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The Daily Star
Nokia Will Lay off 4000 and Move More Manufacturing to Asia
PCWorld
By Mikael Ricknäs, IDG News Nokia has decided to move more of its manufacturing to Asia, and will lay off approximately 4000 workers at three factories in Europe and Mexico by the end of the year, the company said on Wednesday.
Nokia to cut 4000 jobs in Finland, Mexico, Hungary as it shifts assembly to AsiaWashington Post
Nokia says to cut 4000 more jobsReuters
Nokia Says to Cut 4000 Jobs to Shift Phone Assembly to AsiaBusinessWeek
CNET -Register -SlashGear
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Researchers in Glasgow are working on a way to remove greenhouse gas from the atmosphere and put oil back under the North Sea.

SlashGear
Olympus OM-D E-M5: Retro outside, Groundbreaking inside
SlashGear
Olympus knows what photographers really want: something so teeth-clenchingly retro on the outside that they weep tiny tears of joy, but jam-packed full of the latest tech inside so that they're not embarrassed on Flickr. The Olympus OM-D E-M5 promises ...
Olympus OM-D E-M5 mirrorless compact resurrects classic OM styleZDNet (blog)
Olympus OM-D EM-5 Mirrorless ILC: Worthy of the Hype!Sawf News
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Boasts Retro Styling, High-End FunctionalityPC Magazine
Digital Camera Review -DVICE -eCoustics.com (press release)
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The Daily Star
Why Facebook may not succeed in China
Times of India
SHANGHAI: When it comes to China, Facebook should consider itself forewarned. Cracking the world's biggest internet population might seem an obvious ambition for the social networking giant as it trumpets its global growth before a $5 billion initial ...
Facebook, Google and Twitter: Three distinctly different approaches to ChinaThe Next Web
More Than Just Great Firewall Awaits Facebook in ChinaChina Digital Times
China's Facebook basks in the glowFortune
Reuters Canada
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Scientists in the US have successfully made human brain cells in the lab that are an exact replica of genetically caused Parkinson's disease.

Telegraph.co.uk
Google launches Chrome for Android
Telegraph.co.uk
Google has announced a version of its Chrome browser for Android smartphones and tablets, available immediately. By Shane Richmond, Head of Technology (Editorial) Chrome for Android, which is a beta release, replaces the existing browser on Google's ...
Chrome Browser Launches On Android -- Finally!Tom's Guide
Three years on, Chrome at last arrives on AndroidCNET
Google accelerates Android browser updates with mobile ChromeComputerworld
InformationWeek -ZDNet UK -Los Angeles Times
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IBNLive.com
LG teases 5 inch Android phone with 4:3 aspect ratio
androidandme.com
What Android devices will LG unveil at Mobile World Congress later this month? We are likely to see the Optimus 3D 2, quad-core X3, and now possibly the 5-inch Vu. LG's Korean blog just posted a teaser video for this super-sized phone, which features ...
LG Optimus Vu spotted in videoUbergizmo
LG Optimus Vu exposed in video clip, touts 5-inch displayAndroid Community
Watch: LG teases 5" Android Optimus Vu smartphoneDaily Bhaskar
IBNLive.com -AndroidOS.in -Engadget
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Telegraph.co.uk
Yahoo! shakes up board to give firm new life
Outcome Magazine
02/08/2012 Yahoo! on Tuesday announced a boardroom shakeup to breathe fresh life into a pioneering Internet firm that has been struggling to re-invent itself and appease disappointed investors. Yahoo! chairman Roy Bostock announced that he will step ...
Yahoo's Shakeup Puts Pressure on Directors to Sell Asian AssetsBusinessWeek
Yahoo loses board membersAlbany Times Union
Yahoo Board Shaken Up in a Push for RevivalNew York Times
Washington Post -Reuters
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Wired News
Greenpeace Hates Big Tech, But Wants To Kill Google Least
Wired News
By Caleb Garling Greenpeace looks down on the tech giants of the world. But it looks down on Google the least. On Tuesday, the big-name environmental-rights outfit unveiled its annual ranking of the tech giants working hardest to combat climate change ...
Greenpeace tops Google's list of world's 'cleanest' IT companiesGMA News
Google takes top spot in Greenpeace Cool IT LeaderboardSiliconrepublic.com
Google, Cisco top the list of the greenest IT companiesGigaOm
Social Barrel -Network World
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NDTV
Hacker releases Symantec source code
Reuters
By Joseph Menn and Frank Jack Daniel (Reuters) - A hacker released the source code for antivirus firm Symantec's pcAnywhere utility on Tuesday, raising fears that others could find security holes in the product and attempt takeovers of customer ...
Symantec Expects Anonymous to Publish More Stolen Source CodeCSO
As Hackers Leak Symantec's Source Code, Firm Says Cops Set Up Extortion StingForbes
Hackers wanted $50000 to keep Symantec source code privateCNET
Los Angeles Times -eWeek -PC Magazine
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Time-lapse footage reveals how mushroom corals inflate and deflate to free themselves from smothering sand.

A study of hormones in whale faeces shows that right whales are stressed by propeller noise from shipping.

ABC News
Antarctic lake perforation not 'officially confirmed'
The State Column
Antarctic lake ice has been perforated by Russian scientists, although the report has yet to be confirmed. RIA Novosti announced Monday that a team of Russian scientists had penetrated the thick ice layers of Lake Vostok in Antarctica in order to reach ...
Russian scientists seeking Lake Vostok lost in frozen 'Land of the Lost'?Fox News
Russian Scientists Drill to Sub-Glacial Antarctic LakeRIA Novosti
Antarctic lake success 'uncertain'BBC News
Wired News -AFP -National Geographic
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Daily Mail
Laser boffins blast bits onto hard drive at 200Gb/sec
Register
A team of scientists have published a new way of using heat to store data magnetically, which could increase the speed of hard drives over a hundredfold. Conventional drives use electromagnetism to selectively change the polarity of points on a drive, ...
Hot Idea for a Faster Hard DriveScience AAAS
Faster data storage created by heatUPI.com
Physicists demonstrate heat-based magnetic recording, could make hard drive ...The Verge
The Engineer -New Scientist (blog) -Legit Reviews
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The Guardian
Self-Cloning Seagrass May Be World's Oldest Living Thing
Voice of America
February 07, 2012 Self-Cloning Seagrass May Be World's Oldest Living Thing VOA News Australian and European scientists say they believe ancient seagrass growing on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea may be the oldest living organism on the planet.
Scientists: Seagrass is likely world's oldest organismThe State Column
'Oldest living thing on earth' discoveredTelegraph.co.uk
World's oldest living thing studiedUPI.com
New Scientist -The Guardian -Gather.com
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The primate who solves a memory test faster than you can blink

How drones and satellites are catching farming cheats

The Age
Siri brings nearly 25 percent of Wolfram Alpha traffic
CNET
by Joe Aimonetti February 7, 2012 3:50 PM PST According to a report by the New York Times, nearly 25 percent of the traffic handled by search engine Wolfram Alpha comes from Siri, Apple's voice-controlled personal assistant software.
Wolfram, a Search Engine, Finds Answers Within ItselfNew York Times
Wolfram Alpha will be adding 'Pro' option Feb. 8Washington Post
Data Geeks, Meet Wolfram Alpha ProPC Magazine
Macworld -InformationWeek -TechNewsWorld
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Los Angeles Times
'App Economy' credited with creating 466000 jobs
Los Angeles Times
By Deborah Netburn And even better? All indications are that the App Economy will only continue to grow. "Every major consumer-facing company, and many business-facing companies, has discovered that they need an app to be the public face of the ...
Looking for work? There may be an app for thatSydney Morning Herald
App Stores Create 500000 U.S. JobsInformationWeek
The “app economy” created 466K jobs, counting your developer's favorite baristaVentureBeat
Apple Insider -BetaNews -BusinessWeek
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