Technology News: General

Washington, April 27 (ANI): Researchers have developed an eco-friendly inflatable solar panel called SolarStore for domestic use, which would help to save nearly 0.2 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year.

By Anupreeta Das
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc believes regulators would not bar a potential business deal with Yahoo Inc because it would be "non-exclusive" and falls short of an outright merger, a person familiar with Google's thinking said on Friday.

London, April 24 (ANI): A new survey has revealed that mobile phone customers in the UK consider the services provided by Vodafone and Orange to be least "satisfactory".

Washington, April 23 (ANI): A new study by researchers at the University of Bolton in England has revealed that video game addicts exhibit the same personality traits as people with a form of autism known as Asperger's syndrome, sufferers of which find social situations stressful.

Washington, April 23 (ANI): Chemical engineers have developed a "self-assembling" method that could lead to an inexpensive way of making diamond-like crystals to improve optical communications and other technologies.

Melbourne, Apr 21 (ANI): Checkout girls and boys at the grocery store could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a roll-out of self-serve checkouts by a major supermarket chain in Down Under.

London, Apr 19 (ANI): A car that can respond to stressed users, new ways to interact with computer games, and techniques that can enable doctors to monitor patients at risk of seizures - all this would soon be possible, thanks to a lightweight battery-free headset that can constantly monitor human brainwaves.

Washington, April 18 (ANI): Researchers have created an improved aerodynamic shape for truck trailers by mounting sideskirts, which can lead to a cut in fuel consumption and emissions of up to as much as 15%.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it sold 262,000 Xbox 360 game consoles in the United States in March, regaining its lead over Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 as supply constraints eased.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian companies providing critical services to the economy will be allowed to intercept the emails and internet communications of their workers under new security counter-terrorism laws.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc may have played its top two cards by pulling out possible deals with AOL and Google, but it does not seem to have changed Wall Street's view that Microsoft will eventually win the takeover battle.

By Marc Jones
LONDON (Reuters) - Online gaming firm 888 is optimistic of 30 percent revenue growth this year, helped by a better-than-expected start from its new sports betting and bingo sites.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Online retail sales growth in the United States is slowing, but sales are still expected to rise 17 percent this year, even as consumers cut back on overall spending in the sluggish economy, according to a study released on Monday.

By Eric Auchard
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc on Monday defended a policy of retaining data on Web users for up to 18 months as necessary to improve search results, responding to an EU report that saw no need for search services to keep personal data beyond six months.

New Delhi, Mar 26 (PTI) Nearly 70,000 people suffering from multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in India require quality second-line treatment, experts at the World Health Organisation

New Delhi, Mar 14 (PTI) Vice President Hamid Ansari today dismissed any perception that India was doing great work in the field of science, and said there was "something wrong" with the system

Cuttack, Mar 14 (PTI) In a rare surgical feat, a dead embryo has been successfully removed from the abdomen of a two-a-half-month old boy by a team of doctors at a hospital here.

Neither Microsoft Corp nor Yahoo Inc wants to blink first in the software giant's proposed $41.7 billion takeover of the Web pioneer but as the gamesmanship drags on, archrival Google Inc, the merger's raison d'etre, is the biggest beneficiary.

Cell phone use is already linked to an increased risk of brain tumour. Now, a new study claims that radiation from mobiles affects human skin too. A team of researchers in Finland has carried out the study and found that living tissue responds to mobile phone radiation which alters protein expression in people, the BMC Genomics journal reported.

Satellite US 193 has been blown out of the sky, but the next time, something from space makes news, you won't need NASA or even these telescopes to get the latest on what is in the sky, you could probably make do with your PC.