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Google chief betting big on social and mobile

Apr 05, 2012 (AFP)

Google co-founder Larry Page on Thursday said that his first year back at the company's helm has been marked by big bets on social networking and mobile gadgets...

Court revives Viacom copyright suit against YouTube

Apr 05, 2012 (AFP)

A US appeals court on Thursday revived a billion-dollar lawsuit filed by entertainment giant Viacom accusing Google-owned website YouTube of knowingly profiting...

Google gives glimpse of Internet glasses

Apr 04, 2012 (AFP)

Google on Wednesday gave the world a glimpse of its vision for letting people look at life through Internet-tinted glasses. A video posted at a Project Glass pa...

Handover of Japan-built Radar to NASA

Apr 04, 2012 (SPX)

On March 30, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) officially handed off a new satellite instrument to NASA at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, M...

New understanding of how materials change when rapidly heated

Apr 03, 2012 (SPX)

Collaboration between the University of Southampton and the University of Cambridge has made ground-breaking advances in our understanding of the changes that m...

Northrop Grumman Conducts Air and Missile Defense Radar System Reviews

Apr 03, 2012 (SPX)

Northrop Grumman has completed two key rounds of program reviews for the U.S. Navy's Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) program, demonstrating the program is ...

Honeycombs of magnets could lead to new type of computer processing

Apr 03, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists have taken an important step forward in developing a new material using nano-sized magnets that could ultimately lead to new types of electronic devi...

Facebook fans get to play out celebrity fantasies

Apr 02, 2012 (AFP)

A trio of console videogame stars joined the online social play revolution with a free-to-play title that lets folks at Facebook virtually live out celebrity fa...

Dell buys 'cloud' computing company Wyse

Apr 02, 2012 (AFP)

Dell on Monday said it is buying Wyse Technology to expand its business offerings in the Internet "cloud" in the face of softening demand for traditional comput...

Ultrafast laser pulses shed light on elusive superconducting mechanism

Apr 02, 2012 (SPX)

An international team that includes University of British Columbia physicists has used ultra-fast laser pulses to identify the microscopic interactions that dri...

UCSB Physicists mix two lasers to create light at many frequencies

Mar 30, 2012 (SPX)

A team of physicists at UC Santa Barbara has seen the light, and it comes in many different colors. By aiming high- and low-frequency laser beams at a semicondu...

Foxconn promises improvements after labour audit

Mar 30, 2012 (AFP)

Taiwan IT giant Foxconn, a top maker of products for Apple, said Friday it would work with the iconic US brand to rectify workplace abuses unveiled in an audit ...

'Full-body' audit finds abuses at China Apple plants

Mar 30, 2012 (AFP)

Independent investigators have uncovered workplace abuses in a "full-body scan" audit of three Foxconn factories in China that pump out coveted Apple gadgets. F...

Astrium completes in-orbit delivery of the SSOT satellite system

Mar 30, 2012 (SPX)

Astrium's teams have successfully completed the in-orbit delivery of the SSOT satellite system, which launched from the European spaceport in French Guiana on 1...

ORNL process converts polyethylene into carbon fiber

Mar 30, 2012 (SPX)

Common material such as polyethylene used in plastic bags could be turned into something far more valuable through a process being developed at the Department o...

TRS delivers third radar system to Jakarta

Mar 30, 2012 (UPI)

ThalesRaytheonSystems has delivered a third air-defense radar station to Indonesia on schedule under a contract signed four years ago. The radar passed its site...

Google plans low-price tablet computer: reports

Mar 29, 2012 (AFP)

Google is teaming with Asia-based hardware makers on a low-priced, 7-inch tablet computer to challenge offerings by Amazon.com and Apple, reports said Thursday....

Apple gadget maker has 'significant' labor issues: audit

Mar 29, 2012 (AFP)

Workplace abuses were uncovered in an audit that equated to "a full body scan" of three Chinese factories pumping out coveted Apple gadgets, independent investi...

Concerns grow over children using tablet computers

Mar 29, 2012 (AFP)

Electronic tablets like the iPad are a revolutionary educational tool and are becoming part of childhood, but should be watched carefully so that overuse doesn'...

Soviet Weather Satellite Falls in Antarctica

Mar 28, 2012 (RIA Novosti)

Meteor 1-1, the Soviet Union's first fully operational weather satellite, fell in Antarctica on Tuesday after more than four decades in orbit, the Russian Defen...