Mars
RSS MarsNasa joins 21st century
News IBM has developed extra large touch-screen displays for the Nasa scientists to use when trying to interpret data passed back from the next Mars mission. The plasma screens - called MERBoards will be used to support the... [05 Jun 2002]
NASA mini-bots march on Mars
News NASA's boffins have unleashed an army of miniature robots whose mission will be to collect data on Mars. The project involves insect-sized flying robots, called micro air vehicles, which NASA claims are ideal for... [22 Jan 2002]
US boffins create eco-robots
News Its inventors claim that it could be even used on the surface of Mars. US scientists are busy creating tiny robots to monitor pollution levels in the world's oceans. The University of Southern California has received a... [15 Jan 2002]
Is there more to PeopleSoft than internet-everything?
Comment After all, it's hardly L'Oreal's 'Because I'm worth it', or that confectionary classic, "A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play". PeopleSoft has had some major ups and downs all in a very short space of time. [26 Nov 2001]
Middle managers replaced by robots by 2051
News Mars mission a complete success. Offices will disappear and robots will replace middle-managers within the next 50 years. The prediction comes from the entry that won the '50 Years of Business Computing' competition... [16 Oct 2001]
Fly me to the moon (and let us email round the stars)
Comment For instance: a probe in a Mars orbit could receive data from a probe on the Martian surface and forward this to Earth. Instead of sending messages and expecting an immediate reply, the IPNSIG wants to create smaller... [19 Jul 2001]
John Lamb's Year: 2001 - surfing in space
Comment Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have yet to find a megalith, but they are planning to send the first internet server into space - to be precise, to Mars next year. Those who have read Clarke's book will... [18 Dec 2000]
Transatlantic Cable : The CIA gets into Venture Capital
Comment The CIA (for those of you who have been living on Mars for the last forty years) is the US government body that deals with the dirty business of spying on, destabilising and (if you believe their critics) shooting... [06 Oct 1999]
NASA passes water problem to London
News Thames Water is to take a giant leap for the industry by supplying NASA with a computer-controlled water recycling system for its manned mission to Mars. The next spacecraft heading for the red planet is scheduled to... [16 Jul 1999]
Keltec and Progess become one
News Keltec, which was approximately double the size of Progress in terms of staff and annual turnover, has traditionally been strong in the City, whereas Progress counted companies such as Mars, Nestle and SmithKline Beecham... [22 Oct 1998]
