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WikiLeaks: Swiss banking secrets next

A Swiss whistle-blower Monday handed over what he said were secret Swiss banking records to WikiLeaks, the website dedicated to revealing secrets. Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer handed two discs to Wik...


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Youtube, Google Maps Most Popular in Samsung Smart Tv App

YouTube and Google Maps have been among the most popular applications for Samsung Electronics Co.'s smart TV users, Yonhap news agency quoted the South Korean tech company as saying on Monday. Yo...


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iPad reading may cut into TV time

The iPad is changing how folks read stuff online -- no surprise if you think how different a gizmo it is to a PC. But a new study shows it's moving online reading into primetime TV hours, which is...


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Planet Discovered Outside Solar System

A NASA spacecraft has detected a rocky planet that is the smallest ever discovered outside the Sun's solar system, the agency announced. The exoplanet -- so named because it orbits a star other t...


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Skype Acquires Qik Mobile

Internet telephone service Skype said it acquired mobile video company Qik for an undisclosed amount. Qik's service -- available on more than 200 mobile phones, including Android and Apple's iPhon...


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Toshiba Plans Glasses-Free 3D TV

Toshiba Corp will begin selling large-screen glasses-free 3D television sets in fiscal 2011 and plans to start marketing the groundbreaking devices beyond its home turf of Japan, executives said. ...


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Microsoft Uses Mobile Phone Chips

Microsoft has shown a full version of Windows running on chips usually found in mobile phones. The desktop version of Windows was demonstrated working with three processors built around chips des...


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Hair Colour Predicted From Genes

Scientists say they have developed a way to predict a person's probable hair colour using markers in their DNA. The study paves the way for a forensic test that could estimate the hair colour of a...


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Teen Heart Risks Can Be Tackled

Health campaigns targeted at teens could help reduce their risk of heart problems as adults, a study suggests. Concerns have been raised that warning signs like high cholesterol are being seen in ...


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Microsoft Restores Hotmail Service

Microsoft Corp's Hotmail service, the world's most-used online email system, is back to normal operations after some users over the weekend lost access to emails or found them transferred to a delet...


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Deal Values Facebook At $50b

Facebook has reportedly raised funds from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor in a deal valuing the social networking site at $50bn (£32.3bn). The New York Times said that Goldman was investing ...


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New Bacterium To Wipe Out Dengue Fever

Australian scientists have developed a bacterium that will wipe out dengue fever. The bacterium acts as a vaccine for mosquitoes, which could in turn stop the disease spreading in humans, the Aus...


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iPhone Alarms In New Year Glitch

A glitch on Apple's iPhone has stopped its built-in alarm clock going off, leaving many people oversleeping on the first two days of the New Year. Angry bloggers and tweeters complained that they ...


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China May Ban Skype Internet Phone

The popular Internet telephone service Skype could be dealt a major setback in one of the world's largest markets as the Chinese government cracks down on what it called illegal Internet telephone p...


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WikiLeaks: U.S. long concerned by trial

Russia has hit back at criticism by western governments of the guilty verdict against former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky on embezzlement charges. But diplomatic cables obtained by the website Wi...


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How Facebook passed Google in 2010

Facebook beat out Google as the No. 1 most-visited site in the United States in 2010, according to internet analytics firm Hitwise. How was Facebook able to outplay the former Web champion? And ca...


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South Korea confirms bird flu outbreak

South Korea works to contain foot-and-mouth, bird flu   South Korea confirmed an outbreak of bird flu Friday as it struggles to contain foot-and-mouth disease, which has rapidly spread acros...


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Software Bug Causes Skype Crash

Server overloads and a bug in Skype for Windows caused the two-day outage for the net phone firm. Details of what caused the service to be unusable for millions of users prior to Christmas have b...


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RIM Dismisses Claims Of Battery Weakness

Research In Motion defended its embryonic PlayBook tablet computer against charges its battery life is shorter than that of rivals already on the market, saying power management will be comparable. ...


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Malaysia Wins AFF-Suzuki Cup

Malaysia has won the AFF-Suzuki Cup on a 4-2 aggregate. Indonesia won the second leg of the final 2-1 in Jakarta on Wednesday night while Malaysia had won the first leg 3-0. The scorers for Indon...


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Co-Founder Relaunches Tech Patent Suit

Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen relaunched a wide-ranging patent lawsuit against Apple Inc, Google Inc, Facebook and others with specific allegations that the companies are illegally using tech...


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Guangzhou To Continue Traffic Restriction

The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou plans to continue the traffic restriction measure that had kept up to 800,000 cars off the roads a day during the Asian Games and the Asian Para Games, Xinhua ...


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World's Top Destinations For 2011

Where on Earth will you find yourself in 2011? Here's wishing it's somewhere unforgettable -- and the time to plan your journey is now, as the New Year brings the customary yearning for a fresh s...


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Apple Sued Over Applications Information

Apple Inc., making of the iPhone and iPad, was accused in a lawsuit of allowing applications for those devices to transmit users’ personal information to advertising networks without customers’ ...


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Exercise May Help Limit Pregnancy Weight Gain

Being physically active while pregnant may help women gain a little bit less weight, according to a new review of recent research. Pooling the results of 12 studies, researchers in Munich, Germany...


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E-bikes Getting Popular

Frequent fuel price hikes are expected to be a blessing in disguise to the electronic bike (e-bike) industry in India, presently passing through a tough time, Press Trust of India (PTI) reported. ...


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Fish Oil Won't Accelerate Weight Loss

Fish oil capsules won't help boost weight loss if you're already dieting and exercising, new research in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows. Among a group of overweight and obese adu...


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Encyclopedia On Indian Music Released

An encyclopedia chronicling the journey of music in India across 2,000 years and spanning the neighbouring countries as well, was released in the capital of south Indian state Tamil Nadu, Press Trus...


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New Solar Fuel Machine Unveiled

Italian police have been searching embassies and consular offices in Rome after parcel bombs exploded at the Swiss and Chilean missions. A Swiss man suffered serious hand injuries while a Chilean ...


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Skype Apology For Global Blackout

Millions of people around the globe have been hit by an outage at the popular internet phone service Skype. Users as far afield as Japan, Europe and the US have all reported problems. The compan...


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