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Dish Network in US legal fight over ad-skipping
May 25, 2012 (AFP)
Satellite television group Dish Network said Friday it went to court against the major US TV networks, aiming to defend against lawsuits from the broadcasters o...
Facebook makes mobile move after IPO flop
May 24, 2012 (AFP)
Facebook released a "camera" application Thursday that lets people take Instagram-style pictures that can be shared with iPhones. The stand-alone application sy...
How ion bombardment reshapes metal surfaces
May 24, 2012 (SPX)
To modify a metal surface at the scale of atoms and molecules - for instance to refine the wiring in computer chips or the reflective silver in optical componen...
Laser scan at full speed
May 24, 2012 (SPX)
Is a contact wire missing or is it faulty? What's the situation in front of the entrance to a railway station or a tunnel? A 3D laser scanner can increase the t...
'Monkey' to go West again as cinema power shifts East
May 24, 2012 (AFP)
Generations of Chinese grew up under the spell cast by Wu Cheng'en's "Journey to the West", the 16th Century adventure epic which is the subject of two major up...
7-inch Google tablet said imminent
May 24, 2012 (UPI)
A 7-inch tablet computer is coming from Google and could hit the market in July, DigiTimes, a tech Web site based in Taiwan reports. An initial shipment of abou...
Using Graphene, Scientists Develop a Less Toxic Way to Rust-Proof Steel
May 23, 2012 (SPX)
University at Buffalo researchers are making significant progress on rust-proofing steel using a graphene-based composite that could serve as a nontoxic alterna...
Improved lubrication without oil
May 23, 2012 (SPX)
Running nicely - this applies even more to aqueous biopolymer solutions than to oil. These solutions are used as a cooling lubricant for machining hard metals a...
In chemical reactions, water adds speed without heat
May 23, 2012 (SPX)
An international team of researchers has discovered how adding trace amounts of water can tremendously speed up chemical reactions-such as hydrogenation and hyd...
Production of chemicals without petroleum
May 23, 2012 (SPX)
In our everyday life, we use gasoline, diesel, plastics, rubbers, and numerous chemicals that are derived from fossil oil through petrochemical refinery process...
From Lemons to Lemonade: Reaction Uses CO2 to Make Carbon-Based Semiconductor
May 23, 2012 (SPX)
A materials scientist at Michigan Technological University has discovered a chemical reaction that not only eats up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, it also c...
Reversible doping: Hydrogen flips switch on vanadium oxide
May 23, 2012 (SPX)
If you are not a condensed matter physicist, vanadium oxide (VO2) may be the coolest material you've never heard of. It's a metal. It's an insulator. It's a win...
Measuring Transient X-rays with Lobster Eyes
May 23, 2012 (SPX)
A technology that mimics the structure of a lobster's eyes is now being applied to a new instrument that could help revolutionize X-ray astronomy and keep astro...
Apple still top global brand as value jumps: survey
May 22, 2012 (AFP)
Apple has extended its lead as the world's most valuable corporate name with a strong 19 percent increase in its so-called brand value, a survey showed Tuesday....
In metallic glasses, researchers find a few new atomic structures
May 22, 2012 (SPX)
Drawing on powerful computational tools and a state-of-the-art scanning transmission electron microscope, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison and Iowa Sta...
Google completes Motorola Mobility takeover
May 22, 2012 (AFP)
Google closed Tuesday its $12.5 billion deal for Motorola Mobility, a key manufacturer of smartphones and other devices that puts the Internet giant in head-to-...
New 'metamaterial' practical for optical advances
May 22, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers have taken a step toward overcoming a key obstacle in commercializing "hyperbolic metamaterials," structures that could bring optical advances inclu...
Germany's SAP grabs US cloud firm for $4.3 bn
May 22, 2012 (AFP)
German business software giant SAP said Tuesday it was acquiring US cloud-based e-commerce firm Ariba for $4.3 billion in a move boosting its arsenal against ar...
Asia's largest gaming expo opens in Macau
May 22, 2012 (AFP)
Casino industry leaders met in the world's richest gambling hub of Macau on Tuesday for the Global Gaming Expo Asia, a three-day feast of gambling innovations, ...
At seventh birthday, YouTube marks new milestones
May 21, 2012 (AFP)
YouTube celebrated its seventh birthday by saying it has hit fresh milestones in terms of its offerings and the amount of time spent on the video-sharing websit...
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