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Russia unveils own 'almost Android' system

Aug 31, 2012 (AFP)

It seems that Russia's defence ministry has little faith in Google's operating systems: it has just unveiled its own encrypted version that has the remarkably f...

Nanoresonators might improve cell phone performance

Aug 31, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers have learned how to mass produce tiny mechanical devices that could help cell phone users avoid the nuisance of dropped calls and slow downloads. Th...

Japan court rejects patent claims against Samsung as Apple files More US actions

Aug 31, 2012 (AFP)

A Japanese court Friday rejected Apple's claim that Samsung stole its technology, dealing a blow to the iPhone maker which last week won more than $1 billion in...

Stable isotopes a universal tool

Aug 31, 2012 (SPX)

More than 250 international scientists will be meeting in the first week of September in Leipzig to share their experiences on the latest methods and applicatio...

ThalesRaytheonSystems awarded contract by US Army to upgrade Firefinder Radars

Aug 31, 2012 (SPX)

ThalesRaytheonSystems has been awarded a $44.9 million contract by the U.S. Army to upgrade the Receiver Exciter (REX) in the Improved AN/TPQ-37 Firefinder rada...

Synchronized lasers measure how light changes matter

Aug 30, 2012 (SPX)

Light changes matter in ways that shape our world. Photons trigger changes in proteins in the eye to enable vision; sunlight splits water into hydrogen and oxyg...

Publishers ink $69 mn deal in ebook price-fixing case

Aug 30, 2012 (AFP)

US prosecutors announced Thursday that the top three US publishing houses have inked a $69 million deal to close the book on charges that they schemed to fix pr...

Outside View: Artificial Intelligence

Aug 30, 2012 (UPI)

In the NASA video called "Seven Minutes of Terror," which famously went viral over the last month, Tom Rivellini, one of the engineers in charge of the landing,...

Apple, Samsung 'tablet war' overshadows Berlin tech show

Aug 30, 2012 (AFP)

The repercussions of Apple's billion-dollar patent victory over Samsung were still being felt at Europe's biggest consumer electronics show, as the South Korean...

Sony tablet takes aim at Microsoft Surface

Aug 30, 2012 (UPI)

Sony says it's entering the Windows 8 tablet arena with the VAIO Duo 11, a slide-out tablet with a keyboard that is part tablet and part notebook. The Duo 11 is...

Russian scientists one step from creating AI?

Aug 30, 2012 (Voice of Russia)

Russian scientists have created a computer analogue of a human mind, the possibilities of which lag behind that of a human brain only by 0.8%. At an internation...

Modern lives in US are multi-screen: Google

Aug 29, 2012 (AFP)

Google on Wednesday released research showing that lives in the United States have gone multi-screen, with people bouncing between smartphones, tablets, compute...

Southampton physicists join search for hidden magnetic states

Aug 28, 2012 (SPX)

Physicists from the University of Southampton were among the first researchers to use the new high magnetic-field beamline at Diamond Light Source, the UK's nat...

Weighing molecules one at a time

Aug 28, 2012 (SPX)

A team led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have made the first-ever mechanical device that can measure the mass of individual ...

Brazil bids to become world's third IT market by 2022

Aug 28, 2012 (AFP)

Brazil hopes to capitalize on the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics to advance its goal of becoming the world's third largest information technology a...

'Frankenstein' computer program created

Aug 28, 2012 (UPI)

U.S. computer scientists say they've created a "Frankenstein" software program to help develop defenses against new kinds of cyberattacks. Saying to catch a thi...

The Laser Beam as a 3D Painter

Aug 28, 2012 (SPX)

With laser beams, molecules can be fixed at exactly the right position in a three dimensional material. The new method developed at the Vienna University of Tec...

Samsung vows 'all measures' to keep products in US

Aug 28, 2012 (AFP)

South Korea's Samsung Electronics vowed on Tuesday to take "all necessary measures" to keep its products on US store shelves, in response to Apple's request for...

Is This Real or Just Fantasy? ONR Augmented-Reality Initiative Progresses

Aug 27, 2012 (SPX)

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is demonstrating the next phase of an augmented-reality project Aug. 23 in Princeton, N.J., that will change the way warfight...

US braces for holiday clash of tech giants

Aug 26, 2012 (AFP)

It's beginning to look a lot like a big season in the United States for mobile gadgets. A major event is the still-rumored launch by Apple in September of a new...