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RSS moon in newsThe 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. [08 May 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... [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... [28 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... [19 Feb 2008]
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... [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... [24 Jul 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). [29 May 2007]
Vista unravels the Da Vinci codex
News Codex Arundel, one of the British Library's greatest treasures, and Codex Leicester, which is owned by Bill Gates, are compilations of the notes, diagrams and sketches da Vinci made on subjects ranging from mechanics and engineering to optics and... [30 Jan 2007]
Investment bank races apps around the grid
News He said processor-intensive or data-intensive applications are the best suited to grid, which uses a 'follow the moon' strategy of picking up spare capacity as servers and PCs become idle at the end of the working day. [25 Jan 2007]
Virtual moon and Mars flights come to Google
News Want to take a virtual flight over the surface of the moon or through the canyons of Mars? The Nasa Ames research centre and Google have signed an agreement that could soon allow internet users to check on the red planet's weather, investigate the... [19 Dec 2006]
UK techies want in on Nasa moon plans
News The UK wants to play a role in what could be the world's biggest science and technology programme - NASA's plans to send astronauts back to the moon. It will co-ordinate worldwide efforts to return to the Moon and to explore the solar system with... [01 Dec 2006]
Use tech not your car, businesses told
News The Energy Saving Trust has calculated that if every business motorist leaves the car at home once per week, it could reduce total CO2 emissions by one per cent, and the annual miles saved would equal 35,000 round trips to the moon. [26 Oct 2006]
Google archives 200 years of news
News Searching for information about the 1969 moon landing, for example, will show original text from the time as well as more recent coverage over the past four decades. Google is growing its news archive to include stories that go back as far as 200... [07 Sep 2006]
Update: The guide to London's wi-fi pubs
News The Lord Moon of The Mall, Whitehall, SW1 Since launching our guide to London's wi-fi pubs it's proved to be a hugely popular resource - and so we have updated it, included more pubs, maps and the handy list below to help you navigate. [31 Aug 2006]
JFK files: Presidential archives to be put online
News Some of the papers and images that will be digitised and permanently preserved include records covering the moon landings programme and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The entire collection of papers, documents, photographs and audio recordings of former... [12 Jun 2006]
