LONDON - Frankenstein, Oliver Twist and Robinson Crusoe could all be lurking on your iPad if you download a new application launched by the British Library this week which provides access to over 45,000 historical and antiquarian titles.
LONDON - Frankenstein, Oliver Twist and Robinson Crusoe could all be lurking on your iPad if you download a new application launched by the British Library this week which provides access to over 45,000 historical and antiquarian titles.
BEIJING/HONG KONG - China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd , the world’s No. 2 network equipment maker, unveiled its cloud-computing mobile phones on Wednesday in an attempt to replicate its telecom gear success in the smartphone market.
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc’s new social network has attracted 25 million users, making it the fastest website to reach that audience size, according to data released on Tuesday by comScore.
Washington - An aquatic microrobot can walk or run on water, mimicking the amazing abilities of the ‘water strider’—a long legged insect that effortlessly skims across pond and lakes surfaces.
WASHINGTON — Yahoo! announced the launch Monday of Yahoo! Sports Radio as the Internet company seeks to turn its popularity as an online destination for sports fans into success over the airwaves.
A team led by an Indian origin scientist has packaged lithium ion batteries, which power mobiles and smartphones, into a single nanowire. The breakthrough could be a valuable power source for new generations of nanoelectronics.
Social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter have created a generation obsessed with themselves, having short attention spans and a child-like desire for constant feedback on their lives, says an Oxford scientist.
The US space agency plans to launch next week a solar-powered spacecraft called Juno that will journey to the gassy planet of Jupiter in search of how the huge, stormy giant was formed.
NEW YORK — Google has bought more than 1,000 technology patents from IBM as the Internet giant seeks to build up its portfolio and head off potential intellectual property suits.
HELSINKI - Private-equity backed video technology firm Skyfire, best known for its mobile browser, has unveiled an application for watching Flash videos on Apple’s iPhones.