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Apple opens biggest Asian store in Beijing

Oct 20, 2012 (AFP)

Apple on Saturday opened its biggest Asian store yet in Beijing, with hordes of shoppers descending on the three-floor complex that highlights the growing impor...

Taiwan temple to launch 'divine advice' app

Oct 20, 2012 (AFP)

A temple in southern Taiwan is to launch a smartphone app that allows the faithful to seek advice from the heavens while on the move, reports said Saturday. "Wi...

Kennedy Supporting Effort to Develop Satellite Servicing Capabilities

Oct 19, 2012 (SPX)

With satellites playing increasingly important roles in everyday life, NASA is developing the technology to build Earth-orbiting, roving "service stations" capa...

Worldwide smartphone users top 1 bn: report

Oct 17, 2012 (AFP)

Five years after the release of the iPhone, there are now over a billion smartphone users worldwide, according to a report released Wednesday. US research and c...

Google opens window to 'where Internet lives'

Oct 17, 2012 (AFP)

Google on Wednesday gave its users a first-ever view of its data centers, with a virtual visit of its server farms around the world from the US heartland to Fin...

Physicists crack another piece of the glass puzzle

Oct 17, 2012 (SPX)

When it comes to physics, glass lacks transparency. No one has been able to see what's happening at the molecular level as a super-cooled liquid approaches the ...

Mapping The Universe In 3-D

Oct 17, 2012 (SPX)

Combining observations from Mauna Kea with data taken by telescopes in space, astronomers at the Institute for Astronomy (University of Hawaii at Manoa) and the...

New radiation treatment significantly increases survival rate

Oct 17, 2012 (SPX)

A novel drug that mimics a naturally occurring molecule found in coffee and blueberries has been developed to treat radiation exposure. Charles R. Yates, Pharm....

Foxconn admits employing underage interns in China

Oct 17, 2012 (AFP)

Taiwan's Foxconn has admitted employing children as young as 14 on assembly lines at a plant in China, a fresh blow to the tech giant that has been attacked ove...

New paper reveals fundamental chemistry of plasma/liquid interactions

Oct 17, 2012 (SPX)

Though not often considered beyond the plasma television, small-scale microplasmas have great utility in a wide variety of applications. Recently, new developme...

Boeing Proposes Gas Clouds to Remove Space Debris

Oct 16, 2012 (SPX)

Space debris issues continue to proliferate and concern continues to build. It is not surprising that the big aerospace companies are gearing up to take advanta...

Apple sets Oct 23 event for expected iPad Mini launch

Oct 16, 2012 (AFP)

Apple sent out invitations Tuesday for an event in exactly one week's time where the company is widely expected to unveil a new "iPad Mini," a smaller version o...

ESA deploys first orbital debris test radar in Spain

Oct 16, 2012 (ESA)

A new radar designed to test methods for finding orbital debris that can be hazardous to space navigation has been installed in Spain. The radar will be used to...

UNH scientists provide window on space radiation hazards

Oct 16, 2012 (SPX)

Astrophysicists from the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center (SSC) have created the first online system for predicting and forecasting the radiat...

Microsoft to price new tablet near same as iPad

Oct 16, 2012 (AFP)

Microsoft said on Tuesday its new Surface tablet computer -- designed to challenge Apple's iPad -- will be sold at roughly the same price as the market leader. ...

Shares in China's ZTE slump after profit warning

Oct 15, 2012 (AFP)

Shares in Chinese telecom firm ZTE, accused by US lawmakers of posing a security threat, tumbled 15.9 percent in Hong Kong on Monday after it released a third-q...

Amazon offers refunds following e-book settlement

Oct 15, 2012 (AFP)

Amazon has announced it will offer refunds to customers who bought e-books as a result of a partial settlement of a lawsuit against publishers in a price-fixing...

OG2 Prototype Hardware Functionality Verified Prior to Deorbit

Oct 15, 2012 (SPX)

ORBCOMM Inc. reports that the single prototype of its second generation of satellites (OG2), launched as a secondary mission payload on the Cargo Re-Supply Serv...

Swedish breakthrough in space on NASA satellite with electronics from AAC Microtec

Oct 12, 2012 (SPX)

The Uppsala based company AAC Microtec has, on commission from the Swedish National Space Board and American NASA, delivered all the electronics to NASA's test ...

Focus on space debris: Envisat

Oct 12, 2012 (ESA)

Space debris came into focus last week at the International Astronautical Congress in Naples, Italy. Envisat, ESA's largest Earth observation satellite, ended i...