Archive for the ‘tech’ Category
Saturday, July 5th, 2008
Unable to strike a deal on its own, Microsoft Corp. reportedly is hoping to snap up Yahoo's online search operations with the help of News Corp. and Time Warner Inc.The latest twist in Microsoft's convoluted courtship caused Yahoo's shares to rise more than 3 percent in Wednesday's sinking stock market, even though ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
REDMOND, Wash. — On his final full day at Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates went on stage to reminisce with his longtime friend Steve Ballmer, and neither man could hold back tears as Ballmer handed Gates a large scrapbook as a farewell present.
Gates, who is stepping back to focus on his philanthropy, ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
For the first time in recorded history, the North Pole may be free of ice this summer, according to apublished report Friday.
The unique prospect of sailing in open waters at the North Pole during the minimum ice cover in August and September has about a 50-50 chance of becoming reality, says ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
It has long been seen as the emblem of a throwaway society but the ordinary plastic bottle is about to take on an unlikely role as recycling paragon, with the launch on Thursday of a new reprocessing facility in east London.
On a previously derelict site on the outskirts of Dagenham, ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
YOKOSUKA, Japan — Rolling your eyes to turn up the volume of a portable music player and tapping your fingers to turn on a DVD player are among technologies Japan's top mobile carrier is testing for "wearable" gadgets.
In one version, sensors and chips inside headphones detect electrical current produced by movements ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
TOKYO — The Nintendo DS isn't just fun and games anymore for English students at Tokyo's Joshi Gakuen all-girls junior high school.
The portable video game console is now being used as a key teaching tool, breaking with traditional Japanese academic methods.
A giggly class of 32 seventh-graders used plastic pens to spell ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
A rare type of meteorite that could hold clues to the birth of our Solar System has been bought by London's Natural History Museum.
The chemistry in the Ivuna meteorite is thought to contain information about the conditions that gave rise to the Sun and planets 4.5 billion years ago.
It landed ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Two teams of foreign aid workers dedicated to delivering emergency telecoms in disaster areas have been forced to leave cyclone-hit Burma.
The members of Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF) left the country after attempts to reach affected areas were blocked.
The charity, which described the situation as "unprecedented", said it had no other ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
The tape recorder has been a constant in police interviews for the last 20 years but it could soon be consigned to the bin.
Plans to conduct and store interviews in digital format could radically speed up the time it takes to bring criminals to justice, say experts.
The majority of forces ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
The FDA says clones are ok to eat. The FDA's food safety chief Dr. Stephen Sundlof said that they "found nothing in the food that could potentially be hazardous. The food in every respect is indistinguishable from food from any other animal." The Associated Press reports that two companies have ...
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