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It took almost two days, but Research in Motion has confirmed what half of its 70 million users have already known since early Monday morning: it's experiencing the e-mail and messaging outage from hell.

The iPad has made tablets a fading memory, but these four 7-inch tablets may actually be a better fit for your business. On a sunny day in April of last year, Apple released one of most game-changing gadgets ever

Germans have found a way to create super-secure virtual "work phones" on Android devices. This could become a new, competitive threat to the already beleaguered Research In Motion...

It could almost be enough to make Cruella de Vil consider a nicotine patch: a new analysis has found that films with scenes that show smoking reliably make less money at the box office than their cigarette-free counterparts. The finding, says Stanton Glantz , director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco, adds to the case for giving any movie that depicts smoking to an automatic 'R' rating

This summer, the entrants in the Oil Removal X Challenge were put through their paces in an oil-filled pool. This is what it looked like. This past summer, the 10 finalists in the the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge spent their days in a pool at The National Oil Spill Response Research & Renewable Energy Test Facility in New Jersey, trying to remove oil from water.

Friday, October 7th marked the 10th anniversary of the War in Afghanistan , which now surpasses the length of the official U.S. military engagement in the Vietnam War. Despite its longevity, the war has receded from daily headlines in mainstream U.S

Building electronic devices that work without needing to actually transport electrons is a goal of spintronics researchers, since this could lead to: reduced power consumption, lower levels of signal noise,

Drone strikes have proved an effective, if controversial, weapon in the hunt for al Qaeda operatives in the Middle East and beyond . The use of such unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) domestically for civilian jobs such as U.S. border patrol, weather research, pipeline inspection or even real estate photography has lagged, however, because of a cumbersome Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) case-based approval process.

Janine Benyus helped bring the word "biomimicry" into 21st century vocabularies. What is biomimicry? Let Benyus explain in this video

Every year, an organization called Improbable Research offers up the Ig Nobel Prize , a Nobel spoof award that it is given for science innovations "that first make people laugh, then make them think." This year, our favorite entry came from researchers at the Shiga University of Medical Science, who developed something called the wasabi alarm, a fire (or general emergency alarm) that slashes noise pollution but might make anyone nearby feel sick.

AlphaDog If Boston Dynamics' BigDog quadruped robot gives you the willies with its amazingly animal-like skills at tromping across difficult land at speed, then don't watch the video of BD's newest iteration of its military assistant robot, AlphaDog. [youtube SSbZrQp-HOk] BigDog was really the development prototype for AlphaDog, suffering from an enormously noisy engine and fairly limited operating range and payload powers. AlphaDog, on the other hand, is closer to a production dog droid that could actually accompany troops on the battlefield: It's quieter, can carry 400 pounds and run 20 miles without needing more gas, versus BigDog's 340 pounds and 12-mile range.

China is no longer a developing nation, at least in terms of CO2 emissions. The country has graduated to "developed" status, according to a new report claiming that the country could meet or surpass U.S CO2 levels by 2017. The report , written by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, claims that the combination of China's carbon-heavy industries and rapidly increasing infrastructure are responsible for the growth.

Is your start-up starting to feel like a frat house? New research suggests that having more women at your company, and increasing diversity in general, can improve your chances of success. Women own about 40 percent of the private businesses in the United States, according to the Center for Women's Business Research

So says a new paper from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. "If we’re looking for an answer to jobs," Kauffman vice president Lesa Mitchell tells us, "it’s right in front of our face." The country is in a recession, and Washington is tangling over how to create new jobs , but, according to a new paper from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there’s a fairly simple potential source of them sitting right under our noses.

What small business owners want out of retirement, how employees feel about work-life balance, what countries are driving global e-commerce sales, and other intriguing statistics. Retirement Share of small-business owners who plan to retire before 65: 25% Portion who don't plan to ever retire: 17% After retirement, small-business owners would like to: Guardian Life Small Business Research Institute Work-Life Balance Portion of employees who say they would lose their jobs if they adopted more flexible work schedules: 16% (down from 28% in 2006) When conflicts arise between work and family, employees typically blame: 2011 Work+Life Fit Survey; Elizabeth Poposki, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Global E-commerce Portion of the world's Internet users who are Americans... ...in 1996: 66%...in 2010: 14% Amount spent in 2010 on American e-commerce sites by customers outside the U.S.: $10.1 billion Increase in the number of Internet users in 2010, compared with 2009: ComScore Social Media Share of small-business owners who say social media is important to their businesses: 66% On average, the portion of a company's Facebook fans who read its status updates per day: 7.5% Social Media Examiner; PageLever