stronomers have discovered a new Earth-like planet that is larger than our own and may be more than half covered with water, according to a study published Wednesday in the science journal Nature. The so-called “super Earth” is about 42 light years away in another solar system and has a radius nearly 2.7 times larger than [...]

Feather pages do a number of things to speed up the video-playing process, from defaulting to the standard quality version (instead of high quality or high definition), to removing various on-page features such as being able to control the size and coloring of an embed. The idea is to get the video playing as soon [...]

The handset may be available in the Open Handset Model and could function across all CDMA carriers in India. This CDMA device will seemingly join chief carriers such as Reliance and Tata, who use CDMA networks. Reportedly, this new Samsung Corby could be seen as one of the few touchscreen phones in India having CDMA. [...]

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama promised at a White House jobs forum on Thursday to take “every responsible step to accelerate job creation,” including some ideas he said could be put into action quickly. He cited an expanded program to help make more U.S. homes energy-efficient as an example. He also mentioned trade measures and [...]

Cisco Systems Inc. said it has enough shares and shareholder commitments to take over Norway’s Tandberg ASA, the world’s largest videoconferencing equipment maker. Cisco had said Thursday that stockholders representing 89 percent of the shares had accepted its $3.4 billion bid for the company — just shy of the 90 percent needed. But on Friday, [...]