Los Angeles Auto Show hosts world premieres for manufacturers

New Fall Dates (Nov. 14-25) Continue to Draw Attention From Automakers WorldwideLos Angeles, California (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - Opening in less than 90 days, the 2007 Los Angeles Auto Show will feature at least a dozen world premieres of production and or concept...

Nokia admits mobile battery issue

"Nokia is offering to replace 46 million batteries for its mobile phones after reports of overheating while charging. The problems are confined to BL-5C batteries made by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006. More than 250 million BL-5C batteries made for Nokia...

Garbage Delight

 As someone who delights in 'shopping' at the dump or the scrap metal yard, this Herald editorial rang a big bell for me.  I am continually amazed at what people throw away and have gained a perhaps questionable reputation as a 'collector' of 'things'.  This...

PESTICIDE HEALTH DANGERS

I was driving down the M1 motorway last Saturday morning when all of a sudden there was this misty fog coming off the fields with the all too familiar smell of insecticide. "A local Euro MP is warning of the health dangers of pesticides as experts confirm that people who use...

Memory Chip Breakthrough announced

"Scientists from IBM, Macronix and Qimonda said they developed a material that made "phase-change" memory 500 to 1,000 times faster than the commonly-used "flash" memory, while using half as much power. "You can do a lot of things with this phase-change memory that you can't...