RIM set to launch BBM Music service

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RIM set to launch BBM Music service

NEW YORK - Canada’s Research in Motion (RIM) is developing a new service that would allow subscribers to play music on their BlackBerry smartphones, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

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Google-Motorola deal highlights patent race

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Google-Motorola deal highlights patent race

NEW YORK - When an Internet company plunks down $12.5 billion to buy a struggling cellphone company for its collection of patents, it’s another sign that, for the high-tech industry, patents have become a mallet wielded by corporations to pummel their competitors.

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Da Vinci’s “Codex” launched on iPad

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Da Vinci’s “Codex” launched on iPad

LONDON - “The Da Vinci Code” may have been a popular e-book for years, but now readers around the world can view the manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Arundel in high definition on iPad as the British Library launches its “e-book treasures” series.

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Google’s Motorola to reshape phone makers

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Google’s Motorola to reshape phone makers

SEOUL/TAIPEI - Asian handset makers using Google Inc’s Android operating system might turn to rival platforms such as Microsoft Corp’s Windows after Google upended the mobile landscape with its $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility Holdings.

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PET bottles become radiation detectors

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PET bottles become radiation detectors

TOKYO - To meet growing demand for radiation detectors after Japan’s March earthquake and tsunami, which set off the world’s worst nuclear accident in 25 years, a Japanese researcher has come up with devices made from recycled PET bottles — inexpensively.

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Orion spaceship set for new tests

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Orion spaceship set for new tests

DENVER — A spaceship that could carry the next wave of astronauts to an asteroid or beyond is being prepared for a new round of tests at a Lockheed Martin facility near Denver.

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