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Final test version of Windows 8 released

May 31, 2012 (AFP)

Microsoft on Thursday released the final test version of its next-generation Windows software crafted to power devices ranging from tablets to desktop computers...

Short movies stored in an atomic vapor

May 31, 2012 (SPX)

The storage of light-encoded messages on film and compact disks and as holograms is ubiquitous - grocery scanners, Netflix disks, credit-card images are just a ...

Mathematicians can conjure matter waves inside an invisible hat

May 31, 2012 (SPX)

Invisibility, once the subject of magic or legend, is slowly becoming reality. Over the past five years mathematicians and other scientists have been working on...

Oracle aims to dethrone IBM in business hardware

May 30, 2012 (AFP)

Oracle boss Larry Ellison said Wednesday that he is out to dethrone IBM in the realm of business network hardware, including high-end computer servers. "Our big...

BlackBerry maker facing critical test this year

May 30, 2012 (AFP)

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, losing ground rapidly in the smartphone wars, needs to take bold steps to revive its fortunes and compete with iPhones and ...

Zooming in on bacterial weapons in 3D

May 30, 2012 (SPX)

The plague, bacterial dysentery, and cholera have one thing in common: These dangerous diseases are caused by bacteria which infect their host using a sophistic...

Ultra-short laser pulses for science and industry

May 29, 2012 (SPX)

The shorter the pulse duration, the more precisely the laser tool operates. Ultra-short laser pulses of outstanding high average puower are opening the doors to...

NTU and I2R scientists invent revolutionary chipset for high-speed wireless data transfer

May 29, 2012 (SPX)

Here is a new microchip that can transfer data the size of 80 MP3 song files (or 250 megabytes) wirelessly between mobile devices, in the flick of a second. Or ...

Samsung releases Chrome desktop computer

May 29, 2012 (AFP)

Samsung on Tuesday released the first Chrome desktop computer that essentially shifts work into Internet "cloud" using a version of the Google Web browser as it...

Global mobile payments to top $171 bn: survey

May 29, 2012 (AFP)

Worldwide mobile payments are expected to top $171.5 billion in 2012, a 61.9 percent increase from 2011, a research report said Tuesday. The Gartner study said ...

Japan firm unveils radiation-gauging smartphone

May 29, 2012 (AFP)

Mobile phone operator Softbank on Tuesday unveiled a smartphone that can measure radiation as consumers in Japan clamour for reassurance following last year's F...

BlackBerry maker to study options, warns of loss

May 29, 2012 (AFP)

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion warned Tuesday it could report a loss in the current quarter and said it had hired investment firms to study its strategic o...

Just How Green is Google

May 28, 2012 (SPX)

Google may have a bad track record on privacy practices, but when it comes to green, the internet giant is clean, racking up over $850 million in investments to...

Facebook smartphone could come by next year

May 28, 2012 (AFP)

Facebook hopes to release its own smartphone by next year, as the newly public social networking giant looks to boost its revenue in the mobile Internet market,...

Mystifying materials

May 28, 2012 (SPX)

It's not magic, but new materials designed by two Northwestern University researchers seem to exhibit magical properties. Some contract when they should expand,...

'Metamaterials,' quantum dots show promise for new technologies

May 28, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers are edging toward the creation of new optical technologies using "nanostructured metamaterials" capable of ultra-efficient transmission of light, wi...

Thousands of invisibility cloaks trap a rainbow

May 28, 2012 (SPX)

Many people anticipating the creation of an invisibility cloak might be surprised to learn that a group of American researchers has created 25 000 individual cl...

DeLorme inReach Two-Way Satellite Communicator Now Connects With iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

May 25, 2012 (SPX)

DeLorme has announced that its award-winning inReach is now compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. This innovation makes it possible for iPhone, iPad and ...

Yahoo! ditches digital newsstand for iPads

May 25, 2012 (AFP)

Yahoo! shuttered its fledgling digital newsstand for iPads on Friday in what it said was the start of a product purge intended to make the floundering Internet ...

June release for new Google tablet?

May 25, 2012 (UPI)

Google will unveil its new tablet computer at its I/O conference next month and will give a unit to every developer in attendance, Web site TechnoBuffalo said. ...