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US Agencies Decide Guidelines for Future Spacecraft

During a recent meeting, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the US Air Force (USAF) decided on the next generation of guidelines that will have to be respected by companies building a wide variety of spacecraft. The new criteria will be used for t...

15 October 2011
05:23 GMT

Former Developer Thrashes Sony Claims of Better Developer Relations

A former video game developer has said that the Sony guidelines and requirements linked to third party developers were more complicated than those required by Microsoft.A former employee at Vivendi that has worked with both companies told IndustryGamers that, “I’d say any comment by Sony that they have be...

30 September 2011
15:01 GMT

FAA Calls for New Safety Guidelines

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is calling for new safety protocols, aimed at preventing instances of midair collisions. Currently, 10 to 12 small aircraft are involved in such events yearly, and the agency wants to put an end to this trend.They way it plans to go about doing this is to create a new and ...

5 July 2011
08:49 GMT

ICO Vague on Cookie Law Implementation Guidelines

As the deadline for implementing the amendments to the EU Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive (PECD) draws near, the UK Information Commissioner's Office has issued guidelines on how to comply with the new cookie requirements.The controversial amendments state that website owners have to ask for cons...

9 May 2011
14:42 GMT

Clinical Diagnostic Criteria for Alzheimer's Disease Revised

Clinicians are about to receive the first new set of diagnostics criteria for Alzheimer's disease in nearly three decades. The last revision of these criteria took place some 27 years ago. The new modification was made so that research, diagnosis and therapies reflect the latest discoveries. This revision, which...

19 April 2011
05:45 GMT

European Commission Draws Up RFID Privacy Guidelines

The European Commission has signed a voluntary agreement with industry, civil society and data protection groups that establishes privacy guidelines for RFID use.Under the new framework, every European company will have to address all privacy implications before putting smart tags on the market.RFIDs (Radio Frequency...

7 April 2011
03:15 GMT

The Mess with Breastfeeding Time

In 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) made a global recommendation that babies should be breast fed exclusively, during their first six months of life, but the debate over the matter just got bigger, as a new research appearing on bmj.com, says otherwise. Child health experts led by Dr Mary Fewtrell, a cons...

15 January 2011
05:54 GMT

Bipolar Disorder Correct Diagnostic Rates Are Low

A survey of healthcare experts, clinicians and their patients has revealed that about 60 percent of bipolar disorder (BP) cases are not correctly diagnosed from the get-go. In other words, only 40 percent of all clinicians make a correct diagnostic when dealing with this condition.Most healthcare experts were also de...

30 December 2010
10:37 GMT

Yearly Breast Cancer Scan After Age 40 Lowers Mastectomy Rates

A new study that was presented today at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), concluded that women who have an annual mammogram between the ages of 40 and 50, significantly reduce the risk of mastectomy after breast cancer.Lead author Nicholas M. Perry, M.B.B.S., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.R., director of The Londo...

1 December 2010
06:52 GMT

Hear This: Apple May Reject Your Mac App If It’s Too Complex

Developers planning to submit their own program for approval in Apple’s Mac App Store will have to do some careful reading before even writing a single line of code. Cupertino “ported” the same strict rules it applied for iOS devs over to the Mac App Store guidelines, and even added a few new ones.F...

25 October 2010
09:37 GMT

Apple to Artists: Get Your Ping On, Otherwise Don’t Bother Registering

A PDF document containing the rules and best practices for artists planning to use the company’s music-centric social network is now available for download. The document outlines that artists should only create a profile if they plan on using it, in an effort to fight off criticism.The documentation begins with...

12 October 2010
06:37 GMT

New Guidelines on Caring for Those With Insomnia

In spite of being heavily researched for years, sleep disorders are still rather mysterious, and researchers are still having a difficult time understanding how they work. Now, newly-published guidelines are bound to make this a lot easier for professionals. The document, which was published by the British Associatio...

3 September 2010
08:53 GMT

Determining When the Adult Brain Is Dead

One of the things most likely to entice controversy in medical care is taking people off life support. Determining when a patient is brain-dead is surprisingly difficult, and doctors and family members need to make very difficult decisions when considering terminating life support. In order to make this job somewhat ...

8 June 2010
07:02 GMT

Geoengineering Validated as Possible Option

Geoengineering is a discipline of science that has been getting a lot of attention lately. This has happened because the scientific community finally began to take notice of the fact that politicians and law makers have no interest in promoting mitigating measures for global warming. They would rather say that greenh...

31 March 2010
03:19 GMT

NIH Urges Parents for 'Back to Sleep'

'Back to Sleep' was an initiative devised by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) some years ago, to make parents aware of the fact that they needed to put their babies to sleep on their backs. This was extremely important, NIH officials said at the time, because it was the only known way to reduce th...

8 December 2009
05:57 GMT

Android Market Policies and Guidelines Published

Google has recently published the “Android Market Business and Program Policies.” There are some interesting aspects noted there worth mentioning. Among the first of them is the fact that “Only users 13 years of age or older are permitted to use Android Market,” while users under 18 can u...

18 February 2009
05:21 GMT

Ethics Rules for Robots Need to Be Established

Today's issue of the Journal Science is home to a troublesome plea of University of Sheffield Department of Computer Science professor Noel Sharkey, a robot advocate, who says that ethic guidelines for the correct use of robots has to be set in place before they become an affordable commodity worldwide and will ...

19 December 2008
04:39 GMT

YouTube Latest Innovation: Mute Users!

Google's video sharing service YouTube has just made some important changes to the policy enforcement systems and, according to the officials, there's more modifications to come in the near future. Most changes concern the unaccepted user behavior such as violating the internal guidelines or uploading clips...

18 April 2008
10:36 GMT

Google's Rules: Read Them Or Get Banned!

Following the recent modifications made to the Google guidelines, some of the users started to ask questions about them especially because they were not enough clear. Today, Vanessa Fox from Google decided to explain some of the guidelines and to underline the most important of them. First of all, the famous prohibit...

8 June 2007
02:56 GMT

Google: Promote Our Tools and You'll Get Paid!

AdSense is not only a Google service; it also represents an important partner for most of the big companies on the Internet. As you know, the advertising platform helps individual users or firms with large websites to earn money by placing adverts on their pages. Although it might look like an easy way to make money ...

27 April 2007
03:51 GMT


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