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Photos: Microsoft beams outer space to the desktop
Photo For example, one of the most interesting bodies of the universe, Saturn's moon Titan, is not found. There are still a few minor flaws - like the fact Jupiter's moon Europa has a thumbnail but is also not found, it shows up as white spot. [19 May 2008]
Photos: Nasa's top 10 on Earth
Photo The moon appears through a halo, called the limb, which covers the Earth, as seen here in 2001. To celebrate Earth Day this week, Nasa released its 10 favourite photos taken by astronauts on the International Space Station. [24 Apr 2008]
Satellite comms to bridge digital divide?
News 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. But it is more usually used here on earth. The UN agency for information and communications... [28 Feb 2008]
Mobiles on the moon, Google Android, Facebook fall
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]
Photos: Lunar mobile phones preparing to soar
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]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.02.08
Round-Up Phone calls and other information would be bounced off satellites orbiting the moon for communication between colonists, the moon base and the earth. Anyway, the moon it is and the satellite system should ensure a full five-bar signal for lunar... [22 Feb 2008]
Mobiles on the moon? Nasa prepares trial for takeoff
News During the MoonLite mission a lunar orbiter would use the technology to transmit information about the structure of the moon back to earth from scientific instruments buried in the lunar soil. Phone calls and other information would be bounced off... [19 Feb 2008]
Google Earth takes a dive
News As well as maps of the seabed, Google has produced interactive maps of the moon and Mars in a mash-up with Nasa's images. Google Earth maps of the seabed in UK waters have been released by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). [29 May 2007]
Virtual moon and Mars flights come to Google
News A spokesman from the European Space Agency (ESA) - which also has many high resolution images of Mars and the moon and is hoping to send astronauts to Mars by 2030 - said the deal is a great way to promote space exploration but added the new... [19 Dec 2006]
Will's Web Watch: Why hotel web access should be free
Comment Internet access has become so cheap, so commoditised and so easy to provide, especially as many of these hotels in the normal course of their own communications infrastructure already have enough cable in and out of their buildings to tie a big... [26 Jul 2006]
Europe to push ahead with digital snooping law
News The amount of data collected would be 20,000 to 40,000 terabytes or "equivalent to 10 stacks of files each reaching from Earth to the Moon", the report said, and the cost to each affected company would be €180m per year. [09 Jun 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Over the moon
Comment If companies are serious about protecting their vital information, says Peter Cochrane, they may want to consider two locations unlikely to be damaged by terrorist attacks, hackers or global warming - the Antarctic or the moon. [15 Jul 2004]
Best Practice IT Project Management - a Long Adventurous Journey
White Paper Earth, Moon and Sun in alignment (Thus Spake Zarathustra) From a best practice viewpoint, IT project management has not yet achieved such a magical alignment. Released in 1968, Stanley Kubrick's film, "2001: A Space Odyssey" has become more than a... [24 Feb 2004]
Desktop chaos: PC cables reach halfway to the moon
News Lay all the desktop cables in the United States end to end, and you could circle the earth four times or reach halfway to the moon, according to a study released this week by cordless mouse maker Logitech. [28 Apr 2003]
Rockets of the future
News Once the vehicle is free of the Earth's atmosphere, travelling at over ten times the speed of sound, its engine converts to conventional rocketry. Space ships of the future will cost a fraction of current rocket designs and will take off on normal... [21 Dec 2001]
