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In the iPhone App Store, Developers’ Playground With Apple as Referee (Science/Technology, 17 articles)
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TOKYO - Throngs of eager iPhone fans queued up outside stores in 21 countries around the world on Friday to get their hands on Apple Inc.'s new iPhone 3G, but activation problems dampened the fervor. The problem caused huge delays at Apple stores and other iPhone service providers worldwide, as store personnel wrestled with the issue and word of the problem spread on the Web. A glitch with the online registration system run by the O2 network meant that many people could not activate their devices at Apple stores. TOKYO - The new iPhone went on sale at a Tokyo store Friday, making its debut in Japan, amid swirling smoke after a 30-second countdown chanted by hundreds of people lined up, some for days, snaking around the block. The store in downtown Tokyo of Japanese carrier Softbank Corp.'s store, started selling Apple Inc.'s much awaited cell phone five hours ahead of the other stores in the nationwide chain. Gadget lovers worldwide are already camped out ahead of Friday's global rollout of the new model of Apple Inc.'s iPhone, which is also the first iPhone to go on sale in many countries.
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ABC News: Tanning May Be Causing Skin Cancer Surge (Science/Technology, 5 articles)
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A new report shows that while melanoma among men has decreased in the last 30 years it has jumped 50 percent among women. Over the past 30 years more people have become aware of the dangers from the sun, and media - through various methods such as health articles in magazines and reports on cancer statistics - have motivated people to come in for checkups. THURSDAY, July 10 (HealthDay News) Cases of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, are increasing sharply among younger women in the United States, but not among younger men, a new study says.
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Research Highlights (Science/Technology, 4 articles)
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Stuart J. Greaves, Eckart Wrede, Noah T. Goldberg, Jianyang Zhang, Daniel J. Miller & Richard N. Zare doi: 10.1038/nature07079. Nature 453; 1228 - 1231 (2008) Abstract Full Text PDF (316K) Assembly reflects evolution of protein complexes. Nature 453; 1262-1265 (2008) Abstract Full Text PDF (762K) Modest stabilization by most hydrogen-bonded side-chain interactions in membrane proteins.
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