IBT Staff Reporter

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Fifty years after John F. Kennedy's inauguration, a new iPad application dedicated to the late president's life aims to be a multimedia museum for history buffs.

School-going children of two schools in the city-state of Singapore are now relieved of carrying satchels full of textbooks and notes to their school as they have been given Apple’s iPads as part of a pilot project.

Facebook, recently valued at $50 billion, sees opportunities to extend its advertising business beyond the gaming sector, a company executive said on Monday.

Scientists in the United Kingdom have identified a “rogue” gene that attacks and breaks down a naturally-occurring protein in the body which normally prevents cancer cells spreading. By blocking the WWP2 gene, which is an enzymic bonding agent found inside cancer cells, levels of the natural inhibitor are boosted and the cancer cells remain dormant.

The founder of whistleblower site WikiLeaks attacked Switzerland on Sunday for arresting a Swiss banker on suspicion of breaching banking secrecy instead of investigating the tax evasion he said he had uncovered.

A quantum computer could be one step closer as scientists at Oxford University have generated billions of quantum bits in silicon.

Stock index futures pointed to a flat open on Monday as some solid corporate results weren't enough to persuade investors to revive a multi-week rally.

(Corrects December same-store sales results for Europe)

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Federal bankruptcy judges in Delaware are due to hold separate hearings Monday on requests by two defunct subprime mortgage lenders to destroy thousands of boxes of original loan documents.

Philips Electronics blamed TV sales for disappointing fourth-quarter profit and said western consumers would be reluctant to spend this year, adding urgency to its drive into emerging markets.

Last year, Rafael Nadal had two biggest records - he finally secured the number 1 ranking and set the record for the longest match seen in the Australian Open at 5 hours and 14 minutes, playing against Fernando Verdasco. This year, he hopes to break more records by winning his 10th single Grand Slam. More importantly, if he does succeed, he will be the only player in three decades to hold all four major Grand Slams - Wimbeldon Championship, Roland Garros, the United States Open and the Austral...

With the reopening of clinic where a hyperbaric chamber exploded killing a woman and her grandson, the debate over the dependability of these medical devices has risen again. Hyperbaric Chambers, life-saving devices or killer machines?

Want a Red, Blue, Pink or White iPhone 4? A Florida-based company is offering a new service called iColors for the iPhone.

The Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers will face-off against each other in the Super Bowl XLV in Texas on 6 February after beating Chicago Bears and the New York Jets respectively on Sunday.

A group of researchers has found the first direct evidence that a supervolcano eruption in what is now SIberia may have driven the biggest extinction event in the Earth's history.

Factories in the euro zone reported the strongest monthly price increase on record for raw materials and fuel in January, according to a business survey that again showed German strength propelling the bloc's service sector.

Dubai is now home to the world’s highest restaurant ‘At.mosphere’, situated 442 meters up in the sky on the 122th floor of the 828-meter world’s tallest building Burj Khalifa.

Stock index futures were little changed on Monday as investors assessed whether a rally that started about two months ago had any more steam left.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Clinical Data Inc. (NASDAQ:CLDA)’s Viibryd tablets for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD) in adults.

Stock index futures were little changed on Monday as investors assessed whether a rally that started about two months ago had any more steam left.

Philips Electronics blamed weak TV sales for disappointing fourth-quarter profit and warned that consumers in mature markets will be reluctant to spend this year.

Hong Kong billionaire Stanley Ho, chairman of Macau's biggest casino operator SJM Holdings <0880.HK>, has offloaded more of his shares to relatives, the latest move to cement succession plans for his vast empire.

The President himself will answer people's questions on a live Youtube interview on Thursday.

It's application spam time again on Facebook, as the latest 'how many views' app is taking over many users profile.

India’s information technology (IT) sector will grow annually at the rate of 25 percent to 26 percent due to a good performance, according to N R Narayana Murthy, founder and chairman of Infosys Technologies Ltd, India’s second biggest software services company.

Sundance Film Festival 2011 kick started on January 20. One movie that stands apart for generating high level of curiosity is YouTube's 'Life in a Day'. World awaits the premier on January 27, which will also be available on live stream.

Real Madrid got back to winning ways with a 1-0 victory at home over Real Mallorca to stay four points behind leaders Barcelona who eased past Racing Santander 3-0 at the Camp Nou on Saturday.

Tom Hooper's film on George VI is expected to create greater awareness of the impacts of communication disorders and encourage people to seek help.