The first group of Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric vehicles has just arrived at Portbury Docks near Bristol. The 25 i-MiEV cars are heading to West Midlands, where the automobiles will be taking part in a trial run being carried out by the local government ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Atlantis' astronauts are taking another spacewalk outside the International Space Station. One of the spacewalkers, Randolph Bresnik, is still awaiting word on the birth of his daughter.
The QPACE supercomputer at the Research Center Jülich and the University of Wuppertal tops the latest version of the Green500 list, which ranks the energy efficiency of supercomputers around the world.
FRANKFURT, Nov 21 (Reuters) - German mobile operator O2 plans to end its roaming agreement with Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) unit T-mobile at year end, O2's German head told a German newspaper.
WASHINGTON - US bookstore giant Barnes & Noble said Friday it had sold out of its new electronic book reader, the "Nook," and the next shipments would not be available until after the holidays.
ROME - Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday.
HAVANA (Reuters) - The husband of Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez said he was attacked by government supporters as he waited on Friday to confront state security agents accused of detaining and beating his wife two weeks ago.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after successfully completing its first test since the £6bn project was suspended for vital repairs around 14 months ago.
The SIO To Go app sends realtime alerts to users' iPhones, notifying of attacks and potential threats to corporate networks. By Marin Perez Cisco launched an iPhone application Friday aimed at helping corporate security managers respond to threats ...
Android is like a snowball rolling downhill - it won't be long before it's moving too fast for anything to stop it. That movement is surely going to spread ...
(CNN) -- "The LHC is back," the European Organization for Nuclear Research announced triumphantly Friday, as the world's largest particle accelerator resumed operation more than a year after an electrical failure shut it down.
Hundreds of private e-mail messages and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate ...
IDC analyst Al Hilwa said Chrome Operating system will take some hard selling by Google and its partners to get on netbooks, those hard disk-less machines from Asus, Dell, HP and others that let users access Web applications.
HELSINKI - Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, said on Friday it would shed about 330 jobs in Finland and Denmark as part of a streamlining of its vast research and development operations.
VERIZON WIRELESS CUSTOMERS EAGER for a truly smart smartphone have been waiting expectantly for the new Droid from Motorola. The question on all their minds: Does it measure up to the iPhone?
Children's Rights Still Violated 20 Years After .. Nations are staging special events to mark the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which came into force on November 20, 1989.
Teoh body exhumed - Mysinchew KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21 - The exhumation of Teoh Beng Hock's body for a second autopsy, ordered by the inquest into his recent death, has been completed.
'Feels right in my bones' to leave, says Oprah .. - Thestar Talk-show host Oprah Winfrey is at times tearful during a live broadcast in Chicago Nov. 20, 2009 as she announces that her show will end its run in 2011.
AirAsia sells 28000 seats for Kolkata routes - Themalaysianinside KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21 - AirAsia has sold 28000 seats to date for the Kuala Lumpur and Kolkata sector. Open for sale on Oct 15, the airline said the new route would unlock the potential of international air travel from Kuala Lumpur to eastern India and ...
ARM Predicts Market Explosion In 2010 For Smartphones - Redorbit ARM's designs are in 90 percent of mobile phones , including Apple's iPhone and Nokia's new top-of-the-range N900. Financial director Tim Score said, ...
Space station alarm delays Atlantis crew spacewalk - Google WASHINGTON - Space shuttle Atlantis astronauts aboard the International Space Station delayed their second spacewalk Saturday after being jolted awake by a false alarm, NASA said.
Worst Of Flu Pandemic Behind Us, Experts Say - Nationalpost At times in recent weeks, the number of suspected flu patients showing up at the BC Children's Hospital's emergency department soared to 50 or 60 a day above usual, prompting it to set up a separate influenza clinic.
Ageing Santa gets $100,000 facelift for Christmas - Yahoo Reuters - A Santa in New Zealand with a droopy eye has received a NZ$100,000 ($74,000) face-lift in the run-up to Christmas so that his aging face does not scare children.
