It is well known that having a conversation (for example on a cell phone) impairs one’s driving. A new study indicates the reverse is also true: Driving reduces one’s ability to comprehend and use language.

US mobile phone maker Motorola filed a complaint Friday with the US government alleging patent infringement and unfair trade practices against the Canadian maker of the BlackBerry device.

Science editor Alan Boyle’s Weblog: Charles Darwin’s inner demons — and his inner angels — come to light in a film that traces the roots of his 150-year-old masterwork, “The Origin of Species.”

Cell phone operators and international relief organizations are working to get networks going again and to let those displaced by the quake contact loved ones in other countries.

The population of chimpanzees across western Africa has decreased by 75% in the past 30 years, due in part to widespread chimp hunting. New strategies are needed to curb this illegal activity. Research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal BMC Ecology suggests that genetics may provide valuable clues as to how to crack down on the animal smuggling trade, while also helping to safely reintroduce rescued apes into the wild.

Major upgrades to the transmission infrastructure and a sizable chunk of cash from private investors and the government are necessary for the Midwest and East Coast to move to 20 percent wind power by 2024, according to a new study from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

The Internet: Just a whole bunch of banal, self-important jibber jabber … until something of actual substance occurs.

Two new surveys about an Apple tablet find that while consumers are interested and intrigued by such a device, most would not be willing to pay more than $700 for it.

The Metro Web services stack provides the same functionality as the Axis2 stack
but, aside from the optional use of JAXB and JAX-WS in Axis2, uses completely different implementations of the technologies involved. In this article, Dennis Sosnoski continues his Java Web services column series with a performance comparison between the Metro and Axis2 stacks, both with and without WS-Security.

Some Canadian shorebirds have had to get fit or die trying. Research published in the open access journal BMC Ecology has found that the average Pacific dunlin has lost weight and spends more time in flight as a response to the increased threat of predation from their arch-enemy, the peregrine falcon.

A few weeks into 2010, how are you doing with your New Year`s resolutions?

Current evidence suggests that using Doppler ultrasound in high-risk pregnancies to monitor a fetus’ health may reduce caesarean sections and the number of babies who die, according to a new Cochrane Systematic Review.

Giving people living in nursing facilities vitamin D can reduce the rate of falls, according to a new Cochrane Review. This finding comes from a study of many different interventions used in different situations. In hospitals, multifactorial interventions and supervised exercise programs also showed benefit.

Science editor Alan Boyle’s Weblog: Donors are gearing up to send solar-powered cell phones, streetlights and even audio Bibles to earthquake-hit Haiti.

This installment of Evolutionary
architecture and emergent design tackles a variety of topics related to evolutionary architecture, including the important distinction between design and architecture (and how to tell them apart), some issues that come up when you start doing architecture at the enterprise level, and the difference between static and dynamic typing in service-oriented architectures.