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Apple offers to refund Australian iPad customers

Mar 28, 2012 (AFP)

Apple Wednesday offered to refund Australian customers who felt misled by advertising about the 4G capability of its new iPad, which can only access the ultra-f...

AMPAC-ISP Hydrazine Propulsion Module Completes Pre-Ship Review

Mar 28, 2012 (SPX)

AMPAC-ISP and Orbital Sciences Corporation have completed the Pre-Ship Review for the Hydrazine Propulsion Module (HPM) for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission ...

Magnetic field researchers target 100-tesla goal

Mar 28, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory's biggest magnet facility have met the grand challenge of producing magnetic fields in excess of 100 tesla while c...

Materials inspired by Mother Nature: A 1-pound boat that could float 1,000 pounds

Mar 27, 2012 (SPX)

Combining the secrets that enable water striders to walk on water and give wood its lightness and great strength has yielded an amazing new material so buoyant ...

Apple to face Australian court over iPad

Mar 27, 2012 (AFP)

Australia said Tuesday it would take Apple to court for misleading consumers over sales of its new iPad, claiming adverts that it can connect to a 4G network wa...

Boeing Receives Phased Array Antenna System Contract from Yahsat

Mar 27, 2012 (SPX)

Boeing has finalized a firm-fixed-price contract with Al Yah Satellite Company (Yahsat), the United Arab Emirates-based multipurpose satellite operator, to desi...

Russia to Focus on Its Orbital Cluster - Popovkin

Mar 27, 2012 (RIA Novosti)

Russia will prioritize the development of its satellites over manned spaceflight, aiming to boost the country's economy, the head of the Federal Space Agency Vl...

Soviet Weather Satellite to Fall to Earth

Mar 27, 2012 (RIA Novosti)

Meteor-1, the Soviet Union's first fully operational weather satellite, will on Monday night re-enter the Earth's atmosphere after more than four decades in orb...

Liquid-like Materials May Pave Way for New Thermoelectric Devices

Mar 26, 2012 (SPX)

In the continual quest for better thermoelectric materials-which convert heat into electricity and vice versa-researchers have identified a liquid-like compound...

Astrium's satellites reap first fruits in Canada

Mar 26, 2012 (SPX)

Astrium Services' PixAgri satellite imaging service for crop management has just successfully completed its first agricultural campaign for "La Coop federee", t...

ISS crew takes shelter to avoid passing space junk

Mar 24, 2012 (AFP)

A piece of an old Russian satellite whizzed by the International Space Station on Saturday, forcing its six-member crew to temporarily take shelter in two Soyuz...

Huffington Post to release weekly iPad magazine

Mar 23, 2012 (AFP)

The Huffington Post will soon be available in a weekly magazine version for the iPad, president and editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington confirmed at a media summ...

How the alphabet of data processing is growing

Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)

The alphabet of data processing could include more elements than the "0" and "1" in future. An international research team has achieved a new kind of bit with s...

Angry Birds catapult into space, with Nasa's help

Mar 22, 2012 (AFP)

Finnish game developer Rovio, which shot to pop culture stardom with the mobile game Angry Birds, launched Thursday a space-age sequel developed with the help o...

Nokia feels out tattoos that vibrate with incoming calls

Mar 21, 2012 (AFP)

Mobile phone maker Nokia is seeking a US patent for tattoos that vibrate to let people know when they have calls on their mobile phones. Technology laid out in ...

Japan, US, and EU to meet on rare earths

Mar 21, 2012 (AFP)

Japan said Wednesday it will host the European Union and United States at a meeting on developing alternatives for rare earths as Chinese controls on the key mi...

More countries start rare-earth mining

Mar 21, 2012 (UPI)

China's monopoly on rare earths may soon be broken as increasing demand and higher prices make mining in other countries cost-effective, researchers say. Ninety...

NY Times curbs free Web access, subscriptions rise

Mar 20, 2012 (AFP)

The New York Times said Tuesday it was cutting back on free access to its online content, as it announced gains in paid subscriptions to its news website. The p...

Using Virtual Worlds to 'Soft Control' People's Movements in the Real One

Mar 20, 2012 (SPX)

Eighty-eight percent of Americans now own a cell phone, forming a massive network that offers scientists a wealth of information and an infinite number of new a...

Overheating problem on the new iPad?

Mar 20, 2012 (UPI)

Some early purchasers of U.S. company Apple Inc.'s new iPad tablet computer are reporting the unit is generating too much heat. Several users have posted on App...