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Mass Transit: Breeding Ground for Flu?
As more people opt to take buses and trains, some warn of cold and flu spread.
Allergy Insurance: Nothing to Sneeze At
The cost to manage allergies is relatively low, but still out of reach for many.
New 'Joy of Sex': Motorcycle Sex to Viagra
Dr. Alex Comfort's 1972 sex classic is reinvented for a new generation.
Taking the Scope Out of Colonoscopy
A new substitute for colonoscopy is reasonably accurate in detecting cancer.
Did Teachers Handcuff Kids With Autism?
A N.C. disability rights group is investigating alleged abuse at a school.
Facing Loss in Financial or Natural Disasters
Experts say how you lose can change the mental burden on individuals.
Ike's Moldy Aftermath Is an Allergy Hazard
Returning residents are likely to face multiple mold problems.
'Grey's Anatomy' Gives Real Lessons
Television audiences get more than just entertainment out of medical shows.
Study: Water Bottles May Link to Diabetes
Doctors say BPA is showing up too often in diabetics and heart patients.
Can I Ever Be Cured Of My Allergy?
Dr. Jordan Josephson answers the question: 'Can I Ever Be Cured Of My Allergy?'



Amazon's cloud spreads into content delivery

Pay-as-you-go caching

Amazon's ever-cumulating cloud is today rolling into the business of speedy Internet content delivery.…


Adobe's Flex Builder to woo Microsoft C# developers

RIA lipstick wars

Adobe MAX The next version of Flex Builder will help Windows developers slap an Adobe-authored front-end on data-centric .NET applications.…


Visual Studio 2010 - reading the Redmond runes

Big release, big Windows tie in

Preview Visual Studio is locked so closely to Microsoft's platform that it cannot be prized apart and assessed in isolation. The forthcoming Visual Studio 2010, for better or worse, continues this tradition.…


Adobe CTO calls for JavaScript coordination

Standards that suit

Adobe MAX Adobe Systems' chief technology officer has placed his faith standards bodies to help overcome Balkanization in an important web technology, despite losing a recent round of vendor combat.…


Microsoft crashes Adobe RIA party

Adobe throws sand in Microsoft's face

Adobe MAX Microsoft has tried to cast a shadow over RIA and cloud news at Adobe Systems' annual MAX conference by talking up Silverlight's roadmap.…


Hidden recipes for OS X charts and graphs

Get behind Activity Monitor

Mac Secrets One of the many secrets hidden away inside OS X is a private undocumented library called GraphKit.framework. Despite being private, the name is familiar to many Mac developers - and for all the wrong reasons.…


Adobe rallies Flash and AIR mobile partners

End of the single Player?

Adobe MAX Adobe is expected to showcase tools and runtimes today with ARM and Qualcomm for Flash-powered rich internet applications (RIAs) on phones and devices.…


Time to reject traditional database techniques?

'Big' data and the BI challenge

Mainstream database management system (DBMS) technology faces a challenge from new approaches that reject the relational model. The battleground is set to be the market for business intelligence based on very large databases.…


Intel rallies rivals on parallel programming education

Sequential is so over

Intel has enlisted chip rivals to push for making parallel programming a higher priority on computer science courses.…


Why clouds should be more like operating systems

Best things come in small management packages

For the cloud to become more like an operating system and less like an amorphous mass, and by definition more useful to business, some basic functions need to become part of the fabric.…