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Chaotic space traffic needs rules, less secrecy: US generalWashington (AFP) May 13, 2010 A top US general on Thursday called for international rules to control chaotic space traffic, warning satellites are increasingly at risk of collision. General James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it was no longer possible for the United States and other countries to keep vast numbers of orbiting satellites a secret. "We're going to have get to some level of regulation. Nobody wants to do that," Cartwright told a conference sponsored by the Center for Strategic and ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) May 13, 2010Adobe fired back at Apple on Thursday over the refusal by the maker of the iPod, iPhone and iPad to allow the US software giant's widely used Flash video product to run on the devices. Adobe placed advertisements on popular technology websites TechCrunch, Wired and Engadget and ran full-page ads in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post and other newspapers to make ... more  
College Park, Md. (UPI) May 13, 2010 The day of the Flash Crash - Thursday, May 6 - I was asked at an executive seminar in New Jersey, what impact Greece would have on equity markets. I replied, "It should all be over by Wednesday." Markets fully recovered by Wednesday; however, truth in advertising requires I report that I took the podium after the Dow Jones industrial average had fallen more than 250 points owing to Gr ... more  
Washington (AFP) May 13, 2010Facebook has passed Yahoo! to become the top US publisher of display ads on the Web, another milestone for the fast-growing social network, according to figures released on Thursday. Online tracking firm comScore said Facebook delivered 176.3 billion display ads to US users in the first three months of the year, a 16.2 percent market share, more than double its 7.5 percent share of a year ag ... more |
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Making light work: The 50-year odyssey of the laserParis (AFP) May 12, 2010 Fifty years ago next Sunday, a 32-year-old engineer called Theodore Maiman switched on a gadget at Hughes Research Laboratories in California, and watched as pulses of light sprang from a pink ruby crystal. It was a geek eureka: the moment when the laser was born. And the world would change forever. But not just yet. When Maiman's great invention was announced, the response was essentially "Doh?" as people tried to figure out what it was and what use could be made of it. That was swiftly fol ... read more |
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