Silicon wafer manufacturer MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. said Thursday it fell to a third-quarter loss, reversing a year-ago profit, as sales plummeted 43 percent.
The animated "Astro Boy" is a shiny hodgepodge of "Pinocchio," "WALL-E," "Oliver Twist," "Gladiator" and "Superman," with some obvious visual touches taken from "The Iron Giant." As its own entity, though, it's pretty forgettable.
When it comes to energy consumption, most of us take it for granted. Whereas we may concern ourselves with the monetary cost of our own personal energy consumption, not many of us will be thinking about the "added costs" to things like our personal health, crops and buildings.
Psystar, obviously not satisfied with the hot water is already in with Apple, has announced it will begin selling the software it itself uses to install the Mac OS X operating system on generic Intel hardware. According to company, the software, called the "Rebel EFI suite," allows users to easily install any OS on a computer.
A news conference was held today to discuss NASA's plans to revisit the moon. Norman Augustine is chairman of the independent panel reviewing the plans.
A study published in the Public Library of Science (PLOS One) examined the results of the 2008 Presidential Election. In this case, however, the results were examined using a different metric than most: testosterone level.
Nokia announcee on Thursday that it has sued Apple over GSM, UMTS and WLAN patents, alleging that ten aspects of iPhones shipped since 2007 (i.e., all of them) infringe on Nokia's patents. This ought to be fun; Nokia certainly has the money to keep a lawsuit going, even against "deep pockets" such as Apple has.
In what is an obvious move to match the price of the newly announced Barnes & Noble nook, Amazon.com has lowered the price of the U.S. / International Kindle 2 to $259. This is, coincidentally, the same price as the nook, which previously undercut Amazon.com's GSM Kindle model.
While Windows XP seemingly keeps going, and going, and going, Windows Vista has had a tumultuous less-than three years. The fact that Microsoft has released a new OS, Windows 7, less than three years after Windows Vista shows how big a failure Vista was.
US military-backed medical trials in Thailand have revealed the first evidence of a possible vaccine against HIV , where tests have allegedly cut infection rates by a third.
Cast an eye over the pharmaceutical industry, and one thing is clear to see: burdened by the downfall of the blockbuster drugs, R&D investments now need a new, key player.
Microsoft Corp and Google Inc secured separate agreements to access real-time content from Web phenomenon Twitter, intensifying their battle for a search market that Google dominates.
