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3G key to mobile game market in China

Mobile online gaming will amount to a $714 million market in China by 2008, more than a sevenfold increase from 2004, a new study by a Beijing research firm concludes.

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WiFi in the sky

A business traveler on Austrian Airlines boards a flight from Vienna to Warsaw and, once airborne, he opens his IBM ThinkPad notebook computer and connects to the Boeing 767 aircraft's wireless fidelity network.He sends e-mail ...

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OLED Displays Feature New Colors

The Siemens Group company Osram Opto Semiconductors has unveiled new colors and display formats for the rapidly growing market for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). OLED technology, which has only been ...

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Silly Putty probe yields non-silly results about time-dependent material properties

Microscope tip charts relaxation of solid liquid Squaring off with Silly Putty - a material scientist’s worst nightmare - a Sandia National Laboratories researcher has demonstrated that a unique microscope q ...

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Samsung intros 'Always On' Indicator Display

Samsung Electronics will introduce a new "section display" for mobile phones this fall. This display is divided into an indicator window and a main window and the low-power consumption quality of the new technology ...

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Integration of semiconductor and superconductor electronics on the nanoscale

In the July 8 issue of Science, scientists from the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft and Philips present the first superconducting transistors based on semiconductor nanowires. These nanoscale superc ...

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Scientists measure how deep 'Deep Impact' was, with X-rays

Here come the X-rays, on cue. Scientists studying the Deep Impact collision using NASA's Swift satellite report that comet Tempel 1 is getting brighter and brighter in X-ray light with each passing day.

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Wiring the Brain at the Nanoscale

Nanowires in blood vessels may help monitor, stimulate neurons in the brain Working with platinum nanowires 100 times thinner than a human hair--and using blood vessels as conduits to guide the wires--a te ...

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NREL Takes Two R&D 100 Awards

Two technologies developed by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory are among this year's most significant innovations, as judged by Research & Development (R&D) Magazine.

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Philips intends to sell LG.Philips LCD shares

LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd., in which Royal Philips Electronics holds approximately 44.6 percent, last night announced that it has filed a Registration Statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a follow-on ...

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Fujitsu and Novell Deliver Linux for High-Performance Servers

Fujitsu Limited and Novell today announced an agreement to deliver new Linux technology and support to their customers. As part of the agreement, Fujitsu will offer support services for Novell's SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server, ...

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Space Shuttle Discovery's Launch Countdown Begins July 10

NASA will begin the official countdown for the Return to Flight launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-114 July 10 at 6 p.m. EDT. Discovery's seven-member crew will test new equipment and procedures to increase ...

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Research on Deep-Sea Sponge Yields Substantial Mechanical Engineering Insights

Scientists discover that marine sponge has unique structural properties, lending mechanical rigidity and stability to inherently fragile material In a paper to be published July 8 in Science, a Lucent Tec ...

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First Observation of Noble Ferro-type Orbital States revealed by Resonant X-ray Scattering Interference Technique

In the contrast with many researches on orbital ordering in 3d and 4f electron systems, few studies were done on orbital ordering in 4d electron system so far. Among 4d electron systems, it is well known that Ca2-xSrxRuO4 possesses the rich and novel gro ...

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2005 ITRS Meeting Assesses the IC Industry’s Rapid Advance into Nanotech

The advanced chip industry is moving rapidly into nanotechnology, a trend that will be presented by global experts at next week’s 2005 ITRS Public Conference of the draft 2005 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) ...

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