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Photo To celebrate Earth Day, Nasa has released its 10 favourite photos taken by astronauts on the International Space Station. In this 2003 photo from Expedition 7, you can see layers of the Earth's atmosphere.
[29 Apr 2008]
Comment If I could be God for a day there are many things I would put right for humanity and planet Earth. And suppose luggage designers had to travel a whole year non-stop with their own luggage, and ditto for the designers of electronic point of sale...
[14 Apr 2008]
whitepaper A number of satellite communication systems have been proposed using geosynchronous (GEO) satellites, medium earth orbit (MEO) and low earth orbit (LEO) constellations operating in the Ka-band and above.
[10 Apr 2008]
News Free to the first 10,000 developers to sign up, this new web-hosting platform will share resources in the same way as Google Analytics, Google Earth and social-networking platform Orkut. Photos: Lunar mobile phones preparing to soar
[09 Apr 2008]
News But it is more usually used here on earth. Satellite tech has been in the spotlight recently following reports Nasa is developing a satellite-based system to put a mobile phone network on the moon. And satellite comms company Inmarsat has a...
[28 Feb 2008]
News The satellite-based moon mobile network would give lunar dwellers a full four-bar signal - and even enable them to phone home (aka Earth), though presumably the roaming costs would be astronomical. Spring is almost in the air but something else...
[28 Feb 2008]
Photo Astronauts and robots exploring the moon's surface will only be a text message away after the full system - which will be similar to the Inmarsat, seen here in a mock-up, network on Earth - goes live later this century.
[25 Feb 2008]
News Director of space science at the BNSC, David Parker, said the early lunar system will be comparable to the "satellite phone network of the 1980s and 1990s on earth". During the MoonLite mission a lunar orbiter would use the technology to transmit...
[19 Feb 2008]
News Qt forms the basis of many well-known desktop applications, such as Google Earth, Opera and Skype. Nokia is to buy Trolltech, the company whose Linux-based Qt application-development framework is at the core of many PC and mobile applications.
[28 Jan 2008]
whitepaper However interest in use of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations is increasing, especially for multimedia transmissions within the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System). Studies mainly concentrate on use of Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO...
[05 Dec 2007]
Comment When something a little more down to earth is revealed it usually costs Apple a few points on its share price. Countdown to the iPhone… ¦ iPhone rings up web 2.0 developers ¦ iPhone launch frenzy ramping up ¦ Revealed: US D-Day for...
[15 Jun 2007]
Round-Up But now anybody caught breaking the law will be hit with a £60 fine - that's right, a whole SIXTY of your Earth pounds - and three points on their licence. I could make a comfortable living doing this," she adds, before warning that we would have...
[26 Jan 2007]
News And then - from the very tiny to the very large - silicon.com's tour through the wonders in the satellite imagery database of Google Earth had plenty of you mesmerised, especially as it included the view of Silicon Towers from above.
[27 Dec 2006]
News The back-end system is the same as what Google has been using for at least a year to allow customers to pay for premium services on its Google Earth, Google Video and Picasa web services, Kamangar said.
[29 Jun 2006]
whitepaper This paper addresses the resource allocation problem that arises in the context of a medium-earth-orbit (MEO) satellite system with half-duplex communication capabilities. MEO satellite systems are characterized by large propagation delays and...
[17 Nov 2005]
News Microsoft is playing catch-up to rival Google with the release of a beta world mapping service, MSN Virtual Earth. Virtual Earth is a wrap up of a number of location-based services, including mapping of the world's surface, map annotation and...
[25 Jul 2005]
whitepaper It enables user to instantly deploy video system that can monitor anywhere on the earth without being limited by the availability of Internet or cable network, May it be your office, factory, vehicles, land property, or the desert, farm, coast...
[28 Mar 2005]
Comment And finally let me leave you with this hardly earth-shattering prediction. When HP brings out a smart phone later this year - as it said it would, two weeks ago - it will be based on Microsoft's smart phone-centric Windows Mobile operating system.
[16 Feb 2005]
whitepaper Land Mobile Satellite (LMS) communication systems are now coming on line and will enable users of handheld wireless phones or portable computers to communicate with one another from any two points worldwide, thanks to constellations of low earth...
[24 Feb 2004]
News The Nokia 6108 also features a lunar calendar pinpointing dates of Chinese festivals and even comes complete with five themed wallpapers depicting the five traditional Chinese elements of metal, wood, water, fire and earth.
[21 May 2003]
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