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Oracle Sues Google

Business software maker Oracle has filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the search engine giant of infringing patents on its technology. Oracle says Google infringed patents on its Java softwa...


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Vampire Bat Rabies

Peru's health ministry has sent emergency teams to a remote Amazon region to battle an outbreak of rabies spread by vampire bats. Four children in the Awajun indigenous tribe have died after bein...


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Premature Withdrawal

Iraq's top army officer has criticised as premature the planned US troop withdrawal by the end of next year. Lt Gen Babaker Zebari warned that the Iraqi military might not be ready to take control...


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Relaxation Leads To Pregnancy Success

A scientific study has shown for the first time that high stress levels may delay pregnancy. Oxford University experts measured stress hormones in women planning a baby naturally and found the mo...


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American Prefers "Slow" Internet

The majority of Americans do not favor making affordable high-speed Internet access a government priority, according to a study released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. In a nationa...


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Android Users Take Note

A malicious application that can steal cash via phones running Google's Android operating system has been found. The program poses as a media player but once installed starts sending premium rate ...


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Puffer Fish Project In Vietnam

Vietnamese government has given the green light for Vietnam to begin exporting puffer fish for the first time, Vietnam News (VNA) reported. Fishermen and seafood processors in the provinces of Ki...


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H1N1 Is Over

The H1N1 pandemic is over and the global outbreak turned out to be much less severe than was feared just over a year ago, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. WHO dire...


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Good Night Sleep

US researchers are a step closer to discovering why some people can sleep peacefully despite the noise of modern life. A process in the brain plays a key role in blocking out sound during sleep, t...


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Google Korea In Trouble

Police in South Korea have raided Google's headquarters in Seoul. A police statement said they suspected Google has been collecting and storing data on "unspecified internet users from wi-fi netwo...


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Hard To Beat iPhone

Dethroning Apple's iPhone could prove to be too big a bite for some of the old leaders of the cellphone industry, including LG Electronics, who are only now scrambling to catch up with their phones ...


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Avoid Tongue Piercings

People with tongue piercings risk developing gaps between their front teeth as a result of playing with the stud, US researchers have found. The University of Buffalo team says that, as well as po...


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Apps Rule

The success of the iPhone and Google's Android platform spotlights the real "killer app" in the smartphone market: having apps. That's a reality likely to haunt Research in Motion as it tries to ...


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Too Little Hydrogen In The Lunar Rock

Contrary to recent reports about water content in lunar rocks, the Moon may be quite dry, say scientists. A study by US researchers, published in Science, analysed chlorine isotopes of the much-st...


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Google Stops Wave

Google is waving goodbye to Wave, a product which the company said would transform the way people communicate online. It blamed poor take-up by users of the service, which was launched to great fa...


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Chewing Gum Story

Children simply love to chew gum but most of the times their parents forbid them from doing so. However teenagers simply enjoy doing it. "I chew gum to keep away stress particularly when I need t...


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Android Leads US Smartphones

Smartphones running Google's Android software were the top seller among consumers in the United States in the second quarter, industry tracker NPD said on Wednesday. Android accounted for one-thi...


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BlackBerry Torch

Research In Motion unveiled the much-hyped BlackBerry Torch 9800 on Tuesday, a new touch-screen BlackBerry smartphone with a pull-out keyboard and a significantly updated operating system that is de...


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Internet And Depression

Teenagers who spend excessive amounts of time on the Internet are one and a half times more likely to develop depression than moderate web users, a study in China has found. Researcher Lawrence La...


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Heart And Brain Health

Keeping your heart fit and strong can slow down the ageing of your brain, US researchers say. A Boston University team found healthy people with sluggish hearts that pumped out less blood had "old...


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Facebook Introduces Q&A

Facebook has made its first steps into the search market. The social network has launched a trial of a feature called Questions, which allows people to pose queries to the site's 500 million user...


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Cloned Cow Milk

Reports that milk from a cloned cow's offspring is on sale in the UK are being investigated. The International Herald Tribune reported an unnamed British dairy farmer had said he used milk from a ...


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Little Actions Speak Volumes

I was touched by the picture of an ice cream seller in Penang that appeared in The Star on Saturday in the Thumbnails section. The vendor, though not shown in the picture, had put up a sign on his...


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20 Billionth Tweet

Twitter, the social networking site which lets users say something in up to 140 characters, has had its 20 billionth message posted. The landmark and rather opaque tweet was sent at 1544 GMT Satur...


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Rootkit On Android

Two security experts said they released a tool for attacking smartphones that use Google Inc's Android operating system to persuade manufacturers to fix a bug that lets hackers read a victim's email...


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Bosses Take Note

Bosses will have to be “extra careful” in the way they handle their employees with impending amendments to the Employment Act. And the first principle they should adopt, according to the Malay...


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China Launches GPS

China took a further step on Sunday toward ending its dependence on U.S. satellites to provide navigation and positioning services. A rocket carrying the fifth of a planned array of 35 orbiters bl...


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Blackpad In November

Research In Motion will introduce a tablet computer in November to compete with Apple Inc's iPad, Bloomberg News reported, citing two people familiar with the company's plans. The Waterloo, Ontari...


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Whale Fossil Stuck At Cairo Airport

Its name in Arabic is Wadi Hitan but it is known as the Valley of the Whales. For years archaeologists have been unearthing a remarkable collection of whale fossils, all the more surprising becaus...


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iPad Serves In Military

For the first time, UK troops are using a special app developed for the iPad to learn how to handle a fire mission. That's when artillery is being fired at the enemy from several miles away. In...


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