Wildmagic7: Technology

Sun, 13 Jun 2004 05:48:20 GMT

Five Short-Range Wireless Standards Seen Combining (Reuters). Reuters - Five short-range wireless connection technologies are fighting for the industry limelight, but sector specialists said on Friday that companies would eventually combine the five to make life easier. [Yahoo! News - Technology]

Wed, 09 Jun 2004 06:19:28 GMT

Seattle Considers City-wide Wi-Fi. The Feature Jun 8 2004 11:30PM GMT [Moreover - moreover...]

Wed, 09 Jun 2004 06:15:57 GMT

NASA Space Station Status 8 Jun 2004. SpaceRef Jun 9 2004 4:50AM GMT [Moreover - Space station news]

Wed, 09 Jun 2004 06:12:44 GMT

As Venus Dances Across the Sun, Earth Dwellers See History Unfold [NewsIsFree: Science]

Mon, 31 May 2004 01:54:57 GMT

David Crosby Says Apple Can Save Music Industry [MacSlash]

Mon, 31 May 2004 01:53:52 GMT

iTunes Store In Europe To Launch Mid-June? [MacSlash]

Mon, 31 May 2004 01:44:55 GMT

Data From Recent Test Flight of Private Spacecraft Released (SPACE.com). SPACE.com - The May 13th flight of the privately-financed SpaceShipOne has verified that the craft and its operators are close to attempting suborbital flight. Their goal: Two consecutive missions, two weeks apart, aimed at winning the Ansari X Prize purse. [Yahoo! News - Science]

Mon, 31 May 2004 01:43:37 GMT

Origins Revealed: Sun and Earth Born amid Chaos (SPACE.com). SPACE.com - A new twist on an emerging theory says the Sun was born amid massive, short-lived stars that sculpted our solar system with intense radiation and violent explosions that may have affected the origin of life. [Yahoo! News - Science]

Mon, 31 May 2004 01:40:04 GMT

Missing Black Holes Found (SPACE.com) [NewsIsFree: Science]

Mon, 31 May 2004 01:33:12 GMT

Universe Measured: We're 156 Billion Light-years Wide! (SPACE.com). SPACE.com - If you've ever wondered how big the universe is, you're not alone. Astronomers have long pondered this, too, and they've had a hard time figuring it out. Now an estimate has been made, and it's a whopper. [Yahoo! News - Science]

Mon, 31 May 2004 01:32:21 GMT

Russian Cargo Ship Brings Supplies to ISS (AP). AP - A Russian cargo craft successfully docked with the international space station on Thursday, carrying food, mail and a new spacesuit for the Russian-American crew. [Yahoo! News - Science]

Mon, 31 May 2004 01:18:37 GMT

NASA Discovers Likely Youngest Planet (AP). AP - One of NASA's space telescopes has discovered what scientists believe may be the youngest planet ever spied Ñ a celestial body that at 1 million years old or less is a cosmic toddler. [Yahoo! News - Science]

Mon, 31 May 2004 00:38:32 GMT

Networked homes move closer to reality [CNET News.com - Personal Technology]

Sat, 22 May 2004 04:52:04 GMT

Coming Soon: A Cellphone Directory [LA Times: Technology]

Thu, 20 May 2004 06:38:14 GMT

NASA May Face Shuttle Worker Shortage, Report Says (Reuters). Reuters - NASA's efforts to return its aging space shuttles to service will siphon so many workers away from flight operations to work on safety that the program could be plagued by a worker shortage, an oversight group warned on Wednesday. [Yahoo! News - Science]

Wed, 19 May 2004 04:53:51 GMT

E-Postmark May Thwart Cyber Crooks. Spammers, pirates and hackers beware -- an e-postmark may soon track you, anytime and anywhere. [NewsFactor Sci::Tech]

Tue, 18 May 2004 04:21:10 GMT

Space Advocacy Groups Unite to Back Moon, Mars and Beyond Vision (SPACE.com). SPACE.com - WASHINGTON, D.C. -- NASA's vision of revisiting the Moon, stepping onto Mars and trekking to other destinations received a major boost today from leading civilian space support groups. [Yahoo! News - Science]

Tue, 18 May 2004 04:17:34 GMT

Private Manned Rocket Soars 211,400 Feet (AP). AP - A privately developed manned rocket soared to 211,400 feet over California on Thursday, marking the third and highest powered flight of the reusable launch vehicle, the builders said. [Yahoo! News - Science]

Tue, 18 May 2004 04:14:34 GMT

China Cancels Moon Plans to Focus on Space Station (Reuters). Reuters - China plans to build its own manned space station by around 2020 but has shelved plans to put a man on the moon for financial reasons, state media quoted the chief designer of the nation's space program as saying. [Yahoo! News - Science]

Tue, 18 May 2004 04:13:53 GMT

Crater Rocks May Hold More Clues to Mars' Wet Past (Reuters). Reuters - The Mars rover Opportunity began scanning a stadium-sized crater for clues to what the Red Planet was like before volcanic eruptions covered its surface in lava, NASA scientists said on Monday. [Yahoo! News - Science]

Tue, 18 May 2004 04:12:44 GMT

File-Swapping Accounts for Nearly 90 Pct of All Internet Traffic. Yonhap News May 18 2004 3:17AM GMT [Moreover - moreover...]

Tue, 18 May 2004 04:11:31 GMT

Hi-flying Wi-Fi debuts on transatlantic flight [New Scientist]

Wed, 12 May 2004 04:16:27 GMT

Apple wins iTunes interface patent. The Mac maker wins a patent for the interface of its iTunes music software, underscoring the growing importance of the multimedia business for the company. [CNET News.com]

Wed, 12 May 2004 04:15:41 GMT

Shuttle called vital to finish space station. Baltimore Sun May 6 2004 7:55AM GMT [Moreover - Space station news]

Wed, 12 May 2004 04:12:54 GMT

Microsoft Warns of 'Important' Windows Flaw (Reuters). Reuters - A flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O) almost universally used Windows operating system could allow hackers to take control of a PC by luring users to a malicious Web site and coaxing them into clicking on a link, the company warned on Tuesday. [Yahoo! News - Technology]

Wed, 12 May 2004 04:10:32 GMT

Microsoft kills its Wi-Fi offerings. Microsoft Corp. has decided to stop producing wireless networking products and will discontinue its range of gear using the 802.11b wireless networking standard, also known by the Wi-Fi marketing name, the company announced Tuesday. [MacCentral]

Wed, 12 May 2004 03:30:37 GMT

Sony unveils long-awaited HDD music player in Japan. Two and a half years after Apple Computer Inc. launched its iPod and began to steal thunder from Sony Corp., which had ruled the portable music market since the Walkman appeared in the 1980s, the Tokyo company unveiled the first hard-disk drive based music player to bear its name on Monday. [MacCentral]

Wed, 12 May 2004 03:29:16 GMT

Canon introduces wide-angle PowerShot S60. Canon Inc. introduced on Monday the five-megapixel PowerShot S60 digital camera, which features a newly developed 28-100mm UA wide-angle 3.6x zoom lens. The 3.6x zoom lens goes from a wide-angle focal length of 28mm to a telephoto of 100mm (35mm film equivalent), according to Canon. Because the new lens is thinner than its predecessor, Canon was also able to make the PowerShot S60 thinner than previous models. The PowerShot S60 will be available in June for $499; an optional underwater housing will also be available for $240. Canon's Web site has not been updated with the new product. [MacCentral]

Sat, 08 May 2004 04:47:06 GMT

How Mars got its rust. Model explains why the red planet is so red. [Nature Science Update]

Tue, 04 May 2004 03:35:08 GMT

Half of Liberian fighters disarm. Ex-combatants from all sides are proving eager to disarm with 19,000 having handed in their weapons, the UN says. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition]

Sun, 02 May 2004 18:01:31 GMT

Saturn spacecraft gets an eyeful. The Cassini-Huygens mission is now just two months away from arriving at the ringed planet. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition]

Sun, 02 May 2004 05:23:26 GMT

New worm's got sass, but not much else. The latest worm will likely spread widely, leaving behind an open file server on each victim, but security experts believe the Internet got lucky with the poorly coded program. [CNET News.com]

Sun, 02 May 2004 05:20:25 GMT

NASA Considers Robot to Save Hubble [NewsIsFree: Science]

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 05:08:59 GMT

iTunes 4.5 Brings Music Store Refresh, Free Songs [BetaNews.Com]

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 04:25:09 GMT

Senate extends Internet tax moratorium. WASHINGTON - After months of debate, the U.S. Senate has extended a moratorium on Internet access taxes, but it stopped short of permanently extending the ban on taxes specific to the Internet, which the U.S. House did in September. [InfoWorld: Top News]

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 04:11:37 GMT

Symantec: Microsoft IIS Web Servers at Risk (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) says it has identified a Trojan Horse aimed at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) ISS Web servers, which could signify that a worm is on the way. The company says there is a good chance that a significant number of systems have yet to be patched. [Yahoo! News - Technology]

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 04:10:07 GMT

Senate OKs Bill to Ban Web Access Tax (AP). AP - The Senate voted Thursday to restore a ban on state and local taxation of the services that connect consumers to the Internet. [Yahoo! News - Technology]

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 04:07:01 GMT

Apple Sells 70 Million Songs in First Year of ITunes Service [New York Times: Technology]

Sat, 24 Apr 2004 05:46:57 GMT

Apple's Jobs nixes iPod partnerships. Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs publicly dismisses an overture from RealNetworks to allow Apple's popular digital music player to work with music services other than iTunes. [CNET News.com - Personal Technology]

Sat, 24 Apr 2004 05:38:51 GMT

Size is all for digital jukeboxes. The ideal digital music player is one that can hold 1,000 songs, a survey suggests. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

Sat, 24 Apr 2004 05:22:43 GMT

Lemelson-MIT Recognizes Inventor of LED (AP). AP - When Nick Holonyak Jr. set out to create a new kind of visible lighting using semiconductor alloys, his colleagues thought he was "nuttier than hell." Today, his discovery of light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are used in everything from DVDs to alarm clocks to the NASDAQ stock billboard in New York. Dozens of his students have continued his work, developing lighting used in traffic lights and other everyday technology. [Yahoo! News - Science]

Sat, 24 Apr 2004 05:13:15 GMT

Da Vinci: Inventor of Car? (Reuters). Reuters - Leonardo da Vinci is revered around the world as a master of Renaissance painting and an ingenious engineer, but few have thought of him as the father of the modern car. [Yahoo! News - Science]

Sat, 24 Apr 2004 05:10:24 GMT

News: New Evidence Supports Three Major Glaciation Events in Distant Past. Glaciers reached Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the most recent ice age about 20,000 years ago, but researchers say much harsher ice ages hit the Earth in an ancient geological interval known as "the Cryogenian Period" between 750 and 600 million years ago. (Virginia Tech University press release) [NASA's Earth Observatory]

Sat, 24 Apr 2004 05:08:32 GMT

News: Arctic Ozone Loss More Sensitive to Climate Change than Thought. A cooperative study involving NASA scientists quantifies, for the first time, the relationship between Arctic ozone loss and changes in the temperature of Earth's stratosphere. [NASA's Earth Observatory]

Sat, 24 Apr 2004 05:04:52 GMT

Ask MacSlash: iCal <-> Outlook Conversion? [MacSlash]

Tue, 20 Apr 2004 05:08:32 GMT

Mac Voyeurs in a Windows World. Microsoft is a hotbed of secret Apple fans. Just ask Lenn Pryor, a Microsoft director who transformed his Sony Vaio into a pseudo-PowerBook. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]

Tue, 20 Apr 2004 05:05:36 GMT

Soyuz launches next ISS crew. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying the next long-duration crew for the International Space Station... [spacetoday.net]

Tue, 20 Apr 2004 05:04:28 GMT

Three Chances to Spy Comets [SPACE.com]

Sun, 18 Apr 2004 05:23:37 GMT

NASA Completes First Steps in Shuttle Plan (AP). AP - The independent group overseeing NASA's effort to resume shuttle flights said the agency has completed the first steps toward returning to space. [Yahoo! News - Science]

Sun, 18 Apr 2004 05:22:54 GMT

Russia Prepares to Launch Spacecraft (AP). AP - A spacecraft that will carry a new crew to the international space station was hoisted into launch position Saturday in preparation for the third manned mission to the orbital outpost since NASA's shuttle disaster sidelined the U.S. space fleet. [Yahoo! News - Science]