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The key stumbling blocks are how to share out the job of slashing greenhouse gases

Climate talks ending with rich-poor rift wide open

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Two weeks of crucial UN climate talks were due to conclude Friday after exposing huge rifts between rich and poor nations, just weeks ahead of the deadline for sealing a planet-saving global deal.





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China is now the world's top producer of the solar power cells

China solar panel makers see boost from Copenhagen

Technology / Energy

created 6 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

In Trina Solar's brilliant white factory in eastern China, masked workers in lab coats turn silicon wafers into solar power cells capable of harnessing the sun's clean and limitless energy.


AP sources: Comcast to pay $13.75B for NBC stake (AP)

Comcast aims to reshape entertainment with NBC

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(AP) -- Comcast Corp. announced Thursday it plans to buy a majority stake in NBC Universal for $13.75 billion, giving the nation's largest cable TV operator control of the Peacock network, an array of cable ...


Researchers create cell phones for sign language

Researchers create cell phones for sign language

Technology / Hi Tech

created 18 hours ago | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers and colleagues have created cell phones that allow deaf people to communicate in sign language, the same way hearing people use phones to talk.


Google said it will let publishers set a limit on the number of articles people can read for free

Google to let publishers limit free website access (Update)

Technology / Internet

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Google, under fire from Rupert Murdoch and some other newspaper owners, said it will let publishers set a limit on the number of articles people can read for free through its search engine.


Australia's Parliament defeats global warming bill

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 7

(AP) -- Australia's plans for an emissions trading system to combat global warming were scuttled Wednesday in Parliament, handing a defeat to a government that had hoped to set an example at international climate change ...


Nokia sues top LCD, CRT display makers

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Nokia Corp., the world's biggest mobile phone maker, said Tuesday it has filed suits against several leading liquid crystal display makers - including Philips, Toshiba, Sharp and Samsung - for alleged price fixing.


GE, Vivendi deal paves way for NBC sale to Comcast (AP)

GE, Vivendi deal paves way for NBC sale to Comcast

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- General Electric Co.'s agreement to buy out the rest of NBC Universal paves the way for it to sell control of the TV and movie company to Comcast Corp. in a deal that promises to reshape the entertainment ...


Don't bet newspapers will get rich shunning Google

Technology / Internet

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 5

(AP) -- There's an intriguing idea floating around the media: Microsoft Corp. wants to undercut Google so badly in Internet search that it might pay newspapers to withhold their content from Google. Just don't count on that ...


For stars, high-tech gaffes hard to hide (AP)

For stars, high-tech gaffes hard to hide

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created Nov 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- So, you fail to take a deep breath and to count to 10 - and you post something you probably shouldn't on Twitter or Facebook, or somewhere else online.


Obama to plead US case at global warming summit (AP)

Obama to plead US case at global warming summit

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created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 1.6 / 5 (7) | comments 3

(AP) -- President Barack Obama will commit the United States to substantial cuts in greenhouse gas pollution over the next decade - despite resistance in Congress over higher costs - when he travels to a ...



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