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The tech behind the Beijing 2008 Olympics

News With other projects like launching a rocket to the moon or a new car you can always delay. Getting the technology behind the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games up and running has been more of a marathon rather than a 100m sprint.

Tags: infrastructure, servers, olympic

[08 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.

Tags: mountain, volcano, earth, nasa

[24 Apr 2008]

Cisco - Mobile Innovators

whitepaper Cisco innovators Billy Moon and Om Tiku discuss how the Mobile Access Router 3200 lets different devices communicate over any wireless network.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, communicate, wireless network, router

[10 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. The UN agency for information and communications issues is looking to the heavens to bridge...

Tags: satellite, digital divide, itu, ensuring

[28 Feb 2008]

Photos: Android, high-tech Heathrow, the future of shopping

Photos: Android, high-tech Heathrow, the future of shopping

Photo One of the more unusual stories in February was about a mobile phone network for the moon. Photo credit: Natasha Lomas Hundreds of bags wait to be loaded into the high tech baggage system at Heathrow's brand new Terminal 5.

Tags: heathrow, mobile world congress, android, rfid

[28 Feb 2008]

Mobiles on the moon, Google Android, Facebook fall

News Spring is almost in the air but something else taking off this month was news Nasa is planning to build a mobile phone network on the moon. Clearly current levels of demand for mobile coverage on the big green cheese-wheel in the sky are not...

Tags: mwc, facebook, 419 scam, moon

[28 Feb 2008]

Photos: Lunar mobile phones preparing to soar

Photo In space no one can hear your ringtone - something that could be a blessing from 2012 when Nasa and the British National Space Centre (BNSC) trial a mobile phone network on the moon. Astronauts and robots exploring the moon's surface will only be a...

Tags: mobile, nasa, moon, satellite

[25 Feb 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 22.02.08

Round-Up Anyway, the moon it is and the satellite system should ensure a full five-bar signal for lunar colonists living in the base Nasa wants to build at the south pole of the desolate, dusty rock. But if your immediate response was actually, 'And about...

Tags: facebook, ebay, sp1, vista

[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. Even in the cosmos there will be no escaping the...

Tags: moon, space, nasa, message

[19 Feb 2008]

Sun Moon University Provides Web-Based Access to Information for Students and Staff

whitepaper Founded in 1972 as the Unification Theology School, Sun Moon University is now one of the largest tertiary education institutions in Korea. Sun Moon University was among the first Korean educational institutions to leverage technology to distribute...

Tags: application servers, institutions, application server, students

[05 Nov 2007]

Police: We want more info on e-crime attacks

News Corcoran added Welsh businesses are "over the moon" about this service and prefer the personal contact and ownership a region-specific body brings. Businesses must tell the police when they fall victim to e-crime but are often too embarrassed to do...

Tags: security, e-crime, full disclosure, police

[17 Aug 2007]

Nasa gets supercomputer booster

News Nasa has signed a deal with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) for the provision of supercomputing support over the next decade. The deal is initially for two years, with eight one-year options, and could be worth up to $597m if all the options...

Tags: research, support, csc, supercomputer

[24 Jul 2007]

GORE-TEX Creators Plug Spyware Gap With FaceTime

whitepaper W L Gore & Associates was founded in 1958 to explore opportunities for fluorocarbon polymers; within 12 years, the company had wire and cables on the moon and operations worldwide. Although Gore has not experienced any significant security events...

Tags: security applications, testing, spyware, productivity

[06 Jul 2007]

Software gets Nasa back to the moon and Mars

Case Study Nasa has launched a software system to help its scientists work together more effectively as they design and build vehicles for the agency's Constellation Program - George Bush's brainchild to get the US back to the moon and to Mars.

Tags: martian, software, collaboration, mars

[22 Jun 2007]

GORE-TEX Creators Plug Spyware Gap With FaceTime

whitepaper W L Gore & Associates was founded in 1958 to explore opportunities for fluorocarbon polymers; within 12 years, the company had wire and cables on the moon and operations worldwide. Although Gore has not experienced any significant security events...

Tags: security applications, testing, spyware, attacks

[16 Jun 2007]

Integrating Direct3D 9.0 With MFC Using Visual Studio .Net (7.0)

whitepaper There is often some difficulty integrating the DirectX APIs with the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). The DirectX SDK provides several samples using DirectX with MFC, but none of them use the desired document/view architecture or the application...

Tags: 3d modeling and rendering, view, document, visual studio .net

[15 Jun 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 08.06.07

Round-Up Which, albeit quite a low sum for a website with such a proven user base, no doubt sounds like the moon-on-a-stick to a student (a fact Handheld Entertainment may well have been aware of). There are many common challenges we all face in life.

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[08 Jun 2007]

Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 08.06.07

Round-Up Podcast Catching leopards, putting a man on the moon and privacy concerns about Google Street View are up for discussion in the Weekly Round-Up podcast from the team at silicon.com. Presenter Will Sturgeon is joined in the studio by Andy McCue, Natasha...

Tags: google street view

[08 Jun 2007]

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).

Tags: google earth, maritime and coastguard agency

[29 May 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 02.02.07

Round-Up Not everybody was as over-the-moon about the release of Vista as Gates this week. How about with the biggest launch from Microsoft in five years? Or what about Norwich Union bringing call centre jobs back from India?

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[02 Feb 2007]

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