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Liquid Water Found On Saturn Moon
Saturn moon, supersonic plumes of gas and dust found by the astronomer that there is liquid water, which is a key element of life found in it. The research says that Saturn moon is one of the solar system’s most compelling places for potential life.
By using images from NASA’s Cassini probe, astronomers found that the mysterious plumes shooting from Enceladus’ icy terrain contain water vapor and suggested that the gas and dust spew at speeds faster-than-sound make the case for liquid, said study lead author Candice Hansen of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in California. They have calculated that the plumes travel more than 1,360 mph.
The Scientist, Andrew Ingersoll at the California Institute of Technology, said the research is good, but that it is possible to achieve such speeds with ice particles and at cooler temperatures only but could not proved completely and still the research is going on.
IT product mkt will be $15 bn by 2015
The Indian IT product industry should be treated on par with IT servicees sector as it has the potential to contribute significantly to the global market, Nasscom demanded the goveronment.
Similar to its initiatives in IT and ITEs services Nasscom has now taken up amission to encourage the product segment. Nasscom forecasts that revenues of Indian product companies will touch $15 billion by 2015 from $1 billion currently. The global product market is pegged at around $300 billion.
Speaking at the opening session of Nasscom maiden day, the association president Kiran Karnik said the industry body has setup a special expert committee for products under Subex Azure MD subash Menon.”We will work as a facilitor for seed funding growth capital human resources and access to governments,” he said.
Subhash Menon said the country currently have the right environment for product growth.”Ootsourcing does not work for products as …
XBOX Says HALO3
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates hands over an autographed copy of Halo 3 to the first customer Ritesh David, 17, at the midnight release of Halo3 video game for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 at Bellevue in washington on Tuesday.
Microsoft hopes that its muchanticipated “Halo 3″ game will turn into another blockbuster too boost sales of Xbox 360 console, that will fend off challenges from Nintendo’s wii and Sony’s playstation3. it had received a record 1.5 million pre orders for the game
Delayed policy decision costs India an Intel plant
India high on our agenda, says Barrett
World’s largest chip maker Intel on Wednesday said its decision to bypass India for setting up a semiconductor manufacturing unit was on account of the Government’s delay in announcing a policy for the sector. “We were in serious discussion for chip manufacturing in India but the Government was a bit slow on semiconductor manufacturing proposals,” Intel chairman Craig Barrett said here.
Future assurance
Mr.Barrett justified his decision yo go to Vietnam and China by saying “to set up a manufacturing base, we do planing years in advance… The China and Vietnam plans were made much earlier. As the Government was slow in announcing the policy, in the window period we went to these two countries.” But the Intel Chairman had a future assurance for India. “Past is past… India is high on our list of future manufacturing destinations if we require additional capacity,” he said. Asking …
Preference for Indian IT service providers
Global information technology industry analysis and research firm Forrester expects companies in the U.S., Europe and Southeast Asia, to show a marked preference for Indian IT services providers who can provide value-add and cost effective solutions, including software with reusable codes, Sudin Apte, senior analyst and Country Head-India, for Forrester Research Inc,said here on
Wednesday.
SAP to develop web-based application product
3.50lakh sq.ft.new facility to seat 2,000 employees inaugurated in Banglore
SAP Labs India will work on developing a web-based application product in the coming months as part of its strategy to grow further in this market from 24.6 per cent share now, SAP AG Chief Executive Officer and chairman of the Executive Board, Henning Kagermann, said here on Thursday. Speaking to reporters after inaugurating SAP’s 3.50lakh sq. ft. facility to eventually seat 2,000 employees, he said, “it will be global product, partly developed in India, meeting the needs of medium and small sized business in this region.”
To expand partnership
SAP would expand partnership with Indian Institutions such as the International Institute of Information and Technology(IIIT),Banglore, and BITS-Pilani, selecting engineering students to obtain a Master’s degree while working part time with SAP Labs, he said. While a skills storage was felt in India, the growing salary hikes were no longer a serious concern …
Sony Ericsson Introduces Bluetooth Watch By Fossil
Fossil, Inc. and Sony Ericsson are planning to to roll out several lines of Bluetooth wireless technology-enabled watches.
Fossil will be introducing the ABACUS MobileWear and FOSSIL Caller ID watches and Sony Ericsson will be introducing its own line of jointly developed products. All watches will seamlessly link to most Sony Ericsson Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones.
The companies see the device no longer a timepiece, but a discreet user interface to personal mobile communication that will become an essential part of handling calls and controlling the media player on a mobile phone.
By combining style with technology, Fossil and Sony Ericsson believe they have created a way to incorporate the convenience of the Bluetooth technology with a fashionable and socially acceptable way to manage a mobile phone.
Watches are continuing to evolve. “Watches are the perfect ‘glanceable’ display. They are simple to use, fashionable, and well accepted,†said Bill Geiser, Vice President of watch technology …
With shuttle back on Earth, NASA looks ahead
A picture-perfect end to Atlantis’ difficult assembly mission to the international space station on Thursday placed NASA on a pace to fly three shuttle missions this year, the most since 2002.
The shuttle’s pre-dawn landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida marked the end of the first major construction activities at the half-built orbital outpost since the 2003 Columbia accident.
The mission also involved the sightings of baffling, debris-like objects floating near the spacecraft, leading to a one-day delay in returning.
Space officials focused Thursday on the mission’s accomplishments.
“It’s obvious to me we are re-building the kind of momentum that we have had in the past and that we need if we are to finish the space station,” said NASA administrator Michael Griffin, who was at the runway to greet the six Atlantis astronauts. “We have an awesome task in front of us. I think we will make it.”
The stage for Atlantis’ 12-day …
Xbox 360 promises HD output for all
Microsoft will update all Xbox 360 consoles before the end of the year to allow them to show content at the high-definition 1080p resolution.
The software update, which is scheduled for release later this year, will allow Xbox 360 consoles around the world to output game and movie content in 1080p.
Microsoft also announced the pricing for its Xbox 360 HD-DVD player in Japan, which will cost around 19,800 Yen (£90) when it is released on 17 November. The additional drive will come with a Universal Media Remote for the Xbox 360.
The company made the announcements at the Tokyo Game Show, where it highlighted more than 100 Xbox 360 games that will be available in Japan before Christmas.
“The key to winning the hearts and minds of the Japanese market is great games, and this line-up demonstrates that Xbox 360 has those games in spades,” said Peter Moore, corporate vice president at Microsoft’s …
Shuttle Lands at Kennedy Space Center
CAPE CANAVERAL, Sept. 21 — The space shuttle Atlantis glided down to an uneventful pre-dawn landing today, concluding a mission that resumed NASA’s construction work on the International Space Station.
The Atlantis fired its engines at 5:14 a.m. for 2 minutes, 40 seconds, slowing it by about 205 miles per hour and sending it falling back out of orbit toward Earth. It descended into the atmosphere over the southern Pacific Ocean, crossing Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula and then the Gulf of Mexico to approach Florida from the southwest. It touched down on the runaway at the Kennedy Space Center at 6:21 a.m.
The sky was still dark when Atlantis arrived, making the 15th nighttime shuttle landing at Kennedy, and the weather was ideal: clear with no winds.
“It’s nice to be back,†Capt. Brent W. Jett Jr., the shuttle commander, said after landing. “It …
Astronauts safely in space, ready for work
CAPE CANAVERAL – Catapulted into space Saturday, a shuttle commander from Fort Lauderdale now is poised to lead his crew of orbital construction workers as they resume building the space station — a rest stop along the highway of exploration.
”Any time you take off on an exploration, typically you take steps in a gradual nature,” Brent Jett Jr., a former football player at Northeast High, said during a recent NASA interview. “It’s human nature to want to explore and I hope that the United States leads that effort.”
Moments before blastoff, sitting atop powerful rockets with his back toward the ground and his eyes peering into space, Jett added: “It was worth the wait and we’re ready to get to work.”
And then, roaring from Launch Pad 39B, knifing through a summer morning at the Kennedy Space Center, shuttle Atlantis finally carried Jett and five other astronauts safely into orbit.
Blastoff …
China, Russia to Launch Joint Mars Mission
BEIJING, Aug. 28 (UPI) — China and Russia reportedly are planning a joint mission to Mars that is planned to return samples to Earth as well as landing on one of the planet`s moons.
Ye Peijian, a scientist Chinese Research Institute of Space Technology, made the announcement last week in Beijing during a forum on China`s space technology development.
Ye said Russia will launch the spacecraft in 2009 and it will carry China-made survey equipment, Xinhua, China`s official news agency, reported.
Sun Laiyan, administrator of the China National Space Administration, says China`s deep space exploration during the next five years will focus on lunar and Mars exploration.
Source : http://science.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1195620.php/
A Watchdog Group Warns Against AOL’s Free Software
Dealing yet another blow to AOL, a leading software watchdog group warned users away from AOL’s free client software yesterday on the ground that it displayed characteristics consistent with “badware.â€
The term badware describes a wide array of downloadable applications that try to install extra components on a computer without clearly informing users of what they are or what they will do.
The group, StopBadware.org, posted an “open inquiry†into the AOL software yesterday, meaning that a dialogue has been opened with the company and that a full “badware†designation is still pending.
The report, however, stated that the AOL client software, which provides subscribers with a suite of services, also installed extra software deceptively, altered the Web browser and other computer components without notifying the user, and did not uninstall completely, among other “badware behaviors.â€
Similar characteristics are often found in pernicious forms of spyware and adware, often called malware. The StopBadware organization …
Google releasing package for the office
Starting Monday, Google will offer Google Apps for Your Domain, a free package of programs for businesses, universities and other organizations.
Workers will be able to send e-mail with Gmail, Google’s two-year-old Web-based mail service, but messages will carry their company’s domain name. The package also includes Google’s online calendar, instant-messaging service, and Page Creator, a Web page builder.
Information technology administrators can make some customizations. “But really, the applications are exactly what you’d experience as a consumer if you use them,” said Dave Girouard, VP and general manager of Google Enterprise, a division of Google Inc.
The free edition of Apps for Your Domain is, like Google’s main site, supported with ads. By the end of the year, the company also plans to launch a paid version that will offer more storage, some degree of support, and likely, no ads. A price for this edition hasn’t been set.
Providing e-mail and other applications …
Pluto Loses Designation, Sues IAU
In a move that surprised many legal observers, one of Pluto’s leading public-interest groups yesterday sued the International Astronomical Union after the IAU declassified Pluto as one of the nine “classical” planets that circles the Sun. It is not yet known where venue for the case ultimately will be placed or precisely which judge eventually will hear the case.
“The IAU isn’t the end-all, be-all for the solar system,” said a public relations spokesperson for Pluto, appearing on CNN’s Larry King Show. “You can’t just un-designate a planet without giving folks on the planet an opportunity for due process, and the right to be heard, and to challenge the facts upon which the decision is based.” The complaint alleges that the IAU violated key provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, federal constitutional law, and certain Plutonian legal principles that are too complicated to set forth here.
“We reject the downgrade from classical …
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