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Sony optimistic on 3-D TVs, in-house display

Technology / Hi Tech

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(AP) -- A third to a half of the Sony Corp. TV sets sold annually will be packed with 3-D features by the year ending March 2013, a senior executive said Thursday.

Post Office card error leaves Italians in the red: report

Technology / Other

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A computer glitch left Italian Post Office customers in the red by processing card transactions at 100 times their value, Italian press reported Thursday.

New guidelines for broadcasters on user-generated content

Technology / Other

2 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

For the first time guidelines are to be published on how broadcasters around the world can encourage audiences to produce better quality user-generated content and to improve media and information literacy.

Internet activists push for greater democracy

Technology / Internet

14 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- The Internet can be a powerful medium for politicians to get their message across but it is also a vital means for civilians to have a say in what politicians do, participants in a political conference say.

Web sites aim to survive with hyperlocal focus

Technology / Internet

11 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

Finding a financially viable way to provide local news is a challenge large metropolitan newspapers are confronting. But a Coral Gables, Fla., Web site is among a few locally with faith it can succeed.

US online ad revenue down 5.4 pct in third quarter

Technology / Internet

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(AP) -- Online advertising revenue in the U.S. fell 5.4 percent in the third quarter from a year ago, as the sputtering economy kept its tight grip on even the fastest growing segment of industry, according to a report released ...

Design chosen for British 1,000 mph car (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

Nov 25, 2009 | 4 / 5 (8) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- A British team hoping to be the first to get a car to 1,000 mph (1,610 km/h) has made its final design selection. The six-tonne car, known as the Bloodhound, will be powered by a Eurofighter ...

Time Warner Cable asks help on rising program fees

Technology / Business

15 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 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.

Wikileaks releases pager intercepts from 9/11

Technology / Internet

18 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

Whistleblower website Wikileaks began publishing on Wednesday what it said were hundreds of thousands of pager messages from the day of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.

Magic box for mission impossible

Technology / Telecom

22 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

On September 11, firefighters, police officers and ambulance workers faced a terrifying rescue effort in the World Trade Center complex. They battled to save people from the collapsing Twin Towers, searched for survivors, ...

S.Korea halves ceiling on text messages to fight spam

Technology / Telecom

Nov 25, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

South Korean authorities on Wednesday halved the daily limit on text messages sent out by mobile phones as part of a campaign against spam, officials said.

AT&T and Verizon ads duel on airwaves and in court

Technology / Business

Nov 25, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(AP) -- What would the holidays be without bickering between siblings? AT&T and Verizon are swamping TV with ads attacking facets of each other's wireless networks. While the ads stick fairly close to the truth, there's ...

New computer cluster gets its grunt from games

Technology / Computer Sciences

Nov 25, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Technology designed to blast aliens in computer games is part of a new GPU (Graphics Processing Units) computer cluster that will process CSIRO research data thousands of times faster and more efficiently ...

Taking the drudgery out of software development

Technology / Software

Nov 24, 2009 | 3.6 / 5 (10) | 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- Software developers will no longer have to reinvent the wheel when writing new programs and applications thanks to a clever new set of tools and a central repository of 'building blocks'.

Key scientist says politics behind stolen e-mails

Technology / Other

Nov 24, 2009 | 2.4 / 5 (5) | 4

(AP) -- A leading climate change scientist said hackers breaking into a university's computer server and then posting documents online show the nasty politics of global warming.

Intelligence inside metal components

Technology / Engineering

Nov 24, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 3

Up to now, extreme production temperatures made it impossible to equip metallic components with RFID chips during the operating process. At Euromold in Frankfurt (Dec. 2-5), Germany, Fraunhofer researchers ...

NREL Uncovers Clean Energy Leaders State by State

Technology / Energy

Nov 24, 2009 | 3 / 5 (4) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- That California and Texas still lead the United States in generating renewable energy probably is no surprise. But, NREL's 2009 State of the States report shows that several smaller states ...

Stable Opera 10.10 browser with Unite now available

Technology / Software

Nov 24, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (7) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The web browser Opera 10.10 has been released as a stable version, and it has a number of new features to enhance the browsing experience, including "Unite", which is a group of applications ...