Solar Panel Companies Face Financial Troubles
With the ink barely dry on the resignation letter of self-proclaimed one-time communist Van Jones as President Obama’s Green Jobs Czar, the USA...
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MIcrosoft Gets Reprieve on Word Ban
Microsoft has obtained a stay against a court injunction that would have prevented the company from selling its Microsoft Word software until an...
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Journalism 101: Buy an iPhone
The New York Times reported Monday that a news portal website in San Francisco is hoping the iPhone-equipped, tech-savvy generation will speed the...
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Space Exploration Cost Overestimated, Study Finds
From deficit estimates to the cost of a socialized health care system, the Obama administration is encountering substantive challenges regarding the accuracy of...
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Bill Would Give President Internet Control
CNET News reported on August 28 that it had obtained a draft copy of a Senate bill (S. 773) that would “permit the...
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Private Companies compete for Google Lunar X Prize
The recent launch of South Korea’s Naro-1 rocket marked the emergence of the 10th nation with the capacity to launch payloads to orbit....
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Broadband Initiative Stimulates Interest
The Obama Administration, under the rubric of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, poured a few more letters in the giant...
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State Department Passport Snooping & RFID
A sixth U.S. State Department employee or contractor has pleaded guilty to illegally looking at electronic passport files, the U.S. Department of Justice...
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South Korea Launches First Rocket
After a six-day delay caused by a faulty valve, South Korea has launched its first rocket, the Naro-1, from the Naro Space Center...
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Microsoft, Yahoo Oppose Google Books
Microsoft and Yahoo are joining a coalition to oppose Google’s creation of what could become the largest virtual library the world has ever...
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NASA Committee Weighs Future of Manned Space Program
In an age of out of control government spending — over $30 billion a week in budget deficits, 130,000 troops in Iraq and...
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The Private Sector and the future of Space Exploration
An article at Wired.com (“Rocket Booster: Let Private Sector help NASA”) keeps a free-market focus on the future of American space exploration: “After...
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Microsoft Appeals Ban on MS Word
Microsoft on August 18 filed an appeal to a judge’s ruling that the company’s Word application violates a Canadian firm’s patent. The ruling...
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South Korea Aborts Rocket Launch
According to a report in the Associated Press, South Korea aborted its first launch of a new rocket just minutes before its scheduled...
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Computer Chips Based on DNA
In order to meet the demand for ever smaller and faster computer chips, IBM and the California Institute of Technology have been researching...
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