Topic: Science and Technology
Regulators approve Suncor oil sands expansions
Reuters Environmental Online Report
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Regulators have approved three expansion stages at Suncor Energy Inc's Firebag oil sands project that will eventually add output of 188,000 barrels of bitumen a day, Suncor said on Thursday. The production phases, given the green light by the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board, would ...
Desktop computer sales soared in February: NPD Group
AFP Global Edition
Sales of desktop computers soared 30 percent in February defying talk that such machines are being made obsolete by laptops, smartphones and other mobile devices. "Desktops have been the surprise consumer technology growth category of 2010," said NPD vice president of industry analysis Stephen Baker. Sales of personal computers running ...
Court records illuminate Viacom-YouTube battle
AP News
Court records show YouTube founders views on copyright, reveal Viacom wanted to buy YouTubeYouTube co-founder Steve Chen once warned fellow co-founder Jawed Karim to stop posting pirated videos on their Web site, according to court documents unsealed Thursday as part of a 3-year-old copyright lawsuit. That bit of intrigue was ...
Russia Putin
AP News
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, second left, visits the Volgodonsk nuclear power plant in Volgodonsk, some 1,000 km (600 miles) south of Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 18, 2010. Speaking at Thursday's meeting with nuclear officials in Volgodonsk, Putin said that Iran's first, Russian-built nuclear power plant is ...
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