Sony Retires The Cassette Walkman
After retiring the floppy disk in March, Sony has halted the manufacture and distribution of another now-obsolete technology: the cassette Walkman, the first low-cost, portable music player. The ...
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After retiring the floppy disk in March, Sony has halted the manufacture and distribution of another now-obsolete technology: the cassette Walkman, the first low-cost, portable music player. The ...
The discovery of "taste receptors" in the lungs rather than on the tongue could point the way to new medicines for asthma, it is suggested. Experiments in mice revealed that bombarding the recepto...
Apple Inc said it will no longer ship Mac computers with Adobe Systems Inc's Flash player pre-installed, as the company continues to erect barriers to the software. Apple's decision does not ban F...
Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc said U.S. health officials have rejected its experimental obesity pill, citing cancer risks. The drugmaker said Food and Drug Administration officials requested an indepe...
Facebook, Amazon and Zynga will invest in a fund to help entrepreneurs develop applications and services for a new era of the social web. The lion's share of the sFund's $250m (£160m) will come ...
Difficult-to-read fonts make for better learning, according to scientists. The finding is about to be published in the international journal Cognition. Researchers at Princeton University employ...
There are oases of water-rich soil that could sustain astronauts on the Moon, according to Nasa. Scientists studied the full results of an experiment that smashed a rocket and a probe into a lunar...
A daily aspirin tablet may help prevent bowel cancer, a study suggests. Oxford University found it cut cases by a quarter and deaths by more than a third in a review of 14,000 patients. Aspirins...
Adding to previous evidence, researchers have found that black patients with heart disease are less likely to survive than white patients, even those who are younger. Race-related differences in s...
Almost 250,000 Germans have told Google to blur pictures of their homes on the Street View service. The German government insisted that people get the chance to make the request as a condition of ...
Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the thinnest, lightest Mac laptop yet, fusing features from its popular iPhone and iPad with its traditional line of personal computers. Apple, whose computers ha...
Online marketplace eBay has reported better-than-expected profits, with earnings boosted by growth in its payment service PayPal. The firm posted a net profit of $432m (£273m) in the third quarte...
One of the CEOs of Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has hit back at Apple chief Steve Jobs' critique of the tablet market. On Monday, Mr Jobs said that a raft of 7in tablet-computers wou...
Leopards' spots and tigers' stripes are a camouflage closely tied to their habitats, researchers say. A UK team examined the flank markings of 37 species of wild cats in a bid to understand the sp...
A biotech firm in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has developed a vaccine against swine flu, which involves no risk or negative impact on the body, Press Trust of India (PTI) reported. T...
Starch grains found on 30,000-year-old grinding stones suggest that prehistoric man may have dined on an early form of flat bread, contrary to his popular image as primarily a meat-eater. The find...
Facebook users are inadvertently providing access to their names and in some cases even their friend's names to advertising and Internet tracking companies, through some popular applications, the Wa...
Microsoft Malaysia aims to be among the top three in the country's smartphone market for next year. Its Managing Director Ananth Lazarus, is optimistic over the target, saying, the company's newl...
Curcumin, a spice that is common in Indian curries and other Asian dishes, might extend the lifespan of humans because it is full of anti-oxidants and other good chemicals, China's Xinhua news agenc...
The number of cases of a deadly disease has more than doubled in the last decade, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Dengue outbreaks are now a major threat to global public health....
The longest railway tunnel in the world was completed on Friday in Switzerland when the last two meters of rock were drilled through. After 14 years of construction the 57 km (34 miles) of the Go...
A study has revealed that a wind turbine's colour affects how many insects it attracts, shedding light on why the turbines kill significant numbers of bats and birds. Scientists say that turbines,...
The distinct genetic characteristics of salmon populations in Spain are being lost as a result of climate change and human interference, a study has warned. A team of UK and Spanish researchers sa...
Skype is integrating with Facebook to make it easier to call and video chat with friends and family on the social network. The deal comes amid fevered rumours that Facebook plans to launch a phon...
Walking at least six miles a week may be one thing people can do to keep their brains from shrinking and fight off dementia, U.S. researchers said. A study of nearly 300 people in Pittsburgh who...
India's richest and world's fourth richest man, industrialist Mukesh Ambani, has built what is claimed as the world's first billion-dollar home, a 27-storeyed luxury residence in Mumbai, China's Xin...