has detected gamma rays from "star factories" in other galaxies. National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California. "Most of the galaxies Fermi sees are exotic and distant blazars, which produce jets powered by matter falling into enormous black...
Menlo Park :: CA :: USA
| updated Mon Oct 26 23:53:41 -0700 2009
| technology-news
Fifty-seven percent of the U.S. public say they favor the creation of a "government-administered public health insurance option," a tracking poll indicates. The Kaiser Health Tracking Poll for October found support for the public option dips to 32 percent when...
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