Author Archives: David J. Neff

Duke to give Ipods to Freshmen

Ipods for All Wow, looks like it’s time for me to re-enroll in college. Check out this story in which Duke is giving Ipods to incoming freshman. The iPods will be preloaded with such Duke-related content as information about orientation and the academic calendar; students also can download faculty-provided course content…….lucky punks…

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Cancer cells tricked into suicide

Cancer cells tricked into suicide This is a really intresting article that shows that Cancer cells can be tricked into suicide. As we all know Cancer spreads because a gene which normally kills off cells is faulty in cancer cells. Scientists at Cancer Research UK say they have been able to get around this problem by inserting this “suicide” gene ...

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C-Tools Update for July

Whew what a busy month so far! Glad to see some new faces around the Blog! Here is what I have been up to with the C-Tools 2.O Project. We created a cancer.org Web site for it, a Promotional Flyer as well as a new support web site. We have also begun work on the Brocheure for ACS staff to ...

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Mobile users top 1.5 billion

Mobile users top 1.5 billion That’s right the amount of people using Mobile Phone’s worldwide has reached 1.5 billion people. Research firm EMC also predicts that the industry will pass the 2 billion mark as early as 2006. So….I call all ACS Spring board projects involving cell phones! No, really. In fact Smoking Cessation over SMS is already big in ...

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