Briefs: Vodafone, Sony to offer mobile music
Vodafone and Sony launched Monday a mobile music service for wireless phones.
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iPod dominance a mirage?
Though Apple Computer has reported remarkable success with its iPod -- sales rose by 250 percent during the last fiscal year -- there is some competition coming this week for the developer of the world's most famous, legitimate ...
Jan 9, 2006
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Apple to launch '06 products
Tech analysts and electronics retailers will be watching San Francisco this week to see if Apple can top the iPod.
Jan 9, 2006
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Global Warming Doubles Rate of Ocean Rise
Ocean levels are rising twice as fast today as they were 150 years ago, and human-induced warming appears to be the culprit, say scientists at Rutgers.
Jan 9, 2006
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Buckyballs Can Be Nontoxic... Maybe
Buckminsterfullerene, a form of carbon containing 60 atoms arranged like the facets of a soccer ball and one of the first and best studied nanoscale structures, has come under scrutiny in recent years over concerns that it ...
Jan 9, 2006
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AIDS Drug from Sunflowers
Sunflowers can produce a substance which prevents the AIDS pathogen HIV from reproducing, at least in cell cultures. This is the result of research carried out by scientists at the University of Bonn in cooperation with the ...
Jan 9, 2006
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Tech leaders, universities unite to boost open source innovation
IBM has joined with three other technology companies, seven universities and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to adopt guiding principles to speed collaborative research for open source software. These 12 enterprises ...
Jan 9, 2006
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There's More to the North Star Than Meets the Eye
We tend to think of the North Star, Polaris, as a steady, solitary point of light that guided sailors in ages past. But there is more to the North Star than meets the eye - two faint stellar companions. The North Star is ...
Jan 9, 2006
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Scientists Find Black Hole's 'Point of No Return'
By a score of 135 to zero, scientists using NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer have compared suspected neutron stars and black holes and found that the black holes behaved as if each one has an event horizon, the theoretical ...
Jan 9, 2006
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Scientists make first step towards 'holy grail' of crystallography
Scientists from Imperial College London and the University of Surrey have developed a new technique for crystallising proteins, a discovery which could help speed up the development of new medicines and treatments.
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