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Los Angeles Times
Chinese firm seeks halt of iPad sales in Shanghai
Reuters
* Proview demands iPad sales be stopped in Shanghai * Apple argues it has already purchased trademark * Halt in iPad sales would hurt public interest-Apple By Samuel Shen and Royston Chan SHANGHAI, Feb 22 (Reuters) - A Chinese technology firm sought to ...
Apple iPad trademark case hearing begins in ShanghaiTimes of India
Chinese company, Shenzhen Proview, sues Apple over iPad name in ShanghaiEconomic Times

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Sydney Morning Herald
Sony Playstation Vita launches
Telegraph.co.uk
Sony PlayStation Vita launched at midnight in London, marking the Japanese firm's most important product launch of the decade. By Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor Hundreds of fans queued at the Game store on London's Oxford Street, and developer ...
Joe tries out Vita, Playstation's latest gadgetBBC News
Sony Takes the Long View With its New PlayStation VitaPCWorld
Sony's PlayStation Vita hopes to carve a niche for itselfWashington Post
Wired News -CNET -Wall Street Journal
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Telegraph.co.uk
Astronomers discover new type of planet – the water world
Telegraph.co.uk
A watery planet with a thick, steamy atmosphere has left astronomers fumbling for their classification books. By Amy Willis, Los Angeles The water world, which has been named GJ1214b, is 2.7 times bigger than earth but weighs almost seven times as much ...
Scientists find an alien world 'like no planet we know of'msnbc.com
Hubble Reveals a New Class of Extrasolar PlanetHubble Space Telescope at ESA
Hubble's 'waterworld' discovery: A new type of planetFox News
BBC News -DigitalJournal.com -Newstrack India
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AndroidOS.in
LG Optimus 3D Cube revealed and detailed
SlashGear
The next generation of 3D smartphones has begun to drop here just one year after we first saw similar devices drop at Mobile World Congress 2011. It appears that LG will be the first big manufacturer to come back swinging with a new Optimus 3D, ...
LG Optimus 3D Cube: Landing in South Korea next month for $750IntoMobile
LG Optimus 3D Cube announced with 3D video editing and moreAndroid Community
LG unveils slimmer and smarter Optimus 3DThe Mobile Indian
Phandroid.com -The Verge -Engadget
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Daily Mail
NASA captures solar eclipse footage
Ninemsn
By ninemsn staff A NASA satellite orbiting the Earth has captured rare footage of the moon partially eclipsing the sun. The Solar Dynamics Observatory, which orbits the Earth at a distance of 36000 km, usually has a direct line of sight to the sun, ...
Solar Tornadoes Dance Across Sun's Surface in NASA VideoSpace.com
Solar tornadoes dance across sun in stunning space videomsnbc.com
Moon Eats a Chunk Out Of The Sun: Big PicDiscovery News
io9 -The State Column -Q13 FOX
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Forbes
The Smallest Known Black Hole Has 20 Million Mile Per Hour Winds
Forbes
Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory clocked wind from the smallest known black hole moving at 20 million miles per hour. Black hole IGR J17091-3624 might be the smallest known black hole, but it has the “cosmic equivalent of winds from a ...
Cosmic Hurricane: Black Hole Has 20 Million MPH WindsSpace.com
Black hole offering up cosmic surpriseUPI.com
Fastest wind observed around black holeShanghai Daily (subscription)
MarketWatch (press release) -NASA (press release)
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Telegraph.co.uk
New Nook Tablet steps into Kindle Fire territory with price
Washington Post
Barnes & Noble introduced its latest version of the Nook Tablet on Tuesday. The Verge reports: Our sources were right on the money: Barnes &Noble has just announced an 8GB version of its Nook Tablet, pricing it in direct competition with the Kindle ...
Barnes & Noble earnings drop 14% in quarterSan Francisco Chronicle
Rising Costs Cut Profit at Barnes & NobleNew York Times
Costs Bind Barnes & NobleWall Street Journal
CNET -The Verge -Android Police
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Globe and Mail
BlackBerry PlayBook 2: 10 Reasons Why This Tablet Will Fail
eWeek
NEWS ANALYSIS: RIM is reportedly working on another BlackBerry Playbook. But if and when that tablet launches, it doomed to failure. Research In Motion finds itself in a disconcerting position. On one hand, it has a huge business that will need to ...
Fresh start for unloved PlayBookMontreal Gazette
BlackBerry PlayBook software gets major upgradeWashington Post
An E-Mail App Arrives for the BlackBerry TabletNew York Times
Reuters -Wall Street Journal -CNET
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IBNLive.com
Twitter App Updates Bring New Features for iPhone and Android Users
Mashable
Twitter announced updates to its iPhone and Android apps on Tuesday, re-introducing some well-loved features and adding new improvements as well. But the updates don't impact all mobile tweeters equally. Both updated apps bring back the swipe shortcut.
Apple Launches 'Start Developing iOS Apps Today' GuidebookPC Magazine
5 free Android security apps: Keep your smartphone safeComputerworld
Twitter for Android updated, new features includedAndroid Community
VentureBeat -InformationWeek -TechCrunch
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Christian Science Monitor
300-million-year-old 'Chinese Pompeii' found buried under volcanic ash
Christian Science Monitor
Researchers near Wuda, China, have uncovered a tropical forest that was preserved by ash from a volcanic eruption during the early Permian era. By Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer / February 21, 2012 This artist's painting shows a tropical forest ...
'Chinese Pompeii' 300m-year-old forest preserved in ashBBC News
Ash-covered forest is 'Permian Pompeii'Nature.com
Fossilized forest discovered under layer of volcanic ashmsnbc.com
Scientific American -TG Daily -The State Column
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The Guardian
John Glenn's voice in space 50 years after orbit
San Francisco Chronicle
AP Jay LaPrete / AP John Glenn marks the 50th anniversary of his first Earth orbit by speaking on NASA's future at a forum in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio - NASA surprised John Glenn with the kind of anniversary gift only a space agency can give, enabling him ...
Glenn marks 50 years since historic orbit of EarthNewsOK.com
John Glenn Sits Down with ABC 6/FOX 28ABC6OnYourSide.com
50 Years Later, Astronaut John Glenn Recounts His Historic Mission in SpacePBS NewsHour
Reuters
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Telegraph.co.uk
Google tricks Internet Explorer into accepting tracking cookies, Microsoft claims
Ars Technica
By Jon Brodkin | Published February 20, 2012 2:19 PM Google was caught last week bypassing default privacy settings in the Safari browser in order to serve up tracking cookies. The company claimed the situation was an accident and limited only to the ...
Microsoft Accuses Google of Sidestepping Privacy in IEPC Magazine
Microsoft says Google bypassed IE privacy settingsCNET
Google responds to Microsoft over privacy issues, calls IE's cookie policy ...The Verge
Los Angeles Times -The Connecticut College Voice -PCWorld
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BetaNews
Nvidia's first 'complete' smartphone: ZTE Mimosa X
BetaNews
By Tim Conneally Nvidia's Tegra 2 system-on-a-chip architecture has thus far been used in a handful of high-end Android "superphones": Motorola Atrix 4G, Photon 4G, LG Optimus G2X, and the Samsung Captivate Glide, to name a few.
ZTE Mimosa X revealed with NVIDIA Tegra 2 and Icera modemSlashGear
Meet the ZTE Mimosa X, Nvidia's first branded smartphoneVentureBeat
ZTE to Show New Mimosa X Handset Featuring NVIDIA Tegra Dual-Core Processor ...MarketWatch (press release)
Engadget -Android Community -androidandme.com
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ABC News
Ice age plant brought back to life - mammals next?
San Francisco Chronicle
AP It was an Ice Age squirrel's treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30000 years. From the fruit tissues, a team of Russian scientists managed to resurrect an entire plant in a ...
Flowering Plant Revived After 30000 Years in Russian PermafrostYahoo! Contributors Network
Russians regenerate plant from 30000-year-old frozen burrow of Ice Age squirrelToronto Star

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Bloomberg
China Telecom to Start Offering IPhone 4S in March
Bloomberg
Enlarge image iPhone 4 iPhone 4 Chris Goodney/Bloomberg China Telecom Corp. (728) will offer Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPhone 4S starting March 9, making it the nation's second mobile-phone company to sell the device. Users who commit to a two-year contract ...
China Telecom to Offer iPhone 4SWall Street Journal
China Telecom To Get iPhone In MarchTechCrunch
China Telecom to sell iPhone 4S; shares riseMarketWatch
CNET -BusinessWeek -The Mac Observer
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Daily Mail
Physicists Foretell Quantum Computer With Single-Atom Transistor
Wired News
By Cade Metz Physicists at Purdue University and the University of New South Wales have built a transistor from a single atom of phosphorous precisely placed on a bed of silicon, taking another step towards the holy grail of tech research: the quantum ...
Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single AtomNew York Times
Scientists Cook Up 1-Atom Transistor, 12-Atom Magnetic StorageDailyTech
Transistor Made Using a Single Atom May Help Beat Moore's LawBusinessWeek
Forbes -CNET -Ars Technica
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PCR-online.biz
Microsoft confirms SkyDrive app for Windows 8
CNET
by Steven Musil February 20, 2012 3:05 PM PST Follow @stevenmusil Integration to include Metro-style app and the ability to fetch files from across the Web, Microsoft reveals. SkyDrive, Microsoft's cloud storage product, will be getting a Metro-style ...
Microsoft to challenge iCloud with SkyDrive OS X clientApple Insider
SkyDrive App's Integration in Windows 8Technorati
Bigger files, remote access, OpenDocument, and more coming to SkyDriveArs Technica
VentureBeat -BGR -LiveSide
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Space Ref
Moon's Scarred Crust Hints at Recent Activity, Scientists Say
Space.com
by Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor Although the Earth's crust is still shifting, driven by the churning semimolten rock underneath it, researchers had thought the moon had cooled off much too long ago to still have any such tectonic activity.
Back to the Moon A Modern ReduxSpace Daily
The cislunar econosphere (part 1)The Space Review
NASA Spacecraft Reveals Recent Geological Activity on the MoonSacramento Bee
Pocono Record -Dalje.com
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TIME
Apple iPad plant conditions better than the norm: agency
Reuters
By Terril Yue Jones | BEIJING (Reuters) - Working conditions at Chinese manufacturing plants where Apple Inc's iPads and iPhones are made are far better than those at garment factories or other facilities elsewhere in the country, according to the head ...
Foxconn Auditor Finds 'Tons of Issues'Bloomberg
Pressure, Chinese and Foreign, Drives Changes at FoxconnNew York Times
Apple faces its 'Nike moment' over working conditions in Chinese factoriesThe Guardian
ABC News -PC Magazine -Fox News
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