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1.2 billion smartphones, tablets to sell in 2013: survey
Nov 06, 2012 (AFP)
Global sales of "smart devices," which include smartphones and tablets, will hit 821 million worldwide this year and 1.2 billion in 2013, a research firm said T...
Building small: In many industries, economies of size is shifting to economies of numbers
Nov 06, 2012 (SPX)
For decades, "bigger is better" has been the conventional path to efficiency in industries ranging from transportation to power generation. Food once grown on s...
Megaupload boss aims to lie low
Nov 06, 2012 (AFP)
Flamboyant Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom has vowed to lie low as he awaits a US attempt to extradite him from New Zealand, fearing a backlash after making a series...
ORNL Debuts Titan Supercomputer
Nov 06, 2012 (SPX)
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory launched a new era of scientific supercomputing today with Titan, a system capable of churni...
US judge tosses Apple suit against Motorola
Nov 05, 2012 (AFP)
A federal judge on Monday tossed out an Apple lawsuit accusing Google-owned Motorola Mobility of trying to charge the iPhone maker too much for licenses to esse...
UNH Space Scientists to Develop State-of-the-Art Radiation Detector
Nov 05, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists from the Space Science Center (SSC) at the University of New Hampshire have been selected by NASA to develop a space radiation detector that possesse...
Samsung muscle versus Apple's 'cool'
Nov 04, 2012 (AFP)
Its products may not, as one British judge put it, be as "cool" as bitter rival Apple's, but Samsung Electronics is speeding away from the iconic iPhone maker i...
Samsung sells 3 mn Galaxy Note II smartphones since debut
Nov 02, 2012 (AFP)
Samsung Electronics said Friday that global sales of its large Galaxy Note II smartphone had topped three million since its debut in late September, as archriva...
Apple iPad mini makes low key debut
Nov 02, 2012 (AFP)
The iPad mini got off to a low-key start Friday, with little of the hype-fuelled razzmatazz of earlier Apple launches, as analysts said the costly creation may ...
Space Station's Orbit Raised to Avoid Space Junk
Nov 02, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian Mission Control said the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) was raised on Thursday by one kilometer to avoid a possible collision with s...
Spaceflight Completes Secondary Payload System Preliminary Design Review With Hardware Fabrication Underway
Nov 02, 2012 (SPX)
Spaceflight Inc. (Spaceflight) with its partner Andrews Space (Andrews) recently completed a Preliminary Design Review for the Spaceflight Secondary Payload Sys...
Zynga builds new version of social game 'CityVille'
Nov 01, 2012 (AFP)
Zynga on Thursday launched a 3-D version of "CityVille," adding a new dimension as well as a mystery storyline in a sequel to the online social game. "CityVille...
UC Research Brings Us Step Closer to Rollable, Foldable e-Devices
Nov 01, 2012 (SPX)
The next generation of electronic displays - e-Readers, smartphones and tablets - is closer thanks to research from the University of Cincinnati. Advances that ...
Virtual reality 'beaming' technology transforms human-animal interaction
Nov 01, 2012 (SPX)
Using cutting-edge virtual reality technology, researchers have 'beamed' a person into a rat facility allowing the rat and human to interact with each other on ...
Android smartphone shipments boom: industry tracker
Nov 01, 2012 (AFP)
Android software powered three out of four smartphones shipped worldwide in the recently ended third quarter as the Google-backed mobile platform dominated the ...
SSBV Aerospace and Technology Group and SpaceMetric announce signing of MOU
Oct 31, 2012 (SPX)
SSBV Aerospace and Technology Group (SSBV) and Spacemetric has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to develop and demonstrate a multi-purpose...
US consumers rushing into tablets: survey
Oct 31, 2012 (AFP)
Some 31 percent of US consumers have purchased tablet computers, and most of the others want one, a survey showed Wednesday. The Consumer Electronics Associatio...
Boeing on Schedule to Deliver Next-Gen Tracking and Data Relay Satellite
Oct 31, 2012 (SPX)
Boeing is on schedule to deliver the next-generation series of Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), which will increase NASA's signal processing and trans...
Stunning start for Windows 8: Microsoft chief
Oct 30, 2012 (AFP)
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on Tuesday said the Windows 8 operating system was off to a "stunning" start with four million upgrades downloaded since...
Russian chemists land on the island of stability
Oct 30, 2012 (Voice of Russia)
Russian scientists from the Dubna research hub and their American counterparts have added two more names to the periodic table. The first experiments with super...
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