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Microsoft to price new tablet near same as iPad

Oct 16, 2012 (AFP)

Microsoft said on Tuesday its new Surface tablet computer -- designed to challenge Apple's iPad -- will be sold at roughly the same price as the market leader. ...

Boeing Proposes Gas Clouds to Remove Space Debris

Oct 16, 2012 (SPX)

Space debris issues continue to proliferate and concern continues to build. It is not surprising that the big aerospace companies are gearing up to take advanta...

ESA deploys first orbital debris test radar in Spain

Oct 16, 2012 (ESA)

A new radar designed to test methods for finding orbital debris that can be hazardous to space navigation has been installed in Spain. The radar will be used to...

Amazon offers refunds following e-book settlement

Oct 15, 2012 (AFP)

Amazon has announced it will offer refunds to customers who bought e-books as a result of a partial settlement of a lawsuit against publishers in a price-fixing...

OG2 Prototype Hardware Functionality Verified Prior to Deorbit

Oct 15, 2012 (SPX)

ORBCOMM Inc. reports that the single prototype of its second generation of satellites (OG2), launched as a secondary mission payload on the Cargo Re-Supply Serv...

Shares in China's ZTE slump after profit warning

Oct 15, 2012 (AFP)

Shares in Chinese telecom firm ZTE, accused by US lawmakers of posing a security threat, tumbled 15.9 percent in Hong Kong on Monday after it released a third-q...

U.N.: 6 billion cellphone subscriptions

Oct 12, 2012 (UPI)

About 6 billion people had cellphone subscriptions at the end of 2011, but there were still a billion who did not, a United Nations agency report said. The numb...

Swedish breakthrough in space on NASA satellite with electronics from AAC Microtec

Oct 12, 2012 (SPX)

The Uppsala based company AAC Microtec has, on commission from the Swedish National Space Board and American NASA, delivered all the electronics to NASA's test ...

Focus on space debris: Envisat

Oct 12, 2012 (ESA)

Space debris came into focus last week at the International Astronautical Congress in Naples, Italy. Envisat, ESA's largest Earth observation satellite, ended i...

Weizmann Institute Scientists observe quantum effects in cold chemistry

Oct 12, 2012 (SPX)

At very low temperatures, close to absolute zero, chemical reactions may proceed at a much higher rate than classical chemistry says they should - because in th...

Boeing to Build 702HP Communications Satellite for SES

Oct 11, 2012 (SPX)

Boeing has been selected by SES S.A. to provide a new satellite that will expand direct-to-home broadcasting and other communications services to the fast-growi...

TACLANE-MultiBook Delivers Classified and Unclassified Information for Government and Agency Workers

Oct 11, 2012 (SPX)

General Dynamics C4 Systems has introduced the new TACLANE-MultiBook laptop, now certified by the National Security Agency (NSA) to secure network communication...

Photonic gels are colorful sensors

Oct 11, 2012 (SPX)

Materials scientists at Rice University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created very thin color-changing films that may serve as part o...

Rovsing And SSBV Merge Satellite Simulation And Test Services

Oct 11, 2012 (SPX)

In response to a formal announcement made by Rovsing A/S of Denmark on the 20th of September 2012, the SSBV Aerospace and Technology Group (SSBV) is pleased to ...

Global PC sales down 8.6 percent in third quarter: IDC

Oct 11, 2012 (AFP)

Global personal computer (PC) sales fell 8.6 percent in the third quarter from a year ago due to gloomy economic sentiment and the shift to tablets and smartpho...

US appeals court lifts ban on Samsung-Google phone

Oct 11, 2012 (AFP)

A US appeals court Thursday lifted a sales ban on Google-branded Samsung smartphones in a patent fight with Apple, saying there was no evidence sales were drive...

Testing Mars and Moon soil for sheltering astronauts from radiation

Oct 11, 2012 (ESA)

Humans venturing beyond Earth orbit deeper into space face increased exposure to cosmic radiation, so ESA has teamed with Germany's GSI particle accelerator to ...

Making computer data storage cheaper and easier

Oct 10, 2012 (SPX)

Businesses and consumers may soon have a simple, cheaper way to store large amounts of digital data. Case Western Reserve University researchers have developed ...

An operating system in the cloud

Oct 10, 2012 (SPX)

A new-cloud based operating system for all kinds of computer is being developed by researchers in China. Details of the TransOS system are reported in a forthco...

Lenovo tops HP as world's biggest PC maker

Oct 10, 2012 (AFP)

Chinese manufacturer Lenovo has overtaken US-based Hewlett-Packard as the largest global vendor of personal computers, according to a survey Wednesday highlight...