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Microsoft deal with AOL part of patent scramble

(AP) -- AOL's $1 billion deal to sell and license patents to Microsoft is another in a series of "Antiques Roadshow" moments in the technology world. Faded companies have been rummaging through their assets ...

Technology / Business

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Study finds faster, cheaper way to cool electronic devices

A North Carolina State University researcher has developed a more efficient, less expensive way of cooling electronic devices – particularly devices that generate a lot of heat, such as lasers and power devices.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research finds bright future for alternative energy with greener solar cells

(Phys.org) -- Even alternative energy technologies can sometimes be a little greener, according to a Kansas State University graduate student's research.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Plastic electronics: a neat solution

(Phys.org) -- A breakthrough in the development of a new generation of plastic electronic circuits by researchers at the Cavendish Laboratory brings flexible and transparent intelligent materials – such ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

'Mass Effect 3' fans promised expanded ending

Fans of hit videogame "Mass Effect 3" will get "more closure" to the end of the saga in add-on software to be available free for download in the months ahead.

Technology / Software

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nokia town faces dim future as jobs shift to Asia

(AP) -- Tomi Marjuaho repaired mobile phones for 10 years in the town of Salo in southern Finland, where Nokia, the world's top cell phone-maker, set up its wireless operations in the 1980s.

Technology / Business

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Physics group uses graphene to allow electron microscopy of liquid objects

(Phys.org) -- News of new uses for graphene continue to come in with remarkable regularity, and now a team of physicists, as they describe in their paper published in the journal Science, have figured out a ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Samsung offers Ultra High Speed-1 MicroSD cards for advanced LTE smartphones, tablets

Samsung Electronics today announced that it is now mass producing Ultra High Speed–1 (UHS-1) interface microSD cards that support the highest performance levels required on advanced LTE (Long Term Evolution) ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Amazon.com shop offers Kindle books in Spanish

Online retail titan Amazon.com on Thursday opened a virtual shop specializing in Spanish-language digital books for its popular Kindle electronic reading tablets.

Technology / Internet

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Review: Nokia Lumia 900 hindered by software

Once the dominant maker of smartphones, Nokia Corp. is hoping to reassert itself by challenging the new top players, Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (4) | comments 6

Physicists control quantum tunneling with light for the first time

Scientists at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge have used light to help push electrons through a classically impenetrable barrier. While quantum tunnelling is at the heart of the peculiar wave nature of particles, this ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Tiny hitchhikers attack cancer cells: Gold nanostars first to deliver drug directly to cancer cell nucleus

Nanotechnology offers powerful new possibilities for targeted cancer therapies, but the design challenges are many. Northwestern University scientists now are the first to develop a simple but specialized nanoparticle that ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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Generating first-ever controlled ultrafast radiation, using a plasma

To observe ultrarapid phenomena such as the motion of electrons within matter, researchers need sources capable of producing extremely fast and energetic light radiation. Although devices capable of emitting ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

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Quantum information motion control is now improved

Physicists have recently devised a new method for handling the effect of the interplay between vibrations and electrons on electronic transport. Their paper is about to be published in the European Physical Journal B. This s ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Company develops conductive yarn for soldier uniforms

(PhysOrg.com) -- Modern military uniforms for servicemen from some countries such as those that serve Great Britain have evolved to the point that batteries and cables are needed for electronic devices that are carried; the ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 10 | with audio podcast weblog