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China to set up renewable energy center: report

Reuters Environmental Online Report 8 hours ago

BEIJING (Reuters) - China plans to build a national renewable energy center to enhance the country's clean energy development, the China Daily reported, citing a government official. The center, still at a preliminary planning stage, would be responsible for policymaking, key projects, ...

ComScore: Apple gains US smart phone share

AP News 9 hours ago

Apple, Google gain in US smart phone market, comScore says, as BlackBerry, Microsoft decline Apple Inc.'s iPhone gained a percentage point of U.S. smart phone market share while BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Inc. lost a point in the last three months ...

Australia websites hacked over porn filter plan

Reuters US Online Report Internet News 10 hours ago

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Computer hackers disabled several Australian government websites Wednesday in coordinated attacks protesting against a planned internet filter aimed at pornography. The attacks, confirmed by the Attorney-General's Department, crippled Australia's parliamentary website for almost an hour, including the Communications Department, ...

Google Gmail tweak challenges Facebook, Twitter

Reuters US Online Report Top News 10 hours ago

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - Google Inc is tapping its huge network of Gmail users and Web surfers to create a Buzz that it hopes will help it catch up with online social networking leaders Facebook and Twitter. The world's No. 1 ...

Ultimate Software profit weighed by compensation

AP News 13 hours ago

Ultimate Software 4th-quarter profit nearly wiped out due to stock-based compensation Ultimate Software Inc., which makes human resources software, said Tuesday its profit was nearly wiped out in the fourth quarter as stock-based compensation offset higher revenue. The company said it made ...

Radiation Scans FDA

AP News 13 hours ago

FILE - In this June 15, 2007 file photo, Michael Gomez, a nuclear medicine technologist, talks to a patient before a positron emission tomography cat scan, or PET-CT, at River Radiology in Kingston, N.Y, In a proposal announced Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, ...

Toyota Announces Prius Recall Due To Brake Issue

Getty Images 14 hours ago

COCONUT CREEK, FL - FEBRUARY 09: Used Toyota Prius are seen on the Al Henrickson Toyota Dealer sales lot on February 9, 2010 in Coconut Creek, Florida. The dealership stands ready to help buyers of the Prius after Toyota announced that it ...

Europe faces challenges to electric car industry

Reuters Environmental Online Report 14 hours ago

SAN SEBASTIAN (Reuters) - The European Union faces challenges of safety, cost, competitiveness and technological harmonization in its plan to successfully develop its electric car industry, EU presidency holder Spain said on Tuesday. "Obviously there are lots of questions ... issues of ...

Wind, solar groups push U.S. renewable energy standard

Reuters Environmental Online Report 14 hours ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. industry executives from the wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal and biomass sectors pushed on Tuesday for a federal renewable energy standard, which they said would foster growth and create jobs. This could also spur these industries at a time ...

Zipcar pulls recalled Prius hybrids from fleet

AP News 14 hours ago

Zipcar pulls 2010 Prius hybrids affected by recall, less than 1 percent of fleet Car sharing service Zipcar Inc. says it has pulled from its fleet the 2010 Toyota Prius hybrids affected by Tuesday's recall. Zipcar says the recall affects less than ...

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