Archive for July, 2008

Italian Media Company Sues Google, YouTube For $780 Million

0 / July 31, 2008 6:59 am

Washington (dbTechno) – An Italian media company by the name of Mediaset has filed a lawsuit against YouTube, as well as its parent company Google for a total of $780 million. The lawsuit states that YouTube is responsible for hosting [...]

Hacker Manages To Kill Official Scrabble On Facebook

0 / July 31, 2008 6:55 am

Boston (dbTechno) – A hacker, apparently upset about the fact that Scrabulous had to be removed from the social networking site Facebook, went on an attack and managed to take down the official Hasbro Inc. Scrabble game. It was just [...]

Ancient Greek Computer Was A Calendar For The Olympic Games

0 / July 31, 2008 6:52 am

Boston (dbTechno) – According to researchers, a 2,100-year-old early computer they found in a shipwreck in Rome was likely used as a calendar for the Olympic Games. The report has been published in the journal Nature, and was carried out [...]

Study Shows Public Bans On Smoking Improve Overall Health

0 / July 31, 2008 6:42 am

Boston (dbTechno) – A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has shown that public bans on smoking improve the overall health of people, cutting down on secondhand smoke. The study was carried out in Scotland as [...]

New Bush Regulation Would Classify The Pill As Abortion

0 / July 31, 2008 6:36 am

Washington (dbTechno) – The Bush Administration has put forth new regulations as to how abortion would be defined. The new regulations have caught a great deal of attention and opposition, as they would make the use of any contraception, such [...]

Court Rules Against Push To Stop California Health Care Cuts

0 / July 31, 2008 6:30 am

Washington (dbTechno) – Hospitals, pharmacists, as well as doctors have been pushing to block the planned 10% California health care cut, but have been rejected by a state court. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge William Highberger ruled against the [...]

FDA Orders Amgen To Change Label Of Anemia Drug, Aranesp

0 / July 31, 2008 6:26 am

Washington (dbTechno) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has come out and ordered Amgen Inc. to change the label of their anemia drug, Aranesp. The labels for this particular anemia drug, as well as other similar drugs are [...]

Will The Fast Food Restaurant Ban In L.A. Help Fight Obesity?

0 / July 31, 2008 6:22 am

Los Angeles (dbTechno) – The Los Angeles City Council has taken a major step towards trying to fight obesity, and improve the health of those living in South Los Angeles, California. As a result of this, they have put in [...]

House Votes To Make Tobacco A Drug, Give FDA Control

0 / July 31, 2008 6:17 am

Washington (dbTechno) – The House has passed a bill which will give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) control to regulate tobacco products in the country. There has been a great deal of opposition to this new bill, including [...]

FDA Finds The Smoking Gun, Root Of The Salmonella Outbreak

0 / July 31, 2008 6:12 am

Washington (dbTechno) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) came ou t Wednesday and reported that they have found the smoking gun responsible for the nationwide salmonella outbreak at a farm in Mexico. Federal officials made it clear Wednesday [...]