China to launch second lunar probe next October in preparation for 2012 lunar lander mission China is set to launch its second lunar ...
Britain's nuclear safety watchdog has warned that French and US-Japanese reactors planned for construction in Britain could be rejected unless safety concerns were ...
Gift Guide: Smart accessories that add missing features to mobile devices People you know have spent small fortunes on shiny new smart phones such as the iPhone 3GS, a BlackBerry or the Droid. But the devices still don't have all the features ...
China's pledge on greenhouse gases means it would shoulder more than a quarter of the CO2 emissions cuts needed to avoid dangerous global warming, a top economist said Thursday. "China alone would be responsible for more than 25 percent of the reductions ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China unveiled its first firm target to curb greenhouse gas emissions on Thursday, a carbon intensity goal that Premier Wen Jiabao will take to a summit in Copenhagen next month hoping to aid a global climate deal. The announcement ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A second of Sony Ericsson's new smartphones, key to its strategy for returning to profit next year, has been hit by software problems in Britain ahead of a critical sales period. A spokesman for the world's fourth-largest mobile phone ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe's biofuels industry said on Thursday it would lodge a complaint with EU trade authorities against companies they say are evading duties slapped on U.S. biodiesel imports. The European Commission, which oversees trade policy for the 27-nation bloc, imposed ...
CAN ADOBE BEAT BACK THE HACKERS? For years, Adobe Systems has occupied a quiet corner of the personal-computer industry. Photographers and designers use its software to clean up photos and set up Web sites. Workers everywhere trade electronic documents formatted with Adobe's ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Taiwan's Acer Inc, the world's No.2 PC maker, said Microsoft Corp's Windows 7 operating system launch last month has been positive for year-end PC sales, though the gains were within expectations. Acer's CEO said it was keeping its quarterly ...
Business software provider RedPrairie files with SEC for initial public offering RedPrairie Holding Inc., a business software provider, said Thursday it filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering. The number of shares to be ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top climate envoy said on Thursday emissions absorbed by carbon "sinks" will not be covered by the country's carbon intensity target, which will be calculated using energy consumption and "production processes." Xie Zhenhua, deputy head of the powerful ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - World powers are demanding that Iran immediately mothball a uranium enrichment site it hid for years, heightening fears it is planning to build atom bombs, in a resolution to be voted on by U.N. nuclear watchdog governors. Diplomats forecast ...
