Ericsson has unveiled its latest energy-optimized radio base station site concept, a research project for a pioneering wind-powered Tower Tube developed with Vertical Wind AB and Uppsala University in Sweden. The project takes the energy-lean design of Ericsson's original Tower Tube one step further by employing renewable energy. It harnesses wind power via a four-blade

France, Belgium and Luxembourg will guarantee new financing by Dexia in an attempt to bolster an earlier rescue bid and restore confidence in the banking group. Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme said on Thursday after marathon talks on the bank's future that such a system of guarantees could also be provided to all of the

 Britain's leading share index surged 2.6 percent early on Thursday, recovering some of the previous session's hefty losses, as beaten-down banks and commodity stocks rebounded. By 0753 GMT, the FTSE 100 was up 114.0 points at 4,480.7, after tumbling 5.2 percent on Wednesday to its lowest close in over four years, shrugging off UK government's

Many stock markets rose strongly on Thursday and winners during the recent turmoil, such as the yen and gold, slipped as at least temporary calm returned to markets a day after coordinated global interest rate cuts. European shares were 2.3 percent higher. Emerging market shares as measured by MSCI were up 2.6 percent, primarily reflecting

Police could one day predict the surname of male suspects or victims of crime from DNA alone, British researchers said on Wednesday. Scientists at Leicester University, where DNA fingerprinting was invented in 1984, said they had demonstrated that men with the same surname were highly likely to be genetically linked. The finding could help genealogy

 Intel Corp said on Tuesday it has "serious questions" about a deal announced by Advanced Micro Devices to spin off its manufacturing business and focus on chip design, and is ready to defend its patents. Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said that AMD and Intel have a patent cross-licensing agreement under which AMD pays royalties to

Research In Motion will roll out a touch-screen model of its BlackBerry smartphone later this fall, thrusting it into direct competition with Apple's popular iPhone. RIM said on Wednesday the BlackBerry Storm will be available exclusively to Verizon Wireless subscribers in the U.S. and Vodafone subscribers in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand. RIM's launch

Iceland took control on Thursday of its biggest bank, Kaupthing, to try to shore up a teetering banking system. The state has now seized control of three of the nation's major banks after Landsbanki and Glitnir were taken over earlier this week. At the center of a financial hurricane which has claimed several of the

The United States signaled it could consider buying into debt-laden banks to help get funds flowing through the financial system again after the IMF warned the world was on the brink of recession. South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan followed on Thursday the U.S. Federal Reserve and central banks from Europe, Canada and China in