"Wireless Webbers" are more likely to lead an entirely digital lifestyle compared to more standard Netsurfers.

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Oct 25, 2005 3.5 / 5 (4) 0

Tech analysts Tuesday downplayed the impact of Intel's decision to postpone release of a high-end server chip code-named Montecito.

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Researchers at Purdue University have taken a step toward developing a new type of ultra-sensitive medical imaging technique that works by shining a laser through the skin to detect tiny gold nanorods injected ...

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Oct 25, 2005 4.4 / 5 (7) 0

A Silicon Valley firm says it has added a geographical locator feature to online banking security capabilities.

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Russian scientists say they must study the implications of genetically modified food before such food is widely introduced in their nation.

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Oct 25, 2005 3.3 / 5 (4) 0

Sprint said Tuesday it has been awarded a contract to provide New Jersey with communicative services to the deaf and hard of hearing.

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Oct 25, 2005 4.3 / 5 (3) 0

Cousins of the 1996 Nobel Prize-winning buckyball, carbon nanotubes have taken the nanotechnology industry by storm. Exhibiting extraordinary strength, flexibility and unique electrical, mechanical and optical properties, ...

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More than 470 physicists, including seven Nobel laureates, have signed a petition to oppose a new U.S. Defense Department proposal that allows the United States to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states. The petition was ...

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Oct 25, 2005 4.9 / 5 (17) 0

At Fall Processor Forum in San Jose, California today, IBM announced the custom designed microprocessor built for Microsoft's Xbox 360 console is in production at the company's East Fishkill, N.Y. fab and at Chartered Semiconductor ...

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The sheer number and variety of security protocols for Internet applications under development makes it difficult to be sure that any one protocol is 100 per cent secure from attack. Now an automated tool can systematically ...

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Scientists believe that oxygen first showed up in the atmosphere about 2.7 billion years ago. They think it was put there by a one-celled organism called "cyanobacteria," which had recently become the first living thing on ...

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An international team of astronomers says the process of building planets is more universal and robust than had previously been assumed. Brown dwarfs, like more massive normal stars, are formed when interstellar gas and dus ...

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Oct 25, 2005 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

One of the first offshore wind energy operations in the nation is to be built in an area seven miles off Galveston Island in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Global mobile-phone shipments reached a record 209 million during the third quarter of 2005 as industry prices continue to soften.

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Nokia is reportedly moving into rural China to cash in on what the company sees as a promising market for low-cost mobile phones.

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