News tagged with rhode island

Cox kills Sprint-based cellphone service

(AP) -- Cox Communications, the country's third-largest cable company, stopped offering cellphone service Wednesday, saying it's too small to compete with the big phone companies.

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Solar showdown in Calif. tortoises' desert home

(AP) -- On a strip of California's Mojave Desert, two dozen rare tortoises could stand in the way of a sprawling solar-energy complex in a case that highlights mounting tensions between wilderness conservation ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 02, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

RI tracking swine flu through electronic records

(AP) -- Rhode Island health officials are using electronic prescription records to track the spread of swine flu.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blubbery 'researchers' lend fin to climate science

(AP) -- Into the Antarctic enigma, the puzzle of a place with too few researchers chasing too many climate mysteries, slowly waddles the elephant seal.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 1

Space Image: Eastern seaboard at night

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Expedition 30 crew member aboard the International Space Station took this nighttime photograph of much of the Atlantic coast of the United States.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0