Today at 18:06:42 - NewsFactor - Facebook may join other Internet companies in offering location-based services. The social-networking site plans to let its users to share their location and see the locations of friends, ...

Today at 18:04:11 - AP - The beleaguered global warming panel has found an outside group to review how it makes its reports.

Today at 17:32:06 - LiveScience.com - Four newly identified worm species, including one that sports an unusual green color, have been found wriggling in the sands of the Great Barrier Reef.

Today at 17:28:22 - Reuters - Fearing an apparent assault by Amazon.com on Canadian culture, the Canadian Booksellers Association is urging the federal government to block the U.S. Internet retailer from establishing a p ...

Today at 17:25:44 - NewsFactor - With the stakes high in Microsoft's bid to add its search engine to the iPhone, a few words of praise by the software giant's CEO have drawn a considerable amount of attention.

Today at 17:47:59 - Professors have banned laptops from their classrooms at George Washington University, American University, the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia, among many others.

Today at 17:00:29 - Four newly identified worm species, including one that sports an unusual green color, have been found wriggling in the sands of the Great Barrier Reef.

Today at 16:39:42 - Cisco Systems Inc, introduced a new router that it says will handle Internet traffic 12 times faster than rival products, as it looks to compete with rivals such as Juniper Networks Inc.

Today at 16:35:30 - Space Exploration Technologies fired up the engines of its debut Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, a key milestone in its quest to fly cargo -- and eventually astronauts -- to the International Space Statio ...

Today at 15:49:28 - A new musical video game lets players strum a real six-string electric guitar instead of tapping buttons on a fake instrument.

Today at 17:25:06 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is studying whether it can legally challenge Chinese Internet restrictions that hurt Google and other U.S. companies operating in China, but direct talks with ...

Today at 17:17:41 - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A coalition of cable and satellite companies will this week call on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to create a new process to resolve increasingly bitter disputes over ...

Today at 15:39:06 - CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space Exploration Technologies fired up the engines of its debut Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, a key milestone in its quest to fly cargo -- and eventually astronauts ...

Today at 11:40:55 - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc, the world's top maker of network equipment, introduced a router that it says can handle 12 times the Internet traffic of the nearest competing product.

Today at 10:51:34 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators may dedicate spectrum to free wireless Internet service for some Americans to increase affordable broadband service nationwide, the Federal Communications Commis ...

Today at 15:59:06 - GPS Measurements Show Significant Movement From Feb. 27 Quake as Far as Argentina and Peru

Today at 12:59:07 - Customers Up in Arms After Being Dropped by Amazon Affiliate Program; Company Blames States Like Colo. Seeking Revenue

Today at 12:59:07 - Samsung, Panasonic Start Selling 3-D TVs, Glasses in U.S. Stores This Week; Prices Start at $3,000 for 46-inch Screen

Today at 11:44:08 - Famous Folksinger Wrote It After Doctors Found Polyp When He Had the Procedure; He Sang it on "The Early Show"

Today at 11:44:08 - Although China has the reputation of being a major polluter, it has a green industry that is booming and creating thousands of jobs. Celia Hatton reports.

Today at 08:14:08 - Well-Preserved Ships, Some Hundreds of Years Old, Found During Pipeline Construction

Today at 15:29:05 - More than 3 million Cablevision subscribers couldn't see the opening of the Oscar show because of a dispute over paying for ABC shows.

Today at 11:59:04 - The E.U. has quietly given the green light to farmers to grow fields of genetically modified potatoes. Is Europe beginning to embrace GM?

06/03/2010 at 00:29:04 - In many countries nature is quickly sacrificed for wealth creation. But there is a cost to this loss and ignoring it, some experts contend, is "bad accounting."

05/03/2010 at 19:29:05 - The debt crisis in Greece has cut the single currency's value by 10% in the past month. That will help European firms' bottom line

05/03/2010 at 04:14:04 - Google is snapping up a handful of small tech companies as it prepares to launch its new Web-based operating system. The newest buy, online photo editor Picnik, fills some special needs

Today at 13:26:01 - The driver of a Toyota Prius says he was taken on a wild ride Monday after the car's accelerator became stuck, reaching speeds in excess of 90 mph on a winding, hilly portion of a southern California ...

Today at 08:56:03 - This week's Game Developers Conference shows iPhone is a top gaming platform.

08/03/2010 at 13:41:01 - Renewed violence in Mexican cities bordering Texas has ignited fear among nearby residents, some of whom have turned to social media despite cartels' efforts to limit information.

08/03/2010 at 09:26:02 - Social media are, by definition, supposed to be a social experience. Make a profile and start connecting. Reach out to friends, old and new. Post a profile picture, and while you're at it upload a pho ...

08/03/2010 at 09:26:02 - Police have arrested a South Korean couple whose toddler starved to death while they were raising a virtual child online, authorities said.

Today at 10:59:02 - Neuroscientists at MIT have developed a powerful new class of tools to reversibly shut down brain activity using different colors of light. When targeted to specific neurons, these tools could potenti ...

08/03/2010 at 18:20:00 - Hives exposed to pyrethroid pesticides demonstrated inhibited reproductive abilities.

08/03/2010 at 18:09:00 - Researchers struggle to explain the price drop associated with wines carrying eco-labeling.

08/03/2010 at 18:04:00 - More people around the world are moving into sprawling cities built atop active fault lines.

08/03/2010 at 12:37:00 - The Large Hadron Collider will be ramped up to operate at 7 trillion electron volts later this month.

06/03/2010 at 19:29:01 - NASA's launch of the Mars Science Laboratory -- hampered by technical difficulties and cost overruns -- has been delayed until the fall of 2011, NASA officials said at a news conference Thursday in Wa ...

06/03/2010 at 19:29:01 - NASA officials Sunday waved off the first opportunity for space shuttle Endeavour to return to Earth, citing poor weather conditions.

08/03/2010 at 19:20:02 - A New Zealand inventor has put a bizarre floating machine that can also take to the skies up for sale.

08/03/2010 at 19:20:02 - The Queen is warning that internet use has become an "unaffordable option" for many people living in Commonwealth countries.

05/03/2010 at 19:20:04 - Cabinet minister Ed Miliband has become the latest politician to fall prey to a Twitter scam that sees sexually explicit messages sent from MPs' accounts.

04/03/2010 at 19:20:02 - Millions of web users across Europe are being asked by Microsoft if they want to continue using its Internet Explorer (IE) or change to another browser.

04/03/2010 at 06:20:02 - Security forces say they have caught the masterminds behind a computer virus which hijacked the machines of more than 13 million users worldwide.

Today at 01:43:04 - The massive cement expanses that dot the flat Florida landscape have been launching pads for history: the first US astronauts blasted into orbit, the Apollo missions to the moon and nearly 30 years of ...

08/03/2010 at 02:58:05 - Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has said that a Bill to amend the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, would make poaching a stringent crime.

07/03/2010 at 13:28:11 - Three-dimensional imaging has shown that the eruption of Alaska`s Redoubt Volcano last year, created a new type of lightning, in the form of small, quick sparks.

07/03/2010 at 13:28:11 - Rhinos, one of world`s most endangered animals, are being farmed on Chinese wildlife reserves to harvest their horns for medicinal purposes, a report by international conservation monitors has clai ...

07/03/2010 at 13:28:11 - Techies have come up with a new planning tool that can help sort urgent messages in an overflowing inbox.

Today at 17:21:32 - SEX.COM, often touted as one of the most valuable internet domain names, is due to head to the auction block next week.

Today at 17:09:58 - WOMAN fails in court attempt to show how the world's most powerful atom-smasher could cause a "black hole doomsday".

Today at 17:01:24 - INTERNET giant Google is testing a new television search service with Dish Network, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Today at 16:59:09 - A TV news presenter has been ordered to take her risqué Twitter account offline after embarrassed bosses ruled it was too saucy.

Today at 16:33:34 - NEW internet services are killing the blind date and banishing the uncertainty that comes with meeting a mate online.

Today at 10:20:17 - NUMBER of Australians studying maths and science is falling to dangerous levels.

Today at 16:50:03 - Frakkin' sweet! Bigpoint and NBC Universal will be showcasing a long-awaited Battlestar Galactica MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) at GDC 2010.   read more

Today at 15:48:33 - Microsoft has identified and confirmed a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 that has already been exploited by hackers. read more

Today at 14:00:41 - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has harshly criticized Apple for imposing a draconian licensing agreement on developers. read more

Today at 13:21:46 - Google and Dish are reportedly testing a new service that could eventually allow users to rapidly search both YouTube videos and Satellite-TV shows. read more

Today at 12:37:26 - Palm kicked off the 2010 Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco with the release of a public beta version of its next-gen webOS Plug-in Development Kit (PDK). read more

Today at 15:33:05 - Officials in Cyprus say DNA tests have confirmed that a body found in a suburban cemetery belongs to the late president Tassos Papadopoulos.

08/03/2010 at 19:03:06 - The massive earthquake which struck the west coast of Chile last month moved the entire city of Concepcion more than three metres to the west, scientists say.

08/03/2010 at 17:48:13 - Ten farms in the Forbes district will take part in a $1 million trial of using plant material or 'biomass' to produce electricity.

08/03/2010 at 16:33:08 - In June last year when then-premier Nathan Rees flipped open the cardboard box and began doling out free laptops to students at Arthur Phillip High School in Parramatta two thoughts ran through my min ...

08/03/2010 at 16:33:08 - A man is to face a Sydney court, accused of using the social networking site Facebook to groom a child for sex.

Today at 14:50:05 - The 600-million (approximately Rs 4,100 crore) UK Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (PADA) deal, which was recently awarded to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to administer the National Employee Sa ...

Today at 14:43:30 - Bangalore-based information technology (IT ) services firm MindTree has set up an ambitious target of becoming a $1-billion (around Rs 4,600-crore) company over the next five years. The company achiev ...

Today at 14:20:56 - The Internet was built on freedom of expression. Society wants someone held accountable when that freedom is abused. And major Internet companies like Google and Facebook are finding themselves caught ...

Today at 14:17:19 - At a press conference in Kolkata, Alok Garodia, president of Compass, said, Around 58 lakh Pcs have already been sold as of December 2009 at the national level. We expect East Indias share to remain a ...

Today at 14:13:55 - Infosys BPO, the business process outsourcing subsidiary of Infosys Technologies, today announced a training partnership with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).

Today at 12:42:46 - Stocks on Wall Street have climbed as the telecommunications sector continued to steam ahead after Cisco Systems announced a new high-speed internet router. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 48 p ...

08/03/2010 at 15:32:50 - TelstraClear has launched a new 3G service for residential customers, headlined by a $20/month, two-year plan that offers 29 cent/minute calls to any national number, 500 free txts, and mobile data ch ...

08/03/2010 at 13:24:28 - Now, granted, Vodafone’s spin doctors don’t have quite the practice of Telecom’s at dealing with network outages. But when intermittent problems hit 16 Vodafone cellsites around the ...

07/03/2010 at 13:54:19 - State-owned broadcaster Television New Zealand is launching a channel playing New Zealand programmes on pay television operator SKY Television's platform in June. The new channel, called TVNZ Heartlan ...

02/03/2010 at 18:13:56 - New Zealand’s largest freight forwarder has moved its telecommunications business from Telecom to Vodafone. Modiale Freight Services did not want to comment on its previous contract, but NBR und ...

Today at 12:23:13 -   Steve Ballmer is the last person you’d expect to big up Apple.   But the main man at Microsoft has been quoted as saying Apple isn’t that bad after.   In a speech g ...

Today at 12:07:51 -   There are now more than 27,000 books available as apps according to mobile ad company Mobclix.   This compares to 25,400 games published in the last year, followed by entertainment, edu ...

Today at 12:00:31 - The Samsung E6 eReader caused no end of squabbling among the assembled hacks at CES, as the great and good of the tech world tried to get a close up look of this slider-style eReader.   And US ...

Today at 11:16:02 - MSI isn’t shy about unleashing new slimmed down PCs and the latest one, the X360 has just landed. Packing in the usual top end specs expected from MSI’s high end efforts, it really does lo ...

Today at 11:14:17 - Hot on the heels of Sony's 3D TV launch in Tokyo, Samsung today set out their stall for the global roll out of seventeen new 3D products, covering 3D LCD, 3D LED and 3D plasma and 3D blu-ray player at ...

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05/03/2010 at 14:22:00 - Cyber-savvy smokers looking to quit on next week's No Smoking Day can kick the habit on Facebook.

02/03/2010 at 08:06:12 - The DUP’s founding father Ian Paisley today confirmed that he will not be standing in the forthcoming general election.

02/03/2010 at 05:29:24 - A technical problem that stopped play for millions of PlayStation 3 gamers has been fixed, according to Sony.

01/03/2010 at 12:12:00 - A young artist will have her work viewed by millions of web surfers this week after being crowned the country's top doodler.

01/03/2010 at 12:12:00 - A young Irish artist will have her work viewed by millions of web surfers this week after being crowned the country's top doodler.

05/03/2010 at 04:23:00 - Travelling by the Delhi Metro? With Google's new service you can now get on-the-go information about schedules, routes, prices and commute times

03/03/2010 at 12:31:00 - The project, a collaboration between the Delhi government and the Survey of India, aims to create a comprehensive 3-dimensional GIS for Delhi

03/03/2010 at 07:38:00 - A Delta IV rocket will carry the satellite to its orbit around 22,000 miles (35,406 kilometers) above the Earth's surface

03/03/2010 at 00:03:00 - Apple said HTC has infringed on 20 of its patents covering aspects of the iPhone's user interface and hardware

24/02/2010 at 14:25:00 - With rapid technology advancements robots are now cost-effective and highly accurate soldiers of war

24/02/2010 at 05:53:00 - The firm will introduce the sleek touchscreen phone to software developers in Hong Kong and Taiwan next week

04/03/2010 at 09:09:07 - You might think that measuring the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would be a priority. If you did think that, though, you would be wrongIN NEGOTIATIONS on nuclear weapons the preferred s ...

04/03/2010 at 06:17:22 - If females must compete, evolution will furnish them with weapons to do soWHEN a species evolves traits that seem to have little to do with individual survival—bright colours, say, or oversize h ...

04/03/2010 at 06:17:22 - The earliest animal tracks yet found have been unearthed in CanadaONE of the greatest mysteries of the history of life is the Cambrian explosion. Prior to 560m years ago, animal fossils are rare. Then ...

04/03/2010 at 06:17:22 - How to predict the consistency of snow“THE wrong type of snow” became famous as a lame excuse in Britain in February 1991 when, caught out by a cold snap, British Rail blamed severe disrup ...

04/03/2010 at 06:17:21 - In "Signs of life" (February 27th) we said that the Square Kilometre Array radio-telescope collaboration planned to build its grid over a square kilometre of land. In fact, it is the combined collecti ...

25/02/2010 at 20:00:00 - "Week by week, cybercriminals dress one of their infamous creations in a different costume, VirusBuster's experts report. The malware Trojan.FraudLoad has been distributed in e-mail messages pretendin ...

24/02/2010 at 23:00:00 - "The number of active mobile subscriptions grew 19,000 to 10.95 million in January, the communications authority NHH announced. The number subscriptions per 100 stood at 118.2 at the end of January, b ...

11/02/2010 at 22:00:00 - "Bredolab, a malicious program which last flooded the net in mid-December, seems to have launched a new offensive, VirusBuster warned. The Hungary-based specialist of computer security is one of the f ...

10/02/2010 at 23:00:00 - "Hungary's mobile carrier Pannon has set ambitious goals in its 2009 earnings report published on Wednesday.

08/02/2010 at 20:00:00 - "The first month of 2010 was even more peaceful than the already quiet December, at least as far as the Hungarian malware landscape is concerned. The only surprise was the resurrection of an old worm, ...

22/02/2010 at 11:32:00 - The timing of recent attempts to cast doubt over global warming is not accidental, according to top climatologist Martin Beniston.

22/02/2010 at 02:43:00 - The experimental Rolex Learning Centre, the talk of the architectural world, has opened its doors to students at Lausanne's Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL).

13/02/2010 at 12:36:49 - A Swiss journalist marooned five days in a French farmhouse with access only to Twitter and Facebook says social networking benefits the profession - sort of.

12/02/2010 at 05:01:00 - Would you go on a one-way trip to Mars? A Swiss documentary looks at people in the United States who would do so at the drop of a space helmet.

10/02/2010 at 02:56:07 - After a successful "flea hop" near Zurich, the Solar Impulse aircraft has moved home to Payerne in preparation for its first high-altitude and night flights.

10/02/2010 at 08:05:48 - The Czech Republic's first and only science centre has recently celebrated its first birthday. Techmania, based in the western industrial city of Plzen, has already demonstrated its pulling power bas ...

09/02/2010 at 11:16:23 - Dr. Helena Illnerová is a biochemist, and one of the top minds in the Czech Republic. She is involved in practically every major academic committee there is in the country, from the council of the Nat ...

09/02/2010 at 09:53:55 - The Institute of Experimental Medicine in Prague has made a potentially very important breakthrough in treating spinal cord injuries. Using stem cells on paralysed rats, the team has managed to heal a ...

03/02/2010 at 09:46:00 - Czech scientists working in Mozambique have discovered a new species of fish that inhabits the rain pools of the savannah. Types of tiny killifish are found in many parts of the world, but what is uni ...

28/01/2010 at 10:43:24 - As of Tuesday, the Czech Republic boasts new air navigation technology that will give the country's aviation an edge over neighboring Germany and Poland. The newly acquired 3D tower simulator is capa ...

06/01/2010 at 07:29:00 - The US Hubble Space Telescope has captured the earliest image yet of the universe, just 600 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was just a toddler. Scientists released the photo today ...

06/01/2010 at 06:08:00 - On Tuesday, Google took the wraps off what may be the worst-kept secret on the Internet: a brand-new cell phone, designed by Google and made by HTC, called the Nexus One.

06/01/2010 at 04:18:00 - Google has also jumped on the phone bandwagon. It has now launched its own mobile phone, Nexus One. This phone joins about 20 other mobile devices that already run on Android, the mobile operating sys ...

31/12/2009 at 06:20:00 - What caused Wednesday's fire at one of India's best-protected and most-renowned nuclear centres? Originally, a short circuit was suspected to have caused the accident. But now, it turns out that one o ...

17/12/2009 at 02:48:00 - Athena Gurno thought her allergies were acting up when she started coughing in early October. But within days, Gurno, the 30-year-old mother of a young girl, was in a Seattle hospital, close to death ...