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China firm buys AMC to create cinema giant
May 21, 2012 (AFP)
Wanda, a property firm owned by one of China's richest men, said Monday it would buy US cinema chain AMC Entertainment for $2.6 billion, in a sign of China's gr...
Loral-Built Nimiq 6 Satellite ly Performs Post-Launch Maneuvers
May 20, 2012 (SPX)
Space Systems/Loral reports that the Nimiq 6 satellite, designed and built for Telesat, one of the world's leading satellite operators, is successfully performi...
SciTechTalk: Google to reign in Android
May 19, 2012 (UPI)
Google's recent decision to take a more active role in how its Android mobile operating system is used is seen as an attempt to address the single most vexing p...
The elusive capacity of networks
May 18, 2012 (SPX)
In its early years, information theory - which grew out of a landmark 1948 paper by MIT alumnus and future professor Claude Shannon - was dominated by research ...
New twist on ancient math problem could improve medicine, microelectronics
May 18, 2012 (SPX)
A hidden facet of a math problem that goes back to Sanskrit scrolls has just been exposed by nanotechnology researchers at the University of Michigan and the Un...
Freshwater crayfish found to have substance covering teeth astonishingly similar to human enamel
May 18, 2012 (SPX)
A team of Israeli and German scientists from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces have found an enam...
Sulphur and iron compounds common in old shipwrecks
May 18, 2012 (SPX)
Sulphur and iron compounds have now been found in shipwrecks both in the Baltic and off the west coast of Sweden. The group behind the results, presented in the...
Toshiba drops Japan TV operations
May 17, 2012 (AFP)
Toshiba said Thursday it has stopped making televisions in Japan, citing slow domestic demand as falling prices, fierce global competition and a strong yen pres...
China grants more quotas for rare earth exports
May 17, 2012 (AFP)
China, which is locked in a dispute with major trading partners over its control of rare earth minerals, on Thursday announced additional export quotas for this...
Toshiba shares jump as it drops Japan TV operations
May 17, 2012 (AFP)
Toshiba shares surged almost six percent Thursday after saying it had stopped making televisions in Japan where a strong yen has hurt exports as slow demand and...
Record data transmission speed set
May 16, 2012 (UPI)
Japanese scientists say they've broken the record for wireless data transmission, achieving a rate 20 times higher than the best commonly used WiFi standard. Re...
Samsung on top as mobile phone sales dip: survey
May 16, 2012 (AFP)
Mobile phone sales worldwide suffered a rare dip in the first three months of this year on softened demand in Asian markets, industry tracker Gartner reported W...
Social Network writer to pen Steve Jobs film script
May 16, 2012 (AFP)
Sony Pictures Entertainment on Wednesday said that the Academy Award winning screenwriter behind "The Social Network" will write the script for a film about App...
US class-action ebook price-fixing suit can proceed
May 15, 2012 (AFP)
A judge Tuesday allowed a class-action case to proceed against Apple and six publishing houses alleging a price-fixing scheme for electronic books, citing "ampl...
Greenpeace members arrested in Apple 'cloud' demo
May 15, 2012 (AFP)
Two Greenpeace activists were arrested after being pried from a giant iPod in front of Apple's headquarters Tuesday during a protest against using dirty energy ...
VPT Adds 15 Amp Point of Load DC-DC Converter to Space Family of Power Conversion Products
May 14, 2012 (SPX)
VPT, Inc., a HEICO company, has announced availability of a new point of load power converter designed and manufactured for use in the extreme environment of sp...
SciTechTalk: Mourning the computer mouse?
May 13, 2012 (UPI)
The death of the computer mouse is imminent, we're told, soon to be shown the door by touch screens, track pads, gesture recognition systems and whatever new te...
Amazon conjures rights to borrow Harry Potter; Samsung buys streaming AV service
May 10, 2012 (AFP)
Amazon said Thursday it has signed a deal for the electronic books rights to all seven Harry Potter titles English, French, Italian, German and Spanish for its ...
Japan's Hitachi looks to future after wobbly year
May 10, 2012 (AFP)
Japanese high-tech firm Hitachi said Thursday its operating profit fell in the year to March due to the earthquake and tsunami disaster at home and Thai floods,...
KIT Researchers Succeed in Realizing a New Material Class
May 10, 2012 (SPX)
A research team lead by Professor Martin Wegener at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has succeeded in realizing a new material class through the manu...
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