Science
 | Minda News - By Walter I. Balane | Wednesday| December 28, 2011 | Filed under: Top Stories BATANGAN, Valencia City (MindaNews/27 December) - Flashfloods early Tuesday morning displaced an estimated 1146 families in riverside barangays in the city, according to ... |
 | DVICE - Kinect is expected to branch out into small business and banking in 2012. Now the gaming system's sensors could be adapted as a next generation weight measurement system onboard the International Space Station. |
 | Space Daily - by Staff Writers The Russian Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft docked with the International Space Station on Friday with a new crew of three onboard. |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - HUNDREDS of thousands of pictures of the moon will be examined for tell-tale signs that aliens once visited our cosmic neighbourhood, if plans put forward by scientists go ahead. |
 | National Geographic - Comet Lovejoy seems to dive into the sunrise as seen from Cape Schanck in Melbourne, Australia, last Friday. Officially known as C/2011 W3, comet Lovejoy was discovered by amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy of Brisbane, Australia, in late November. |
Technology
 | Ninemsn - The defence department and Australian Federal Police (AFP) have contracts with a US security company that was hacked over the weekend. |
 | The Press - CALM: Chris Fraser and his dog Porsha assess the water levels of Lake Kaniere, near Hokitika. WOOPS: Joseph Paton rolls his Suzuki Swift at the Powerbilt Tools Ruapuna Raceway, December 11. |
 | Examiner.com - There is no doubt that Angry Birds is one of the hottest mobile phone games on the planet. Now, while the game has its fans, it also has its die-hard fanatics, too. |
 | San Jose Mercury News - By MICHAEL VIRTANEN AP ALBANY, NY -- Seven companies based in Asia will pay $553 million to settle claims by officials in eight states that they conspired to inflate prices for liquid crystal display screens used in televisions and computer monitors, ... |
 | Financial Times - By Chris Nuttall in San Francisco Apple has been fined €900000 by Italy's competition authority for selling consumers protection plans for its products without adequately informing them of a statutory two-year warranty. |
 | msnbc.com - GSM became the dominant mobile technology globally in the late 1990s and even though new, faster mobile networks have been rolled out across the world, operators have stuck to their GSM networks to support older phones and to offer service when new ... |
 | People's Daily Online - By Xin Dingding (China Daily) BEIJING - China started to run its own satellite positioning system, Beidou, on Tuesday as the country climbed the global tech ladder and challenged the monopoly of the West. |
 | NBC Bay Area (blog) - By Sajid Farooq AP Facebook may not be allowed in Vietnam but the company's CEO had no trouble getting a first hand look at the communist country. |
 | Written by  Los Angeles Times - Samsung Electronics Co. is buying Sony Corp.'s half of an LCD-display-making joint venture between the two companies for about $935 million. |
 | Mashable - It seems like only yesterday that the Windows Phone Marketplace hit 40000 apps - actually, it was Nov. 17 - and now Microsoft's mobile app store has just passed 50000, according to All About Windows Phone. |
 | BGR - Late last week, Samsung announced that the highly-popular Galaxy S line and original Galaxy Tab would not be updated to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. |
 | Xinhua - BANGKOK, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) - Honda Automobile (Thailand) has kicked off a major program to scrap a total of 1055 cars that were affected by the flood in its plant in central Thailand, the company announced on Tuesday. |
 | Written by  in 1,037 Google+ circles Wired News - By Christina Bonnington iPhone 4 or 4S? A screenshot of Siri on an iPhone 4. Image: Jon Snyder/Wired.com These Siri hacks are getting serious. |
 | Salt Lake Tribune - By Sheena McFarland Police have filed a dozen charges against a man who police say raped a woman and held her and her son captive for days before she was able to go on Facebook to ask for help. |
 | Irish Times - ROADTEST: TOYOTO AURIS HYBRID WHEN THE dawn of a new electric age was promised, Toyota cast a cautious eye over proceedings. It seemed fixated on hybrids rather than grasping the electric car revolution. |
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