2012-09-03 The Legal Battle Between Apple and Samsung
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Samsung Electronics has won the latest case in its continuing battle with the American owned computer company Apple over property rights. A…
2012-08-27 India Defends Moves Against Social Media
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. The government in India is defending itself against charges of Internet censorship. The move comes after the government last week asked companies…
2012-08-20 Finding the Right Match With Online Dating
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Ten or fifteen years ago, online dating was too new to be socially acceptable. But now, many people search for a partner…
2012-08-13 Turning Industrial Waste-Heat Into Electricity
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Scientists say enough energy is being wasted in the oil and gas fields of Texas every year to provide electricity to one…
2012-08-07 NASA’s Curiosity Rover on Mars
LAUREL BOWMAN: There will be several weeks of tests before NASA lets its robotic vehicle, called Curiosity, explore the surface of Mars. Curiosity will look for evidence that the planet…
2012-08-06 A Hollywood Movie Producer Helps Develop Mobile Calendar Application
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Smartphones, tablet computers and e-readers have become a part of everyday life for many people. They have also led to an explosion…
2012-07-30 New Research Hopes to Speed Development of HIV Vaccine
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. A team of scientists in the United States has created a new type of mouse that has an immune system similar to…
2012-07-23 New Laws Needed to Deal With Users’ Digital Legacies
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Benjamin Stassen took his own life in twenty-ten. His parents thought their twenty-one year old son was happy. Since his suicide, they…
2012-07-16 Team From Ukraine Wins Top Honors at Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Finals
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. More than three hundred fifty students from seventy-five nations were in Sydney, Australia, last week for the Imagine Cup Finals. This is…
2012-07-09 Getting News From Around the World With Today’s Front Pages
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. We recently told you about a website called PastPages.org. It saves the homepages of seventy news websites from around the world every…
2012-07-02 Some Websites Judge You by the Kind of Computer You Use
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Last week, the Wall Street Journal had a report about the online travel company Orbitz. The newspaper said Orbitz shows Mac users…
2012-06-25 Microsoft Competes Against Apple with New Tablet Computer
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Microsoft has announced its first tablet computer. It is called the Surface, and it is designed to compete directly with the popular…
2012-06-18 ICANN Announces More Than Domain Names During its Reveal Day Last Week
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers last week released a new list of proposed generic top-level domain names. A gTLD…
2012-06-11 Website Saves Today’s Headlines for the Future
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. If researchers want to know what happened on a particular day, they often look at newspapers published on that day. But what…
2012-06-04 Golden Gate Bridge Still Shines After 75 Years
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. The Golden Gate Bridge is celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary. The bridge opened to vehicle traffic on May twenty-eighth, nineteen thirty-seven. Since then,…