BRUSSELS (AP) – The European Union says some 100 million people using Microsoft Corp. software will be asked to choose between rival Web browsers by mid-May under a deal it struck with the company to settle antitrust action.
Microsoft has started this month sending updates to Windows computers in Europe so that when computer users log [...]
By DAVID STRINGER
Associated Press Writer
LONDON (AP) – Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online – stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change.
The University of East Anglia, in eastern England, said [...]
HELSINKI (AP) – Some 2,000 employees in Finland’s technology sector will begin a strike in two weeks time if no agreement is reached in labor talks with company managers, union leaders said Wednesday.
The weeklong strike, due to start Dec. 1, would affect certain units at engineering firm ABB, mobile phone maker Nokia Corp., shipbuilder STX [...]
By KELLY OLSEN
Associated Press Writer
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – The nonprofit body that oversees Internet addresses approved Friday the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not based on the Latin alphabet in a decision that could make the Web dramatically more inclusive.
The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers – [...]
By MARCIA DUNN
AP Aerospace Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) – Bad weather was interfering with NASA’s attempt to launch a new, experimental rocket for the second day in a row early Wednesday.
An estimated 154 lightning strikes were reported within a five-mile (eight-kilometer) radius of the launch pad overnight. Launch controllers were retesting the Ares I-X rocket [...]
By PETER SVENSSON
AP Technology Writer
NEW YORK (AP) – Verizon Wireless said Tuesday it will put substantial resources into developing and selling phones that use Google Inc.’s Android software.
Verizon Wireless had already said it would sell Android phones, but the announcement suggests that the carrier is positioning these “smart” phones as a main means of competing [...]
LONDON (AP) – A weak response to climate change could be catastrophic for international health, leading doctors said in two British medical journals Wednesday.
Experts have previously warned that global warming could mean a spike in diseases including malaria and dengue fever, and that higher temperatures would result in food shortages, sanitation problems and extreme weather [...]
By SETH BORENSTEIN
AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – Astronomers have finally found a place outside our solar system where there’s a firm place to stand – if only it weren’t so broiling hot.
As scientists search the skies for life elsewhere, they have found more than 300 planets outside our solar system. But they all have been [...]
By ALICIA CHANG
AP Science Writer
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, California (AP) – After diverting to California, astronauts from space shuttle Discovery prepared to reunite with their families and NASA managers in Texas on Saturday.
Discovery took a cross-country detour to the Mojave Desert on Friday after bad weather scuttled a return to its Florida home port.
The crew [...]
BEIJING (AP) – The new managers of Google Inc.’s China arm expressed confidence Monday the business can grow despite the departure of the high-profile executive credited with expanding its share of the competitive Chinese market.
Kai-Fu Lee, who led Google China for four years, announced his resignation last week to launch a venture to finance Chinese [...]
