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HP's missteps culminate in loss of 27,000 jobs (Update)

(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman has quantified the painful price that must be paid for the missteps of her predecessors as she tries to turn around the Silicon Valley pioneer. The bungling will wipe ...

Technology / Business

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Testing vintage US bridges for vulnerability -- and finding ways to protect them

It took only 13 seconds for the bridge to collapse into the Mississippi River in a thunderous rain of concrete and steel. When the Minneapolis I-35W bridge – an eight-lane, steel truss arch bridge – ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Northrop grumman fires up rugged solid-state laser weapon

Northrop Grumman Corporation has test fired the first product in its next-generation FIRESTRIKE family of high-energy, solid-state lasers that meet goals for size and weight reduction and ruggedization for ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 18

Protection sought for rare woodpecker

(AP) -- Smokey Bear has done such a good job stomping out forest fires the past half-century that a woodpecker that's survived for millions of years by eating beetle larvae in burned trees is in danger of ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Air quality improving in many U.S. cities: report

(HealthDay) -- Air quality in America's most polluted cities has improved significantly over the past decade, according to a new report from the American Lung Association.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Patent wars plague Internet Age

The Internet Age is becoming as known for patent litigation as it is for online innovation.

Technology / Business

created Apr 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 13

Amazon aims to wring deep discounts from publishers

The bad news came to McFarland & Co. in an email from Amazon.com Inc. The world's largest Internet retailer wanted better wholesale terms for the small publisher's books. Starting Jan. 1, 2012 - then only 19 days away - Amazon ...

Technology / Business

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Fire ant colonies seem to be down dramatically

The red imported fire ant, one of the most horrifying of the foreign species that have established themselves in the United States, appears to be in retreat.

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

China lifts microblog controls that sparked outcry

(AP) -- China's two biggest microblog sites resumed normal service Tuesday after a three-day ban on posting comments that sparked complaints about censorship amid the country's worst high-level political crisis in years.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Indonesia land clearance 'wiping out' orangutans

Critically-endangered orangutans in a protected area of Indonesia will be wiped out by the end of the year if land clearing is not stopped, a coalition of environmental groups warned Wednesday.

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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