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Seience & Technology News
| New York Times - Feb 4, 2012 THE financial system may not be in great shape, but why dwell on it? Stocks are rising and IPO euphoria is in the air. Facebook last week gave Wall Street something it really likes: a rough blueprint for the biggest initial public offering of stock in ... |
| Would it surprise you to hear that a future CEO had the following background? She enjoyed weekly manicures with her mother starting at age four, spent her days playing princess dress-up, was not regularly around professional women, and was not told she ... |
The State Column - 53 minutes ago A new species of prehistoric crocodile has been discovered by a University of Missouri researcher, according to a University of Missouri news release Tuesday. |
| SlashGear - 21 minutes ago More than 3300 US GameStop locations are now equipped with PlayStation Vitas. Not to buy, unfortunately, but to give anxious gamers a hands-on look at what the next generation of portable Sony gaming will offer. |
| Apple has pulled several iPad and iPhone models from its German online store after Motorola Mobility enforced a patent injunction against its rival. |
| Apple have had a historic quarter, Android devices have the lions share of the market, so where now for Windows Phone? Let's be honest here, Microsoft will not go gently into the good night of the smartphone wars. |
| Detroit Free Press - 12 minutes ago By Alisa Priddle General Motors stands by its Super Bowl ad that plays on the apocalyptic end of the world according to the Mayan calendar that stakes survival on driving a Chevrolet Silverado. |
Computerworld - Feb 4, 2012 By Mike Elgan Computerworld - When the first Super Bowl was played in January 1967, you had three ways to enjoy the game: You could drive to the stadium and sit in the stands, listen to the play-by-play on the radio or watch the action on TV. |
| KPRC Houston - 17 hours ago A satellite orbiting the Earth took six of pictures over an eight hour time span. The images were then combined, creating Blue Marble 2012, a companion to the 'Blue Marble' image NASA released last month. |
| (Please note strong language in fifth paragraph) By Jonathan Standing TAIPEI (Reuters) - He may have derided Android devices in real life but in the afterlife Apple Inc founder Steve Jobs is glad he can use one -- or at least that's the story a Jobs ... |
| X-bit Labs - 7 hours ago by Anton Shilov Advanced Micro Devices has disclosed at an analyst event that it had begun manufacturing of its chips at IBM's facilities. |
by Christopher MacManus February 5, 2012 11:52 AM PST Follow @sonyinsider One day we could have high-tech walls made of touch-sensitive architectural display glass. |
| Washington Post - 4 hours ago ANAHEIM, Calif. - Ryan Villopoto became the first Supercross rider of the season with two victories, winning Saturday night's main event. |
| Written by ![]() in 8,250 Google+ circles San Jose Mercury News - 3 hours ago By Mike Swift When Mark Zuckerberg showed up to rent Judy Fusco's Los Altos house in the fall of 2004, soon after he'd arrived in Silicon Valley, the landlord was immediately struck by his confidence. |
| Outcome Magazine - 10 hours ago "Facebook will return insane amounts of money to the early stakeholders," said Alex Gould, an instructor at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. |
| Written by ![]() in 662,782 Google+ circles Wired News - Feb 3, 2012 By Steven Levy For a founder of a highly touted Internet company undertaking an IPO, the “Letter to Shareholders” in the S-1 prospectus has become a rarefied form of performance art. |
| PC Magazine - Feb 3, 2012 By Damon Poeter The era of smartphones has officially arrived. More were shipped globally last year than client PCs for the first time ever, according to Canalys. |
| Popular Mechanics - Feb 3, 2012 The 2012 Hyundai Elantra and Ford Focus SFE are among 20-plus cars that now claim 40 mpg highway. But given the peculiar way in which the EPA calculates its fuel economy estimates, do those mileage numbers truly reflect real-world driving? |
| For iPhone users, the iMessage platform is quite a popular alternative to traditional SMS text messaging. But did you know there's a glitch that allows a third party to sneak in, view, and even participate in your iMessage conversations? |
| Researchers at the Carnegie Institute for Science (CIS) are celebrating the discovery of a planet that is in prime position to have liquid water on its surface, and even possibly life. |
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