NewsFactor – Microsoft filed a patent-infringement lawsuit Wednesday against personal navigation device (PND) maker TomTom…
Month: February 2009
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Windows Washing: Microsoft Talks Up Tweaks Following Public Beta
With its big round of public beta testing out of the way, Microsoft is apparently…
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Magnets disrupt crocodile radar
US researchers attach magnets to crocodiles’ heads to confuse their sense of direction – making…
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Earliest ‘human footprints’ found
Footprints dating from 1.5m years ago found in Kenya show modern foot shape and walking…
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Failing to address forest loss may prove catastrophic
Irish Times: IN A LONG and distinguished career, economist and commentator John Kenneth Galbraith authored…
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Germany: Less is more
Economist: SIEBEN LINDEN, a hamlet in former East Germany, half-way between Hamburg and Berlin, looks…
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Polluters pay under Obama’s ‘green’ budget
Agence France-Presse: Barack Obama hopes to raise some 80 billion dollars each year beginning in…
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NJ beach town ends fight over Amazon wood
Various: A two-year battle over a New Jersey beach town’s plan to buy boardwalk wood…
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Budget expects revenue from limits on emissions
Washington Post: A mandatory cap on the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, which President Obama embraced…
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Preparing for a flood of energy efficiency spending
New York Times: To the casual eye, the basement of this city’s Firehouse 9 looks…