Microsoft sues Motorola over smart phone patents
(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is suing Motorola Inc. for infringing on its smart-phone patents.
Business
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Facebook splits stock 5 for 1
(AP) -- Facebook, the world's largest online social network, said Friday it is splitting its shares five for one, so that it can give larger stock grants to current and prospective employees.
Business
Oct 1, 2010
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Climate change forcing a 'move it or lose it' approach to species conservation?
What does it take to save a species in the 21st century? The specter of climate change, with predicted losses to biodiversity as high as 35 percent, has some scientists and managers considering taking their conservation strategies ...
Ecology
Oct 1, 2010
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Ubisoft sends 'Assassins' to Facebook
French videogame titan Ubisoft is expanding the world of "Assassin's Creed" to Facebook, breaking down the barrier between play on consoles and at the hot online social network.
Software
Oct 1, 2010
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GOES-13 sees an unholy matrimony: Nicole and low pressure swamp the US East Coast
In a "marriage" that U.S. east coast residents would object to, the remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole coupled with an upper level low pressure area have dumped record rainfall from the Carolinas to New England on Sept. 30. ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 1, 2010
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Scientists isolate, hold, photograph individual Rubidium 85 atom
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a major physics breakthrough, University of Otago scientists have developed a technique to consistently isolate and capture a fast-moving neutral atom - and have also seen and photographed this atom for ...
General Physics
Oct 1, 2010
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Facebook now second-largest online video viewing platform
Facebook became the second-largest online video viewing platform in the United States in August, leap-frogging Yahoo! but still trailing far behind YouTube, digital tracking firm comScore said.
Internet
Oct 1, 2010
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Microsoft taps tech leader to head Office division
(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. has picked an insider with engineering expertise to head up its Office software division, filling a spot left vacant in September when the most recent president left to become Nokia Corp.'s CEO.
Business
Oct 1, 2010
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Ancient Roman spa awaits flooding in Turkey
Under a mild autumn sun, workers bustle about like bees at a Roman bath complex sprawling over a green plain in western Turkey in what looks like a regular excavation site.
Archaeology
Oct 1, 2010
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Gadgets: BlackBerry wireless headset offers true hands-free calling
Simple, easy and works very well is how I sum up the BlackBerry HS-700 wireless headset from Research in Motion.
Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 1, 2010
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