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Contrary to popular belief, a new research suggests that initial iPhone buyers will include a lot of young folk with no particular connection to Apple. Solutions Research Group found that, out of the survey respondents who said they would “definitely” consider plunking down $500 on an iPhone, 48 percent didn’t own an iPod. Likely buyers [...]

Some workers at Sony’s facilities in Foster City, Calif., may soon be looking for new work. On Thursday, the company announced a round of layoffs from its U.S.-based game unit. The company wouldn’t say how many are leaving and did not shoulder the blame on the PlayStation 3′s relatively weak market performance, which has trailed [...]

From TG Daily: However, wireless power has not become a feasible mass market application, mainly because of its inefficiency: Generally, wireless power is distributed via electromagnetic radiation, where radiation spreads in all directions, which mens that the vast majority of power ends up in free space and is wasted. MIT researchers now say that they [...]

Parallels released on Thursday an update of its Desktop software, which allows Intel-based Mac users to run Windows and Mac OS simultaneously. It can be remembered that the software gained popularity when its first version was released last June, even getting a plugin on Apple’s website. The new version, 3.0, adds a number of useful [...]

Seven astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis are arriving Sunday at the International Space Station after the crew determined that their spacecraft did not suffer from severe damage during the Friday liftoff. The crew spotted a 10-centimeter-wide gap in a thermal blanket that is part of the shuttle’s insulating heat shield. The good thing is, [...]