Science
Straits Times - By Jessica Cheam , Environment Correspondent The first local survey on climate change shows that most Singaporeans are concerned about the issue and believe in taking action to address it. |
Wired News (blog) - By Wired UK By Mark Brown, Wired UK The Philippine tarsier is a tiny primate with a seriously high voice. The saucer-eyed mammal can let out (and listen to) squeaks and squeals at such a high frequency that it effectively gives the mammal a private ... |
BBC News - New images of the Northern lights, or Aurora Borealis, have been captured by NASA using a new time-lapse photographic technique. By combining hundreds of stills taken from the International Space Station, they have produced the first 'moving' images of ... |
Fox News - Astronauts on board the International Space Station recently took advantage of their unique vantage point to photograph the Himalayas, looking south from over the Tibetan Plateau. |
NEWS.com.au - RUSSIAN scientists said overnight a probe to a pristine lake deep under the ice of Antarctica could bring revelations on the evolution of the planet Earth and possibly even new life forms. |
National Geographic - Conventional wisdom says a zebra's black-and-white stripes camouflage the animal in tall grass—the better to evade the colorblind lion. |
CBS News - Orthoversion prediction of future supercontinent, Amasia, named for its fusing the Americas and Asia by closure of the Arctic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. |
National Ledger - By Gene Byrd The photo above and footage shows what looks like a creature swimming in Jokulsa river in Fljotsdal valley in Iceland. |
UPI.com - Circled near the lower left corner of this view is the three-petal lander platform that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit drove off in January 2004. |
39online.com - He is the daredevil of daredevils. His name is Felix Baumgartner and this summer he'll skydive from the edge of the stratosphere. |
msnbc.com - By Benjamin Radford Life's Little Mysteries contributor According to a story in The Sun newspaper, a new video has surfaced that seems to show a live woolly mammoth - an animal the scientists say has been extinct for about four millennia. |
Technology
Financial Times - By Tim Bradshaw, Digital Media Correspondent Facebook is set to begin showing advertisements to users on mobile devices within weeks in an effort to tap a new source of revenues before it goes public. |
InformationWeek - Microsoft's next operating system could be generally available in time for the 2012 holiday season if its development timetable follows that of previous versions. |
Barron's - Our monthly channel checks indicated very strong sales trends for the iPhone 4S at all three US carriers and overall strong iPhone sales in international markets. |
Equimedia Marketing News - Search marketing remains one of the most "crucial" elements of online advertising, it was claimed as new figures show UK internet users are visiting search engines more than ever. |
Discovery News - Updating your Facebook status with the torrid details of your bad day? Think twice: People with low self-esteem who post negative details about their lives on Facebook may find their online friends diminishing. |
Helsingin Sanomat - A long line of Nokia employees queue up to board chartered buses after an event organised for them at the Salohalli sport arena. The buses are taking them back to their jobs at the Nokia factory in Salo. |
ZDNet Asia - By Staff , CNET News China on February 9, 2012 (12 hours ago) Microbloggers who fail to authenticate user accounts by deadline will not be allowed to post messages, as sites in the Chinese capital offer prizes and other incentives to encourages users ... |
Boston.com - NEW YORK—A news report says Apple plans to unveil a new iPad early next month. AllThingsD, a website affiliated with The Wall Street Journal, says Apple Inc. is holding an event in San Francisco the first week of March -- the same week Apple announced ... |
Sydney Morning Herald - Apple's major manufacturing partner Foxconn has been hacked amid a global protest stunt against working conditions in the factories that make iPhones and iPads. |
CNET (blog) - by Brooke Crothers February 9, 2012 2:42 PM PST Follow @mbrookec One thing was made crystal clear today by Microsoft. Windows 8 on ARM will not be the same experience as Windows 8 on Intel-AMD. |
PCWorld - By Nancy Gohring, IDG News As patent infringement lawsuits continue to pile up in the mobile industry, Google, Apple and Microsoft appear to be trying individually to reassure regulators and standards bodies that they won't use their patents to build a ... |
San Francisco Chronicle (blog) - What do Mitt Romney, Republican presidential candidate, and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, have in common? Zuckerberg recently “liked” a link to Romney's website on Facebook when it was posted by Slate write Farhad Manjoo with the text “just try ... |
Chicago Tribune - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A privacy debate surrounding fledgling social network Path went viral this week, triggering discussions on blogs and on Twitter about how far social networks can go in using members' private data. |
Los Angeles Times - By Jessica Guynn A federal court has agreed to speed up a case that could delay the rollout of Google's new privacy policy. The Electronic Privacy Information Center, a privacy watchdog, is suing the US Federal Trade Commission over the controversial ... |
New Zealand Herald - Photo / AP South Korea's Samsung Electronics can continue to sell its Galaxy Tab 10.1N tablet computer in Germany, a German court has ruled, rejecting a bid by arch-rival Apple to have them banned. |
Overclockers Club - According to the Wall Street Journal, Google has two new products in the works that would have the Internet giant branching out into two new areas. |
BusinessWeek - By Susan Decker and Dennis Robertson Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. were among the companies that won a jury trial that challenged the validity of patents of a Texas business on ways to make the Internet more interactive. |
Macleans.ca - by Gustavo Vieira on Thursday, February 9, 2012 5:14pm - 0 Comments The Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday that Canadian ISPs should not be subjected to broadcast regulations because they do not have control over the content they transmit. |
PCWorld - By Jeff Bertolucci, PCWorld Feb 9, 2012 2:27 PM Google's new Screenwise program has gotten a fair amount of media coverage in the past couple of days. |
msnbc.com (blog) (subscription) - By Matthew Hawkins For years, Tim Schafer fans have asked the beloved game designer to revisit his roots, the point and click adventure genre (past hits include "Monkey Island" and "Grim Fandango"). |
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