(Reuters) – Japan’s Sharp Corp. said it will start shipping screens destined for a new Apple iPhone that is widely expected to be released in October ahead of the pre-Christmas shopping season. “Shipments will start in August,” Sharp’s new president, Takashi Okuda, said at a press briefing in Tokyo on Thursday after the company released […]
China aims to land probe on moon next year
(Reuters) – China aims to land its first probe on the moon in the second half of next year, state media reported on Monday, the next step in an ambitious space progam which includes building a space station. In 2007, China launched its first moon orbiter, the Chang’e One orbiter, named after a lunar goddess, […]
Google admits it did not delete Street View data
(Reuters) – Google Inc said on Friday it had not kept its promise to delete all the personal data, such as emails, its Street View cars collected in Britain and other countries in 2010. The U.S. company admitted in May 2010 that its vehicles, which photograph neighborhoods to create street level images, had accidentally collected […]
Bomb joke tweeter wins landmark ruling
(Reuters) – A British man who joked on Twitter that he would blow up an airport after it closed because of snow has had his conviction for sending a “menacing” message overturned in a landmark ruling for users of social media websites. Paul Chambers, 28, had sent the message in what he called a moment […]
New Russian space station docking gear test fails
(Reuters) – A test of new spacecraft docking gear for Russian flights to the International Space Station failed, the U.S. and Russian space agencies said on Tuesday, casting doubt on the automated system meant to simplify missions to the orbiting outpost. The space agencies said a new docking attempt would likely take place on Sunday, […]
Sprint to offer auto insurers tracking technology
(Reuters) – U.S. wireless carrier Sprint (S.N) said on Thursday it will move into the hot market for tracking technology that lets auto insurers monitor how, where and when their customers drive. Sprint said its new Integrated Insurance Solutions unit would let companies offer what are known as “usage-based insurance” programs. Such programs, most notably […]
Australia’s Qantas Airways drops Blackberrys for iPhones
(Reuters) – Australia’s Qantas Airways (QAN.AX), is the latest company to drop Research in Motion Ltd’s (RIM.TO) Blackberry after employees voted in favor of Apple’s (AAPL.O) iPhone in a survey. RIM virtually invented mobile e-mail, making it the phone of choice for companies when it rolled out its first BlackBerry devices more than a decade […]
Google’s hardware makeover to get uneasy welcome on Wall Street
(Reuters) – Wall Street has a long-running love affair with Google the search engine. But will it feel the same way about Google the hardware maker? Google on Thursday will report quarterly results for the first time since closing its $12.5 billion acquisition of smartphone maker Motorola in May. Google’s purchase of Motorola, as well […]
New app rescues people from bad dates
(Reuters) – Most people have been there, trapped on an awkward date that is going nowhere. But relief could be on the way with a new app that provides an incoming rescue call. The Bad Date Rescue app, which was launched by the dating website eHarmony.com this week, lets users arrange for a call to […]
Samsung wins court case against Apple because its “not as cool”
(Reuters) – Samsung Electronics defeated Apple in the latest spat in the rivals’ patent wars when a British judge ruled Samsung’s Galaxy tablets did not infringe the U.S. company’s designs for the iPad because they were “not as cool”. In Monday’s High Court judgment Judge Colin Birss said that Samsung’s Galaxy tablets belonged to the […]