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Apple boss Steve Jobs has defended conditions at a Taiwanese electronics firm that produces the firm's popular iPhone."Foxconn is not a sweatshop," he told a conference ...

China is ramping up efforts to become the world's supercomputing superpower. Its Nebulae machine at the National Super Computer Center in Shenzhen, was ranked second on ...

Apparently, sticky rice was fed to workers who were building The Great Wall and it is believed they got tired of eating it so began stuffing it in-between the bricks so as not to anger their 'employer

"Too often men leave it up to their partners or mothers to remind them to use sunscreen or cover up with a shirt and hat, and even to visit the doctor about a worrying mole ...

"Our response will continue with its full force regardless of the outcome of the top-kill approach. I'm the president and the buck stops with me. I give the people of this community ...

Three months after the project was announced, the two companies have delivered MeeGo 1.0. Intel said it provides a stable core foundation for application ...

Dell Inc, one of the leading computer manufacturers in the world, has announced the release of Streak, a tablet computer that the company ...

"The mobile version is the simplified one of the website. Here the sections of the website and the news are more compact. That is to say the reader ...

BP says its operation to pump mud into a breached Gulf of Mexico oil well to try to stem the flow of oil caused by a rig explosion is going to plan ...

Armen Ashotyan unveiled today the government-backed amendments to the "Law about Language," still to be approved by the National Assembly of Armenia. "There can only be ...

Yahoo Inc and Nokia Oyj said they would team up to boost their mobile Internet offerings, seeking to regain market share lost to rivals like Apple Inc and Google Inc ...

"Solitarious locusts are a real pain to keep. You can't keep them together or they will change, so every one is kept like a race horse in its little stable ...

There are now more Facebook users in the Arab world than newspaper readers, a survey suggests. The research by Spot On Public Relations, a Dubai-based agency ...

Using a new method of calculating mortality that they say is more complete and accurate than previous methods, the team at the University of Washington says the number of ...

"The history of the volcano is such that it calms down and then it gets energy again. There are still earthquakes under the volcano, and the tremor is still not quite down to ...