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Kenya's elephants send text messages to rangers

October 11, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(AP) -- The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms.


Sony seeks to harmonize music, electronics

October 11, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

(AP) -- Now that Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG have broken off their troubled relationship, known as Sony BMG, the Japanese company hopes to harmonize its consumer electronics and its music, a duo that was ...


Sinking shares could make Yahoo a target again

October 10, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(AP) -- When Yahoo Inc. co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang spurned Microsoft Corp.'s rich buyout offer this spring, he promised brighter days in Sunnyvale were just over the horizon.


Fujitsu Develops World's First GaN HEMT Able to Cut Power in Standby Mode and Achieve High Output

October 10, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Fujitsu today announced the development of a new type of gallium nitride (GaN)-based high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) that features a new structure ideal for use in amplifiers for microwave and millimeter-wave ...


Facebook rekindling long-lost friendships

October 10, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1

It was the first message Marlee Wallingford ever received on Facebook. And it was a simple one: "Did you go to Salisbury Central School in 1968?"


HP to build new computer plant in China

October 09, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

US technology giant Hewlett-Packard announced plans on Thursday to build a manufacturing plant in southwestern China to make notebook and desktop personal computers for the Chinese market.


Despite IBM profits, a tech gloom still looms

October 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(AP) -- Even after IBM Corp. surprised Wall Street with a healthy profit in the third quarter and a reaffirmation of its earnings outlook for the rest of the year, the broader technology sector dived again Thursday. There's ...


A safety net for social networking

October 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1

Someone out there, some stranger, might know things about your teenager that even you don't know. What music they like. Who they're crushing on. Who they're fighting with.


You too can be on the Forbes 400 list. OK, no you can't

October 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Every year I look, and every year my name's not on the list. Yeah, the Forbes 400 Richest People in America. I'm not one and you're not one, either. Unless, of course, someone is reading this to you.


Microsoft backs using videogames as teaching tools

October 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1

Microsoft's research arm and a set of US universities are creating a first-of-its-kind institute devoted to using videogames to teach math, science and engineering to school children.


NY Times, IHT websites to merge

October 08, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

The New York Times is to merge the website of its Paris-based sister paper, the International Herald Tribune, with its own flagship site, NYTimes.com, the newspapers announced on Wednesday.


Boosting the capabilities of emergency relief efforts

October 07, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

Humanitarian relief efforts are often hampered by the inability of the different international and local bodies involved to properly communicate and share information. European researchers have come up with a new system to ...


VeriSign sells Jamba mobile to News Corp.

October 07, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

Internet infrastructure company VeriSign announced on Tuesday it had sold its minority share in a mobile entertainment joint venture to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for 200 million dollars.


Web ad sales dipped from previous quarter

October 07, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

(AP) -- U.S. Internet advertising revenue dipped slightly in the second quarter from the previous three-month period, which likely is a ripple effect from the bad economy given that prior to 2008 the market had seen several ...


Boston University partners in NSF challenge to create wireless network using visible light

October 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Boston University's College of Engineering is a partner launching a major program, under a National Science Foundation grant, to develop the next generation of wireless communications technology based on visible light instead ...


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