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Today at 15:14:00 - Charles Thacker, creator of the world's first modern personal computer, Alto, has received the 2009 Turing Award, which is considered the highest honor for computer engineering, a "Nobel Prize" of the ...
06/03/2010 at 05:02:00 - The U.S. government is considering extending so-called Einstein technology into American homes.
03/03/2010 at 13:48:00 - A group of researchers argue that lab animals frequently suffer from excessive weight and lack of exercise, which may lead to flawed lab tests
03/03/2010 at 05:29:00 - After 30 years of work Russia prepares to get closer to revealing more secrets of the nano-world, as in two years time it is set to launch a new beam research reactor near St. Petersburg.
Today at 08:08:53 - Catch-up television over the internet has proved hugely popular in the UK, with the BBC's iPlayer leading the way, but most households are limited to watching on a computer screen.
Today at 08:01:15 - With so many ways to find, and places to watch, television, these are rich and exciting times for viewers. Now we can build our own television schedule around the other things we want to do, in ...
06/03/2010 at 04:58:15 - Chosen by Rebecca Armstrong
06/03/2010 at 04:58:15 - Chosen by Rebecca Armstrong
06/03/2010 at 04:58:15 - Chosen by Rebecca Armstrong
05/03/2010 at 20:22:00 - Cyber-savvy smokers looking to quit on next week's No Smoking Day can kick the habit on Facebook.
09/03/2010 at 21:30:00 - In Switzerland a majority of those over 65 years old do not use the internet, with many citing fears over technology use and the effort needed to learn about the web.
02/03/2010 at 08:39:00 - On holidays men are more likely to get malaria and sexually transmitted diseases whereas women suffer from stomach problems, Swiss research has found.
22/02/2010 at 17:32:00 - The timing of recent attempts to cast doubt over global warming is not accidental, according to top climatologist Martin Beniston.
22/02/2010 at 08:43:00 - The experimental Rolex Learning Centre, the talk of the architectural world, has opened its doors to students at Lausanne's Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL).
13/02/2010 at 18:36:49 - A Swiss journalist marooned five days in a French farmhouse with access only to Twitter and Facebook says social networking benefits the profession - sort of.
26/02/2010 at 02:00:00 - "Week by week, cybercriminals dress one of their infamous creations in a different costume, VirusBuster's experts report. The malware Trojan.FraudLoad has been distributed in e-mail messages pretendin ...
25/02/2010 at 05:00:00 - "The number of active mobile subscriptions grew 19,000 to 10.95 million in January, the communications authority NHH announced. The number subscriptions per 100 stood at 118.2 at the end of January, b ...
12/02/2010 at 04:00:00 - "Bredolab, a malicious program which last flooded the net in mid-December, seems to have launched a new offensive, VirusBuster warned. The Hungary-based specialist of computer security is one of the f ...
11/02/2010 at 05:00:00 - "Hungary's mobile carrier Pannon has set ambitious goals in its 2009 earnings report published on Wednesday.
09/02/2010 at 02:00:00 - "The first month of 2010 was even more peaceful than the already quiet December, at least as far as the Hungarian malware landscape is concerned. The only surprise was the resurrection of an old worm, ...
12/02/2010 at 10:23:29 - Using new techniques scientists reveal a detailed picture of an ancient human from a hair sample found in Greenland
03/02/2010 at 15:34:07 - New University of Copenhagen study shows football can lower blood pressure in the short term, increase fitness and help with weight loss
03/02/2010 at 11:05:47 - Company beats its own targets for lowering emissions of greenhouse gases five years ahead of schedule
03/02/2010 at 11:03:54 - Danish users of Wikipedia site donate individual sums amounting 200,000 kroner to keep the website going
10/02/2010 at 14:05:48 - The Czech Republic's first and only science centre has recently celebrated its first birthday. Techmania, based in the western industrial city of Plzen, has already demonstrated its pulling power bas ...
09/02/2010 at 17:16:23 - Dr. Helena Illnerová is a biochemist, and one of the top minds in the Czech Republic. She is involved in practically every major academic committee there is in the country, from the council of the Nat ...
09/02/2010 at 15:53:55 - The Institute of Experimental Medicine in Prague has made a potentially very important breakthrough in treating spinal cord injuries. Using stem cells on paralysed rats, the team has managed to heal a ...
03/02/2010 at 15:46:00 - Czech scientists working in Mozambique have discovered a new species of fish that inhabits the rain pools of the savannah. Types of tiny killifish are found in many parts of the world, but what is uni ...
28/01/2010 at 16:43:24 - As of Tuesday, the Czech Republic boasts new air navigation technology that will give the country's aviation an edge over neighboring Germany and Poland. The newly acquired 3D tower simulator is capa ...
Today at 01:20:02 - Sony claims it has fixed a bug in the PlayStation 3 which crashed millions of consoles for 24 hours.
Today at 01:20:02 - Rumours that Twitter will launch search-based advertising are gathering pace in cyberspace.
09/03/2010 at 01:20:02 - A New Zealand inventor has put a bizarre floating machine that can also take to the skies up for sale.
09/03/2010 at 01:20:02 - The Queen is warning that internet use has become an "unaffordable option" for many people living in Commonwealth countries.
06/03/2010 at 01:20:04 - Cabinet minister Ed Miliband has become the latest politician to fall prey to a Twitter scam that sees sexually explicit messages sent from MPs' accounts.
05/03/2010 at 01:20:02 - Millions of web users across Europe are being asked by Microsoft if they want to continue using its Internet Explorer (IE) or change to another browser.
Today at 20:13:11 - China`s environment is "still deteriorating", a senior official said Wednesday, as the booming nation burnt record amounts of coal and lagged behind in meeting its energy-saving goals.
Today at 20:13:11 - IBM has started a two-year research program that aims to make cellphones easier to use for groups including the elderly and the illiterate.
Today at 20:13:11 - Assam has topped the list of states in terms of encroachment in forest land, with about 4,85,674 hectares of area being occupied, the government told the Lok Sabha Wednesday.
Today at 20:13:11 - China plans to launch its third unmanned mission to the moon in 2013, even as it selected two women astronauts for the first time to take part in its future space lab.
Today at 20:13:11 - There are 40 tigers in the Ranthambore National Park (RNP) as per the 2009 census of the big cat, the Assembly was informed on Wednesday.
Today at 22:29:11 - AP - Last year, Palm thought it had all the pieces for a turnaround in the market it pioneered: A new CEO known for making the iPod a household name, a sleek new smart phone called the Pre and fresh, ...
Today at 22:14:03 - AP - PALM'S PROBLEM: As smart phones have gotten more popular, Apple Inc.'s iPhone and Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerrys have benefited while Palm has fallen behind.
Today at 22:14:07 - AP - The federal government has recommended an endangered-species listing for the loggerhead turtles swimming off the Atlantic Ocean coast, a decision that could have big implications for the fishing ...
Today at 22:14:07 - AP - The point of a caricature depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a dog was to show that artistic freedom allows mockery of all religions, including the most sacred symbols of Islam, the Swedish artist ...
Today at 21:32:46 - Reuters - OnLive is set to launch its "cloud-based" video game service in June, as the closely watched start-up looks to challenge home console heavyweights with the promise of on-demand gaming.
Today at 22:33:17 - THE US military plans to step up the use of video games, hoping to curb casualties on the battlefield by training troops in simulations.
Today at 02:27:14 - A MAN has been jailed for murdering his ex-girlfriend after he saw a picture of her on Facebook with another man.
Today at 02:23:25 - SONY says it will start selling 3D televisions in Japan in June, aiming to ride a new wave of interest in the technology.
Today at 02:00:34 - A BEST man's wedding prank results in possibly the first-ever conception recorded on Twitter, but the couple may never know.
09/03/2010 at 23:21:32 - SEX.COM, often touted as one of the most valuable internet domain names, is due to head to the auction block next week.
09/03/2010 at 23:09:58 - WOMAN fails in court attempt to show how the world's most powerful atom-smasher could cause a "black hole doomsday".
Today at 21:59:13 - The Alliance for Youth Movements is holding it's international summit in London this week, as the global leaders of tomorrow are learning and using new media technologies from some of today's best and ...
Today at 21:59:13 - Internet Search Giant Says It Expects Some Resolution in its Dispute with Beijing Soon
Today at 21:59:13 - Researcher Finds Inverse Causal Nexux Between Availability of Porn and Sex Crimes
Today at 19:59:06 - UN, Climate Panel To Get Outside Review From World's Top Scientists After Spate Of Errors
Today at 19:59:06 - Study Fnds that One Kind Deed Fosters Similar Behavior by Original Recipients
Today at 19:59:06 - Google To Digitize Thousands Of Old Books In National Libraries In Rome And Florence - including Works by Galileo
Today at 21:34:32 - GDC 2010 - OnLive has confirmed that its cross-platform, cloud-based gaming platform will launch at E3 2010 in June. read more
Today at 17:41:32 - British rock group Pink Floyd has initiated legal action against record label EMI over disputed online royalty payments. read more
Today at 17:20:56 - Yahoo has continued its long, slow and unsurprising decline in the search market space. read more
Today at 16:42:21 - An ARM spokesperson has predicted that the launch of Apple’s iPad will prompt the release of over 50 rival tablet PC devices in 2010. read more
Today at 16:20:51 - Are awkward and unflattering glasses ruining your 3D experience? Well, Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg insists they aren't. read more
Today at 13:00:16 - MySpace is planning a major overhaul, aiming to cut the clutter and improve entertaiment features. read more
Today at 21:33:08 - Centuries-old shipwrecks have been discovered in the Baltic Sea by a gas company building an underwater pipeline between Russia and Germany.
Today at 06:33:07 - The discovery of a genetically different population of Tasmanian devils has raised hopes for the survival of the iconic Australian mammal threatened by a deadly cancer.
Today at 02:48:10 - Researchers have uncovered the courses of ancient river systems under the Simpson Desert in Central Australia.
Today at 02:48:10 - Waterbirds previously only found on Queensland's eastern seaboard are being seen for the first time by Gulf of Carpentaria rangers around Burketown in the state's north-west.
Today at 02:03:07 - Tasmania's Department of Infrastructure plans to extend a bridge on the Brighton Bypass to protect an aboriginal heritage site.
Today at 21:32:46 - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - OnLive is set to launch its "cloud-based" video game service in June, as the closely watched start-up looks to challenge home console heavyweights with the promise of on-dema ...
Today at 18:29:04 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google has not changed its decision to stop censoring its Chinese search site even if it means leaving that market, a senior executive told a U.S. Congressional panel on Wednesd ...
Today at 12:31:09 - HELSINKI (Reuters) - IBM has started a two-year research program that aims to make cellphones easier to use for groups including the elderly and the illiterate.
Today at 06:52:51 - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The directors behind the Oscar-winning animated short "Logorama," are moving into the live-action world -- but they aren't going Hollywood just yet.
Today at 04:39:52 - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - With shrinking audiences, deep layoffs and two management shake-ups, MySpace, the one-time leader in Internet social networking, has had a rocky year.
Today at 21:11:02 - Democrats opposed to Meg Whitman's gubernatorial campaign are hoping to get an assist from the public in their latest bid to push voters away from the Republican candidate.
Today at 21:11:02 - Every bit of fully synthetic plastic that's ever been produced over the past 100 years is somewhere on our planet, a leading environmentalist, David de Rothschild, said Tuesday.
Today at 20:26:03 - Peter Smith was riding his bike down a particularly busy road in Austin, Texas, when, amid a frightening blur of big-truck traffic, a thought hit him:
Today at 14:41:01 - Geeks rock. With South by Southwest Interactive on the way, we use that convergence of techie and music culture to run down the top 10 geek rock tunes of all time.
09/03/2010 at 19:26:01 - The driver of a Toyota Prius says he was taken on a wild ride Monday after the car's accelerator became stuck, reaching speeds in excess of 90 mph on a winding, hilly portion of a southern California ...
Today at 20:44:00 - The InterAcademy Counil will be reviewing climate data produced by the UN's IPCC.
Today at 16:39:00 - Some scientists believe that bonobos, like humans, share and enjoy the company of others while eating.
09/03/2010 at 16:59:02 - Researchers at MIT have shown that they can genetically engineer viruses to build both the positively and negatively charged ends of a lithium-ion battery.
09/03/2010 at 00:20:00 - Hives exposed to pyrethroid pesticides demonstrated inhibited reproductive abilities.
09/03/2010 at 00:09:00 - Researchers struggle to explain the price drop associated with wines carrying eco-labeling.
09/03/2010 at 00:04:00 - More people around the world are moving into sprawling cities built atop active fault lines.
Today at 20:27:34 - Bangalore-based IT consulting and BPO services provider MphasiS has set up a Global Command and Control Centre (GCCC) in Pune. The centre is expected to enhance the company's infrastructure-outsourcin ...
Today at 20:26:49 - The Maharashtra government has formed a joint venture with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to step up its efforts to provide online citizen services.
Today at 20:25:19 - Information technology (IT) major Infosys Technologies has witnessed an increase in outsourcing deals as all major markets are back on the recovery track, a top company official said.
Today at 20:24:49 - Imagine this scenario. Pyarelal Shankar a grocery store owner in Haryana is not computer literate. Yet, he manages to regularly update his inventory online.
Today at 20:16:44 - Over the last one year, Advait Kulkarni, a self-confessed 34-year-old sports enthusiast, has been glued to the internet at work and home. I have been increasingly visiting sports sites like ESPN and t ...
Today at 19:58:53 - Labour has called on the Government to regulate mobile termination rates to keep call costs down. The rates are charged by one mobile operator to connect with another network. Last month, the Commerce ...
Today at 19:46:39 - Sony has some competition in the soon-to-become reality 3D TV market - and things are evenly poised. READ ALSO: Sky TV a little more interested than it lets on Yesterday I checked out a 50-inch Panaso ...
Today at 19:45:53 - Panasonic and Samsung have become the first companies in the world to commercially market 3D TVs (which also display a conventional picture). Their prices are more than triple that of today’s te ...
09/03/2010 at 19:43:22 - Six start-up companies offering very different services will compete for a prize worth over $70,000 on Saturday, during the two-day Planet 2010 communications and technology conference in Auckland. Th ...
09/03/2010 at 18:42:46 - Stocks on Wall Street have climbed as the telecommunications sector continued to steam ahead after Cisco Systems announced a new high-speed internet router. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 48 p ...
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Today at 18:00:00 -   LG were already ahead of the field bringing its passive 3D technology LCD TV (LD920) which is being rolled out in pubs across the country.   But now LG hope to lead the 3D revolution by ...
Today at 17:58:00 - Five months after the release of Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty developers Infinity Ward have announced that the first downloadable content pack for the game will be released for Xbox 360 on March 30t ...
Today at 17:54:51 - With Samsung already out of the blocks with its new Lovefilm-friendly TVs, Sony was never going to be far behind in detailing its plans. The tech giant has confirmed today that its new Bravia Internet ...
Today at 17:31:43 - Following up on the success of the original Active released in May 2009 for the Wii, EA Sports is gearing up for the release of its second Active fitness product which will also launch on the PS3 and ...
Today at 17:26:26 - Facebook’s Gareth Davis has told the world’s best developers to get working on “killer” games for the social network.   Speaking at the opening of the Game Developer&rsq ...
Today at 08:24:25 - Satyam Computer Services, in its new incarnation, `Mahindra Satyam,' still faces the aftermath of what happened on January 7, 2009, when its chairman B Ramalinga Raju confessed to orchestrating India ...
Today at 06:10:58 - The US will start accepting the applications for H-1B visas, most sought after by Indians, from April one for the fiscal 2011.
Today at 05:49:38 - The proposed multi-year contract between TCS and the UK government for administering its employment savings trust has evoked adverse comments from some British websites.
Today at 05:48:55 - LG Electronics Inc, the world's No. 3 mobile phone maker, launched a smartphone based on Google's Android operating system in South Korea, as it seeks to boost its relatively weak smartphone line-ups.
09/03/2010 at 11:43:31 - Almost six months after its international launch, LG GD 510 has come to India.
05/03/2010 at 10:23:00 - Travelling by the Delhi Metro? With Google's new service you can now get on-the-go information about schedules, routes, prices and commute times
03/03/2010 at 18:31:00 - The project, a collaboration between the Delhi government and the Survey of India, aims to create a comprehensive 3-dimensional GIS for Delhi
03/03/2010 at 13:38:00 - A Delta IV rocket will carry the satellite to its orbit around 22,000 miles (35,406 kilometers) above the Earth's surface
03/03/2010 at 06:03:00 - Apple said HTC has infringed on 20 of its patents covering aspects of the iPhone's user interface and hardware
02/03/2010 at 13:04:00 - The C5 handset will be one of the cheapest smartphones from Nokia, selling for 135 euros ($183), excluding taxes and subsidies, and hitting the shelves next quarter
04/03/2010 at 15:09:07 - You might think that measuring the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would be a priority. If you did think that, though, you would be wrongIN NEGOTIATIONS on nuclear weapons the preferred s ...
04/03/2010 at 12:17:22 - If females must compete, evolution will furnish them with weapons to do soWHEN a species evolves traits that seem to have little to do with individual survival—bright colours, say, or oversize h ...
04/03/2010 at 12:17:22 - The earliest animal tracks yet found have been unearthed in CanadaONE of the greatest mysteries of the history of life is the Cambrian explosion. Prior to 560m years ago, animal fossils are rare. Then ...
04/03/2010 at 12:17:22 - How to predict the consistency of snow“THE wrong type of snow” became famous as a lame excuse in Britain in February 1991 when, caught out by a cold snap, British Rail blamed severe disrup ...
04/03/2010 at 12:17:21 - In "Signs of life" (February 27th) we said that the Square Kilometre Array radio-telescope collaboration planned to build its grid over a square kilometre of land. In fact, it is the combined collecti ...
06/01/2010 at 13:29:00 - The US Hubble Space Telescope has captured the earliest image yet of the universe, just 600 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was just a toddler. Scientists released the photo today ...
06/01/2010 at 12:08:00 - On Tuesday, Google took the wraps off what may be the worst-kept secret on the Internet: a brand-new cell phone, designed by Google and made by HTC, called the Nexus One.
06/01/2010 at 10:18:00 - Google has also jumped on the phone bandwagon. It has now launched its own mobile phone, Nexus One. This phone joins about 20 other mobile devices that already run on Android, the mobile operating sys ...
31/12/2009 at 12:20:00 - What caused Wednesday's fire at one of India's best-protected and most-renowned nuclear centres? Originally, a short circuit was suspected to have caused the accident. But now, it turns out that one o ...
17/12/2009 at 08:48:00 - Athena Gurno thought her allergies were acting up when she started coughing in early October. But within days, Gurno, the 30-year-old mother of a young girl, was in a Seattle hospital, close to death ...