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Nearly 73 percent of all American adults use the Internet on a daily basis, according to a 2009 Pew Internet and American Life Project survey. Half of these adults use the Web to find information via search engines, while 38 percent use it to pass the time. In a recent study, University of Missouri researchers [...]

Mobile phones are on the verge of becoming powerful tools to collect data on many issues, ranging from global health to the environment.
Computer scientists at the University of Washington have used Android, the open source mobile operating system championed by Google, to turn a cell phone into a versatile data-collection device. Organizations that want a [...]

A limestone countertop, a practiced eye and Google Earth all played roles in the discovery of a trove of fossils that may shed light on the origins of African wildlife.
The circuitous and serendipitous story, featuring University of Michigan paleontologists Philip Gingerich, Gregg Gunnell and Bill Sanders, is the subject of a segment on the award-winning [...]

Each year, tens of millions of Americans, young and old, choose to learn about science in informal ways — by visiting museums and aquariums, attending after-school programs, pursuing personal hobbies, and watching TV documentaries, for example. There is abundant evidence that these programs and settings, and even everyday experiences such as a walk in the [...]

It was only a short time ago I wrote a piece detailing my initial thoughts on the little Everex boxes running a Google branded OS (Linux) that magically had no actual Google fingerprints anywhere on it at all. Today, I learned that their main distributor, Wal-Mart, has completely sold out of them [Editor's Note: At [...]

This is huge. Absolutely huge! Google’s idea of passively attacking wireless carriers with Android is working with Verizon Wireless, the number two carrier in the US, announcing its decision to open its network to other devices and applications as long as they pass the company’s certification test. Granted Verizon is one of the first carriers [...]

John Tintle of RealTechNews writes:
Well tonight, Google has released its IM client, Google Talk. Talk uses your Gmail account information for the login process, and allows you to add your Gmail contacts to Talk’s friends list.
Google Talk features normal IM, plus has the choice to email your friends, or even call your friends, as [...]