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 New York NY (SPX) Nov 10, 2009 
The World Teleport Association (WTA) has announced its rankings of the Top Teleport Operators of 2009, providing a unique look into the diverse teleport sector of the global communications industry. Rankings are reported in three categories: the Global Top Twenty, the Independent Top Twenty, and the Fast Twenty. ... read more 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 10, 2009In Alfred Bester's classic novel, The Stars My Destination, Gully Foyle, anti-hero of the future, is picked up after spending almost six months drifting alone in the outer reaches of the solar system. As he puts it, "One hundred and seventy days dying and not yet dead..." This summer, two intrepid American spacecraft are celebrating a mind-boggling thirty-two years alone in the ... more
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 10, 2009People love to get the big picture of hurricane alleys, and thanks to the GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., they can now get real-time satellite animations of the eastern Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. NASA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Project is offering real-time HDTV movies of the east- and west-coast "hurricane alley" ... more  
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (RIA Novosti) Nov 10, 2009Russia's space corporation Energia is doubling production of manned spacecraft, Energia's president said on Monday. Vitaly Lopota said production of space freighters would increase by 50%. He did not say what the current production levels were or how many spacecraft would be built. Nor did he offer a timeframe. Lopota also said Russia had an "insignificant share" of the world's $300 ... more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 10, 2009"We're back!" said Louis Friedman, Executive Director of The Planetary Society. "With an even more ambitious solar sail program than our last venture." The Planetary Society has announced LightSail, a plan to sail a spacecraft on sunlight alone by the end of 2010. The new solar sail project, boosted by a one-million-dollar anonymous donation, was unveiled at an event on Capitol Hill in ... more |
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Shanghai (AFP) Nov 8, 2009The official launch of Apple's iPhone in China has been disappointing at best for mobile operator China Unicom, with the grey market still booming and competitors offering worthy alternatives, experts say. Unicom unveiled Apple's iconic handset in Beijing on October 30, but the few hundred people who braved the cold wind and rain to snap up the iPhone paled in comparison to hordes seen in ... more  
San Francisco (AFP) Nov 9, 2009Industry tracker Gartner forecast on Monday that revenue from Internet-based "cloud computing" will top 14 billion dollars annually by the end of 2013. Revenue from businesses using software programs hosted online as services in the Internet "cloud" should tally 7.5 billion dollars this year, a 17.7 percent leap from 2008, according to Gartner. The trend toward cloud computing, or ... more  
Washington (UPI) Nov 9, 2009 The U.S. space agency says it has awarded $900,000 in prize money to a Seattle company for creating a wireless energy beaming technology. The company, LaserMotive, won the Power Beaming Challenge competition, which was a demonstration of wireless power transmission that enabled a robotic device to climb a vertical cable. NASA said the technology developed by LaserMotive might one day ... more |
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