Jul 5 2008
Poland spurned as insufficient on Friday a U.S. offer to boost its air defenses in return for basing anti-missile interceptors on its soil but said it remained open to talks with Washington. The decision by Poland, a staunch NATO ally, is a setback for...
Jul 5 2008
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, defiant despite growing African condemnation of his re-election, said on Friday the opposition must drop its claim to power and accept that he was the rightful head of state. As Mugabe struck an intransigent...
Jul 5 2008
World stocks edged lower on Friday, getting no relief from a decline in crude prices as concerns of further banking write-downs weighed on financial shares. Oil prices fell more than a dollar a barrel after Iran responded to an incentives package...
Jul 4 2008
Mr. Asahi was made by Japanese based Asahi Breweries and serves beer before stealing your girlfriend and making out with her in the walk-in cooler. It took over 200 man-hours to build Mr. Robobeer and he’s pretty much limited to opening bottles...
Jul 4 2008
How technology might change daily life in the future: the house of tomorrow, a supermarket of the future and a robotic restaurant.
Jul 2 2008
French Internet service provider Free and Bollore Telecom are in talks with Web search giant Google Inc over the funding of their WiMax wireless broadband network in France, French daily Les Echos reports. A spokesman for Iliad, the parent of Free,...
Jul 2 2008
U.S. consumers who want the new iPhone but cannot or do not want to sign up for a two-year contract with AT&T Inc will eventually be able to buy it for an extra $400. Apple Inc has said the new iPhone will go on sale July 11 at $199 for the model...
Jul 2 2008
The high price of gasoline has some U.S. drivers looking to the future. A recently introduced service called MyGallons.com allows drivers to fill up their tanks sometime in the future but at current prices, using a debit-like card which banks gallons...
Jul 2 2008
Eye-gaze systems bounce infrared light from LEDs at the bottom of a computer monitor and track a person’s eye movements using stereo infrared cameras. This setup can calculate where on a screen the user is looking with an accuracy of about 5 mm.
Jul 2 2008
InBev NV (INTB.BR: Quote, Profile, Research) stuck to its original $46.3 billion takeover bid for reluctant target Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc (BUD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and said it would give Anheuser’s shareholders a voice in the battle if the...