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Google, publishers end long-running copyright case

Oct 04, 2012 (AFP)

Google and US publishing firms announced Thursday that they had reached a settlement in a long-running copyright case over books and journals digitized by the I...

Malaysia hearing on Australia rare earths plant postponed

Oct 04, 2012 (AFP)

A Malaysian court Thursday postponed until next week a hearing on a temporary operating licence granted to Australian miner Lynas Corp for a rare earths plant, ...

Ancient stinging nettles reveal Bronze Age trade connections

Oct 03, 2012 (SPX)

A piece of nettle cloth retrieved from Denmark's richest known Bronze Age burial mound Lusehoj may actually derive from Austria, new findings suggest. The cloth...

HP stock sinks with slow turnaround

Oct 03, 2012 (AFP)

Hewlett-Packard stock sank to a 10-year low Wednesday after its chief said it would take time to turn around the company that built its fortune on printers and ...

Probing the mysteries of cracks and stresses

Oct 03, 2012 (SPX)

Diving into a pool from a few feet up allows you to enter the water smoothly and painlessly, but jumping from a bridge can lead to a fatal impact. The water is ...

Lockheed Martin Delivers SolaS Hybrid Cloud Solution

Oct 03, 2012 (SPX)

Martin has announced the availability of the Lockheed Martin SolaS Hybrid Cloud Solution. SolaS, or Solution as a Service, represents Lockheed Martin's mission-...

Space 'harpoon' could corral space junk

Oct 02, 2012 (UPI)

A space "harpoon" could grab hold of space debris such as a rogue or redundant satellite and pull it back to Earth, say the British developers of such a system....

Breakthrough in kitchen furniture production

Oct 02, 2012 (SPX)

Biocomposites challenge chipboard as furniture material. Researchers at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have developed a kitchen furniture framework ma...

Smartphones control smart homes at Asia tech fair

Oct 02, 2012 (AFP)

Homes where every device is linked up and can be controlled by smartphone were touted in Japan on Tuesday when Asia's biggest tech fair threw open its doors. Ma...

Space debris delays Japan's satellite experiment

Oct 02, 2012 (XNA)

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Thursday it has decided to postpone an experiment to release satellites from the International Space Station (ISS) d...

US judge lifts Samsung tablet ban

Oct 01, 2012 (AFP)

A judge on Monday lifted a ban on US sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 computers as the South Korean firm added Apple's new iPhone 5 to a patent brawl between ...

'MindMeld' app anticipates people's needs

Oct 01, 2012 (AFP)

A voice calls application called MindMeld to be available this month promises to know what iPad users want before they do. The application, named for the way th...

HP powers business tablet with Windows 8

Oct 01, 2012 (AFP)

Hewlett-Packard on Monday took aim at "post PC" workplaces with a business-oriented tablet computer powered with new Windows 8 software by Microsoft. The EliteP...

Kodak dumps inkjet printers, more jobs

Sep 28, 2012 (AFP)

Eastman Kodak said Friday it would cut an extra 200 jobs and end sales of its consumer inkjet printers under its plan to emerge from bankruptcy protection. The ...

EU eyes a cloud computing heaven

Sep 27, 2012 (AFP)

With the cloud computing business still in its relatively early days, the European Union moved Thursday to secure a toehold in a potentially lucrative market it...

Basing of first US Space Fence facility announced

Sep 27, 2012 (AFNS)

The Air Force will base a Space Fence radar site on Kwajalein Island in the Republic of the Marshall Islands with initial operations capability planned for fisc...

Hotter might be better at energy-intensive data centers

Sep 27, 2012 (SPX)

As data centres continue to come under scrutiny for the amount of energy they use, researchers at University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) have a suggestion: tu...

US Bank admits 'attacks,' says customer data safe

Sep 27, 2012 (AFP)

US Bank acknowledged Thursday its website was the target of "attacks" aimed at disrupting its system but that customer data and financial information were not c...

Search for element 113 concluded at last

Sep 27, 2012 (SPX)

The most unambiguous data to date on the elusive 113th atomic element has been obtained by researchers at the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-based Science...

Pigs' revenge as 'Angry Birds' makers launch new game

Sep 27, 2012 (AFP)

"Angry Birds" maker Rovio launched a new title Thursday allowing users to play as the "Bad Piggies" from the smash-hit game, and take revenge on the birds who a...