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Economic woes slow mobile phone market: survey
Jun 06, 2012 (AFP)
The worldwide mobile phone market is expected to grow this year at its slowest pace since 2009, hurt by sluggish economic conditions, a survey showed Wednesday....
Elvis Lives! US firm to create 'virtual' Presley
Jun 06, 2012 (AFP)
An Oscar-winning US firm is to create a "virtual" Elvis Presley to bring the King of Rock and Roll back to life for today's music audiences, it announced Wednes...
Artemis keeps talking the talk
Jun 05, 2012 (ESA)
Although ESA's Artemis telecommunications satellite has officially completed its mission, it still has plenty to offer. Reaching its working orbit almost 11 yea...
Nintendo touts games for Wii U GamePad console
Jun 05, 2012 (AFP)
Nintendo fired its riposte Tuesday in the battle for living room entertainment by boosting its game offerings for its new Wii U console featuring a tablet-style...
Microsoft links Xbox with smartphones, tablets
Jun 04, 2012 (AFP)
Microsoft on Monday stepped up its quest to be at the heart of home entertainment by synching Xbox 360 videogame consoles to smartphones and tablets while addin...
Taiwan's Acer unveils tablets that use Windows 8
Jun 04, 2012 (AFP)
Taiwan's leading personal computer maker Acer Monday took another shot at gaining a foothold in the tablet market, unveiling two new products running on Microso...
Commonly used painkillers may protect against skin cancer
Jun 04, 2012 (SPX)
A new study suggests that aspirin and other similar painkillers may help protect against skin cancer. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal ...
Windows 8 to dominate Taiwan computer show
Jun 03, 2012 (AFP)
Microsoft's much-anticipated Windows 8 operating system is set to take pride of place as tens of thousands of people head to Asia's leading IT fair opening in T...
E3 to showcase big videogame titles, hot trends
Jun 02, 2012 (AFP)
Sequels to blockbuster console titles and play on smartphones or tablets will be showcased with Times Square-like glitz starting Tuesday at the E3 videogame ext...
Microreactors to produce explosive materials
Jun 01, 2012 (SPX)
The larger the reaction vessel, the quicker products can be made - or so you might think. Microreactors show just how wrong that assumption is: in fact, they ca...
Netflix tops Apple in booming US online movies
Jun 01, 2012 (AFP)
The US online movie business more than doubled in 2011 to rake in $992 million and will almost double again this year, a research report showed Friday. The bigg...
The finest gold dust in the world
Jun 01, 2012 (SPX)
Most people value large chunks of gold - but scientists at the Vienna University of Technology are interested in gold at the smallest possible scale, because si...
Final test version of Windows 8 released
May 31, 2012 (AFP)
Microsoft on Thursday released the final test version of its next-generation Windows software crafted to power devices ranging from tablets to desktop computers...
VTT researcher finds explanation for friction
May 31, 2012 (SPX)
Friction is a key phenomenon in applied physics, whose origin has been studied for centuries. Until now, it has been understood that mechanical wear-resistance ...
Short movies stored in an atomic vapor
May 31, 2012 (SPX)
The storage of light-encoded messages on film and compact disks and as holograms is ubiquitous - grocery scanners, Netflix disks, credit-card images are just a ...
Mathematicians can conjure matter waves inside an invisible hat
May 31, 2012 (SPX)
Invisibility, once the subject of magic or legend, is slowly becoming reality. Over the past five years mathematicians and other scientists have been working on...
Oracle aims to dethrone IBM in business hardware
May 30, 2012 (AFP)
Oracle boss Larry Ellison said Wednesday that he is out to dethrone IBM in the realm of business network hardware, including high-end computer servers. "Our big...
BlackBerry maker facing critical test this year
May 30, 2012 (AFP)
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, losing ground rapidly in the smartphone wars, needs to take bold steps to revive its fortunes and compete with iPhones and ...
Zooming in on bacterial weapons in 3D
May 30, 2012 (SPX)
The plague, bacterial dysentery, and cholera have one thing in common: These dangerous diseases are caused by bacteria which infect their host using a sophistic...
Ultra-short laser pulses for science and industry
May 29, 2012 (SPX)
The shorter the pulse duration, the more precisely the laser tool operates. Ultra-short laser pulses of outstanding high average puower are opening the doors to...
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