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Web-based program may help cancer fatigue
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cancer survivors who are still battling fatigue may find help from online counseling, a new clinical trial suggests.
It’s known that cancer patients commonly have fatigue, and it can linger for years after treatment.
Studies suggest that exercise can help, as can keeping a healthy sleep schedule, if possible. There’s also evidence that “talk therapy” helps some people.
But in-person counseling is time-consuming, expensive and not always available depending on where you live. So for the new study, Korean researchers tested a Web-based education program among 273 people who’d been treated for cancer within… Continue reading
Yahoo-Alibaba talks called off after snags: source (Reuters)
(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc and its Asian partners, China’s Alibaba and Japan’s Softbank Corp, have called off talks over a tax-free sale of the U.S. company’s prized Asian assets, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters.
Collapse of the proposed deal — referred to as a cash-rich split-off — would mark the latest setback for an erstwhile Internet media giant now struggling to turn its business around and appease unhappy shareholders.
The source, confirming a report by the influential technology blog AllThingsDigital, said the deal “hit a series of snags” that ultimately buried it. But the source said Yahoo… Continue reading
Malaysia deports Saudi blogger behind Prophet Mohammad tweets (Reuters)
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia deported a Saudi Arabian blogger on Sunday, police said, despite fears voiced by human rights groups that he could face execution in his home country over Twitter comments he made that were deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammad.
Hamza Kashgari, a 23-year-old columnist, sparked outrage in the oil-rich kingdom with comments posted on the Prophet’s birthday a week ago that led some Islamic clerics to call for him to face the death penalty.
Kashgari fled the country, but was arrested by police in majority-Muslim Malaysia on Thursday as he transited through Kuala Lumpur international airport.… Continue reading
Yahoo chairman exits, review drags on (Reuters)
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc Chairman Roy Bostock and 3 other directors will stage down as the struggling company ploughs ahead with an internal overhaul, such as discussions on dealing with its stakes in China’s Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan.
The corporation – once a Net powerhouse but now agonizing more than a assortment of options to revive flagging development – on Tuesday explained it appointed former Rovi Corp CEO and International Organization Machines Corp veteran Alfred Amoroso and ex-eBay COO Maynard Webb as independent directors.
Yahoo’s board has come below fire from traders impatient with the company’s persistent… Continue reading
Internet giants pull content after warning in India courts
By Arup Roychoudhury and Harichandan Arakali
NEW DELHI/BANGALORE (Reuters) – Web giants Google Inc and Facebook removed content material from some Indian domain websites on Monday following a court directive warning them of a crackdown “like China” if they did not take steps to protect religious sensibilities.
The two are among 21 businesses ordered to produce a mechanism to block material regarded as religiously offensive after private petitioners took them to court above pictures deemed offensive to Hindus, Muslims and Christians.
Two situations have been brought by people against web firms in India, stoking fears about censorship in the world’s… Continue reading
Singapore’s Artivision says in tie-up with Intel (Reuters)
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Artivision Technologies Ltd, a Singapore company that specializes in on-line video marketing, stated on Sunday its engineering may be integrated into a computer software kit getting produced by Intel Corp.
Under a memorandum of comprehension, Artivision unit ArtiMedia Pte Ltd will include its front-end in-video marketing platform and back-end advertisement serving engineering into an Intel computer software improvement kit (SDK) that uses the U.S. semiconductor giant’s “Wi-Fi Direct” technology.
“A definitive agreement is anticipated to be entered into between Artimedia and Intel once the 1st functioning SDK with Artimedia’s front-finish and back-finish technologies is deployed on a… Continue reading
Google defends change to privacy policies (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Planned alterations to Google Inc’s privacy policies that have caught the focus of U.S. lawmakers would not take away the control its clients have above how data is collected and utilised, the organization stated in a website post on Tuesday
Google, whose offerings include its flagship search engine, Gmail, YouTube and Google+ goods, announced last week that it was unifying 60 of its privacy policies.
When the new policy comes into effect on March 1, data from most Google products will be treated as a single trove of data, which the firm could use for targeted marketing.… Continue reading
