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The Que pro-Reader, billed as the ultimate e-reader, will make its debut in January after 10 years spent developing its technology and raising $200m of private equity finance.

The toolset includes RF modules, USB dongles, development tools, and embedded software, supporting IEEE 802.15.4-based protocols, including ZigBee PROTM, 6LoWPAN, as well as proprietary solutions.

My favorite novel of the late Kurt Vonnegut is Slaughterhouse Five , the haunting, semi-biographical story of a U.S. prisoner-of-war who endured the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany near the end of World War II.

Piggy banks are piled up as volunteers wearing Santa Claus costumes perform in a campaign to raise money for a charity donation in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec.

Sporting solar cells on your roof will earn you green cred but call them organic solar cells and you really have something.

In a period of growth, both in terms of population and economy, Abu Dhabi has set an agenda for economic diversification.

Heliatek GmbH , a startup developing organic solar cells, has raised $27 million in a second round of financing, with which it plans to build a manufacturing facility.

Germany's Volkswagen AG on Friday announced plans to invest euro2.3 billion in Brazil and said it hopes to be building a million vehicles a year in the country by 2014.

An article published Online First in The Lancet Oncology reports that adding cetuximab to neoadjuvant chemotherapy can shrink tumours and lead to increased potentially curative surgery in patients who have colorectal cancer with inoperable metastatic liver lesions.

Property taxes do something. The poor get poorer and the rich pay until they can't pay anymore and then they move.

Abstract We present an evaluation of electron tomography of buried InAs quantum dots using dark field 002 imaging conditions.

Wintersleep 's Paul Murphy and his brother, Michael, will release an album as Postdata on Jan.

Carl Tanzler , born as Karl Tnzler or Georg Karl Tnzler on February 8, 1877 in Dresden, Germany, also known as Carl von Cosel, claimed he received visits from one of his ancestors, Countess Anna Constantia von Cosel, who revealed the face of his true love, an exotic dark-haired woman, to him.

Ambassador disputes Syrian role in foreign fighters WASHINGTON - Disputing an assertion by the top U.S. general in Iraq, Syria's ambassador to Washington on Wednesday denied that his government allows foreign fighters to cross the Syrian border into Iraq.

Parched bones found in California's Death Valley may be the remains of a family of four German tourists who vanished without trace 13 years ago in the searingly hot region.

"We simply did not succeed at getting our message across," Muentefering said, but added: "As bad as the defeat was, we shouldn't succumb to petty infighting and defeatism." Muentefering, 69, will be replaced by Sigmar Gabriel, 50.

My 5 Christmas themed attractions in Saxony, Germany include museums on toys and watches.

Man convicted of killing pregnant Egyptian woman Attack during court hearing outraged Muslims By LARS RISCHKE The Associated Press Thu.

A German court is expected to deliver its verdict today in the case of a man charged with murder for the courtroom stabbing of a pregnant Egyptian woman.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.