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Afghan President Hamid Karzai calls on a reporter at a press conference

First Afghan fibre optic cable connects to Tajikistan

Technology / Telecom

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Part of Afghanistan's first international fibre optic cable has opened in a project that will make the country millions of dollars and boost regional connectivity, a cabinet minister said Thursday.





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Time Warner Cable asks help on rising program fees

Technology / Business

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Time Warner Cable Inc. is asking the public for help as it tries to curtail increases in the programming fees it has to pay to carry cable channels and broadcast stations on its systems.


Comcast: No plans to sell fourth-place NBC network

Technology / Business

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Comcast executives say they have no plans to sell NBC Universal's broadcast TV business when they take control of the company.


Time Warner Cable to Comcast: Integration not easy

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The chief executive of Time Warner Cable Inc. offers this warning to Comcast Corp. on its purchase of a controlling stake in NBC Universal: Mixing content and distribution is harder to accomplish than it looks.


Underground lines that bypass monuments

Underground lines that bypass monuments

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team of mathematicians from the Engineering and Architecture Schools of the University of Seville has created a method to design underground lines whereby a city's historical buildings are unaffected. The ...


Miami firm says it will lay first US-Cuba fiber

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A small Miami-based company says the U.S. government has given it permission to lay the first optical communications fiber from the U.S. to Cuba. That could drastically cut the cost of calling the island nation and ...


Researchers go underground to reveal 850 new species

Researchers go underground to reveal 850 new species

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Australian researchers have discovered a huge number of new species of invertebrate animals living in underground water, caves and "micro-caverns" amid the harsh conditions of the Australian outback.


Comcast to debut cable shows online by year's end (AP)

Comcast to debut cable shows online by year's end

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- You'll be able to watch popular cable television series such as HBO's "Entourage" and AMC's "Mad Men" on your computers by the end of the year without paying extra - as long as you're a Comcast Corp. ...


Comcast exploring stake in NBC

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

(AP) -- Comcast Corp. is in negotiations to buy 20 percent to 50 percent of NBC Universal, according to people familiar with the negotiations.


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Intel's Light Peak Will Replace Copper Wires

Technology / Hi Tech

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (33) | comments 18

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco Wednesday, the company announced a new optical cable that will be able to transfer data, between electrical devices, starting at speeds of 10 ...


Alberta's hidden valleys offer both resources and danger

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Alberta is crisscrossed with hidden glacial valleys that hold both resource treasures and potential danger. University of Alberta researcher Doug Schmitt discovered a 300 metre deep, valley hidden beneath the surface of the ...



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