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  • Computer for Mir

    The crew on board Russia's Mir space station have installed a new computer that will allow the station to orbit unmanned after they return home later this month, officials at mission control said.

  • IBM, 3Com agree to share access to patents

    Computer maker International Business Machines Corp and networking company 3Com Corp have unveiled an agreement to share access to networking and communications patents in a move that should help

  • Papermaker to end use of chlorine

    Nippon Paper Industries Co. plans to halt by 2005 all use of chlorine compounds, believed to result in the creation of dioxin and other dangerous substances, at all 13 of its pulp and paper plants in

  • Broad welcome for e-commerce draft proposals

    Business leaders breathed a sigh of relief as the UK government unveiled a "light-touch legal frame-work" for regulating internet commerce. The draft electronic communications bill drew plaudits from

  • 80 countries show risk for Year 2000 computer woes

    A State Department survey of 161 nations has found that about half of the countries face a medium to high risk of Year 2000 computer breakdowns in their telecommunications, energy and transportation,

  • Cosmonauts look for leaks in Mir

    Two Russian consmonauts began a space walk to look for leaks in the orbiting Mir station, officials at Mission Control said. The cosmonauts Viktor Afanasyev and Sergei Avdeyev planned to be outside

  • Heat-resistant varnish

    An improved heat-resistant shellac-based varnish that can be used for coating coils for armatures of electric motors and transformers has been developed by scientists at Ranchi.Developed by Indian

  • Columbia lands safely after 5-day mission

    The space shuttle Columbia returned to earth late on Tuesday after deploying an orbiting X-ray telescope that will scrutinise some of the msot violent forces in the universe.After a five-day mission,

  • CM goes to NIIT for cyber lessons

    Chief minister Sheila Dikshit is evolving an ambitious plan to develop Delhi into a cyber state. To meet this ambition, the computer savvy chief minister attended a two-day workshop at a NIIT centre

  • Computers face new time bombs

    The millennium bug or Y2K problem is just the first of what will prove to be a nasty legacy of time bombs in the computer industry. Even scarier, while the time of detonation is known for some of

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