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Automatically compiled digests of SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY news stories
(originally clustered by the Google News):


Saturday


  • July-04-2009 -- Dell To Offer Location Features On Mini 10 Netbooks
    The recent news that TomTom will be offering an app for the Apple iPhone proves that there is now more demand than ever for GPS devices.
    Dell next week plans to begin selling Dell Mini 10 netbooks with features like turn-by-turn directions or locating the nearest business. More...

  • July-04-2009 -- Mussel plague on Lake Tahoe?
    "Then further up found it on a rock."
    Affect a lake's ecosystem, including habitat, food, shelter and nesting sites for fish and wildlife, and can compete with native plants and reduce the habitat native fish need. More...

  • July-04-2009 -- The Next Generation of Fireworks May All Be Green
    Researchers are developing a new generation of fireworks that can shine just as brightly without having the same impact on the environment or human health.
    The health impact of fireworks becomes problematic when repeated often, or in enclosed spaces. More...

  • July-04-2009 -- Ad Industry Sets Seven Privacy Protection Principles
    In an effort to avoid an intervention by Congress, a group of media and marketing trade associations on Wednesday released guidelines that will require Internet service providers to get permission from users before they track their online behavior to serve up more targeted advertisements.
    " Data Security : alls for organizations to provide reasonable security for, and limited retention of data, collected and used for online behavioral advertising purposes. More...

  • July-04-2009 -- Apple, Acer and'''Arrington?
    Arrington previously practiced corporate and securities law but became fascinated with startups while working at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati .
    The additional applications bog down the performance of netbooks, Mr. Arrington said. More...

  • July-04-2009 -- Snowfall on Mars? NASA's Phoenix Lander recorded it
    In its few months of roaming the polar area on Mars last year, the Phoenix Lander found water ice beneath the red planet's surface and snow in the atmosphere.
    A large impact of either a comet or asteroid near Phoenix's landing site half a billion years ago melted polar ice that created a sheet of water and dust that flowed through a shallow valley, Smith said. More...

  • July-04-2009 -- What Is Raleigh's Mysterious 'Sewer Creature'?
    Ed Buchan, an environmental coordinator with the city's Public Utilities Department, says the mass is believed to be tubifex worms, which form clusters or colonies of about a half-inch to 1-inch in diameter.
    Actually, the sewer monster is made up of thousands of tiny organisms called bryozoans, or moss animacules, said N.C. State University biologist Thomas Kwak. More...

  • July-04-2009 -- TerreStar launches satellite for mobile broadband network
    TerreStar-1 was built by the California-based Space Systems/Loral.
    The satellite, which was manufactured by Space Systems/Loral, will unfurl a 60-foot-diameter mesh antenna reflector and activate some 500 narrow spotbeams to communicate with the smartphones, plus laptops and portable devices. More...

Friday


  • July-03-2009 -- Firefox 3.5 patch coming soon as Mozilla cranks up downloads
    The need for speed has always been the clincher in the battle of the browsers and Firefox 3.5 is no sloth.
    As I reported on Tuesday , Firefox 3.5 includes several improvements that make the browser render pages faster and load JavaScript more efficiently. More...

  • July-03-2009 -- Archos takes an Atomic PC tablet
    The Archos 9 uses the new Intel Atom Z515 processor, boasts a 60GB or 120GB hard drive, has built-in Bluetooth, and features two antennas to receive DVBT TV with diversity reception.
    Seriously - anyone considering an Archos these days should be forced to wear some sort of badge so we know to steer clear of them. More...

  • July-03-2009 -- AT&T breaks sales records with iPhone 3GS launch
    Mac Daily News has posted a leaked memo from AT&T proclaiming that the iPhone 3GS generated the best ever sales day for the company.
    According to a Nielsen survey, iPhone users are ten times more likely to play video than average mobile users. More...

  • July-03-2009 -- IE8: This one's for spew
    It looks like the image of a woman throwing up after inadvertently viewing pornography was too controversial for Microsoft.
    Those new IE 8 ads featuring Dean Cain are pretty damn funny but it seems that the latest installment went a little too far for Microsoft's taste. More...

  • July-03-2009 -- Mac clone company Psystar back online
    The infamous Mac-clone maker Psystar is apparently set to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy , and it seems that they are planning on getting right back into their previous routine with a new hardware offering to boot.
    Apple, as the courts have validated, doesn't have to make anything they don't want to, doesn't have to allow clones etc. they are actually in their legal rights at this point to control what hardware is used with the OS software. More...

  • July-03-2009 -- Lawyers claim ringtones are public performance
    While one lawsuit was filed by MCS Music America of Nashville and other music publishers against the operators of two existing and one now-discontinued subscription-music services; the other case filed by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) urges a federal court to proclaim that mobile phone ringtones are not downloads, but public performances that are entitled royalties.
    The EFF filed an amicus brief for the case on Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. More...

  • July-03-2009 -- Crew at Space Station Takes Trip Around Orbital Outpost
    March 25: The International Space Station as seen by the departing space shuttle Discovery.
    The Soyuz trip followed the Tuesday undocking of the unmanned Russian cargo ship Progress 33, which left the space station and is loitering nearby. More...

  • July-03-2009 -- Battlefield 1943 dated, Guadalcanal trailer released
    World War II is alive and well on July 8th and 9th, when DICE's first download-only installment of the Battlefield series hits the Xbox 350 and PlayStation 3. 1200 Microsoft Points or $15 delivers 24-player battles across three maps to your console in the form of a 560MB download.
    Coral Sea is designed to showcase the intense battle in the skies, offering an all-new Air superiority game mode. More...

Friday


  • July-03-2009 -- A big week for copyrights and piracy
    As part of a ploy to squeeze more money out of the mobile phone companies, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) has told a federal court that each time a phone rings in a public place, the phone user has violated copyright law.
    Unfortunately, the transition hasn't proved to be so simple. More...

  • July-03-2009 -- IPhone 3GS owners bemoan its battery life
    I was using a game, and then later the Web browser for reading the news about Michael Jackson, all over a Wi-Fi connection while plugged in.
    "But there's nothing on the market today that pulls everything together to give the superior user experience that you get with the iPhone." More...

  • July-03-2009 -- AT&T, iphone Customers Angry Over Voicemail Delays
    Mac Daily News has posted a leaked memo from AT&T proclaiming that the iPhone 3GS generated the best ever sales day for the company.
    Recorded videos are synced with your Mac or PC desktop via iTunes. More...

  • July-03-2009 -- Volume Of Michael Jackson-Related Internet Scams Rapidly Increasing
    Los Angeles, CA - Spam scams relating to Michael Jackson's death are spreading like wildfire across the internet.
    A mass-mailing worm is using Jackson's death as bait, computer security company Symantec has discovered. More...

  • July-03-2009 -- Gag Me with a Browser! What Was Redmond Thinking?
    The announcement demonstrated with dignity Microsoft's awareness of the "real time" web exemplified by San Francisco-based Twitter.
    Warning: don'''t watch it on a full stomach. More...

  • July-03-2009 -- 'Battlefield 1943' storms Xbox, PS3 next week
    World War II is alive and well on July 8th and 9th, when DICE's first download-only installment of the Battlefield series hits the Xbox 350 and PlayStation 3. 1200 Microsoft Points or $15 delivers 24-player battles across three maps to your console in the form of a 560MB download.
    Battlefield 1943 will bring gamers four first person shooter maps based on classic Battlefield 1942 locations: Wake Island, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Coral Sea. More...

  • July-03-2009 -- BMW 7 Series gets xDrive, M Sport package
    A base price around $30,000 is likely, as is a fully-loaded price above $40,000.
    The BMW X1 xDrive23d comes with a 150 kW/204 hp diesel featuring BMW TwinPower Turbo and common-rail fuel injection. More...

  • July-03-2009 -- NASA Shuttle Program Manager Proposes Cheaper Moon Travel
    WASHINGTON (AFP) — The U.S. space shuttle Endeavour has cleared a test for potentially harmful hydrogen gas leaks that twice delayed its high-profile launch, NASA said Wednesday.
    NASA plans to conduct a test of space shuttle Endeavour's external fuel tank at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to make sure repairs were successful. More...

Thursday


  • July-02-2009 -- EU: China, India must make emissions cuts
    With investments in renewable energy set to increase rapidly especially in developing countries India can set a 15-20 percent target for the year 2020.
    India is one of the world's biggest emitters alongside China, the U.S. and Russia, and the second most populous nation. More...

  • July-02-2009 -- Apple Admits iPhone Overheating Issues -- Sort of
    I was using a game, and then later the Web browser for reading the news about Michael Jackson, all over a Wi-Fi connection while plugged in.
    With the official release of the iPhone 3.0 OS only a few weeks behind them, Apple today released to developers the next feature release of the iPhone OS.'' More...

  • July-02-2009 -- Make big bucks rolling out broadband to unserved areas!
    Two U.S. agencies tasked with distributing about US$7.2 billion in broadband deployment grants and loans over the next 15 months have released an official list of funding rules, imposing net-neutrality clauses on grant applicants.
    Would-be grant winners have a little more than a month to file applications for $4 billion of stimulus funds that will be handed out in the first of three rounds of funding. More...

  • July-02-2009 -- A Gidget, A Gadget, Another Cool Tool Site Hits The Web
    Update : And lo behold: with 30 minutes of launching, the fanboys brought down the site.
    You may like it well enough to stay a while. More...

  • July-02-2009 -- BMW X1 confirmed for United States
    A base price around $30,000 is likely, as is a fully-loaded price above $40,000.
    A diesel-powered version got the equivalent of 45.2 mpg across the pond and can hit a top speed of 124 mph. More...

  • July-02-2009 -- Choose a MobileMe account for publishing iPhone media
    Apple has added a number of tweaks to its MobileMe Web services this week.
    Unfortunately, once the bug manifests, MobileMe doesn't allow you to simply edit it back, and since everything changes from.me to.mac (your email address, SMTP server, etc.), it can be more than a little annoying. More...

  • July-02-2009 -- World'still losing biodiversity'
    "Life on Earth is under serious threat," the International Union for Conservation of Nature said in a 155-page report that describes the past five years of a losing battle to protect species, natural habitats and geographical regions from the devastating effects of man.
    Most noticeably, 27 percent of the 845 species of reef building corals are threatened, 20 percent are Near Threatened and there is not enough data for 17 percent to be assessed. More...

  • July-02-2009 -- Judge Accuses Microsoft Of Courtroom Shenanigans In Ongoing Xbox ...
    Have you ever wanted to create your own video game? Now is the time to put your imagination to the test.
    Xbox Live Gold members won't like the idea of ads popping up on the Xbox 360 dashboard. More...

Thursday


  • July-02-2009 -- Apple Updates iPhone OS 3.1 SDK for Developers, Reports Say
    Cupertino (CA) - The iPhone OS 3.1 beta update and iPhone SDK 3.1 beta are now available to individuals and developers alike delivering bug fixes and much needed updates.
    Video editing will be available to third party applications via a Video Editor Controller API. Undetermined is whether or not this update fixes the overheating issue that many users have reported. More...

  • July-02-2009 -- New Class of Black Holes Discovered
    The XMM-Newton X-ray observatory team, led by Sean Farrell from the Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements at the University of Leicester, UK, found the black hole while analyzing November 2004 data obtained by the satellite.
    Not even light can escape a black hole's grip, but gas falling into a black hole can heat up and become an intense source of X-rays, at temperatures. More...

  • July-02-2009 -- Pirate Bay Sale Signals the Death of an Era
    The new owners of The Pirate Bay have an interesting plan to attract and keep users: They're going to offer people money to use the service.
    The four men who run the site were sentenced to a year in jail and $3.6 million in fines in April after being sued by music and movie producers for providing copyrighted content to site users. More...

  • July-02-2009 -- More than 800 wildlife species now extinct
    "Life on Earth is under serious threat," the International Union for Conservation of Nature said in a 155-page report that describes the past five years of a losing battle to protect species, natural habitats and geographical regions from the devastating effects of man.
    The report shows nearly one third of amphibians, more than one in eight birds and nearly a quarter of mammals are threatened with extinction. More...

  • July-02-2009 -- Apple to Report Q3 2009 Earnings on July 21
    SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Apple's iconic chief executive Steve Jobs has returned to work after a five-month medical leave of absence during which he underwent a liver transplant.
    By the time Monday rolled around and traders could react to the fact that what Jobs had initially described as a hormone imbalance was actually end stage liver disease, Apple was able to soften the blow with the news that it had just sold 1 million new iPhones. More...

  • July-02-2009 -- Dialed In 85: BlackBerry Tour coming to a town near you
    The BlackBerry Tour further expands the current BlackBerry family that already comprises of the BlackBerry Storm, BlackBerry Curve 8330 (available in either silver or pink), BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 and BlackBerry 8830 World Edition smartphones in the Verizon Wireless portfolio.
    If you're interested in the BlackBerry Tour, you can pre-order it starting today. More...

  • July-02-2009 -- Cisco Takes a Page from Twitter to Compete in Collaboration
    "We do not have plans to become an IT as a service provider," Warrior stated emphatically.
    Logicalis is a channel partner of Cisco as well as HP, IBM and other vendors. More...

  • July-02-2009 -- Game creation tool 'Kodu' debuts on Xbox Live
    Have you ever wanted to create your own video game? Now is the time to put your imagination to the test.
    "Today, movie trailers are available in a high-definition (HD) format, but Silverlight will deliver 1080p HD and 5.1 surround sound without discs directly into the Xbox," said Sean Alexander, director at Microsoft's Advertising Business Group. More...

Wednesday


  • July-01-2009 -- Game creation tool 'Kodu' debuts on Xbox Live
    Create your own games for only 400 MS Points.
    "Today, movie trailers are available in a high-definition (HD) format, but Silverlight will deliver 1080p HD and 5.1 surround sound without discs directly into the Xbox," said Sean Alexander, director at Microsoft's Advertising Business Group. More...

  • July-01-2009 -- Cisco's video vision takes too long
    "We do not have plans to become an IT as a service provider," Warrior stated emphatically.
    If it can push WebEx to customers who really need it, and bundle in a really slick document sharing and editing package, it may actually be able to unseat a few users from MS Office and look like a value add compared to Google. More...

  • July-01-2009 -- The Latest App: Smartphone Interpreters
    In 2008, Sakhr Software USA and Dial Directions partnered together to develop language application technology for mobile, cloud-computing environments.
    Sakhr Software has delivered many industry firsts for Arabic NLP, including Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Machine Translation (MT), and search and information mining. More...

  • July-01-2009 -- Apple to Report Q3 2009 Earnings on July 21
    SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Apple's iconic chief executive Steve Jobs has returned to work after a five-month medical leave of absence during which he underwent a liver transplant.
    Prior to his medical leave, Apple was clearly taking steps towards reducing Steve Jobs's presence at product launches and giving other executives (Shiller, Ive, Forstall, etc.) more attention. More...

  • July-01-2009 -- The state of Maine is ready to place another huge order from Apple
    BREWER, Maine ''' While thousands of Maine high school students will receive new laptop computers this fall through an expansion of the Maine Learning Technology Initiative, not every school is jumping aboard.
    Lee said the state'''s laptop program would have cost the school department more than $180,000 over four years. More...

  • July-01-2009 -- YouTube Readies Redesign Amid Chorus of Complaints
    Monday, Google Inc.' s online video sharing site YouTube launched a new initiative dubbed The YouTube Reporters' Center, a video channel dedicated to helping citizen journalists all over the world hone their skills and become better reporters.
    Overall, it looks like an attractive proposition to content producers, and a potential boon to Google News and YouTube'''s ambitions as aggregators of video news. More...

  • July-01-2009 -- Sirius XM Radio Launches FM5 Satellite Into Orbit
    PALO ALTO, Calif., July 1, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (Nasdaq:LORL) and the leading provider of commercial satellites, today announced that SIRIUS FM-5, a satellite that it provided to SIRIUS XM Radio, America's satellite radio company, is performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan.
    Headquartered in New York City, Sirius was officially launched on July 1, 2002 and currently provides 69 music channels and 65 sports, news and entertainment channels for listeners. More...

  • July-01-2009 -- Ulysses spacecraft ends 18-year mission
    After almost 17 years in orbit, the scientific mission of the Ulysses spacecraft will end tomorrow.
    NASA informed Ulysses completed about three orbits of the sun before reaching a bubble in space made by the solar wind named heliosphere. More...

Wednesday


  • July-01-2009 -- Ulysses sun probe ends mission
    After almost 17 years in orbit, the scientific mission of the Ulysses spacecraft will end tomorrow.
    "The Sun's activity varies with an 11-year cycle, and now we have measurements covering almost two complete cycles," said Marsden. More...

  • July-01-2009 -- Breakingviews.com Making Music to Start a Revival
    SIRIUS XM Radio Inc., is an America's satellite radio company that delivers commercial-free music channels, premier sports, news, talk, entertainment, traffic and weather to millions of subscribers.
    Hopefully this one can be programmed to support the new series of channels and services when Sirius and XM combine their bandwidths (years down the road). More...

  • July-01-2009 -- Online Tool Will Track US Tech Spending
    The announcements were made at the Personal Democracy Forum , in New York.
    Kundra was on hand to unveil the IT Dashboard , a Web site that will let users drill down on IT spending for 27 agencies across the board from the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense to NASA and the Smithsonian Institution. More...

  • July-01-2009 -- YouTube Readies Redesign Amid Chorus of Complaints
    Monday, Google Inc.' s online video sharing site YouTube launched a new initiative dubbed The YouTube Reporters' Center, a video channel dedicated to helping citizen journalists all over the world hone their skills and become better reporters.
    With YouTube clearly dominating the online video picture thus far, it makes perfect sense that it should strive to become a go-to source for news content online. More...

  • July-01-2009 -- Google Fixes Search Problem in Outlook Sync Tool for Apps
    Microsoft said its forthcoming Windows Marketplace for Mobile application storefront will launch with 600 applications.
    Microsoft will be launching their new application store, Windows Marketplace for Mobile, pretty soon and it's just been revealed the level of content that will be initially available. More...

  • July-01-2009 -- Maine remains at the forefront of 1:1 with 64k Macs on order
    The laptop program, known officially as the Maine Learning Technology Inititative, or MLTI, has already provided Apple notebook computers to all Maine middle school students since 2002.
    Every seventh- and eighth-grade student in Maine public schools will receive a machine. More...

  • July-01-2009 -- Red Faction Guerilla Getting Three DLC Packs
    Bored of using the same old improvised explosive devices? Tired of destroying the same old buildings and shooting up the EDF's rank-and-file? Did that last massive explosion feel just like the countless others you've engineered? Today THQ announced a series of three downloadable content packs for Red Faction: Guerrilla that should make your terrorist (or freedom fighter, depending on your perspective) activities feel fresh and exciting once again.
    I'''d seen loads of praise for Guerrilla, a game in which you play a freedom fighter (terrorist?) bringing down a repressive military government on Mars by bombing buildings, assassinating generals and using a gigantic sledgehammer to unleash all kinds of mayhem. More...

  • July-01-2009 -- Fable III teased by New York Times' Style section?
    The article states that groom Joshua Samuels Atkins "is the lead game designer for Fable III, a video game series produced by Lionhead Studios in Guildford, England."
    Amy E. Gilbert and Joshua Samuels Atkins' wedding was announced in the New York Times newspaper and has been getting lots of attention. More...

Tuesday


  • June-30-2009 -- Cool Search Engines That Are Not Google
    Separately, Schmidt refuses to comment on rumours that Google is employing a team of engineers to examine the technology behind Microsoft '''s new search engine Bing.
    OK, let's get to straight to the big controversy: The people responsible for the daily image on Microsoft's search home page swear they weren't taking a swipe at Apple's Snow Leopard operating system in February, when they published an attention-grabbing picture of a real snow leopard -- accompanied by text noting that the big cats can't roar. More...

  • June-30-2009 -- Adobe Flash now widely available to Android device vendors
    '''The next version of Google'''s Android operating system, 'Cupcake,' should be attractive to a wider segment of developers,''' said Larry Stapleton, Bsquare'''s vice president of global sales.
    There's no need for Android fans to wait for the upcoming port of Flash 10 to their favorite handsets. More...

  • June-30-2009 -- A tiny Aston Martin for James Bond types
    Perhaps all those Myvis going around town sporting a faux E60 5-Series look had the right idea all along.
    The Cygnet could help Aston Martin meet new European limits on C02 emissions by offsetting the high average emissions of the carmaker's larger performance cars. More...

  • June-30-2009 -- Wikipedia and the Kidnapped Reporter: Censor or Savior?
    The hardest part of it? Keeping the news off Wikipedia Wikipedia.
    What was infinitely harder was keeping the people away from posting on Wikipedia. More...

  • June-30-2009 -- Blind Hacker Hit With 11 Year Sentence
    Matthew Weigman - nicknamed the "Little Hacker" - pleaded guilty to one offence of conspiracy to commit access device fraud and unauthorized access of a protected computer.
    More...

  • June-30-2009 -- Toyota Demonstrates Brain Control of Wheelchair
    Researchers in Japan have developed a brain-machine interface (BMI) system that allows for control of a wheelchair using thought.
    As a failsafe, the user can puff out a cheek, triggering a sensor and stopping the chair. More...

  • June-30-2009 -- StarCraft II Will Not Support LAN
    There, you'll catch up on the latest news, talk to the crew, settle down for booze in the bar, or order the ship to warp to a new planet.
    While we didn't actually get a chance to go hands-on with some of the new Battle.net features--all still a work in progress, Blizzard cautioned--we got to see some fascinating changes. More...

  • June-30-2009 -- Google, YouTube Give Citizen Journalists New Tools
    Monday, Google Inc.' s online video sharing site YouTube launched a new initiative dubbed The YouTube Reporters' Center, a video channel dedicated to helping citizen journalists all over the world hone their skills and become better reporters.
    Huffington said: "Nothing has demonstrated the power of citizen journalism better than the recent uprising in Iran. More...

Tuesday


  • June-30-2009 -- Google Says It Doesn't Dominate, Microsoft Begs To Differ
    One test subject said Bing was "warmer and more inviting."
    Given the $100 million ad campaign Microsoft is throwing behind it, I'd say it has as good a shot as anything to break through, even if it doesn't fully cure "search overload". More...

  • June-30-2009 -- Google Fights Information Poverty In Africa
    "Today, we are announcing Google SMS, a suite of mobile applications which will allow people to access information, via SMS, on a diverse number of topics including health and agriculture tips, news, local weather, sports, and more."
    "You enter a free form text query, and Google's algorithms restructure the query to identify keywords, search a database to identify relevant answers, and return the most relevant answer," Google wrote in a blog post . More...

  • June-30-2009 -- New NASA astronauts will never fly on shuttle
    On the team are Air Force test pilot Jack Fischer, Joint Chiefs special assistant Michael Hopkins, flight surgeon Kjell Lindgren, test pilot Gregory Wiseman, and International Space Station flight controller Mark Vande Hei.
    Scott D. Tingle, commander, U.S. Navy, 43, of Hollywood, Md. ; test pilot and assistant program manager-Systems Engineering at Naval Air Station Patuxent River. More...

  • June-30-2009 -- Stop Yelling At Sony To Cut The Price Of The PS3
    According to Ars Technica, the PS3 could be getting a price cut this fall.
    I agree that the Slim needs to be the PS3 model that brings along a nice price drop for Sony to start moving signifigantly more boxes, but their recent public stance regarding arbitrarily charging a higher price for the PSP Go! solely because it's a shiny new model is concerning. More...

  • June-30-2009 -- Doom Resurrection Released for IPhone, IPod Touch
    Interview: John Carmack and Tom Mustaine on Doom, iPhone Desires, and the Future of id Mobile If John Carmack is id Software's mad scientist, then Doom: Resurrection is his latest experiment.
    Carmack is interested in creating a technical proof of concept for running the idTech 5 megatexture content creation pipeline on the 3GS, simply to warm the technology up and see what the more powerful device can handle. More...

  • June-30-2009 -- Posted by kdawson on Monday June 29, @06:57PM
    The hardest part of it? Keeping the news off Wikipedia Wikipedia.
    The Times has been known to shout from the mountain tops any secret information known regarding military movements or intelligence. More...

  • June-30-2009 -- RIP, Ulysses solar probe
    After almost 17 years in orbit, the scientific mission of the Ulysses spacecraft will end tomorrow.
    Not bad for a space probe whose imminent "retirement" was to have occurred early last year. More...

  • June-30-2009 -- Mississippi River Delta to "Drown" by 2100?
    '''Geologists have known about for a long time, but only in a qualitative way,''' says Roberts.
    Live on a geological formation called the Mississippi Delta. More...

Monday


  • June-29-2009 -- Google News, YouTube Invite News Groups to Share Video Content
    YouTube has launched a new section on its website with the aim of encouraging more users to get involved with citizen journalism.
    Interested news sites and blogs can sign up at the YouTube Partner site . More...

  • June-29-2009 -- Louisiana coast will continue to erode, researchers say
    Blum and Roberts do not, however, advocate giving up the fight to save the coast.
    One academy study in 2005 urged federal and state officials to develop a map showing what parts of the coast could be sustained with a comprehensive coastal restoration program. More...

  • June-29-2009 -- Final Fantasy XI expansion pre-sale next week
    London (29th June 2009) - Square Enix Ltd., the publisher of Square Enix' interactive entertainment products in Europe and other PAL territories, today announces that the second add-on scenario for FINAL FANTASY' XI, their MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online Game), will begin pre-sale on July 5, 2009.
    Leong is especially focused on the monthly fees required to play online, which were apparently not included in previous versions of the game. More...

  • June-29-2009 -- Teardown reveals thin profit margin on Mac Mini
    Apple's latest Mac mini continues to demonstrate the company's capacity to develop personal computers that are both smaller and more attractive than those of its rivals, but achieving its sleeker design footprint comes at the expense of razor-thin profit margins, a new tear-down cost analysis reveals.
    Tearing down and tallying up the components of the tiny cube'which measures just 2 inches high by 6.5 inches long and wide, and has a retail starting price of $599'iSuppli determined it has a bill of materials of $376.20. More...

  • June-29-2009 -- EarthTalk: Does the sun have more impact on climate change than ...
    The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would drastically reduce the U.S.'''
    The high-resolution simulations of sunspot pairs open the way for researchers to learn more about the vast mysterious dark patches on the Sun's surface. More...

  • June-29-2009 -- Gmail Users: Thanks For The Memory
    The new Gmail attachment limit seems to be enabled on all Gmail accounts already unlike other changes to the email service that usually get rolled out over time.
    Google let Gmail users know through the Gmail Help page with a simple message: "You can send and receive messages up to 25 megabytes (MB) in size." More...

  • June-29-2009 -- Where's the Announcement for the 2nd Mass Effect DLC?
    On the Mass Effect forums, Christina Norman, lead system designer, said that Insanity difficulty was made unlockable, because it was so difficult a player needed the experience of already playing through the game in order to complete it.
    You play extrmely well, but not well enough, and on a subsequent try you're able to be victorious because you play better." More...

  • June-29-2009 -- It's No Myth: Adam Savage Taps Twitter to Fight $11000 AT&T Bill
    The star of MythBusters, Adam Savage, has had an $11,000 charge for data roaming dropped thanks to his 60,000 Twitter followers.
    The argument about not reading your contract or you should know better doesn't work when it is painfully obvious to someone who can do basic math that the profit margin on data transmission is hundreds of thousands times greater than the costs. More...

Monday


  • June-29-2009 -- PlayStation 3 Users Report Trouble Viewing Hulu
    Not all the internet though.
    Hulu, the internet service that allows you to watch TV on your computer - as long as you live in the U.S. - has blocked the viewing of its service on the PS3 web browser. More...

  • June-29-2009 -- Phones, Pricing, Netbooks
    Debuting on the HTC Hero and available on all new HTC devices moving forward, Sense delivers on three basic principles: Make it Mine, Stay Close and Discover the Unexpected.
    HTC Hero Smartphone The new HTC Hero Smartphone continues HTC leadership in cutting-edge design that focuses on introducing a variety of distinct devices to represent your own individuality. More...

  • June-29-2009 -- Ulysses Space Mission Finally Coming To An End
    Not bad for a space probe whose imminent "retirement" was to have occurred early last year.
    I think due diligence should be part of future space missions and include an way to guide the dying spacecraft to closest star or blackhole. More...

  • June-29-2009 -- Acer Unveils Display, Gives Desktops A Makeover
    Next up, the Aspire M3800 features an 2.5 GHz Intel Pentium processor, 4 GB of RAM, Intel GMA graphics, a 640 GB hard drive, 802.11n Wi-Fi, a Super Multi DVD burner, and the same complement of USB, FireWire, and HDMI ports.
    Acer's revved-up Aspire M5, M3, and X3 systems feature a new industrial design, oodles of ports, HDMI, and tons of storage. More...

  • June-29-2009 -- PC brands lobby while preparing for China software filter
    Chinese authorities claim that putting Green Dam censorware on all new PCs sold in the country is necessary to limit young people's exposure to "harmful information."
    China plans to include the filtering software with all PCs sold there from July 1. More...

  • June-29-2009 -- Drunk Driving Safer than Driving and Texting, Study Suggests
    The dangers of texting from behind the wheel have been documented all-too-well by recent accidents involving texters.
    The new law banning texting and emailing has several exceptions, including emergency vehicle operators, drivers reporting an emergency or a driver who is parked. More...

  • June-29-2009 -- Microsoft to offer Windows 7 on USB drives?
    According to a recent report from CNET , Microsoft may be thinking about letting consumers purchase the Windows 7 operating system on a USB thumb drive in order to make it easier to upgrade PCs without CD/DVD drives.
    I loaded it the dvd iso on a 4 gig thumb drive with unetbootin and it booted into the installer. More...

  • June-29-2009 -- Palm Pre News Mojo SDK Available (Grey Market) Online, Bite out of ...
    This should be a cause for celebration amongst Pre owners.
    Palm claimed it is well positioned to take advantage of the expected doubling in smartphone sales by 2013.'' More...

Sunday


  • June-28-2009 -- HTC Changing the Look of All Its Future Smartphones
    Debuting on the HTC Hero and available on all new HTC devices moving forward, Sense delivers on three basic principles: Make it Mine, Stay Close and Discover the Unexpected.
    HTC CEO Peter Chou said that Sense UI will be available even on older devices, but it turns out that exciting statement wasn’t quite what it seems . More...

  • June-28-2009 -- Drunk Driving Safer than Driving and Texting, Study Suggests
    The dangers of texting from behind the wheel have been documented all-too-well by recent accidents involving texters.
    The new law banning texting and emailing has several exceptions, including emergency vehicle operators, drivers reporting an emergency or a driver who is parked. More...

  • June-28-2009 -- Chevrolet Volt Positioned To Be Sportier Than Honda Insight and ...
    Being an early adopter isn't cheap.
    Just as important, the build activity provides valuable insight into the final vehicle assembly process to ensure a high-level of build quality and manufacturing efficiency when full scale production begins in November 2010.''' More...

  • June-28-2009 -- Microsoft to offer Windows 7 on USB drives?
    According to a recent report from CNET , Microsoft may be thinking about letting consumers purchase the Windows 7 operating system on a USB thumb drive in order to make it easier to upgrade PCs without CD/DVD drives.
    Microsoft has done a lot of work making Windows 7 compatible with netbooks, so it would make sense the company wants to make it easier for netbook users to install Windows. More...

  • June-28-2009 -- Mayoral Candidates on Facebook and Twitter
    On one hand it can be seen as a fight or one upmanship with Twitter because it has a set of very similar features on the face of things., which I think is more likely is that these have been plans Facebook has been having since quite sometime, and perhaps planning to acquire Twitter was more a strategic move to execute these plans faster.
    Free is in but for how long? Two of the most prolific Internet properties that are currently getting a serious amount of attention from business are Twitter and Facebook. More...

  • June-28-2009 -- Acer Unveils Display, Gives Desktops A Makeover
    Next up, the Aspire M3800 features an 2.5 GHz Intel Pentium processor, 4 GB of RAM, Intel GMA graphics, a 640 GB hard drive, 802.11n Wi-Fi, a Super Multi DVD burner, and the same complement of USB, FireWire, and HDMI ports.
    The M3800 is expandable, with an open PCIe x1 slot and one x16 graphics card slot. More...

  • June-28-2009 -- Kindle DX offers more, whether you need it or not
    Now as far as e-book reading devices are concerned, here is where I feel my mother's 21st-century pain.
    BusinessWeek makes that case, by threading together some of the company's recent moves. More...

  • June-28-2009 -- MythBuster uses Twitter to fight $11000 phone bill
    Every few months or so there's an article somewhere about an insane phone bill that someone gets because they took their phone out of the country without recognizing the insanity that is international roaming rates.
    Every time you send a gift or a Canadian person dares to try to get a cheaper price from the U.S., customs Canada enforces a 35-50% tariff on items from outside Canada to force people to buy from local merchants. More...

Sunday


  • June-28-2009 -- MythBuster uses Twitter to fight $11000 phone bill
    Every few months or so there's an article somewhere about an insane phone bill that someone gets because they took their phone out of the country without recognizing the insanity that is international roaming rates.
    The argument about not reading your contract or you should know better doesn't work when it is painfully obvious to someone who can do basic math that the profit margin on data transmission is hundreds of thousands times greater than the costs. More...

  • June-28-2009 -- Now on the Wii: Aliens, Guns and the Capitol
    Chris Antista at Games Radar rates The Conduit at 8 out of 10 .
    It's pretty depressing that even the reviewer making the "Wii Game" distinction admits how stupid the hardcore vs casual labeling is. More...

  • June-28-2009 -- Little Hoover: Reform Calif. stem cell agency
    The LHC has recently been "studying" the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
    The CIRM, based in San Francisco, was founded in 2005 as part of the state of California’s Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative of 2004, $3 billion for state schools and businesses from bonds. More...

  • June-28-2009 -- Michael Jackson's death roils Wikipedia
    The strongest trend of searches for the term was still for the writer.
    Does Google "really" need to get the search "exactly" right all of the time? I mean, if you were searching for MJ, then I'd be willing to "ass-bet" a million dollars at a Brooklyn Cee-Lo spot that you knew he was dead or in a serious health situation. More...

  • June-28-2009 -- Facebook: Want To Keep That Update Private? Go Ahead
    I would have to say it seems something that is prone to mistake, im not sure that i feel comfortable in being able to set my privacy settings high, but then when not paying attention broadcast out my facebook status update which is usually personal.
    My friends are now scattered around the globe. More...

  • June-28-2009 -- Trine: Co-Op Demo Impressions
    Wii ]] New Super Mario Bros.
    One interesting thing about the co-op is how multiple players can affect objects at the same time, adding a level of puzzle solving that's simply not available in single player. More...

  • June-28-2009 -- iPhone Bob leaves Apple to pursue venture capital investing
    Not everyone is leaving venture capital amid the recession.
    Borchers has worked at Apple since 2004 and was responsible for marketing the iPod and iPhone. More...

  • June-28-2009 -- Report: Sony considers adding phone to PSP
    TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp is considering developing a cellphone-game gear hybrid in a bid to better compete with Apple Inc's highly popular iPod and iPhone, the Nikkei business daily said on Saturday.
    What's compelling about the idea now? Are the games on a Sony phone so superior to the iPhone's that it will overcome the Iphone's integration with itunes, the other non-gaming apps, the slick OS X interface, the Apple crafted hardware and web integration? Second, I never understand how smart companies are always trying to COMPETE with a juggernaut. More...





Saturday


  • June-27-2009 -- Create a SD Card Startup Disk for New MacBook Pros
    We listed the main changes in our unboxing post, but aside from the inevitable processor, RAM and storage tweaks the biggest changes are Firewire 800, SD card compatibility, new displays and integrated batteries.''
    Battery life is rated at up to seven hours and is one of the features improved over the previous model. More...

  • June-27-2009 -- Carmack on ZeniMax, Apple, and new 'triple-A' game
    Id Software isn't going anywhere, John Carmack will still remain Technical Director of id, and gamers shouldn't expect any radical shifts in direction for the development studio.
    The name of the game is Rage. More...

  • June-27-2009 -- Now on the Wii: Aliens, Guns and the Capitol
    June 22, 2009 - Before The Conduit , High Voltage Software was a company known for the Hunter: The Reckoning series on a good day and its selection of licensed software on a bad one.
    @Jack Spicer PSN: watsuke They don't need to say they're a point breaker. More...

  • June-27-2009 -- Hunt for Life on Saturnian Moon Heats Up
    The Cassini spacecraft circling Saturn since 2004 has also found a potentially life-sustaining mix of organic chemicals in Enceladus' plumes, ejected from a quartet of 120-kilometer (75-mile) long fractures -- known as "tiger stripes" -- aligned on the moon's south pole.
    Scientists have found salts in the E ring that speak to the interaction of water and rock under the moon's icy surface. More...

  • June-27-2009 -- State panel critical of stem cell institute
    The LHC has recently been "studying" the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
    The CIRM, based in San Francisco, was founded in 2005 as part of the state of California’s Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative of 2004, $3 billion for state schools and businesses from bonds. More...

  • June-27-2009 -- Facebook: Want To Keep That Update Private? Go Ahead
    Facebook has launched a beta version of an improved "Publisher", the site's main place to add content such as photos, videos, and status updates on your home page and profile.
    To restrict the data available to friends' apps, go to Settings, Privacy Settings and click the Applications link. More...

  • June-27-2009 -- Aldrin made strong case to be first on moon
    It was on July 20 1969 that Buzz Aldrin followed Neil Armstrong out of the Apollo 11 lander to make humankind's first footprints in the lunar soil.
    There's also plenty of footage of space travel mixed in, along with a cameo by Aldrin's Video Music Award . (The MTV Moonman is actually modeled after an image of Aldrin sticking a flag on the moon in 1969.) More...

  • June-27-2009 -- Texting Is More Dangerous Than Driving Drunk
    The dangers of texting from behind the wheel have been documented all-too-well by recent accidents involving texters.
    When the red light illuminated, the drivers, traveling 70 mph, hit the brakes. More...

Saturday


  • June-27-2009 -- Obama, Brown speak on climate change, economy
    Speaking at London Zoo to launch the Government's manifesto for international climate change talks in Copenhagen at the end of the year, Mr Brown gave a 'working figure' for the fund of $100billion per annum by 2020.
    In less than six months' time, countries from around the globe will gather in Copenhagen to forge a new concord on international climate change. More...

  • June-27-2009 -- Michael Jackson's death roils Wikipedia
    '''The cached server got slammed pretty quickly''' and '''went out,''' Mr. Walsh said.
    Learn everything you need to know to write a smart, publishable review of music, film, books, theater or any other arts and culture topic. More...

  • June-27-2009 -- State stem cell board needs overhaul, group says
    The LHC has recently been "studying" the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
    The current 29-member board is too big, has trouble assembling quorums and lacks truly independent voices, the Little Hoover Commission concluded. More...

  • June-27-2009 -- Hunt for Life on Saturnian Moon Heats Up
    The Cassini spacecraft circling Saturn since 2004 has also found a potentially life-sustaining mix of organic chemicals in Enceladus' plumes, ejected from a quartet of 120-kilometer (75-mile) long fractures -- known as "tiger stripes" -- aligned on the moon's south pole.
    "So that's possible, that there might be some misty caverns underneath the icy crust of Enceladus," says Schneider. More...

  • June-27-2009 -- iPhone marketing head goes to VC firm; iTunes breaks records after ...
    Not everyone is leaving venture capital amid the recession.
    Borchers has worked at Apple since 2004 and was responsible for marketing the iPod and iPhone. More...

  • June-27-2009 -- Carmack on ZeniMax, Apple, and new 'triple-A' game
    Id Software isn't going anywhere, John Carmack will still remain Technical Director of id, and gamers shouldn't expect any radical shifts in direction for the development studio.
    At this year'''s E3, it had three top-tier games on display. More...

  • June-27-2009 -- Tales of brave Ulysses
    Not bad for a space probe whose imminent "retirement" was to have occurred early last year.
    The shutdown of the satellite is a joint decision of the two agencies and comes a year after the mission was expected to end. More...

  • June-27-2009 -- Facebook: Want To Keep That Update Private? Go Ahead
    Facebook has launched a beta version of an improved "Publisher", the site's main place to add content such as photos, videos, and status updates on your home page and profile.
    To restrict the data available to friends' apps, go to Settings, Privacy Settings and click the Applications link. More...

Friday


  • June-26-2009 -- Salty Saturn moon plumes suggest stuff of life
    The Cassini spacecraft circling Saturn since 2004 has also found a potentially life-sustaining mix of organic chemicals in Enceladus' plumes, ejected from a quartet of 120-kilometer (75-mile) long fractures -- known as "tiger stripes" -- aligned on the moon's south pole.
    "Potential plume sources on Enceladus are an active area of research with evidence continuing to converge on a possible salt water ocean," said Linda Spilker, Cassini deputy project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Our next opportunity to gather data on Enceladus will come during two flybys in November." More...

  • June-26-2009 -- Facebook: Want To Keep That Update Private? Go Ahead
    Facebook has launched a beta version of an improved "Publisher", the site's main place to add content such as photos, videos, and status updates on your home page and profile.
    Just a couple of hours ago Facebook launched the live stream but status updates within that widget do not have similar privacy options. More...

  • June-26-2009 -- Why legendary game developer John Carmack shelved his ego and sold ...
    Id Software isn't going anywhere, John Carmack will still remain Technical Director of id, and gamers shouldn't expect any radical shifts in direction for the development studio.
    The Zenimax offer was compelling enough that the idea of letting Doom 4 be the first big breakout title for id under Zenimax, it looks like as good of a time as any. More...

  • June-26-2009 -- Review: It's 'Fight Night Round 4' by a knockout
    Sure, while Fight Night Round 4 and its ilk all feature two combatants going war in a confined space (I think we can all agree that that's a solid definition of a fighting game), the paced nature of the action and the presentation is more akin to a sports game.
    Boxing has sometimes been called the "sweet science" and EA Sports has crafted a game that gives some credibility to that. More...

  • June-26-2009 -- Microsoft's Hohm Hopes to Overpower Google's PowerMeter
    Since Google can't be the only multibillion-dollar technology company having all the home energy monitoring fun, Microsoft's jumping in with "Hohm" -- like a portmanteau of "Home" and "Ohm," get it? We're not entirely sure just how it works yet, but according to the company, using both user input / feedback and analytics licensed from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy, the program provides suggestions for energy conservation.
    The companies plan to jointly evaluate software and hardware options before choosing partners. More...

  • June-26-2009 -- iPhone 3G S Jailbreak On The Way
    The iPhone Dev Team have released a new version of their jailbreak / unlock tool for the recently released Apple iPhone / iPod Touch firmware v3.0 .
    Either way you jailbreak, the end result is an iPhone that can do all sorts of new tricks like record video and upload it to YouTube, let you install custom themes, icon sets, and even different battery indicators, and, of course, tweak away at system preferences like nobody's business. More...

  • June-26-2009 -- Microsoft's free security beta fills up
    Microsoft Security Essentials, free security product, hits the antivirus basics, including built-in and customizable scan options, a scheduler, automatic definition file updates, a real-time defense shield, and rootkit protection.
    Microsoft has released a trial version of its new antivirus program, Microsoft Security Essentials. More...

  • June-26-2009 -- News Sites Falter as Traffic Spikes After Jackson's Death
    Keynote Systems reports that ABC, AOL, CBS, CNN Money, MSNBC, NBC, and Yahoo! News all experienced performance problems between 6:15 and 9 pm Eastern time, when the average availability of news sites tracked by Keynote dropped from almost 100% to 86%.
    'Beginning at 5:30pm (EDT), the average speed for downloading news sites doubled from less than four seconds to almost nine seconds,' outlined Shawn White, director of external operations at Keynote Systems. More...

Friday


  • June-26-2009 -- What's the uptake on iPhone OS 3.0?
    The statistics for iPod touch users paint an entirely different picture, however.
    I almost never used my iPhone before the upgrade to 3.0, but with the addition of the voice recorder and landscape keyboard, I'm using it 24/7 and didn't realize that would run down the battery quicker until you mentioned it. More...

  • June-26-2009 -- Third of All Shark Species Threatened With Extinction
    Sonja Fordham, the group's shark specialist, said: "Despite mounting threats, sharks remain virtually unprotected on the high seas.
    Hammerheads, giant devil rays and porbeagle sharks are among 64 species on the first ever red list for oceanic sharks produced by the World Conservation Union (IUCN).Scientists estimate that shark populations in the north-west Atlantic Ocean have declined by an average of 50% since the early 1970s. More...

  • June-26-2009 -- Apple's iphone 3GS goes on sale in Japan, five other countries
    Staff said most iPhone devotees had spared themselves an early rise by ordering the latest model online well in advance.
    A year ago the arrival of two trucks laden with new iPhones to Softbank's Tokyo flagship store would have drawn cheers and claps from the line of people waiting to purchase the phones. More...

  • June-26-2009 -- mocoNews - Palm's CEO: So Far 1 Million Apps Downloaded; 'Haven't ...
    "The Pre is going to run rings around on the Web."
    End of summer is far too late. More...

  • June-26-2009 -- Big Software Plans for Amazon's Kindle?
    The company already offers a handful of mobile applications.
    As with the original, a user could instantly download electronic books from Amazon. More...

  • June-26-2009 -- Arrrr! Pirate Bay Denied Retrial, Judge Ruled Unbiased
    The Swedish Court of Appeals has found that Tomas Norstrm was not biased when he delivered the guilty verdict against the four people involved in running the file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, it said on Thursday.
    I agree, personally, but that has nothing to do with your believing you have the right to ignore copyright. More...

  • June-26-2009 -- Moon Walker Buzz Aldrin: Time to Settle on Mars
    It was on July 20 1969 that Buzz Aldrin followed Neil Armstrong out of the Apollo 11 lander to make humankind's first footprints in the lunar soil.
    Astronauts from the United States' Apollo missions as well as robots from many other international missions have abandoned more than 300,000 pounds of man-made equipment on the surface of the moon. More...

  • June-26-2009 -- Mozilla confirms Firefox 3.5 RC 3
    The final release of Firefox 3.5 is still expected to be released by the end of June.
    While Mozilla has already made available two separate RC builds, RC1 and RC2 are set up as two parts of the same RC part. More...

Thursday


  • June-25-2009 -- Upgrading to the iPhone 3G S
    The Palm Pre, the newest mobile phone from the company, comes to the market with a brand new operating system, webOS, and has been touted as an iPhone killer by most industry watchers.
    As for the Pre, Palm's handset closely rivaled the iPhone 3G, Medialets pinpointed. More...

  • June-25-2009 -- Pirate Bay retrial denied; judge declared "unbiased"
    After receiving a verdict of a year in jail (each) and a shared 30 million kronor fine, The Pirate Bay defendants charged Norstr??m with bias and asked a court of appeal for a completely new trial with a different judge.
    With asimplgoogle search you will find that Anders Eka, is connected to the The Stockholm Center for Commercial law, together with movie industry lawyers Monique Wasted and Peter Danowsky who represented the music industry in the Pirate Bay trial. More...

  • June-25-2009 -- Why So Serious...Sam? Serious Sam HD Coming to XBLA
    'And bridging the gap between the fine folks at Croteam and Majesco feels good too.
    PlayStation fans will be left out of the fun with the new Serious Sam update, titled Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD, having been confirmed for XBLA and PC only. More...

  • June-25-2009 -- Oregon University Web Site Compromised By Pro-Iranian Hacker
    The schism in Iran over the disputed presidential election has already led to a range of Internet attacks.
    While I don't really sympathise with the current Iranian president I do have some sympathy with one of the previous comments: most people in the U.S. and UK have got no idea about politics or day to day life in the Middle East. More...

  • June-25-2009 -- Microsoft rebuffs Twitter protest over Outlook's rendering of HTML ...
    The statement implies that the performance of Word's rendering engine could be improved once the official Technical Preview is released.
    As for incoming mail, my rule has always been "if it is hard to read, throw it awaythere is lots of other email out there." More...

  • June-25-2009 -- 'Oldest musical instrument' found
    Turk did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment.
    The finds are stunning new evidence of the creativity of the first European Homo sapiens, who are thought to be responsible for the famous prehistoric animal paintings inside France'''s Chauvet cave and other sites. More...

  • June-25-2009 -- ISS crew snaps erupting volcano
    June 12: Sarychev Peak on Matua Island is one of the most active volcanoes in the Kuril Island chain, northeast of Japan.
    For volcano experts, the most exciting part of the image is the layer of smooth white cloud that caps the plume - a little like a layer of snow on a mushroom. More...

  • June-25-2009 -- Rugged and robust photography with the Pentax Optio W80
    Meet the new Optio W80, which, according to Pentax, is a sturdy addition to its bulging camera portfolio that stands out from the masses thanks to a robust construction capable of withstanding 16 feet of water depth, chilling temperatures of minus 10 degrees Celsius, and shock drops of up to a metre.
    A 2.5-inch LCD monitor features anti-reflective coating, and the widescreen, HD movie capture mode records video at resolutions of up to 1,280 by 720 pixels at 30 fps. More...

Thursday


  • June-25-2009 -- An Astronaut Goes From Walking on the Moon to Painting It
    It was on July 20 1969 that Buzz Aldrin followed Neil Armstrong out of the Apollo 11 lander to make humankind's first footprints in the lunar soil.
    "Young people have lost any interest in space that isn't in a video game or a movie house. More...

  • June-25-2009 -- RealPlayer Adds Format Conversion, Social Networking
    Seattle-based RealNetworks (NASDAQ: RNWK ) announced today the first new version of its RealPlayer media software since May 2007.
    Real has released a beta version of the latest instalment of their long running media player. More...

  • June-25-2009 -- HP Unveils New Slick Mini 5101 Netbook
    Thankfully it also has a matte display, which is more useful for business users who are often on the road.
    Just by the looks of it, the company appears to have succeeded: the HP Mini 5101 features an anodized aluminum display enclosure with a black, brushed finish, paired with magnesium alloy in the lower half of the shell. More...

  • June-25-2009 -- Palm Pre Reaches 1 Million Apps Mark
    Apple's store has far more useful applications than the Pre has total, even if that number is dwarfed by the avalanche of less-than-useful applications.
    The Palm Pre looks great. More...

  • June-25-2009 -- Bogged down AT&T 3G to clear in months; Buffett criticizes Jobs
    Even outside of major hubs, many customers have sued AT&T alleging that it has deliberately misled Americans by making speed claims it could never match.
    Sprint Nextel Inc. has weathered financial and customer care problems in recent years, so the carrier has a lot riding on the success of its new Palm Pre smartphone. More...

  • June-25-2009 -- Kayak to Bing: Stop Copying Us!
    Kayak, the popular multi-airline airfare search engine, thinks Microsoft Bing's new travel search engine looks so much like its own that it's confusing Kayak users.
    According to a recent press release, Microsoft has seen gains in U.S. search share during the second week of Bings debut. More...

  • June-25-2009 -- Facebook testing new control for shielding updates
    Next, you need to specify how much of your information on Facebook members of each list can see.
    The solution: First, Jessica should add the possible stalker to a Limited Profile list, as outlined earlier. More...

  • June-25-2009 -- MetroPCS to offer unlimited international calls at $5/month
    MetroPCS Communications, Inc., the leading mobile phone carrier that offers unlimited, flat-rate, no signed contract wireless communications services, announced today that it now offers mobile phone users in the U.S. unlimited calling to more than 100 countries all around the world, for only $5 per month.
    "Pricing is coming down a lot in wireless, especially in the voice side," Auriga USA analyst Chandan Sarkar said. More...

Wednesday


  • June-24-2009 -- No End in Sight for MacBook Display Issues
    We reported earlier that it looks like the new MacBook Pros have had their hard drive controllers downgraded.
    Affected users can download the firmware update here , which is 3.35MB in size and requires Mac OS X version 10.5.7. More...

  • June-24-2009 -- MSN revamp to include stronger Bing ties
    Google is still the clear leader, but Microsoft's new entry is definitely turning heads.
    MSN is also important because Bing is proving popular for local search, shopping and travel ''' areas where MSN was responsible for generating a large portion of Microsoft's search traffic. More...

  • June-24-2009 -- HP Mini 5101 Netbook Targeted At Business Users
    The HP Mini 5101 is not for most people'''s taste, but it is perfect for the mobile professional who likes to have a netbook with just that bit of class.
    I've never seen a netbook that makes it easier to upgrade or replace the RAM. The HP Mini 5101 supports up to 2GB of RAM. More...

  • June-24-2009 -- Creating 'Moments' of Your Life
    Vince Broady, the former founder of Gamespot and former SVP of entertainment at Yahoo, has officially launched his new startup called ThisMoment .
    The first time you go to use flickr, the service needs to authorize your account. More...

  • June-24-2009 -- Review: 'The Conduit' hits Wii with mixed results
    June 22, 2009 - Before The Conduit , High Voltage Software was a company known for the Hunter: The Reckoning series on a good day and its selection of licensed software on a bad one.
    The game - which takes place in an alternate future - offers players the chance to explore a Washington, DC that has been "shaken" by several strange events. More...

  • June-24-2009 -- Diviner is ready to start lunar mapping
    OK, so this isn't the prettiest picture of the moon you've ever seen.
    Four decades after man stepped on the moon, NASA has embarked on what it calls its 'first step in a lasting return to the moon'. More...

  • June-24-2009 -- Taking Paul Allen's Personal Creations Public
    Xiant Filer was created by technology innovator/Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen and engineers at Vulcan Technologies, whose challenge was to ease management of overflowing Microsoft Office Outlook inboxes.
    More...

  • June-24-2009 -- Pictures: Boxee Beta, Coming This September
    Online video platform--and scourge of the Hulu universe--Boxee today announced the release of a public alpha for the Windows platform, joining the versions of the software already available for Mac and Ubuntu.
    Despite the blow-up with Hulu (which Boxee seems to have circumvented; one of the virtual channels on Boxee is "Hulu feeds," a collection of streams from Hulu), Ronen said, the company has a "very healthy relationships" with media companies. More...

Wednesday


  • June-24-2009 -- IBM 'Roadrunner' Holds World's Fastest Computer Crown
    The Top500 list, to be released June 23 at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, has IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer at the top for the second straight year.
    IBM's number one system performs 444.9 megaflops per watt of energy compared only 154.2 megaflops per watt for the number 2 system. More...

  • June-24-2009 -- Lenovo Thinkpad T400S Review
    Lenovo is also introducing three new peripheral ptions for ThinkPad T400s laptop users: the ThinkPad Port Replicator Series 3 ($149), ThinkPad Mini-Dock Series 3 ($199) and ThinkPad Mini Dock Plus 3 ($229), which feature small footprints, one-step "rip and go" docking, and multi-monitor support via USB, Display Port and eSATA. I had a chance to preview this laptop last week in person, and I can certainly attest that it's a good mix of form and function the T400s is the right mix of performance and portability, not shedding features quite as aggressively as the X300 while maintaining a fairly light weight.
    The ThinkPad Port Replicator Series 3, ThinkPad Mini-Dock Series 3 and ThinkPad Mini Dock Plus 3 feature new slim and sleek footprints, provide one-step "rip and go" docking and include a range of multi-monitor support while meeting a variety of needs including support for USB, Display Port and eSATA. Users spend a lot of time on their keyboards. More...

  • June-24-2009 -- 'Spam King' Enters Guilty Plea
    Five prolific spammers today pleaded guilty to violating the CAN-SPAM Act in a federal court in Detroit in a case that took down a massive stock fraud operation, marking the Justice Department's largest-ever prosecution under the 2003 statute.
    Ralsky, of West Bloomfield, Michigan, admitted a series of wire and mail frauds, money laundering and CAN-SPAM offences. More...

  • June-24-2009 -- Bing Drives Microsoft's Paid Clicks Up 13%
    Speaking about consumer search last week , Steve Ballmer said he now regrets that Microsoft quote "didn't start earlier" unquote.
    ''While Bing showed some number of searches during the past two days.'' More...

  • June-24-2009 -- Gateway introduces high-definition netbook
    Gateway's new LT3100 netbooks feature 11.6-inch screens driven by ATI Radeon X1270 graphics, along with power-sipping AMD processors.
    The Athlon 64 L110 is rated at 1.2 GHz, with 512 KB of L2 cache and support for an 800-MHz front-side bus. More...

  • June-24-2009 -- Motorola unveils the Karma QA1
    AT&T, the second-biggest U.S. provider of mobile phone services, said on Tuesday it would start selling Motorola's Karma phone on June 28 for $79.99.
    Targeted at teenagers and young adults, Motorola Karma is an oval-shaped phone that features a sliding QWERTY keyboard, 3G (dual-band, 850/1900 MHz), threaded messaging, and a homescreen with one-click-access icons for Facebook and MySpace. More...

  • June-24-2009 -- Google's content trial delayed
    On trial are Google's senior vice president and chief legal Officer David Drummond, former chief financial officer George Reyes, senior product marketing manager Arvind Desikan, and global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer.
    Back in February four Google employees were facing a court case in Italy concerning the posting of a video on Google Video in 2006. More...

  • June-24-2009 -- Sprint CFO seeing Pre shortages, no iPhone impact
    Some analysts have worried that tight supply would hurt sales.
    Brust, who took on the CFO job at Sprint in May last year, has been walking the tightrope between spending on marketing to improve Sprint's tarnished brand and cutting costs in the face of steadily declining revenue. More...

Tuesday


  • June-23-2009 -- Google Halts "Suggest" Function On China Web Site
    THE Chinese government will force the world's biggest technology company Google to block a raft of overseas sites on its search engine.
    In yet another blow to Google's ( NASDAQ: GOOG ) Chinese operations, the Chinese government has ordered the global search giant to prevent users of its Chinese-language service from accessing overseas websites. More...

  • June-23-2009 -- Five Reasons Blu-ray Is Hurting
    "Oddly enough, although HD DVD is technically a dead format, it's apparently doing better than Blu-ray amongst those polled.
    If you have an CRT set that you plan on using your not going to see a big defference. More...

  • June-23-2009 -- It's a rap, with 'moon man' Buzz Aldrin and Snoop Dogg
    The devastated NASA employees implemented new rules and Improved quality control, and many viewed the lunar programs that followed as a crusade for the crew of Apollo 1 and for Kennedy, who had been assassinated In 1963.
    On July 20th we will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. More...

  • June-23-2009 -- LabCorp To Buy Treatment Optimizer Monogram For $106.7M
    Lab Corp shares down 1 pct, Monogram shares up 169 pct NEW YORK, June 23 (Reuters) - Medical testing company Laboratory Corporation of America ( LH.N ) said on Tuesday that it has agreed to buy Monogram Biosciences Inc ( MGRM.O ), a maker of diagnostic products for HIV and cancer, for about $106.7 million.
    "The transaction underscores the fundamental value of the Monogram business, the talent and expertise of our global team and the quality of our offerings," said William D. Young, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Monogram Biosciences, Inc. "LabCorp has an exciting vision of the role of molecular diagnostics in personalized medicine, and we are excited to see Monogram's technology and employees become a part of that vision. More...

  • June-23-2009 -- List of TOP500 Supercomputers Updated; IBM Supplies Half of Top Ten
    IBM's Roadrunner, which a year ago broke the "petaflop barrier" of one thousand trillion calculations per second, holds the No. 1 spot on the top 500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers.
    Having ushered in the petaflop era a year ago, IBM has established a Research collaboratory in Dublin, Ireland, in collaboration with the IDA, focused on achieving exascale computing and making it beneficial for businesses with technologies like stream computing to analyze massive amounts of real-time data. More...

  • June-23-2009 -- Coming Soon: Adobe Flash on Android, WinMo and WebOS
    In a press release, Adobe chief executive Shantanu Narayen confirmed that Adobe will release a beta version of Flash Player 10 for smart phones running Windows Mobile, Google Android, Palm webOS and Symbian in October.
    On Adobe's earnings call last week, chief executive Shantanu Naraye said his company will introduce version 10 of its Flash multimedia player for Android this October at Adobe MAX 2009 . More...

  • June-23-2009 -- Mont. city ends policy seeking Internet passwords
    Regardless of whether it is a web forum, Facebook , Twitter or some IRC chat room you are being made as part of a job interview to give up information that makes your online doings an open book.
    "The extent of our regulation for a candidate's password, username or other Internet information appears to have exceeded that which is acceptable to our community." More...

  • June-23-2009 -- New ThinkPad is Thinner, Loaded with Features
    Lenovo is also introducing three new peripheral ptions for ThinkPad T400s laptop users: the ThinkPad Port Replicator Series 3 ($149), ThinkPad Mini-Dock Series 3 ($199) and ThinkPad Mini Dock Plus 3 ($229), which feature small footprints, one-step "rip and go" docking, and multi-monitor support via USB, Display Port and eSATA. I had a chance to preview this laptop last week in person, and I can certainly attest that it's a good mix of form and function the T400s is the right mix of performance and portability, not shedding features quite as aggressively as the X300 while maintaining a fairly light weight.
    Interestingly, the T400s, which is also bigger than the previous X300 ultra thin model, comes with a multitouch trackpad which puts it on par with the MacBook Air. More...

Tuesday


  • June-23-2009 -- RIAA's $1.92M Verdict Means Nothing But Absurdity
    The music industry has threatened about 35,000 people with charges of copyright infringement over the past five years, typically offering to settle the cases for $3,000 to $5,000.
    Given that that penalty is now eight times greater than it was in that case, we can certainly expect Judge Davis to give the issue a close look. More...

  • June-23-2009 -- Great whites 'plan' seal attacks
    Researchers used geographic profiling - a tool originally developed to catch serial criminals - to study how sharks hunt so-called Cap fur seals at Seal Island in False Bay, South Africa, a location famous for spectacular shark attacks at the water's surface.
    LONDON: In a new research, scientists have found that the way Great white sharks hunt their preys is quite similar to the methods used by serial killers to stalk their victims. More...

  • June-23-2009 -- The New Race for the Moon
    At issue is NASA's Constellation Program , which is intended to replace the space shuttle.
    NASA has a difficult job balancing the priorities of missions competing for the same launch slot. More...

  • June-23-2009 -- The Commodore 64 Lives Again, Sort Of
    Manomio's C64 emulator ''' which was officially licensed by Commodore ''' was refused by Apple because "an Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means."
    Perhaps a different version of the C64 emulator can be submitted, but the problem is, if you aren't typing "Load CaliforniaGames" into your Commodore 64, you're not really emulating it. More...

  • June-23-2009 -- GM touts Buick LaCrosse that's being made at Fairfax plant
    A fuel-efficient, direct injected Ecotec 2.4L four-cylinder engine will be the third engine offered in the 2010 Buick LaCrosse luxury sedan.
    The car comes with a choice of two V-6 engines or a four-cylinder one that gets up to 30 mpg on the highway. More...

  • June-23-2009 -- New Mass Effect DLC info due 'this week' - BioWare
    Mass Effect, the space opera role-playing action game, could be about to get extra downloadable content for the Microsoft Xbox 360 and possibly PC. Despite Mass Effect 2 being in full production, the game's developers BioWare are hinting that there will be an announcement imminently, and a pulled listing for Mass Effect on the Microsoft Xbox 360's Xbox Live Games On Demand pages seems to confirm the news.
    A listing on Xbox 360's Games on Demand pretty much let the cat out of the bag. More...

  • June-23-2009 -- Rethinking the Kindle
    Apparently, books can be downloaded an unlimited number of times, though only active on a limited number of devices (e.g. Kindle, Kindle 2, Kindle DX or the Kindle Reader app on an iPhone or iPod touch).''
    If Apple can convince the music industry to back down on audio DRM, Amazon can -- and should -- do the same with book publishers. More...

  • June-23-2009 -- Microsoft Offers Beta Of Windows 7 Planning Tool
    As reported over on Electronista , Microsoft has listened to the concerns ''' and scathing critisicms ''' of industry analysts that saw the move to end support for downgrading to the still-popular Windows XP operating system after six months of the launch of the next-next-generation OS Windows 7.
    Windows XP SP1 appeared even sooner, in September 2002, a little more than 10 months after XP's launch. More...

Monday


  • June-22-2009 -- Rumortoid: New Mass Effect DLC on the way?
    Mass Effect, the space opera role-playing action game, could be about to get extra downloadable content for the Microsoft Xbox 360 and possibly PC. Despite Mass Effect 2 being in full production, the game's developers BioWare are hinting that there will be an announcement imminently, and a pulled listing for Mass Effect on the Microsoft Xbox 360's Xbox Live Games On Demand pages seems to confirm the news.
    No sooner was it up - it got taken down again, but with the information on the RSS feed of new arrivals it informed us new online gaming manuals are inbound. More...

  • June-22-2009 -- Climate change debate running hot and cold
    The report , from the U.S. Global Change Research Program and released last week by the White House, describes national climate trends due to global warming.
    James Woudhuysen and Joe Kaplinsky described how the IPCC's fairly sober summary of climate science was spun into a man-made morality tale. spiked and Research Councils UK hosted an online debate on the future of energy . More...

  • June-22-2009 -- Kindle Copy Controls Stink
    Apparently, books can be downloaded an unlimited number of times, though only active on a limited number of devices (e.g. Kindle, Kindle 2, Kindle DX or the Kindle Reader app on an iPhone or iPod touch).''
    The Kindle allows the user to upload documents onto the device using Amazon's Digital Text Platform self-publishing tool. More...

  • June-22-2009 -- Firefox 3.5 RC2 Now Publicly Available
    Full details of the new features and improvements can be found on the Mozilla developer blog.
    If you're using a WWAN card in your notebook, you can use the nearby cellphone towers to pinpoint your location. More...

  • June-22-2009 -- Two clues Microsoft is losing its way
    "Mobile is a critical component of the overall Microsoft Advertising strategy.
    Leading Microsoft's Mobile Advertising efforts is Charles Johnson, who was appointed as general manager in March to develop and execute the Mobile Advertising product marketing and partnership strategy. More...

  • June-22-2009 -- Report: Google tests new ad payment format
    The new ads also come as Google faces fresh competition from Microsoft's new search engine Bing, particularly in the area of online shopping.
    Google has announced a test for a new product which will allow advertisers to display specific products and prices. More...

  • June-22-2009 -- Spaceport America Under Construction in New Mexico
    Before the groundbreaking, Richardson and other officials will gather at Ralph Edwards Park in T or C for a smaller celebration.
    The spaceport will cover an area of about 27 square miles, and will be located about 30 miles (48 kilometers) East of Truth or Consequences and 45 miles (72 kilometers) North of the city of Las Cruces. More...

  • June-22-2009 -- Genachowski: FCC will probe exclusive handset deals
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's choice to head the Federal Communications Commission plans to review the exclusive arrangements between wireless carriers and cell phone makers.
    Putting the unanswered questions aside, no one should be surprised that RCA is quite happy about Genachowski and Copps' comments regarding exclusive handsets. More...

Monday


  • June-22-2009 -- The Not-Quite-Green Toyota Prius
    The automobile is now turning legendary as it completes more than 10 years of road service.
    Honda's all-new 2010 Insight Hybrid has EPA-rated fuel economy of 40 miles per gallon city and 43 mpg highway, and it is rated as an Advanced Technology Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle by the nation's toughest agency, the California Air Resources Board. More...

  • June-22-2009 -- Counting Carbon at Madison Square Garden
    Now, global warming activists have seized upon the concept.
    The Duetche bank is one of the founding banks for the Federal Reserve, you know, the system of printing fiat money and charging interest on it that can never be paid back. More...

  • June-22-2009 -- MovieIQ, CineChat: the New BD-Live Features
    SPHE will feature movieIQ on upcoming Blu-ray Disc titles starting in September and will offer it on all major catalog titles and new releases including Angels & Demons, Easy Rider, Punch Drunk Love, The Quick and the Dead, Silverado and sex, lies, and videotape.
    Sony's new Vaio NW notebook sprots a 15.5-inch display, HDMI output, an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. and an optional Blu-ray drive for under $900. More...

  • June-22-2009 -- Palm Releases First Update to webOS
    With Palm's App Catalog and accompanying developer kit still in a limited beta phase, users have only around 30 apps to choose from two weeks after the device's launch.
    Our word to Palm right now? Put every effort into getting that SDK out, or you're at risk of quickly burning through all the good will you've just engendered. More...

  • June-22-2009 -- Review: Apple's iPhone 3.0 Software Upgrade
    The team is hard at work as usual, developing jailbreak and unlock software for all of Apple's latest mobile hardware and software.
    Apple has published a document online outlining all of the possible iPhone and iPod touch flaws resolved by the iPhone 3.0 upgrade. More...

  • June-22-2009 -- Dell vs. Apple: Battle for Green Computer Crown Gets Ugly
    Through the little used channel of the Better Business Bureau's National Advertising Division, Dell has'' gotten Apple to amend its '''green notebooks''' claim, but not by much.
    More...

  • June-22-2009 -- Questions for Buzz Aldrin The Man on the Moon
    HONG KONG (AFP) — NASA should focus on sending a man to Mars and helping other nations travel in space, Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin said Friday.
    Fred Haise still dreams of the Moon. More...

  • June-22-2009 -- Google Preps Product Ads, Shows Us "What's Here?" on Google Maps
    The new ads also come as Google faces fresh competition from Microsoft's new search engine Bing, particularly in the area of online shopping.
    A Google spokeswoman said in a statement that the "test will only be visible to a small number of U.S. users" and emphasized that the company was "constantly experimenting with new features." More...

Sunday


  • June-21-2009 -- Windows 7 Features on a Vista or XP System
    "Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate customers will have the option to downgrade to Windows XP Professional from PCs that ship within 18 months following the general availability of Windows 7 or until the release of a Windows 7 service pack, whichever is sooner, and if a service pack is developed," a company spokeswoman said in an e-mail.
    Third-party alternatives, on the other hand, usually have no problem with different versions of Windows--or even with different platforms (Mac and Linux). Simplify Media , for example, can stream music files saved in various formats from your desktop music library (or from any friends whom you care to invite) to any other PC. An associated iPhone app (Simplify Music 2.0) handles streaming on the run. More...

  • June-21-2009 -- Game Guru To Microsoft: I'm Heading Back To EA
    Electronic Arts (EA) announces today its former president and Chief Operating Officer (COO) John Pleasants will be leaving the company, and will be replaced by John Schappert, who has been with the company since 1991, excepting a couple of leaves, one in 2007 for the position of Corporate VP at Microsoft Interactive Entertainment Business, taking charge of Microsoft Game Studios and Xbox LIVE. It seems Pleasants, who joined EA in March of '08, wasn't a good fit -- the press release merely states, " will be leaving the company," with EA's head spokesperson Jeff Brown telling us , "When we informed Mr. Pleasants of the agreement with Jon Schappert he elected to pursue another opportunity" -- word is he's taken a job as CEO at MySpace game development studio Playdom.
    At EA, Schappert will have a wider focus, overseeing worldwide publishing and the company's burgeoning interactive unit. More...

  • June-21-2009 -- FCC Should Restrict Exclusive Handset Deals
    Addressing a conference on broadband Internet in Washington on Thursday, Federal Communications Commission's acting Chairman Michael Copps said that the Commission would conduct an evaluation of exclusive partnerships between cellphone makers and wireless service carriers - like the iPhone deal between Apple and AT&T. At the Pike & Fischer's Broadband Policy Summit, Copps said that he has directed the agency's bureau on competition to investigate whether such deals restrict consumers' choices; harm development of innovative devices and thwart competition.
    Number porting rules allow consumers to switch services easily. More...

  • June-21-2009 -- Almost 700000 Palm Pre apps downloaded so far
    Greed is good for Apple and not for Palm.
    The launch user base of the Palm store was zero -- same as the Android Marketplace, which is doing just fine, thank you. More...

  • June-21-2009 -- Evidence for shorelines on Mars announced
    The lake, which dates back some 3.4 billion years, appears to have covered as much as 80 square miles (207 sq kilometers) and was up to 1,500 feet (500 meters) deep, said the team from the University of Colorado.
    Features that appear to be eroded river deltas more than 3.7 billion years old dot parts of the planet's surface. More...

  • June-21-2009 -- MovieIQ, CineChat: the New BD-Live Features
    SPHE will feature movieIQ on upcoming Blu-ray Disc titles starting in September and will offer it on all major catalog titles and new releases including Angels & Demons, Easy Rider, Punch Drunk Love, The Quick and the Dead, Silverado and sex, lies, and videotape.
    The NW-series laptop is packed a 15.5 inch WXGA XBRITE- ECO LCD display with HDMI output connector for big screen TV experience and optional Blu-ray disc to its DVD and CD read/write combine functionalities. More...

  • June-21-2009 -- Shuttle fueling test planned to assess leak fix
    NASA engineers think they have pinpointed the cause of dangerous hydrogen leaks that prompted back-to-back launch scrubs for shuttle Endeavour and aim to conduct a fuel-loading test to prove it by the first of July.
    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- WESH 2 News struck a nerve with an exclusive report as NASA actively works to prevent shuttle sabotage from within its ranks. More...

  • June-21-2009 -- Questions for Buzz Aldrin The Man on the Moon
    For more information and registration details, call 321-449-4400 or visit www.KennedySpaceCenter.com ]] www.KennedySpaceCenter.com .
    Aldrin was speaking at the launch of a three-day exhibition at the Hong Kong Space Museum celebrating the moon landing. More...

Sunday


  • June-21-2009 -- Questions for Buzz Aldrin The Man on the Moon
    Famed Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin''commented on Friday that NASA'''s upcoming ventures should concentrate on sending a man to Mars and assisting other nations with space travel, the AFP reported.
    Aldrin was speaking at the launch of a three-day exhibition at the Hong Kong Space Museum celebrating the moon landing. More...

  • June-21-2009 -- Shuttle fueling test planned to assess leak fix
    NASA engineers think they have pinpointed the cause of dangerous hydrogen leaks that prompted back-to-back launch scrubs for shuttle Endeavour and aim to conduct a fuel-loading test to prove it by the first of July.
    After it ambled past the spaceflyers, the alligator headed for the woods near the road. More...

  • June-21-2009 -- Beta of Free Microsoft Antivirus Suite to be Released Tuesday
    The service will protect users' PCs on XP and Vista and will give an added boost to the impending release of Windows 7, which will be available in October.
    Industry expert Rob Enderle of Enderle Group said consumers are not concerned with the fluff. More...

  • June-21-2009 -- Palm Releases webOS 1.0.3 for the Palm Pre
    With Palm's App Catalog and accompanying developer kit still in a limited beta phase, users have only around 30 apps to choose from two weeks after the device's launch.
    I definitely can't wait until the SDK is released so that we can get more apps out in the catalog. More...

  • June-21-2009 -- Apple finds silver lining in verdict on green claims
    Through the little used channel of the Better Business Bureau's National Advertising Division, Dell has'' gotten Apple to amend its '''green notebooks''' claim, but not by much.
    More...

  • June-21-2009 -- Microsoft Executive Returns to EA
    Electronic Arts (EA) announces today its former president and Chief Operating Officer (COO) John Pleasants will be leaving the company, and will be replaced by John Schappert, who has been with the company since 1991, excepting a couple of leaves, one in 2007 for the position of Corporate VP at Microsoft Interactive Entertainment Business, taking charge of Microsoft Game Studios and Xbox LIVE. It seems Pleasants, who joined EA in March of '08, wasn't a good fit -- the press release merely states, " will be leaving the company," with EA's head spokesperson Jeff Brown telling us , "When we informed Mr. Pleasants of the agreement with Jon Schappert he elected to pursue another opportunity" -- word is he's taken a job as CEO at MySpace game development studio Playdom.
    Emerging casual force Playdom, the firm responsible for leading MySpace social network game Mobsters, has joined this morning's high profile exec merry-go-round by announcing its capture of former EA COO John Pleasants as its new CEO. More...

  • June-21-2009 -- FCC Should Restrict Exclusive Handset Deals
    Addressing a conference on broadband Internet in Washington on Thursday, Federal Communications Commission's acting Chairman Michael Copps said that the Commission would conduct an evaluation of exclusive partnerships between cellphone makers and wireless service carriers - like the iPhone deal between Apple and AT&T. At the Pike & Fischer's Broadband Policy Summit, Copps said that he has directed the agency's bureau on competition to investigate whether such deals restrict consumers' choices; harm development of innovative devices and thwart competition.
    Exclusive handset distribution arrangements encourage the necessary collaboration that optimizes handset performance and accelerates the delivery of next-generation features. More...

  • June-21-2009 -- Google Preps Product Ads, Shows Us "What's Here?" on Google Maps
    The new ads also come as Google faces fresh competition from Microsoft's new search engine Bing, particularly in the area of online shopping.
    A Google spokeswoman said in a statement that the "test will only be visible to a small number of U.S. users" and emphasized that the company was "constantly experimenting with new features." More...









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