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In the most recent sign that Apple is looking at alternative ways for people to store and play their digital music, the company has agreed to buy Lala, a four-year-old start-up based in Palo Alto, Calif., a person with knowledge...

Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have signed off on their plan to team up against Google Inc...The step announced Friday seals the terms of a preliminary agreement announced in late July. The 10-year contract was to be signed by late...

There has been no substantial change in the number of adult brain tumours since mobile phone usage sharply increased in the mid-1990s, Danish scientists say, news.bbc.co.uk said on Saturday. According to the website the Danish Cancer Society looked at the...

The beta version of Microsoft’s Bing search engine maps feature could well give Google Maps a run for its money, Jason Kincaid writes for TechCrunch. The new feature challenges Google on every front: Streetside, the answer to Street View, functions...

A London museum that unwittingly hosted a fossilized colony of Martians for decades has put the alien life on display. NASA scientists who recently examined the 's fragment of the Nakhla meteorite believe bumps on its surface are fossilized Martian...

Bogus email alert: Be on the lookout for messages allegedly from the CDC about a "mandatory" swine flu vaccination program. The emails ask recipients to enter personal information in order to get vaccinated, but unlucky registrants get malware instead of...

A university in the U.K. said Thursday it would investigate whether researchers at the Climatic Research Unit suppressed data that didn't support climate change. Thousands of private emails of British and U.S. scientists were stolen from the unit's server at...

“Tiana, why are you wasting time on Facebook? Aren’t you supposed to be doing your work? “I am doing my work, Mr. O.! Just 'cus I’m on Facebook don’t mean I ain’t working! Look, I just finished creating a survey...

According to the GenoType Diet book (change your genetic destiny to live the longest, fullest, and healthiest life possible) 2007, by Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo Adamo Adamo with Catherine Whitney, you've received genes from ancestors that are the reactive inflammation-based,...