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MATHEMATICS has advanced some wonderful things in the world. Grand architecture, engineering, modern medicine and astronomy would not be the same today without maths. Unfortunately, this isn’t something that is generally taught at school level, and at university level, lecturers have the habit of te...

GOOGLE announced the closure of Google Wave on its blog on August 4 after much hype from loyal Google followers. There has been much buzz as to why Google Wave was a failed project, but the pivotal reasons appear to be three-fold. Excessive hype and expectations, too many features for a single web a...

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EVEN as a twenty-something, I can fully understand the anxieties experienced when new technologies are released that we would like to try for ourselves, but which seem rather complex and difficult to handle. Anything that’s more complicated than a remote control has the potential to put anyone who c...

CELLULAR phones have come a long way since the first call was made on a brick-like phone in April 1983. Today, you can use your ­cellphone to make calls, send messages, access the Internet, send e-mails, listen to music and take photos....

BERLIN — While very other appliance in the home has been redesigned to save power, televisions seem to have escaped the trend. New flat panels have actually evolved into disgraceful electricity gluttons. ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft on Monday unveiled software that lets Twitter, Facebook and other hot Internet services be delivered to low-cost “feature phones” common in developing countries....