05/01/2010

Apple buying mobile ad company Quattro Wireless

(AP) -- Apple is buying the mobile advertising company Quattro Wireless. It's a bet on the future of cell phone ads and steps up competition with rival Silicon Valley powerhouse Google.

ESPN, Discovery push third dimension for TV

(AP) -- Two major cable networks - ESPN and Discovery - said Tuesday they plan to start beaming 3-D entertainment into peoples' homes for the first time.

Software defect hits millions of German bank cards

(AP) -- Millions of German bank cards have been affected by a "millennium bug"-like problem because they contain software that can't process the number 2010, industry groups said Tuesday.

Leptin-controlled gene can reverse diabetes

Researchers have found that even a very little bit of the fat hormone leptin goes a long way when it comes to correcting diabetes. The hormone controls the activity of a gene known as IGFBP2 in the liver, which has antidiabetic ...

Electric car Think to be assembled in US in 2011: report

Think, an electric car maker based in Norway, will assemble its vehicles in the United States next year and hopes to roll out more than 20,000 units a year, the Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday, quoting the group's chief ...

Sweet corn study provides large-scale picture of better fields

In what amounted to a kind of census of sweet corn grown for processing, three years of data from 175 fields in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota shed light on what works and what doesn't. Along with identifying the most ...

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