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Iran says British Museum broke pledge on artifact
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran accused the British Museum on Monday of breaking a promise to lend it an artifact relating to Cyrus of Persia's conquest of Babylon in the 6th century BC.
October 13, 2009, 5:35 am -
Philips posts surprise profit as cost cuts help
THE HAGUE (AFP) - Dutch electronics giant Philips reported on Monday a surprise profit for the third quarter as a series of cost cutting measures to cope with the global slump helped the bottomline.
October 13, 2009, 5:19 am -
Rentokil to use Google's Apps cloud, biggest yet
LONDON (Reuters) - British pest control to parcel delivery company Rentokil Initial has chosen Google to manage its electronic communications, making it the largest company to deploy Google's Apps worldwide to date.
October 13, 2009, 5:12 am -
Arthur Levinson quits Google board amid govt scrutiny
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google said on Monday that Arthur Levinson had resigned from its board following increased regulatory scrutiny over his membership as a director of both the top Internet search company and Apple Inc.
October 13, 2009, 2:39 am -
Acer sees revenue up as tech demand returns
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Acer, the world's No.3 PC brand, said on Monday that it expected third quarter revenue to be up about 5 percent due to a rebound in tech demand as the global economy shows more signs of recovery.
October 13, 2009, 2:33 am -
Lufthansa, Panasonic deal for in-flight Internet
FRANKFURT (AFP) - German flag carrier Lufthansa and Japanese electronics giant Panasonic have teamed up to offer passengers wireless Internet on long-haul flights from 2010, the airline said on Monday.
October 13, 2009, 2:31 am -
China bans foreign investment in online games industry
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has banned foreign investment into its lucrative online games industry in an effort to tighten control over its virtual worlds.
October 12, 2009, 11:14 pm -
Russia says to bear brunt of space missions
KOROLYOV, Russia (Reuters) - Russia expects to extend the life of the International Space Station beyond 2015, although Moscow must bear the brunt of flights after the United States retires its shuttles, officials said on Sunday.
October 11, 2009, 11:01 pm -
Canadian billionaire, space crew return to Earth
KOROLYOV, Russia (Reuters) - A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying billionaire Canadian Guy Laliberte and a Russian-American crew landed in Kazakhstan Sunday.
October 11, 2009, 6:00 pm -
Imagine Peace Tower lights in Second Life
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Just hours after Friday's annual lighting of the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, a virtual version of the tribute to late Beatle John Lennon opened in online world Second Life.
October 11, 2009, 10:37 am -
Book trade seeks a deal with Google
LONDON (Reuters) - The world's book trade meets in Frankfurt next week on the brink of a long-feared transformation of the industry for which few are well prepared.
October 11, 2009, 4:10 am -
India set to be global leader in tech services: Forbes chief
MUMBAI (Reuters) - India is set to become a global leader in technology services as software companies move up in the value chain, while the weak dollar has hurt the U.S. economic recovery, the Chairman and CEO of business publisher Forbes said on Saturday.
October 11, 2009, 2:01 am -
Britain's Prince Philip out of control with modern TVs
LONDON (AFP) - Britain's Prince Philip said he was baffled by modern television remote controls and ended up lying on the floor by the set to operate it instead, in a video posted Saturday on the Internet.
October 10, 2009, 5:27 pm -
Britain's Prince Charles bemoans Internet 'deserts'
LONDON (AFP) - Britain's Prince Charles said Saturday that people living in rural areas had been left in the Internet's "slow lane", placing them at a "severe disadvantage" in the modern world.
October 10, 2009, 5:16 pm -
First clown in space hosts show to save Earth's water
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Wearing a red clown nose, the Canadian founder of Cirque du Soleil hosted an out-of-this-world performance event on Friday, saying he wanted to use his trip as a space tourist to highlight the scarcity of water on Earth.
October 10, 2009, 3:46 pm -
Dell to promote Salesforce software to PC customers
SAN FRANCISCO/BOSTON (Reuters) - PC maker Dell Inc has agreed to promote Salesforce.com Inc software products to its U.S. customers, as it tries to expand revenue from higher-margin services business.
October 10, 2009, 2:10 pm -
Twitter plans French, German, Italian and Spanish sites
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Twitter, the fast-growing micro-blogging service, is seeking volunteer French, German, Italian, and Spanish translators to render its website into other languages.
October 10, 2009, 9:59 am -
'Rock Band' videogame heading for iPhone
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Music videogame star "Rock Band" will soon be touring with Apple's globally popular iPhones.
October 10, 2009, 9:13 am -
Dante's Inferno videogame taking players to Hell
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - US videogame titan Electronic Arts (EA) said Friday that an acclaimed Hollywood screenwriter has tackled the story line for a videogame taking players into Dante's Inferno.
October 10, 2009, 8:27 am -
Study isolates virus in chronic fatigue sufferers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A virus linked to prostate cancer also appears to play a role in chronic fatigue syndrome, according to research that could lead to the first drug treatments for a mysterious disorder that affects 17 million people worldwide.
October 10, 2009, 8:25 am
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