Posts Tagged ‘Technology’

During the first spacewalk of STS-126 mission, astronauts have lost a tool bag.  The tool bag accidentally slipped away from astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper's hand while she was repairing the joint of a solar panel of the International Space Station on Tuesday. The briefcase-sized ... Full story

On Friday, India's first Moon Impact Probe (MIP) successfully landed on the lunar surface. The instrument, about the size of a computer monitor and painted in the tricolour, touched moon surface about 25 minutes after being detached from India's first unmanned spacecraft Chandrayaan-1. This is a historic moment for India's 45-year-old space programme.... Full story

On Saturday, India's first unmanned spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 entered the lunar orbit after ISRO scientists successfully carried out a highly complex and tricky manoeuvre crossing another historic milestone in India's space programme. With this, India becomes the fifth country to send a spacecraft to the moon after the US, former Soviet Union, Japan and China.... Full story

Barack Obama fever have swept USA, as well as the whole world, following his historic election victory on Tuesday. Now spammers and fraudsters worldwide are busy using his name to spread malware and viruses, network security companies said on Friday. Sophos reported that about 60 percent of all spam seen by the lab on Wednesday was in some way Obama related.... Full story

Microsoft India today launched Live Search Maps for India that will enable users to access detailed listings and street maps for 9 cities, business listings across 29 cities and access to highway networks to 20,000 cities and towns. The street maps include addresses, roads, localities, landmarks, detailed street maps and places of general interest like monuments, restaurants, hotels and other places of interest ... Full story

Mozilla has released the first public alpha preview of its mobile browser Fennec. The Fennec alpha release is for testing purposes only, aimed at developers, testers and those brave people that like to play around with alpha software. Well, presently it is available for the OS2008 ("Maemo") software platforms that runs on the Nokia N810 Internet Tablets.... Full story

US space agency NASA said that it has encountered problems with the Hubble space telescope following a remote switchover from the failed system to an on-board redundant system. Now the 18-year-old observatory might remain inactive until astronauts from Earth arrive with a replacement part next year. On Wednesday, flight ... Full story

A study by University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) scientists revealed that Internet searching helps stimulate brain functions in middle-aged and older people by stimulating key centers in the brain responsible for controlling decision-making and complex reasoning. The researchers said that, compared to simple reading, the internet's wealth of choices required people to make decisions about what to click on in order to ... Full story

On Tuesday, Apple unveiled a new line of Macbook laptop computers, bringing prices down while improving functions and design. Price of the new MacBook laptop line starts at $1,299. The two most prominent new features of the new line-up are powerful new graphics capabilities provided by Nvidia chips that replace Intel graphics. Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the new chips improved graphics performance ... Full story

Richard Garriott, an American computer game designer reached space on Sunday to fulfill his childhood dream that began with the flight of his astronaut father. The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft carrying Richard Garriott and Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke, Flight Engineer Yury V. Lonchakov blasted off on Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008, from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.... Full story