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Toshiba shares jump as it drops Japan TV operations
May 17, 2012 (AFP)
Toshiba shares surged almost six percent Thursday after saying it had stopped making televisions in Japan where a strong yen has hurt exports as slow demand and...
Toshiba drops Japan TV operations
May 17, 2012 (AFP)
Toshiba said Thursday it has stopped making televisions in Japan, citing slow domestic demand as falling prices, fierce global competition and a strong yen pres...
China grants more quotas for rare earth exports
May 17, 2012 (AFP)
China, which is locked in a dispute with major trading partners over its control of rare earth minerals, on Thursday announced additional export quotas for this...
Samsung on top as mobile phone sales dip: survey
May 16, 2012 (AFP)
Mobile phone sales worldwide suffered a rare dip in the first three months of this year on softened demand in Asian markets, industry tracker Gartner reported W...
Record data transmission speed set
May 16, 2012 (UPI)
Japanese scientists say they've broken the record for wireless data transmission, achieving a rate 20 times higher than the best commonly used WiFi standard. Re...
Social Network writer to pen Steve Jobs film script
May 16, 2012 (AFP)
Sony Pictures Entertainment on Wednesday said that the Academy Award winning screenwriter behind "The Social Network" will write the script for a film about App...
US class-action ebook price-fixing suit can proceed
May 15, 2012 (AFP)
A judge Tuesday allowed a class-action case to proceed against Apple and six publishing houses alleging a price-fixing scheme for electronic books, citing "ampl...
Greenpeace members arrested in Apple 'cloud' demo
May 15, 2012 (AFP)
Two Greenpeace activists were arrested after being pried from a giant iPod in front of Apple's headquarters Tuesday during a protest against using dirty energy ...
VPT Adds 15 Amp Point of Load DC-DC Converter to Space Family of Power Conversion Products
May 14, 2012 (SPX)
VPT, Inc., a HEICO company, has announced availability of a new point of load power converter designed and manufactured for use in the extreme environment of sp...
SciTechTalk: Mourning the computer mouse?
May 13, 2012 (UPI)
The death of the computer mouse is imminent, we're told, soon to be shown the door by touch screens, track pads, gesture recognition systems and whatever new te...
Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Propulsion Orbits Critical Communications Satellite for US Military
May 10, 2012 (SPX)
Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne upperstage propulsion successfully orbited the second in a series of Advanced Extremely High-Frequency (AEHF) communications satell...
Thailand buys Chinese tablet computers for schools
May 10, 2012 (AFP)
Thailand on Thursday signed a multi-million dollar deal to buy hundreds of thousands of Chinese-made tablet computers for primary school children, an official s...
Curtiss-Wright Controls Awarded Contract By Alenia Aermacchi
May 10, 2012 (SPX)
Curtiss-Wright Controls has announced that it has received a contract from Alenia Aermacchi S.p.A. to supply rugged data acquisition subsystems for use in the I...
Japan's Hitachi looks to future after wobbly year
May 10, 2012 (AFP)
Japanese high-tech firm Hitachi said Thursday its operating profit fell in the year to March due to the earthquake and tsunami disaster at home and Thai floods,...
Amazon conjures rights to borrow Harry Potter; Samsung buys streaming AV service
May 10, 2012 (AFP)
Amazon said Thursday it has signed a deal for the electronic books rights to all seven Harry Potter titles English, French, Italian, German and Spanish for its ...
KIT Researchers Succeed in Realizing a New Material Class
May 10, 2012 (SPX)
A research team lead by Professor Martin Wegener at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has succeeded in realizing a new material class through the manu...
TDRS-4 Mission Complete; Spacecraft Retired From Active Service
May 10, 2012 (SPX)
The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite 4 (TDRS-4) recently completed almost 23 years of operations support and successfully completed end-of-mission de-orbit and...
Fewer toxic toys and textiles in EU stores
May 08, 2012 (AFP)
Europe last year saw its first drop in the number of toxic toys and skin-irritating textiles stacked on its supermarket shelves, more than half of them made in ...
Flying 3D eye-bots
May 08, 2012 (SPX)
They can be deployed as additional surveillance resources during major events, or as high-resolution 3D street imaging systems. Intelligent swarms of aerial dro...
Colors burst into contemporary architecture
May 08, 2012 (SPX)
White stopped being the official colour of architecture a while ago. New buildings have now been transformed and fragmented and they display movement and innova...
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