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Samsung expands lead in smartphone market: Gartner

Aug 14, 2012 (AFP)

Samsung extended its lead over Apple in the smartphone market in the second quarter despite a slowing demand for mobile phones, according to figures released Tu...

Tablet line aimed at retail staff

Aug 13, 2012 (UPI)

Japanese electronics maker Casio has announced a range of Android tablets designed to help retail staff do their work, from the shop floor to the stock room. Th...

SciTechTalk: Are PCs desktop dinosaurs?

Aug 12, 2012 (UPI)

Read a good review of a desktop PC system lately? In fact, read anything at all about a desktop PC system lately? Probably not. Those who write about the tech w...

Wired reporter hack reveals perils of digital age

Aug 10, 2012 (AFP)

The perils of modern dependence on Internet-linked gadgets and digitally-stored memories remained a hot topic on Friday in the wake of a hack that wiped clean a...

Wayward Satellites to Orbit for Months - Space Source

Aug 09, 2012 (RIA Novosti)

Russia's Briz-M booster, which failed to put two satellites into their target orbit, is likely to keep flying in space for up to five months before sinking into...

Latin America poised for a lithium boom

Aug 09, 2012 (UPI)

Latin America is poised for a lithium boom as mining companies seek deposits of the mineral for urgent and large-scale development. Lithium-ion batteries are cr...

Reluctant electrons enable 'extraordinarily strong' negative refraction

Aug 09, 2012 (SPX)

In a vacuum, light travels so fast that it would circle the Earth more than seven times within the blink of an eye. When light propagates through matter, howeve...

China to weed out rare earths producers?

Aug 08, 2012 (UPI)

China has announced new industry rules for rare earth production, a move expected to weed out smaller operations. Under the new rules, mixed-type rare earth min...

Apple and Android rule smartphone world: IDC

Aug 08, 2012 (AFP)

Smartphones powered by Android or Apple software accounted for an unprecedented 85 percent of the global market in the second quarter of this year, industry tra...

James Cameron launches 3D joint venture in China

Aug 08, 2012 (AFP)

Noted director James Cameron launched on Wednesday a joint venture aimed at developing 3D cinema in China, a country which he says offers the best prospects for...

Global Municipal Solid Waste Continues to Grow

Aug 08, 2012 (SPX)

Growing prosperity and urbanization could double the volume of municipal solid waste annually by 2025, challenging environmental and public health management in...

Testing at Goddard: 'The Chamber of Horrors'

Aug 08, 2012 (SPX)

With pipe-covered ceilings three stories high, catwalks lining the walls, and wires covering every surface, the Environmental Test Engineering and Integration f...

YouTube dropped from iPhone-iPad operating system

Aug 07, 2012 (AFP)

Applications to let users watch YouTube videos will not be pre-installed on the next generation of iPhones, iPads and iPod devices, in another sign of mounting ...

Christine Arlt goes from dwarf research to Institute management

Aug 07, 2012 (SPX)

For years, Christine Arlt manipulated the tiniest of particles - 'nanos'. Today, the 32-year-old researcher is Deputy Director of the Institute of Composite Str...

Wrinkled surfaces could have widespread applications

Aug 07, 2012 (SPX)

The wrinkles on a raisin result from a simple effect: As the pulp inside dries, the skin grows stiff and buckles to accommodate its shrinking size. Now, a team ...

Writing graphics software gets much easier

Aug 07, 2012 (SPX)

Image-processing software is a hot commodity: Just look at Instagram, a company built around image processing that Facebook is trying to buy for a billion dolla...

Samsung exec 'very offended' by Apple rip-off claim

Aug 06, 2012 (AFP)

A top Samsung executive testified Monday that he found "very offensive" the suggestion that the South Korean gadget giant ripped-off Apple's market-leading mobi...

Gibson Guitar settles US probe of wood imports

Aug 06, 2012 (AFP)

Guitar-maker Gibson has agreed to pay $350,000 to avoid US prosecution over allegations it illegally imported endangered wood from India and Madagascar, US offi...

EU fights to catch Chinese in Greenland rare-earths goldrush

Aug 05, 2012 (AFP)

Greenland is a frontier Eldorado with untapped reserves of critical rare earths under the Arctic ice-cap but a nimble China has already stolen a march in gettin...

You and your smartphone bill

Aug 04, 2012 (UPI)

The average cellphone these days is a device for texting, tweeting, browsing the Internet and -- just occasionally -- making a phone call, a considerable change...