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From the outside, the Gothic brick and limestone building a few blocks south of downtown almost looks abandoned. http://phys.org/news236864681.html Technology Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:44:57 EST news236864681 Ubisoft in November will release a dance videogame based on the music of ABBA, a Swedish band that rocketed to fame in the 1970s and became one of the most successful pop groups in history. http://phys.org/news236616801.html Technology Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:53:32 EST news236616801 Google said Wednesday the US Justice Department has asked for more information about its bid for Motorola Mobility but expressed confidence the $12.5 billion deal will get the green light. http://phys.org/news236488099.html Technology Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:16:03 EST news236488099 Facebook said Monday that it is forming a political action committee (PAC) for employees of the social network to make contributions to candidates. http://phys.org/news236285731.html Technology Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:55:38 EST news236285731 (AP) -- A top Samsung executive says the company will take a bolder stance in its patent battle with smartphone and tablet rival Apple, which Samsung claims has been "free riding" on its patented wireless technologies. http://phys.org/news235985943.html Technology Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:39:34 EST news235985943 Google opened its Google+ social network to the world on Tuesday, dropping the need for an invitation to join the Internet giant's rival to Facebook. http://phys.org/news235745217.html Technology Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:47:42 EST news235745217 Cars made smarter with Internet technology are zooming into perilous hacker territory, according to a report by US computer security giant McAfee. http://phys.org/news234588382.html Technology Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:27:04 EST news234588382 (AP) -- A federal grand jury in San Francisco has charged a San Antonio man with harassing a high-ranking Google executive with more than 20,000 Twitter posts, some of which were threatening. http://phys.org/news234551289.html Technology Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:08:17 EST news234551289 Google said Friday it is pulling the plug on online news reader Fast Flip, social search service Aardvark, commenting tool Sidewiki and several other products. http://phys.org/news234242601.html Technology Sat, 03 Sep 2011 04:24:14 EST news234242601 As if President Barack Obama doesn't already have enough to worry about, a statistical analysis of presidential ranking surveys suggests that he is likely to be viewed as an "average" president by expert evaluators if he serves only one term, according to a Baylor University researcher. http://phys.org/news233403464.html Other Sciences Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:17:54 EST news233403464 (AP) -- President Barack Obama joined the location-based social network Foursquare this week, adding to his other hip, online destinations that include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. http://phys.org/news233033715.html Technology Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:37:43 EST news233033715 (AP) -- A Texas-based defense and aerospace firm says one of its top officials has had his email account broken into by the hacking group Anonymous. http://phys.org/news232972110.html Technology Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:28:43 EST news232972110 (AP) -- AOL Inc.'s heads of online ad sales and corporate communications are leaving as part of the Internet company's latest management reorganization. http://phys.org/news230866801.html Technology Tue, 26 Jul 2011 02:42:18 EST news230866801 Google plans to open an office in Indonesia soon as it looks to tap the country's huge growth in Internet users, the office of the country's vice president said Friday. http://phys.org/news230533665.html Technology Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:08:00 EST news230533665 Apple announced that the new version of its Macintosh computer operating system was downloaded more than a million times in the 24 hours after it launched. http://phys.org/news230525496.html Technology Fri, 22 Jul 2011 04:30:01 EST news230525496 Google chief Larry Page said Thursday that the Internet giant's freshly launched Google+ social network already has more than 10 million members. http://phys.org/news229948159.html Technology Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:20:01 EST news229948159 A US man who hacked into his neighbors' Wi-Fi network and tried to frame them with child pornography and threatening emails to the US vice president has been sentenced to 18 years in jail. http://phys.org/news229746366.html Technology Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:00:01 EST news229746366 US videogame titan Electronic Arts (EA) on Monday released a version of word game Scrabble that people can play together whether they are using Apple devices, Android gadgets, or Facebook. http://phys.org/news229658746.html Technology Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:07:46 EST news229658746 (AP) -- The Associated Press will be among 16 news organizations and Internet entrepreneurs sharing $4.7 million in funding to design innovative ways to find and deliver news in the digital age. http://phys.org/news227976690.html Technology Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:51:43 EST news227976690 US business software giant Oracle announced the acquisition on Tuesday of Web management company FatWire Software. http://phys.org/news227875141.html Technology Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:39:17 EST news227875141 (AP) -- President Barack Obama is taking a more active role on Twitter, 140 characters at a time. http://phys.org/news227677989.html Technology Sun, 19 Jun 2011 04:53:40 EST news227677989 (AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. is streamlining its executive ranks to improve its focus on customers rather than administration and put more operations directly under CEO Leo Apotheker's control. http://phys.org/news227265510.html Technology Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:18:59 EST news227265510 Google, bidding to boost revenue from display advertising, announced the acquisition on Monday of Admeld, a New York-based company that provides an advertising platform for publishers. http://phys.org/news227187857.html Technology Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:44:50 EST news227187857 On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy laid out a vision for "landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth." Six months later, Charles Stark Draper responded to that call, volunteering his services as an Apollo crewmember. http://phys.org/news226045204.html Space & Earth Tue, 31 May 2011 07:22:31 EST news226045204 US President Barack Obama named Twitter's chief and a high-ranking Microsoft executive among a handful of technology veterans to be appointed as telecommunications security advisors. http://phys.org/news225776819.html Technology Sat, 28 May 2011 04:47:11 EST news225776819 Fifty years ago, on May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy told a joint session of Congress that "this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth." http://phys.org/news225552519.html Space & Earth Wed, 25 May 2011 14:29:13 EST news225552519 After setting a soaring vision to land a man on the moon, President John F. Kennedy struggled with how to sell the public on a costly space program he worried had "lost its glamour" and had scant political benefits, according to a newly released White House tape. http://phys.org/news225515964.html Space & Earth Wed, 25 May 2011 04:30:01 EST news225515964 IBM briefly topped Microsoft in market value on Wall Street on Friday to become the second-largest technology company after Apple. http://phys.org/news225180280.html Technology Sat, 21 May 2011 07:05:04 EST news225180280 (AP) -- A top telecommunications regulator who voted to approve Comcast Corp.'s takeover of NBCUniversal in January is leaving to join the company as a lobbyist. http://phys.org/news224353063.html Technology Wed, 11 May 2011 17:18:00 EST news224353063 Google wants Android to move into people's homes with the open-source software powering everything from smart light bulbs to sound systems. http://phys.org/news224306028.html Technology Wed, 11 May 2011 05:20:02 EST news224306028