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Shuttle Endeavour launches one last time
May 16, 2011The US space shuttle Endeavour has launched on its final mission. Its thunderous rise into a bright morning sky over the Kennedy Space Center in Florida was watched by hundreds of thousands of spectators. Among them was Endeavour commander Mark Kelly...
Google's advertising system under US investigation
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May 11, 2011Google's advertising system is being investigated by the US Justice Department, the company has revealed. The internet search giant added that it had put aside $500m (£306m) to settle any potential charges. The investigation is looking at how...
Apple iPhones hit by summer time alarm glitch
March 29, 2011Some iPhone owners were heading in to work late on Monday after a glitch caused their alarms to malfunction. Users found their wake-up alert coming one hour late, one hour early or not at all. The problem, related to the clocks going forward for British...
China 'to overtake US on science' in two years
March 29, 2011China is on course to overtake the US in scientific output possibly as soon as 2013 - far earlier than expected. That is the conclusion of a major new study by the Royal Society, the UK's national science academy. The country that invented the compass...
Cuba welcomes new internet cable link with Venezuela
February 10, 2011Cuba has welcomed the arrival of an undersea fibre-optic cable linking it to Venezuela as a blow to the US economic embargo. The cable will transform communications in Cuba, which has among the slowest internet speeds in the world. The new connection...
Anonymous hackers attack US security firm HBGary
February 07, 2011Online activist group Anonymous has targeted an American security firm that claimed to know the identities of its leaders. The secretive organisation is being investigated in several countries over strikes on Visa, PayPal and others. Over the weekend...
AOL to buy Huffington Post in $315m media merger
February 07, 2011US internet firm AOL has agreed to a buyout of the Huffington Post online newspaper. The $315m (£222m) deal will create an internet media group with 270 million users, including 117 million in the US. The purchase price - $300m of which will...
Computer memory heralds green PCs
January 25, 2011A new form of computing memory which could lead to faster starting, user-friendly computers has been developed by US researchers. The device, developed by a team at North Carolina State University, claims to combine the advantages of two commons forms...
Larry Page to become Google chief executive
January 21, 2011Google co-founder Larry Page is to become chief executive of the US internet search giant in April. He will take over from Eric Schmidt, who has been in the job for a decade and will become executive chairman. Google said Mr Schmidt would focus on...
Verizon to begin selling Apple iPhone 4 in February
January 12, 2011Verizon Wireless has announced it will begin selling the Apple iPhone 4 in the US on 10 February, a move that comes just days after top US mobile carrier unveiled new 4G phones. The move gives iPhone users in the US a choice of carriers for the first...