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Samsung releases Chrome desktop computer
May 29, 2012 (AFP)
Samsung on Tuesday released the first Chrome desktop computer that essentially shifts work into Internet "cloud" using a version of the Google Web browser as it...
Global mobile payments to top $171 bn: survey
May 29, 2012 (AFP)
Worldwide mobile payments are expected to top $171.5 billion in 2012, a 61.9 percent increase from 2011, a research report said Tuesday. The Gartner study said ...
BlackBerry maker to study options, warns of loss
May 29, 2012 (AFP)
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion warned Tuesday it could report a loss in the current quarter and said it had hired investment firms to study its strategic o...
NTU and I2R scientists invent revolutionary chipset for high-speed wireless data transfer
May 29, 2012 (SPX)
Here is a new microchip that can transfer data the size of 80 MP3 song files (or 250 megabytes) wirelessly between mobile devices, in the flick of a second. Or ...
Japan firm unveils radiation-gauging smartphone
May 29, 2012 (AFP)
Mobile phone operator Softbank on Tuesday unveiled a smartphone that can measure radiation as consumers in Japan clamour for reassurance following last year's F...
'Metamaterials,' quantum dots show promise for new technologies
May 28, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers are edging toward the creation of new optical technologies using "nanostructured metamaterials" capable of ultra-efficient transmission of light, wi...
Mystifying materials
May 28, 2012 (SPX)
It's not magic, but new materials designed by two Northwestern University researchers seem to exhibit magical properties. Some contract when they should expand,...
Thousands of invisibility cloaks trap a rainbow
May 28, 2012 (SPX)
Many people anticipating the creation of an invisibility cloak might be surprised to learn that a group of American researchers has created 25 000 individual cl...
Just How Green is Google
May 28, 2012 (SPX)
Google may have a bad track record on privacy practices, but when it comes to green, the internet giant is clean, racking up over $850 million in investments to...
Facebook smartphone could come by next year
May 28, 2012 (AFP)
Facebook hopes to release its own smartphone by next year, as the newly public social networking giant looks to boost its revenue in the mobile Internet market,...
June release for new Google tablet?
May 25, 2012 (UPI)
Google will unveil its new tablet computer at its I/O conference next month and will give a unit to every developer in attendance, Web site TechnoBuffalo said. ...
Dish Network in US legal fight over ad-skipping
May 25, 2012 (AFP)
Satellite television group Dish Network said Friday it went to court against the major US TV networks, aiming to defend against lawsuits from the broadcasters o...
Yahoo! ditches digital newsstand for iPads
May 25, 2012 (AFP)
Yahoo! shuttered its fledgling digital newsstand for iPads on Friday in what it said was the start of a product purge intended to make the floundering Internet ...
DeLorme inReach Two-Way Satellite Communicator Now Connects With iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
May 25, 2012 (SPX)
DeLorme has announced that its award-winning inReach is now compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. This innovation makes it possible for iPhone, iPad and ...
How ion bombardment reshapes metal surfaces
May 24, 2012 (SPX)
To modify a metal surface at the scale of atoms and molecules - for instance to refine the wiring in computer chips or the reflective silver in optical componen...
7-inch Google tablet said imminent
May 24, 2012 (UPI)
A 7-inch tablet computer is coming from Google and could hit the market in July, DigiTimes, a tech Web site based in Taiwan reports. An initial shipment of abou...
Laser scan at full speed
May 24, 2012 (SPX)
Is a contact wire missing or is it faulty? What's the situation in front of the entrance to a railway station or a tunnel? A 3D laser scanner can increase the t...
Facebook makes mobile move after IPO flop
May 24, 2012 (AFP)
Facebook released a "camera" application Thursday that lets people take Instagram-style pictures that can be shared with iPhones. The stand-alone application sy...
'Monkey' to go West again as cinema power shifts East
May 24, 2012 (AFP)
Generations of Chinese grew up under the spell cast by Wu Cheng'en's "Journey to the West", the 16th Century adventure epic which is the subject of two major up...
Reversible doping: Hydrogen flips switch on vanadium oxide
May 23, 2012 (SPX)
If you are not a condensed matter physicist, vanadium oxide (VO2) may be the coolest material you've never heard of. It's a metal. It's an insulator. It's a win...
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