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Google Learns To Crawl Flash

2008-07-01T01:51:00.000-07:00

Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, they have improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe's Flash Player technology.
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Google To Offer Audience Measures For Advertisers

2008-06-23T23:30:00.000-07:00

Google Inc (GOOG.O) will offer advertisers a free media planning tool to help them locate target audiences on the Web, posing a challenge to existing Web measurement firms.
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First Glimpse Of Mars Pole

2008-05-27T01:38:00.000-07:00

A NASA probe sent back never-before-seen pictures of Mars' north pole Monday, in the most ambitious mission to date to find life-sustaining minerals on the Red Planet.

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Scientists Witness Start Of Star's Explosive Death

2008-05-22T02:03:00.000-07:00

In a stroke of cosmic luck, astronomers for the first time witnessed the start of one of the universe's most fiery events: the end of a star's life as it exploded into a supernova.

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Universe Suddenly Twice As Bright

2008-05-16T03:13:00.000-07:00

The universe is twice as bright as it appears, astronomers now suggest.The light bulb went on when they calculated that dust blocks about the half the light emitted from stars and galaxies.

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AOL To Buy Bebo Social Network For $850 Mln

2008-03-14T02:35:00.000-07:00

Time Warner Inc's AOL Internet division will buy social network Bebo for $850 million in cash, bolstering its consumer Web offerings even as the media conglomerate mulls splitting off the business.

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Missile Hits Dying US Spy Satellite

2008-02-20T22:49:00.000-08:00

Navy missile soaring 130 miles above the Pacific smashed a dying and potentially deadly U.S. spy satellite Wednesday and probably destroyed a tank carrying 1,000 pounds of toxic fuel.

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Microsoft Eyes Yahoo To Topple Google

2008-02-01T22:14:00.000-08:00

Unable to topple Google Inc. on its own, Microsoft Corp. is trying to force crippled rival Yahoo Inc. into a shotgun marriage, with a wager worth nearly $42 billion that the two companies together will have a better chance of tackling the Internet search leader.

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Oracle To Buy BEA For $8.5 Billion

2008-01-16T22:34:00.000-08:00

Notching another conquest in its push to create a one-stop shop for business software, Oracle Corp. is snapping up rival BEA Systems Inc. for $8.5 billion in a deal culminated after several months of acrimony.

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Facebook Hack Fuels Web 2.0 Concerns

2008-01-04T02:49:00.000-08:00

San Francisco - Researchers at security gateway vendor Fortinet have uncovered an adware-distribution scheme being carried out on the Facebook social networking site considered to be the first attack propagated on the wildly popular online portal.

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IBM To Buy Israeli Startup For $300 Million

2008-01-01T21:56:00.000-08:00

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N) is in advanced talks to buy Israeli start-up XIV Information Systems for $300 million to $350 million.

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52-Inch Multi-Touch Display Unveiled

2008-01-01T21:12:00.000-08:00

LG.Philips LCD on Monday said it will unveil at the Consumer Electronics Show a 52-inch multi-touch screen designed for advertising and other commercial uses.

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Google Siphons Searchers From Yahoo, Microsoft

2007-11-25T23:17:00.000-08:00

Google increased its share of the U.S. Internet search engine market in October, taking share away from rivals Yahoo and Microsoft, according to market researcher ComScore.

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Architecture's Space In The Sun

2007-11-24T05:13:00.000-08:00

Paris's newest museum opened to little fanfare in September this year. The Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, which wraps around the shadow of the Eiffel Tower across the Seine, is the world's biggest, and arguably its only serious, museum of architecture.

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Apple Unleashes Leopard Operating System

2007-10-26T23:41:00.000-07:00

Apple Inc.'s delayed update to the Mac OS X operating system is hitting store shelves as consumers are increasingly snapping up Macintosh computers to complement their iPods and iPhones.

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Nokia To Launch Touch-Screen Version Of S60 Software

2007-10-16T23:50:00.000-07:00

Nokia (NOK1V.HE), the world's largest cellphone maker, said on Tuesday a touch-screen version of its popular S60 smartphone software would be ready in 2008.

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Vodafone Tech Change Stings Mobile Web Designers

2007-09-23T23:11:00.000-07:00

Mobile developers around the world are in an uproar over a change Vodafone Group PLC has made in the U.K. that dramatically decreases the quality of their products and that they fear could prevent new and innovative mobile services from reaching the market.

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First Look: 16GB iPod Touch

2007-09-16T05:44:00.000-07:00

This beautifully designed media player is like a slim iPhone sans phone--but it's marred by some early hardware and software issues.

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Yahoo To Sell Ads For Social Network Bebo

2007-09-12T06:15:00.000-07:00

Yahoo will sell display advertising for Bebo, the first such deal Yahoo has secured with a social networking site.

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Yahoo Buying Ad Network For $300 Million

2007-09-05T00:21:00.000-07:00

Yahoo Inc. is buying online advertising network BlueLithium for $300 million in cash, building upon an expansion aimed at ending a financial malaise that has ravaged the Internet pioneer's stock price.

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Oracle To Buy Netsure Telecom

2007-09-03T21:15:00.000-07:00

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Business software company Oracle Corp (ORCL.O) said it agreed to buy Netsure Telecom Ltd, a maker of network related software, for an undisclosed sum.

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Google Opens Click-Fraud Site

2007-08-18T06:40:00.000-07:00

Google Inc. has unveiled a Web site "resource center" focused on the thorny issue of click fraud, which many consider a potential threat to the company's main source of revenue: pay-per-click advertising.

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Nokia Warns Consumers Of Battery Overheating Risks

2007-08-15T00:01:00.000-07:00

Nokia (NOK1V.HE) warned consumers that 46 million batteries used in its mobile phones could overheat and offered to replace them for free while it negotiates with battery maker Matsushita (6752.T) over who would bear the costs.

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Google Joins Effort To Ward Off Patent Challenges To Linux

2007-08-11T23:28:00.000-07:00

Google is joining IBM and Oracle in rallying around Linux. The company last week joined the Open Invention Network, a group that cross-licenses Linux patents as a means of discouraging infringement challenges to Linux.

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Google Charges For Extra E-Mail Storage

2007-08-11T23:27:00.000-07:00

Forget the battle between Microsoft Word and Google Apps for a minute, and set aside the notion of search engine supremacy. Microsoft and Google are now battling for technology enthusiasts in yet another area: online storage.

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Google Key To Latest ITunes Challenge

2007-08-11T23:26:00.000-07:00

Add gBox Inc. to the growing list of online music services hoping to chip away at iTunes's dominance.

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Nokia Launches Mobile Social Networking Beta

2007-08-11T23:25:00.000-07:00

Just over two weeks after buying media sharing site Twango Inc., Nokia Corp. launched a closed beta of a new mobile social networking site.

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Yahoo's President Snaps Up $1.1 Million In Stock

2007-08-11T23:24:00.000-07:00

Yahoo Inc. President Susan Decker purchased about $1.1 million of the Internet company's shares this week just after the stock hit a three-year low.

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Top 3 Mobile Services To Sell Motorola's Razr 2

2007-08-11T23:23:00.000-07:00

The top three U.S. wireless service providers said on Friday they would start selling the successor to Motorola Inc's Razr phone, which includes a 2 Megapixel camera and a music player.

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Can Linux Overtake Windows In OS War?

2007-08-11T23:22:00.000-07:00

While Novell's CEO is calling for Linux to expand its market, the Linux Foundation's executive director is declaring that the open-source OS is moving into its second stage of growth.

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Microsoft Tests Dashboard View Of Online Offerings

2007-08-11T23:21:00.000-07:00

Microsoft Corp started testing on Thursday a new dashboard view for its various Windows Live online services.

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The Future Of Social Networking

2007-08-11T23:20:00.000-07:00

Will special-interest sites with social-networking capabilities be the next big thing?

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Aquantive Approves Microsoft Buyout

2007-08-11T23:15:00.000-07:00

Shareholders of online advertising company aQuantive Inc. approved a buyout offer from Microsoft Corp.

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Hackers Bite Into "Cookies" To Plunder User Data From Websites

2007-08-04T07:27:00.000-07:00

Hackers and computer security specialists gathered in Las Vegas on Friday took aim at popular social networking websites, exposing ways to plunder data from software "cookies" used to track users.

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"Doom" Creator Unveils Its New Video Game, "Rage"

2007-08-04T07:25:00.000-07:00

The creator of classic computer game "Doom," id Software, unveiled on Friday its eagerly anticipated next game, "Rage," in which players fight an oppressive government in a post-apocalyptic world.

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Kittens Could Solve Spam

2007-08-04T07:24:00.000-07:00

An executive at Microsoft Corp. has an unusual idea for beating spammers. Powerful software tools and supercomputers aren't involved, but kittens are.

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Printers Found To Kick Up Particles

2007-08-04T07:23:00.002-07:00

Should laser printers come with a surgeon general's warning?

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Texas Company Files Suit Against Microsoft, Adobe

2007-08-04T07:23:00.001-07:00

A Texas-based company has filed a suit against Microsoft and Adobe for allegedly infringing on two patents for technologies that display content in a Web browser in key software products, including Microsoft's Windows Vista.

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Mozilla Shares Scanning Tool, Firefox 3 Features

2007-08-04T07:21:00.000-07:00

Open source browser maker Mozilla has developed a wide array of secure coding analysis tools as part of its internal development process, and now it's beginning to share those programs with the outside world.

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Is Google Really Planning An IPhone Killer?

2007-08-04T07:20:00.000-07:00

Google has developed a prototype cell phone that could be in the hands of consumers within a year, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The Journal indicated that Google plans to offer free mobile subscriptions, subsidized by ads in search results and software applications.

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Open Source Joins The Mainstream

2007-08-04T07:19:00.000-07:00

As more than 11,000 attendees converge on San Francisco for the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, beginning Monday, one industry analyst says customers are evaluating open source software the same way they evaluate proprietary software: It has to be priced right and work right.

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Storm E-Mail Worm Evolves As It Wreaks Havoc On Net

2007-08-04T07:18:00.000-07:00

Like a summer cyclone gathering force, the Storm e-mail worm is casting an expanding shadow on the Internet.

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It's Super V-chip To The Rescue Of Kids

2007-08-04T07:16:00.000-07:00

The Senate Commerce Committee approved legislation Thursday asking the Federal Communications Commission to oversee the development of a super V-chip that could screen content on everything from cell phones to the Internet.

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Online Sharing Videos, Music Can Attract Hackers

2007-08-04T06:43:00.000-07:00

Online sharing of videos and music at the heart of today's Internet lifestyle gives hackers dangerous new avenues for attacking computers, security specialists said Thursday.

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NASA Insiders Propose Stepping Stone Path To Deep Space

2007-07-31T04:23:00.000-07:00

NASA's Constellation Program – including the deployment of the Orion crew vehicle replacing the space shuttle – will first be assigned to International Space Station flights, then propel humans and cargo to the Moon. Expeditionary missions to Mars and beyond will follow.

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Earth's Worst Extinction A Prolonged Event

2007-07-31T04:22:00.002-07:00

The rise of mollusks across the globe was a harbinger of doom roughly 250 million years ago, ushering in the most devastating mass extinction in Earth's history, research now reveals.

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Earth's Worst Extinction A Prolonged Event

2007-07-31T04:22:00.001-07:00

Verizon Wireless To Acquire Rural Cellular For $2.7 billion

2007-07-31T04:19:00.000-07:00

Verizon Wireless has agreed to acquire Rural Cellular, a mobile telephone service provider focused on rural areas in the U.S., the companies announced Monday.

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Web's Wonders Still Elude Many Users

2007-07-30T04:49:00.001-07:00

A study that indicates that lack of awareness and poor usability are the key barriers to a user's adoption of Internet services from ISPs may provide some relevance to IT managers.

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Web Site Archives The Dead Of MySpace

2007-07-30T04:38:00.000-07:00

Somewhere deep in cyberspace, where reality blurs into fiction and the living greet the dead, there are ghosts. They live in a virtual graveyard without tombstones or flowers. They drift among the shadows of the people they used to be, and the pieces they left behind.

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BBC Launches Free Internet TV Service

2007-07-28T01:54:00.000-07:00

Billed as the biggest change in the way viewers watch television in 40 years, the BBC launched an online service on Friday that allows people to download many programs from the last week.

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YouTube Preps Video Fingerprinting

2007-07-28T01:53:00.000-07:00

NEW YORK - Google Inc.'s YouTube hopes recognition technology will be in place in September to stop the posting of copyrighted videos on the popular Web site, a lawyer Friday told a judge presiding over copyright lawsuits.

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Windows Vista Hits The 60 Million Mark

2007-07-28T01:52:00.000-07:00

At Microsoft's annual meeting with analysts, Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner announced that the software giant had sold 60 million copies of Windows Vista since the product's launch in late January.

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Google Earth Enterprise Data Now In Browsers

2007-07-27T04:38:00.000-07:00

Google released an upgrade to its Google Earth Enterprise mapping system on Thursday that for the first time will let users display two-dimensional geospatial data from the product on a Web browser.

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Microsoft Buying Online Ad Exchange

2007-07-27T04:37:00.000-07:00

Microsoft announced Thursday it is adding another weapon to its arsenal in the battle for online advertising dollars with the purchase of Internet ad exchange AdECN Inc.

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Commuter Writes Book Using Mobile Phone

2007-07-27T04:36:00.000-07:00

An Italian writer decided to put his mobile phone to good use during his daily commute to and from work -- by writing a book.

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Worst Of Atlantic Hurricane Season Still To Come

2007-07-26T01:00:00.000-07:00

Nearly eight weeks have passed since the last tropical storm in the Atlantic-Caribbean region faded away, but banish any notion the 2007 hurricane season has been unusually slow and beware the coming months, experts say.

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Microsoft To Provide Advertising For Digg

2007-07-26T00:59:00.000-07:00

Microsoft Corp. said on Wednesday it reached an agreement to be the exclusive provider of display and contextual advertising on Digg.com, a Web site that lets readers recommend articles to others.

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Black Holes Devour Matter Like Piranhas

2007-07-25T04:56:00.000-07:00

Like gluttonous piranhas, supermassive black holes in young galaxy clusters gorge on bountiful gas until little fuel is left, and then they fade away, a new study suggests.

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Voracious Jumbo Squid Invade California

2007-07-25T04:55:00.000-07:00

Jumbo squid that can grow up to 7 feet long and weigh more than 110 pounds is invading central California waters and preying on local anchovy, hake and other commercial fish populations.

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Microsoft, EA Sign Sports Game Ad Deal

2007-07-25T04:54:00.000-07:00

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - ERTS - news), including its best-selling "Madden" football franchise.

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Scientists Say Snowy River Flowing Again

2007-07-24T03:03:00.001-07:00

A sparkling subterranean crystalline calcite formation known as Snowy River is no longer a dry riverbed. Scientists say Snowy River, discovered in 2001, is now running with between a half-foot to a foot-and-a-half of water.

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Nokia To Buy Photo-Sharing Site Twango

2007-07-24T03:01:00.000-07:00

Nokia, the world's top mobile phone maker, said on Tuesday it would buy U.S.-based photo-sharing social networking site Twango (http://www.twango.com/), but did not disclose the price.

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Astronauts Venture Outside Space Station

2007-07-23T06:19:00.000-07:00

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Two astronauts ventured outside the international space station Monday to rid the orbiting complex of some large pieces of junk.

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Launch Of Japan Moon Probe Postponed

2007-07-23T00:56:00.000-07:00

Japan's space agency said the mid-August launch of its lunar orbiter will be postponed due to a technical glitch, delivering another setback to the much-delayed probe.

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Fossils Show Dinosaurs Rose Gradually: Study

2007-07-23T00:54:00.000-07:00

Fossils found in the United States show dinosaurs lived along side their ancestors for tens of millions of years, disproving long-held theories assuming they quickly replaced their predecessors, according to a new study.

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Google To Bid On Wireless Airwaves

2007-07-20T23:07:00.000-07:00

Google Inc. on Friday said it will bid at least $4.6 billion for wireless airwaves being auctioned off by the federal government — if certain conditions are met.

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Restored Saturn V Rocket Unveiled

2007-07-20T04:39:00.000-07:00

Dwarfed by the Saturn V rocket's immense size, 10-year-old Adam Brauscum stood in awe as his father described how such massive machinery carried man to the moon.

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Dinosaurs, Ancestors Coexisted

2007-07-20T04:38:00.000-07:00

Dinosaurs shared the Earth for millions of years with the species that were their ancestors, a new study concludes. Dinosaurs arose in the Late Triassic, between 235 million and 200 million years ago, and came to dominate the planet in the Jurassic, 200 million to 120 million years ago.

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Archaeologists Dig Up Roman Bath Complex

2007-07-20T04:37:00.000-07:00

Archaeologists said Thursday they have partly dug up a second-century bath complex believed to be part of the vast, luxurious residence of a wealthy Roman.

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Nokia Starts Global Positioning Service

2007-07-19T06:10:00.000-07:00

Nokia (NOK1V.HE) launched a service on Thursday which it said would cut the time a GPS-enabled cellphone takes to pinpoint its whereabouts, opening new opportunities for location-based online services.

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Space Tourism Firm Raises Prices For Orbital Trips

2007-07-19T00:36:00.000-07:00

A U.S. space tourism firm has booked two multimillion-dollar seats to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard future Russian spacecraft, but ticket prices are going up.

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Gold-Plated Phone Planned For Olympics

2007-07-19T00:35:00.000-07:00

Samsung Electronics Co. will make a special 18-carat gold-plated mobile phone in China to mark next year's Olympics in Beijing.

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Scientists Find Lake Remnants In Sudan

2007-07-18T04:07:00.000-07:00

Scientists have discovered the underground remnants of an ancient lake in Sudan's arid Darfur region, offering hope of tapping a precious resource and easing water scarcity, which experts say is the root of much of the unrest in the region.

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Microsoft Copy Protection Cracked Again

2007-07-16T22:45:00.000-07:00

Microsoft Corp. is once again on the defensive against hackers after the launch of a new program that gives average PC users tools to unlock copy-protected digital music and movies.

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Google Trims Lifespan Of User-Tracking 'Cookies'

2007-07-16T22:43:00.000-07:00

Google announced Monday that it is shortening the lives of software "cookies" used to track users' online preferences.

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Tests Start On World's Largest Infra-Red Telescope In Spain

2007-07-16T00:13:00.000-07:00

Tests on the world's largest infra-red telescope began Friday ahead of its scheduled opening in 2008, the Canaries Astrophysics Institute (IAC) announced.

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Robot Visits Patients When Doctor Can't

2007-07-16T00:12:00.000-07:00

Has it come to this? Robots standing in for doctors at the hospital patients' bedside?

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August Meteor Shower Will Be 'A Great Show'

2007-07-13T04:16:00.001-07:00

The annual Perseid meteor shower is expected to put on a great show this year, peaking in mid-August with a display of dozens of shooting stars each hour.

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August Meteor Shower Will Be 'A Great Show'

2007-07-13T04:16:00.000-07:00

The annual Perseid meteor shower is expected to put on a great show this year, peaking in mid-August with a display of dozens of shooting stars each hour.

Telescope Gives Deepest View Of Space

2007-07-12T06:37:00.000-07:00

Astronomers believe they've glimpsed light from some of the universe's first stars through the world's largest telescope on the Big Island. The astronomy team from the California Institute of Technology, which was to present its findings in London on Wednesday, said they used the Keck II telescope atop Mauna Kea volcano to see farther into space than ever before.

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Lenovo Unveils Its Highest Performing Notebook: A Linux Workstation

2007-07-11T01:00:00.000-07:00

The ThinkPad T61p has a 15.4-inch wide screen, runs 10% cooler than previous models, and is three decibels quieter.

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Google Inc. To Unite Mapping Mashups

2007-07-10T22:48:00.000-07:00

Hoping to make it even easier to turn its online maps into collages of local information, Google Inc. is introducing tools that will stitch together applications from a hodgepodge of Web sites.

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Astronomers Spot Most Distant Galaxies Ever Seen

2007-07-10T22:45:00.000-07:00

Astronomers using a giant telescope say they have found glimpses of the most distant -- and oldest -- galaxies ever seen, a finding that will help provide clues to the origins of the universe.

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Space Shuttle Endeavor Primed For August Launch

2007-07-10T22:44:00.000-07:00

NASA's shuttle Endeavour is headed for the launch pad as the space agency gears up for its second construction flight of the year to the International Space Station (ISS).

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NASA Spacecraft Set To Study Mars' Icy North Pole

2007-07-10T05:38:00.001-07:00

Preparations are on track for the launch of a new NASA Mars lander early next month to search for subsurface water and potential life in the red planet's arctic northern region.

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Google Buys Postini For $625 Million

2007-07-10T05:33:00.000-07:00

Google Inc. is buying e-mail security specialist Postini Inc. for $625 million, fortifying the Internet search leader's effort to sell online software services to corporate customers seeking alternatives to Microsoft Corp.'s long-dominant products.

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Baby Dino Skeleton Sheds Light On Growth

2007-07-09T21:37:00.002-07:00

A new fossil of a juvenile dinosaur that lived 140 million years ago is shedding light on how the ancient reptiles grew from youngsters to enormous adults.

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NASA Delays Dawn Asteroid Probe Launch Until September

2007-07-09T21:37:00.001-07:00

The US space agency has postponed until September the launch of space probe Dawn on its eight-year mission to unlock the mysteries of the origins of our solar system.

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7 New Wonders Of The World Chosen

2007-07-09T21:36:00.000-07:00

The Great Wall of China, Rome's Colosseum and India's Taj Mahal were among seven architectural marvels named the new wonders of the world Saturday.

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Key to Giant Space Sponge Revealed

2007-07-05T02:37:00.000-07:00

One of the strangest moons in our solar system is Hyperion, a Saturnian satellite so pockmarked by deep craters that it looks like a giant, rotating bath sponge adrift in space.

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Dust Storm Affecting Mars Rovers

2007-07-05T02:36:00.000-07:00

A powerful dust storm on Mars has worsened and is affecting the twin rovers' operations on the Red Planet, mission scientists say.

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Chinese Eat Dinosaur Bones As Medicine

2007-07-05T02:35:00.000-07:00

Villagers in central China spent decades digging up bones they believed belonged to flying dragons and using them in traditional medicines. Turns out the bones belonged to dinosaurs, and now scientists are doing the digging.

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Global Warming Blamed For Vanishing Lake

2007-07-04T00:29:00.000-07:00

Scientists on Tuesday blamed global warming for the disappearance of a glacial lake in remote southern Chile that faded away in just two months, leaving just a crater behind.

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NASA Astronaut Readapts To Life On Earth

2007-07-04T00:27:00.000-07:00

Astronaut Sunita Williams is readapting to life on Earth after a record-setting mission to the International Space Station (ISS) that raised the bar for female spaceflyers

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NASA Recycles Old Spacecraft For New Missions

2007-07-04T00:26:00.000-07:00

Two NASA probes well past their prime have a fresh lease on life and new missions ahead...

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Takeoffs A Problem For Giant Bird

2007-07-03T04:36:00.000-07:00

Weighing in at 150 pounds or more, the all-time biggest bird couldn't just hop into the air and fly away.

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Youtube, SKorea's LG Agree To Develop Mobile Phone

2007-07-03T03:52:00.000-07:00

South Korea's LG Electronics said Tuesday it has signed an agrement with YouTube, the world's biggest video-sharing website, to develop a mobile phone which can operate the service.

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Gooogle Acquires Web-calling Service GrandCentral

2007-07-03T03:25:00.000-07:00

Google Inc. has acquired GrandCentral Communications, a start-up that lets users manage their existing phones and voice mailboxes over the Web as if they were a single account.

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IBM Launches Nuclear Expertise Centre In France

2007-07-03T03:03:00.000-07:00

IBM will open in France its first nuclear consultancy centre in July, at a time when utilities are looking to build new reactors and stretch the old ones' lifetime.

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