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Barnes & Noble says Nook sold out before holidays
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc said on Friday it had sold out of its newly-launched Nook electronic readers due to high demand -- a pre-holiday miscalculation that analysts said could boost sales of rival Amazon.com Inc's market leading Kindle.
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Barnes & Noble sells out of new e-reader
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US bookstore giant Barnes & Noble said Friday it had sold out of its new electronic book reader, the "Nook," and the next shipments would not be available until after the holidays.
November 21, 2009, 9:12 am -
Art collector finds Galileo's lost tooth, fingers
ROME (Reuters) - An art collector has found a tooth, thumb and finger of the renowned Italian scientist Galileo Galilei who died in the 17th century, Florence's History of Science museum said on Friday.
November 21, 2009, 8:44 am -
US newspaper ad revenue down nearly 28 percent
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US newspaper advertising revenue fell by nearly 28 percent in the third quarter, continuing a slide which has led to layoffs, bankruptcies and the closure of several dailies.
November 21, 2009, 7:14 am -
CERN restarts Big Bang collider for biggest test yet
GENEVA (Reuters) - Scientists are restarting a giant sub-atomic particle collider built to reproduce "Big Bang" conditions, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Friday.
November 21, 2009, 5:39 am -
Google books hearing set for February 18
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US judge set February 18 for a hearing on the revised legal settlement between Google and US authors and publishers that would allow the Internet giant to scan and sell millions of books online.
November 21, 2009, 5:36 am -
Barnes & Noble says Nook shipments will be delayed
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc said on Friday it had sold out of its first allotment of newly launched Nook electronic readers due to high demand and new shipments will not arrive in time for the holidays.
November 21, 2009, 5:05 am -
Italy collector finds Galileo's lost tooth, fingers
ROME (Reuters) - An art collector has found a tooth, thumb and finger of the renowned Italian scientist Galileo Galilei who died in the 17th century, Florence's History of Science museum announced on Friday.
November 21, 2009, 4:17 am -
Astronaut in space while wife giving birth
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Shuttle Atlantis astronaut Randy Bresnik can be forgiven if he's having a tough time focusing on work -- his wife is due to give birth on Friday to a baby girl.
November 21, 2009, 2:17 am -
Sony to launch online download service for TVs
TOKYO (AFP) - Sony Corp. aims to launch next year a new online service that will allow people to download content such as music and movies to their televisions and other electronic gadgets, a top executive said Friday.
November 21, 2009, 12:50 am -
Gameloft says it, others reining in Android plans
BARCELONA (Reuters) - French mobile phone games company Gameloft said it and other software developers were cutting back investment in developing games and other applications for Google's Android platform.
November 20, 2009, 9:04 pm -
Mammoths not killed by human spears
They were some of the biggest mammals to walk the earth but it seems woolly mammoths were not killed off by humans with sophisticated weapons.
ABC - November 20, 2009, 8:31 pm -
Chinese cyber-spying seen growing against U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's government appears increasingly to be piercing U.S. government and defense industry computer networks to gather useful data for its military, a congressional advisory panel said on Thursday.
November 20, 2009, 7:03 pm -
Sony to launch online entertainment service in 2010
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp said on Friday that its planned entertainment content distribution service for network-compatible TVs and other devices will be launched next year.
November 20, 2009, 7:02 pm -
Google says PC will start in seven seconds or less
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for PCs that do their work on the Web.
November 20, 2009, 6:02 pm -
Baby orangutan makes public debut
Perth Zoo has shown off its latest addition, a baby Sumatran orangutan.
ABC - November 20, 2009, 3:01 pm -
AOL shows worst not over for media job cuts
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - If AOL's announcement on Thursday of another 2,500 job cuts is anything to go by, the painful layoffs that have ravaged the media industry over the past year are nowhere near over.
November 20, 2009, 12:20 pm -
Smartphone growth to continue strong in 2010
BARCELONA (Reuters) - The wireless chip industry expects smartphone market surge to continue, with British microchip designer ARM saying growth would likely even accelerate further next year.
November 20, 2009, 12:00 pm -
New fossils reveal world full of crocodiles
New fossils unearthed in the Sahara desert reveal a once-swampy world divided up among a half-dozen species of unusual and perhaps intelligent crocodiles, researchers have found.
ABC - November 20, 2009, 11:25 am -
"What's happening?" Twitter wants to know
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Twitter used to ask "What are you doing?" No longer.
November 20, 2009, 9:41 am
