November 19, 2008 - Top Story News
Tech bust fears persist despite HP earnings surprise
Hewlett-Packard shares soared 14%, leading a tech sector rally, after the No. 1 PC-maker announced better-than-expected earnings six days ...
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November 18, 2008 - Technology News
Big particle collider repairs to cost $21 million
Fixing the world's largest atom smasher will cost at least $21 million and may take until early summer, its operator said. An electrical failure ...
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November 4, 2008 - Industry News
Circuit City will close 155 stores
Circuit City Stores (CC) said it is pulling the plug on about 20% of its U.S. stores in an effort to return the nation's No. 2 consumer electronics ...
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October 30, 2008 - Industry News
Sony second-quarter profits plunge 72%
Sony's second-quarter profits have plunged 72% with a surging yen wiping out the benefits of solid flat-panel TV and PlayStation 3 game machine ...
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October 10, 2008 - Technology News
Scientist warns: Financial crisis will be 'devastating' to science
Famed scientist Richard Leakey warned that the worldwide credit crisis will be "just devastating" to scientific research in coming years, as ...
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October 7, 2008 - Technology News
One bad electrical connection sparked collider shutdown
A bad electrical connection likely caused the malfunction that sidelined the world's largest atom smasher days after it was launched with great ...
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September 22, 2008 - Technology News
New dwarf planet named Haumea for Hawaiian goddess
Pluto and its dwarf planet brethren have a new friend. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced the name of a new dwarf planet to ...
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September 19, 2008 - Industry News
U.S. lax on exports of toxic e-waste from old e-gear
U.S. regulators aren't enforcing even limited laws against exporting toxic waste from used electronics, the Government Accountability ...
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September 11, 2008 - Technology News
Questions and answers about the CERN collider
The Large Hadron Collider was built to help scientists learn more about the nature of the universe and the origins of all matter. Following ...
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September 4, 2008 - Technology News
Start-up wants to provide free broadband
M2Z is a small wireless start-up with a big goal: free broadband for the masses. Milo Medin, M2Z's chairman and co-founder and a broadband ...
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August 20, 2008 - Technology News
Japan aims to put 'wallet phone' in global pockets
Japan will start an aggressive push to market abroad its mobile technology, especially the nation's popular "wallet phone," a ...
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August 13, 2008 - Technology News
Are we science-savvy enough to make informed decisions?
For decades, educators and employers have worried that too few Americans are preparing for careers in science. But there's evidence to support ...
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July 8, 2008 - Technology News
Einstein is 'relatively' right yet again
That's the world's most popular science headline. And from beyond the grave, the frizzy-haired physics sensation added another trophy to ...
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June 27, 2008 - Technology News
Military funds development of brainwave binoculars
Military binoculars may soon get information directly from the brains of the soldiers using them. With the idea that that the brain absorbs and ...
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June 26, 2008 - Technology News
Eye movements could replace tactile electronics controls
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 ...
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June 19, 2008 - Technology News
Hyundai offers 3-D TV in Japan
Badminton matches look so real playing on Hyundai's new 3-D TV that you may reflexively dodge the virtual shuttlecock. A polar bear pawing ...
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June 5, 2008 - Technology News
Study secretly tracks foreign cellphone users: They don't roam
Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cellphone use and concluded that most ...
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June 2, 2008 - Industry News
Slower cellphone growth in USA could bring good deals
After years of go-go growth, the number of people signing up for cellphone service in the USA is finally slowing. That could spell ...
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May 23, 2008 - Technology News
Next-gen Internet will create bigger digital divide
The lack of high-speed Internet access in some areas of the U.S. has been hotly debated, even as that digital divide has narrowed. But a ...
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May 21, 2008 - Technology News
More missing cosmic matter found
After an extensive search, astronomers say they have definitely found half of the universe's missing normal matter in the spaces between ...
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May 7, 2008 - Industry News
Gates: Net's next decade will be 'very different'
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said there will be a vast shift in Internet technology over the next decade as he met with South Korean ...
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April 25, 2008 - Industry News
Big supply of chips makes for great buys
An oversupply of one kind of computer memory is creating great deals on digital camera cards, music players and other portable electronics. ...
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April 4, 2008 - Technology News
iTunes passes Wal-Mart as top U.S. music retailer
Online music purchasing marked a symbolic milestone when Apple (AAPL) announced Thursday that its iTunes music store had surpassed Wal-Mart ...
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March 13, 2008 - Technology News
Researchers hack wireless signals from defibrillators
A common new technology for monitoring defibrillators is vulnerable to hacking and even to reprogramming that could stop the devices from ...
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March 10, 2008 - Technology News
Greener cell power presents challenges
When wireless industry technicians speak of "green" cell towers these days, they're not just talking about making them look more like trees ...
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