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PayPal stuffs startup into its smartphone wallet

Jul 17, 2012 (AFP)

EBay-owned online financial transactions titan PayPal on Tuesday announced that it has bought a San Francisco startup focused on using smartphone cameras to tak...

Samsung to buy part of British electronics firm

Jul 17, 2012 (AFP)

South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it had signed a deal to buy a mobile technology unit belonging to British firm Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) in a...

Americans juggle phones, TV at same time: survey

Jul 17, 2012 (AFP)

In the new "multiscreen" world, more than half of American adults with mobile phones use them while watching television, including to check the veracity of what...

EDRS makes room for Hylas-3

Jul 16, 2012 (ESA)

When the European Data Relay System launches its second satellite in 2015, it will be taking the Hylas-3 communications package along for the ride thanks to ESA...

SES Announces First SAT-IP Converter Certification

Jul 16, 2012 (SPX)

SES has announced the certification of the industry's first SAT-IP converter by Inverto Digital Labs, a Luxembourg-based developer and marketer of consumer and ...

Microsoft revamps Office with 'cloud' links

Jul 16, 2012 (AFP)

Microsoft on Monday unveiled next-generation Office software overhauled to stay popular with people using tablets or smartphones to access programs in the Inter...

Lockheed Martin Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Approved For International Export

Jul 16, 2012 (SPX)

A Lockheed Martin airborne reconnaissance radar that provides high resolution, photographic-like imagery, even in inclement weather or darkness, is now availabl...

Satmex Awards Optimal Satcom a Multi-Year Contract to Provide Enterprise Capacity Management System

Jul 16, 2012 (SPX)

Satelites Mexicanos (Satmex) of Mexico has awarded Optimal Satcom a multi-year contract to provide its industry-leading, enterprise satellite capacity system to...

Microsoft breaks from NBC to launch own news portal

Jul 15, 2012 (AFP)

Software giant Microsoft has parted company with NBC News, pulling out of their joint venture MSNBC to launch its own online news service, the two companies ann...

Raytheon's MTS-B delivers leading-edge surveillance technology to USAF

Jul 13, 2012 (SPX)

Raytheon was recently awarded a $191 million contract to provide its Multispectral Targeting System for the U.S. Air Force's MQ-9 Reaper. The MTS-B is a multius...

Apple rejoins green tech program after spat

Jul 13, 2012 (AFP)

Apple said Friday it was rejoining a program to certify its products as environmentally friendly after a controversy that could have dented sales of its popular...

Raytheon to pursue USAF deployable air traffic radar program

Jul 13, 2012 (SPX)

Raytheon, with a 60-year legacy in air traffic management, plans to compete for the U.S. Air Force's Deployable Radar Approach Control (D-RAPCON) program. D-RAP...

The eyes have it for disabled gamers

Jul 13, 2012 (AFP)

Engineers said Friday they had built a device using mass-produced video gaming equipment that lets disabled people control a computer with just their eyes -- wi...

New reporter? Call him Al, for algorithm

Jul 12, 2012 (AFP)

The new reporter on the US media scene takes no coffee breaks, churns out articles at lightning speed, and has no pension plan. That's because the reporter is n...

The Day Information Went Global

Jul 11, 2012 (SPX)

Telstar was launched by NASA on July 10, 1962, from Cape Canaveral, Fla., and was the first privately sponsored space-faring mission. Two days later, it relayed...

Global PC sales flat as consumers eye new gadgets

Jul 11, 2012 (AFP)

Worldwide sales of personal computers fell 0.1 percent in the second quarter of the year as consumers turned their attention to newer gadgets like tablets, a su...

Metamolecules that switch handedness at light-speed

Jul 11, 2012 (SPX)

A multi-institutional team of researchers that included scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has...

Aqueous iron interacts as strong as solid iron

Jul 11, 2012 (SPX)

HZB scientists have apply a new method - 'inverse Partial Fluorescence Yield' (iPFY) on micro-jet - which will enable them to probe the electronic structure of ...

E-waste: Annual gold, silver 'deposits' in new high-tech goods worth $21B; less than 15% recovered

Jul 11, 2012 (SPX)

A staggering 320 tons of gold and more than 7,500 tons of silver are now used annually to make PCs, cell phones, tablet computers and other new electronic and e...

Satellite for SES Beginning Post-Launch Maneuvers

Jul 11, 2012 (SPX)

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) reports that the SES-5 satellite, designed and built for SES was Monday and is now performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan...