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Zuckerberg eyes mobile after Facebook IPO flop

Sep 11, 2012 (AFP)

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday he was steering the social network giant to focus more on mobile, saying it would help ease concerns after a "disa...

SciTechTalk: Tablet wars heat up

Sep 11, 2012 (UPI)

When Amazon.com unveiled its new family of more powerful tablet computers last week, they painted a large bulls-eye on Apple, its all-powerful iPad and its near...

Kodak to cut more jobs in bankruptcy plan

Sep 10, 2012 (AFP)

US photography pioneer Eastman Kodak said Monday it would cut 1,000 more jobs by the end of this year as it restructures in an effort to emerge from bankruptcy ...

Tough gel stretches to 21 times its length, recoils, and heals itself

Sep 10, 2012 (SPX)

A team of experts in mechanics, materials science, and tissue engineering at Harvard have created an extremely stretchy and tough gel that may pave the way to r...

Airborne observatory and electronic noses - DLR presents new space developments at ILA

Sep 10, 2012 (SPX)

From the magnificent Vinci upper stage engine to the small but important MOSFET circuit board for the flight to asteroid 1993 JU3 - the German Aerospace Center ...

World watches for 'iPhone 5' unveiling Wednesday

Sep 09, 2012 (AFP)

Apple becomes the focus of the technology universe Wednesday as the world awaits a new iPhone with a big, beautiful touchscreen and connectivity to blazingly fa...

Estonian first graders to learn computer code

Sep 06, 2012 (AFP)

Tech-savvy Estonia has launched a project encouraging public schools to teach pupils, including first graders, to write computer code, the project's authors sai...

US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case

Sep 06, 2012 (AFP)

A US judge approved a partial settlement Thursday in a lawsuit over e-book price-fixing, allowing three publishers to end a deal with Apple that became the targ...

Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury

Sep 06, 2012 (AFP)

Does your laptop clash with your Empire-style interior? No problem. A French entrepreneur has signed up a team of traditional craftsmen to turn out PCs fit for ...

Amazon takes on iPad with new Kindle Fire tablet

Sep 06, 2012 (AFP)

Amazon on Thursday unveiled a new, larger version of its Kindle Fire tablet computer with a high-definition display, in a move by the retail giant to take on th...

Boeing 702MP Selected for first Intelsat EpicNG Satellite

Sep 06, 2012 (SPX)

The Boeing 702MP satellite bus has been selected by Intelsat S.A. for the Intelsat 29e satellite, the first of the recently announced Intelsat EpicNG next-gener...

Mobile gadget gamers take lead in US: NPD

Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)

People who play games on smartphones or tablet computers in the United States now outnumber "hardcore gamers" devoted to videogame consoles, according to NPD Gr...

Small GEO satellite platform lands at ESA

Sep 05, 2012 (ESA)

After a careful four-day road trek from Switzerland, the first model of the Small GEO communications satellite platform has arrived at ESA for testing. During i...

Miner Lynas gets Malaysia rare earths plant approval

Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)

Australian miner Lynas on Wednesday said it had secured a temporary operating licence for its delayed $800 million rare earths facility in Malaysia and will beg...

Microsoft, Nokia step up arsenal in smartphone wars

Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)

Microsoft and Nokia joined Wednesday to boost their arsenal in the smartphone wars with two new Windows-powered devices aimed at battling Apple's iPhone and riv...

UCF researchers record world record laser pulse

Sep 05, 2012 (SPX)

A University of Central Florida research team has created the world's shortest laser pulse and in the process may have given scientists a new tool to watch quan...

Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5

Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)

Google and Microsoft have introduced new champions in the fiercely competitive smartphone arena a week ahead of what is likely to be the hotly-anticipated debut...

Samsung violates Chinese workers' rights: report

Sep 04, 2012 (AFP)

Samsung forces employees at its Chinese factories to work up to five times the legal overtime limit, bans them from sitting down and denies basic labor rights, ...

Apple event invites hint at iPhone 5 debut

Sep 04, 2012 (AFP)

Apple on Tuesday invited members of the media to a September 12 event in San Francisco for what is expected to be the debut of a new-generation iPhone. Email in...

China's Baidu to invest $1.6 bn in cloud computing

Sep 03, 2012 (AFP)

China's leading search engine Baidu will invest more than 10 billion yuan ($1.6 billion) in cloud computing over the coming years, its chief financial officer s...