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Google reports $1.6B in 3Q revenue

It is often joked lately that search titan Google Inc. may someday -- perhaps someday soon -- rule the world. It is the center of much of the Internet world in terms of the sheer number of people who use it, and with its ...

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Rapid ice sheet melting causes concern

Oregon State University scientists say the rapid breakdown of some parts of the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets is disturbing.

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Hurricanes not stealing mobile's thunder

Mobile-phone companies are enjoying something of a renaissance, with industry giant Motorola reporting record earnings in the latest quarter. But while industry analysts are broadly upbeat about the sector's outlook into ...

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Scientists build world's first single-molecule car

Rice University Scientists have done it. After BMW announced the possibility of producing a car that would utilize nanotechnology practically for all functions, Rice University scientists developed the world’s ...

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URI to develop 'lab-on-a-chip' technology

Imagine an entire biotechnology laboratory reduced to the size of a pea and placed on a computer chip. While not yet a reality, that technology for detecting small particles in micrometer-sized channels – called microfluidics ...

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Kids with access to a home computer are more likely to graduate, digital divide study finds

Access to a home computer increases the likelihood that children will graduate from high school, but blacks and Latinos are much less likely to have a computer at home than are whites, according to a new study by a researcher ...

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'Buckypaper': stronger than steel, harder than diamonds

Working with a material 10 times lighter than steel - but 250 times stronger - would be a dream come true for any engineer. If this material also had amazing properties that made it highly conductive of heat and electricity, ...

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Ultrafast lasers take 'snapshots' as atoms collide

Using laser pulses that last just 70 femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second), physicists have observed in greater detail than ever before what happens when atoms collide. The experiments at JILA, a joint ...

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Sunny Future for Nanocrystal Solar Cells

Imagine a future in which the rooftops of residential homes and commercial buildings can be laminated with inexpensive, ultra-thin films of nano-sized semiconductors that will efficiently convert sunlight ...

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Discovery might improve titanium alloys

Two University of Maryland scientists say they've developed a modification of titanium alloys that will expand their uses and make them safer.

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Philips’ partnerships boost HDTV in Europe

Working hard to deliver the true promise of HDTV to consumers, Philips in the last two weeks announced two more strategic partnerships to boost HDTV take-up in Europe. The announcements come hot on the heels of the news that ...

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HP Drives Format Compatibility for High-definition DVDs

HP today announced a significant step toward bridging the differences between the two competing high-definition (HD) optical disk formats by supporting two new technologies to be part of the next-generation standard.

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Quake may bolster India-Pakistan telecom ties

India and Pakistan continue discussions that could lead to closer telecommunications ties between the two longtime rivals.

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Australia Telstra might scrap CDMA mobile

Australia's Telstra is considering a plan to scrap a mobile-phone network used by more than 1 million residents of the remote outback.

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EarthLink expands seniors marketing drive

EarthLink has expanded a marketing push to attract senior citizens who are often at the wrong end of high-tech demographics.

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