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 The National Association of Broadcasters filed an objection to a plan introduced by the Federal Communications Commission chairman this week. The NAB is asking the agency to slow down efforts to open up vacant TV airwaves for unlicensed use. The objection was made by station owners and four television networks. The FCC is asked to delay...
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A NASA spokesman told the media yesterday that the repairs
of the Hubble Space Telescope are going well and that they expect the telescope
to be back in business on Friday. Hubble’s computer crashed last month,
entering “safe mode”. Even if the technicians could still communicate with the
telescope, photos could not be sent back...
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 NASA engineers say that they know how to fix the Hubble telescope,
which had an abrupt failure two weeks ago, causing the National Space
Administration firm to lose about $10 million a month. This comes from the delay of the Hubble upgrade mission that
should have taken place in October. A router that formats
data and helps relay it...
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 Saturday night Yahoo declined another agreement with Microsoft and billionaire financer Carl Icahn. The offer also comprised stipulations that would have made compulsory a substantial restructuring of the corporation. This is not the first time Icahn has made such a far-fetched proposal.The American public corporation Yahoo said the...
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 On Thursday, MTI Micro and NeoSolar announced their plans of building fuel cell-powered ultra-mobile PCs.The collaboration will result in a series of digital devices, working on MTI Micro's Mobion fuel cell technology; the thing that makes MTI special is what it uses as fuel, namely liquid methanol cartridges (direct methanol fuel cell -...
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 On Monday, The Nikkei, the most important business newspaper in Japan, talked about Toyota’s 2009 plans for its Prius hybrid model. According to the popular publication, the company will use solar panels for the upcoming generation of automobiles.It seems the new Prius will feature rooftop solar panels, which will be used for partly...
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In a departure from their dependence on domestic mobile phone brands like Samsung or LG, South Korean mobile carriers are preparing to launch non-Korean brands for smart-phones.International vendors such as HTC, RIMM, Apple and Nokia will be able to sign up with local carriers to put their international bestsellers in the hands of South...
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 On Thursday, Dell launched its new Studio laptop series,
thus giving customers the chance to choose one of the seven available colors.
The Studio 15 has a 15.4-inch screen, while the Studio 17
comes with a 17-inch screen. Both laptops are packing dual-core Intel Core 2
Duo processors, they can support 4GB of memory and 320GB of HD...
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 Twice a year, the Top500 supercomputers list is put together, ordering, according to performance, the most powerful computers worldwide, that are available commercially. On Wednesday, at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany, the leader of 2008’s first list was announced to be IBM's RoadRunner.The machine can...
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