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Sony straps on Internet-linked wristwatch
Apr 12, 2012 (AFP)
Sony on Thursday released an Internet-linked wristwatch powered by Google-backed Android software. SmartWatch gets online by connecting wirelessly to a wearer's...
Apple denies e-book pricing scheme
Apr 12, 2012 (AFP)
Apple on Thursday denied a charge that it schemed with publishers to hike prices for e-books, portraying itself as a hero for prying Amazon's "monopolistic grip...
Tablet use while watching TV surveyed
Apr 12, 2012 (UPI)
Two U.S. reports on people who use their tablet computers while watching television have come up with significantly different figures, analysts say. One report,...
Instagram fans moan over slap in the Facebook
Apr 11, 2012 (AFP)
Facebook's $1 billion gobbling up of Instagram has sent disgruntled fans of the quirky photo-sharing app to the delete button. Twitter and other online platform...
US sues Apple, publishers yield on e-book pricing
Apr 11, 2012 (AFP)
The US Justice Department sued Apple and five publishing firms Wednesday alleging a conspiracy to raise prices and limit competition for e-books, and immediatel...
Price-fixing suit hits as eyes turn to e-books
Apr 11, 2012 (AFP)
E-books are the future of publishing, and the legal tangle launched Wednesday shows how high the stakes are in the fledgling but fast-growing industry. Unlike t...
NASA Selects Loral Platform to Help Enable Next Era of Space Communications
Apr 11, 2012 (SPX)
Space Systems/Loral is teaming with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to host a laser communications relay demonstration (LCRD) on a commercial satellite to be...
JILA team demonstrates a new way of lasing: A 'superradiant' laser
Apr 10, 2012 (SPX)
Physicists at JILA have demonstrated a novel "superradiant" laser design, which has the potential to be 100 to 1,000 times more stable than the best conventiona...
Free apps drain smartphone energy on 'advertising modules'
Apr 10, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers have shown that popular free smartphone apps spend up to 75 percent of their energy tracking the user's geographical location, sending information a...
US cracks down on smartphone theft
Apr 10, 2012 (AFP)
Citing a surge in violent robberies, US authorities and cellphone carriers announced Tuesday an effort to crack down on smartphone theft. The major carriers and...
Space Debris Remediation - Who Are We Kidding?
Apr 10, 2012 (SPX)
Over the past few years we have endured idea after idea on how to remove space debris. The list is almost endless. There is the ground-based high energy laser t...
To boldly go where no glass has gone before
Apr 10, 2012 (SPX)
QUT's first foray into space is bound to be a giant step for mankind. Dr Martin Castillo from Queensland University of Technology's (QUT) Science and Engineerin...
Defying conventional wisdom, water can float on oil
Apr 10, 2012 (SPX)
Defying thousands of years of conventional wisdom, scientists are reporting that it is possible for water to float on oil, a discovery they say has important po...
Facebook buys Instagram photo app for $1 bn
Apr 09, 2012 (AFP)
Facebook on Monday announced a billion-dollar-deal to buy the startup behind wildly popular smartphone photo sharing application Instagram. The big ticket purch...
China sets up rare earth body to boost sector
Apr 09, 2012 (AFP)
China has set up a rare earth industry group, the government said Monday, in a bid to streamline the sprawling sector and fend off complaints about Beijing's se...
Company touts self-healing film for screen
Apr 09, 2012 (UPI)
A Japanese firm says it is getting ready to mass produce a film coating that will allow scratches on electronic device screens to self-heal. Toray Advanced Film...
New York pay phones to get touchy feely makeover
Apr 09, 2012 (AFP)
A handful of grimy New York pay phones will be reincarnated as touch-screen pads with online access to neighborhood information, the mayor's office said Monday....
Colombia's tinted gold passes for precious stones
Apr 08, 2012 (AFP)
All that glitters is gold under a new thermochemical process developed by Colombian engineers for color-tinting the precious metal to make it look like sapphire...
Boy in China sells kidney to buy iPhone: state media
Apr 06, 2012 (AFP)
A teenage high-school student in China sold his kidney for an illicit transplant operation and used the proceeds to buy an Apple iPhone and iPad, state press sa...
'Mass Effect 3' fans promised expanded ending
Apr 06, 2012 (AFP)
Fans of hit videogame "Mass Effect 3" will get "more closure" to the end of the saga in add-on software to be available free for download in the months ahead. T...
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