• IT-Science

    “One Of These Is Made Of Diamond”

    JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Erno Rubik, the inventor of the Rubik’s Cube, poses for The Associated Press at Liberty Science Center, Wednesday, April 25, 2012, in Jersey City, N.J. The center is hosting an exhibit on Rubik’s Cubes which will include a cube made with diamonds that is worth 2.5…

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  • Internet contributes 0.9 pct to Vietnam’s GDP

    HANOI — Internet contributes 0.9 percent to Vietnam’s GDP and 1.6 percent to the country’s GDP growth rate of 14.4 percent, according to the figures released in a workshop held here on Wednesday. Vietnam is an emerging market for the Internet development, ranking 13th in the world in terms of…

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  • Mobile carriers face pressure to cut rates

    Following the National Assembly elections, mobile carriers are expecting bigger pressure to cut rates. “The political circle has been pressuring mobile carriers to lower subscription fees in every election. It really is a problem for the industry,” a spokesman for a mobile carrier said. “Since everybody has a cell phone,…

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  • IT-Science

    Turkey begins production of electric bus

    Turkish bus manufacturer Otokar is now ready to commence mass production of the country’s first domestically developed electric bus. Turkey was introduced to its first ever local electric bus at a press conference in Istanbul on Wednesday. The latest Otokar bus, named Doruk Electra, is the product of three-and-a-half-years of…

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  • IT-Science

    Candles Light Up ‘Earth Hour’

    BERLIN — Volunteers of the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) place candles amongst about 5000 candles to picture the globe prior to ‘Earth Hour’ in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Saturday, March 31, 2012. Earth Hour takes place worldwide at 8.30 p.m. local time and is a…

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  • IT-Science

    Slovak scientists invent cloak of invisibility

    <Filephoto=Newsis> BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (Xinhua) — Slovak scientists have invented a device that can create the illusion of invisibility by hiding objects from a static magnetic field, researchers said Tuesday. Although it was a team of Barcelona-based scientists who came up with the original idea, the three Slovaks from the Slovak…

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  • Business

    Kakao the invincible under threat

    Popular mobile messenger service Kakao Talk is available on iOS, Android and Blackberry operating systems. The most popular mobile messenger service in the country, Kakao Talk, recently put the IT industry on alert by announcing that it has 42 million subscribers. It has become a must have application for smartphone…

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  • IT-Science

    Television becoming interactive

    A model watches a smart TV from Samsung Electronics at a product launch ceremony held in New York last Tuesday. The introduction of smart TVs and other devices is making television an increasingly social medium. For a long time, television has been regarded as a one-way medium, with viewers passively…

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  • IT-Science

    Korea set to disclose next-generation train

    The preliminary design of Korea’s next-generation bullet train, named HEMU-400X. The government plans to take the wraps off its next-generation bullet train, which can run between the country’s two biggest cities of Seoul and Busan in one and a half hours, a substantial reduction from almost three hours today. The…

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  • Business

    Naver: online chaebol?

    American Internet giant eBay has been controlling Korea’s electronic commerce markets through its affiliates Auction and Gmarket, but it remains to be seen whether local search king Naver could give it a run for its money. Search giant looks to launch open market service Naver, Korea’s near omnipresent portal accounting…

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