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Dish abandons Sprint bid, clearing way for SoftBank

Jun. 19, 2013 - 11:00AM JST ( 3 )

U.S. satellite television provider Dish Network said Tuesday it has dropped plans to submit a revised bid for Sprint Nextel, paving the way for a rival offer from Japan's SoftBank. Dish said it still saw "strategic value" in a merger with Sprint but that it would… Read

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Facebook touts advertising milestone

Technology Jun. 19, 2013 - 08:41AM JST ( 0 Comments )

Facebook said Tuesday that more than a million businesses now advertise at the leading social network. "I know business owners like these invest their hard-earned money and time into running their companies," Facebook's Dan Levy… Read

Mysterious Facebook event sparks online buzz

Technology Jun. 19, 2013 - 07:01AM JST ( 0 Comments )

A mysterious Facebook event set for Thursday has sparked buzz that the leading social network could be adding video to Instagram smartphone picture-sharing service. The leading social network invited the media to its headquarters in… Read

Honda to reuse rare earth metal extracted from nickel-metal hydride batteries in hybrid vehicles

Technology Jun. 19, 2013 - 05:10AM JST ( 1 Comment )

Honda Motor Co said Tuesday it has agreed with TDK Corp and Japan Metals & Chemicals Co (JMC) to jointly pursue the reuse of a rare earth metal extracted from nickel-metal hydride batteries in hybrid… Read

China's Huawei to offer smartphone for high-end market

Technology Jun. 18, 2013 - 03:15PM JST ( 8 Comments )

Chinese telecoms giant Huawei will launch a new smartphone on Tuesday to better compete with high-end rivals like Apple and Samsung overseas, a company official said. Huawei will unveil the Ascend P6 in London in… Read

Chinese supercomputer world's fastest

Technology Jun. 18, 2013 - 07:00AM JST ( 20 Comments )

A Chinese supercomputer is the fastest in the world, according to survey results announced Monday, comfortably overtaking a U.S. machine which now ranks second. Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China's National University of Defense Technology,… Read

Sharp develops concentrator solar cell with world's highest conversion efficiency of 44.4%

Technology Jun. 18, 2013 - 06:31AM JST ( 0 Comments )

Sharp Corp says it has achieved the world's highest solar cell conversion efficiency of 44.4%, using a concentrator triple-junction compound solar cell. These solar cells are used in a lens-based concentrator system that focuses sunlight… Read

Ideas for keeping your data safe from spying

Technology Jun. 17, 2013 - 06:35AM JST ( 20 Comments )

Phone call logs, credit card records, emails, Skype chats, Facebook message, and more: The precise nature of the NSA's sweeping surveillance apparatus has yet to be confirmed. But given the revelations spilling out into the… Read

The new consoles from Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony

Technology Jun. 16, 2013 - 05:35AM JST ( 8 Comments )

Microsoft and Sony offered new details this week on the game consoles they will start selling before the holiday shopping season. The Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 will join Nintendo's Wii U, which came… Read

Google launches Internet-beaming balloons

Technology Jun. 15, 2013 - 01:50PM JST ( 6 Comments )

Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish-shaped balloons that Google released this week from a frozen field in the heart of New Zealand's South Island hardened into shiny pumpkins as they rose into the… Read

Japan mulls hosting global collider project

Technology Jun. 15, 2013 - 06:29AM JST ( 7 Comments )

The government has decided to solicit construction in Japan of the International Linear Collider (ILC), a next-generation particle accelerator that will allow physicists to explore rudimentary questions about the universe, the Nikkei said. The ILC… Read

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