HELSINKI/AMSTERDAM – Nokia on Monday became the latest major consumer electronics company to enter the booming car-navigation market, upping the ante for Dutch market leader TomTom.

The Finnish company, the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones, unveiled its Nokia 330 …

LONDON – Scary monster or superhero?

A major new exhibition at London’s Science Museum on Friday pondered the history of video games — is the world’s fastest growing entertainment industry a blessing or a curse?

And while adults weighed up …

LONDON – A catalog of older songs no longer sold in stores, including a Greek singer’s 2000 Christmas album, have been downloaded 250,000 times since February as part of a broad initiative by Universal Music to exhume its archives.

The …

Two technology leaders in the growing biofuels industry, DuPont and Broin, today announced a partnership in the United States to take the next steps needed to bring cost-effective ethanol derived from corn stover to market.

“We are pleased to partner …

El aparato permite ‘pronunciar’ las 110 mil palabras de un diccionario francés corriente, señala el inventor

Estrasburgo, Francia.- Porque una noche creyó oír que su hija sordomuda gritaba “papá”, Fabrice Leblat, un ex empleado de construcción, consagró diez años a …

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Brazilian paleontologists have discovered a new giant dinosaur species based on fossilized fragments of the herbivorous reptile that lived 80 million years ago.

The Maxakalisaurus topai, of the Titanosauria group, was 13 meters (yards) long …

NEW YORK – Second Life, the fast-growing online site where hundreds of thousands of people play out fantasy lives online, has suffered a computer security breach that exposed the real-world personal data of its users.

Linden Lab, the San Francisco-based …

Ceres

La media mundial mucho enfatiza que el último congreso astronómico degradó a Plutón del club de los ‘planetas clásicos’ pero no le da importancia al hecho que éste también ha revalorizado a Ceres reclasificándolo como un ‘planeta enano’ (al …

Ciudad de México.- Un nuevo tipo de asfalto, enriquecido con poliestirenos para mejorar su calidad y así duplicar la duración de las calles y carreteras del País, será propuesto a Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) por investigadores del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN).…

WASHINGTON – The government will not require recorders in autos but said on Monday that car makers must tell consumers when technology that tracks speed, braking and other measurements is in the new vehicles they buy.

The National Highway Traffic …