Washington, July 25: Apple’s iTunes will again be available on Palm’s Pre smart phone.
Palm Inc. has released a webOS software update, which would reinstate Pre’s compatibility with Apple Inc’s media software. The new 1.1 version of webOS would allow Pre to synch with Apple’s iTunes.
At the time of release, Pre was supposedly pretended as iPod in iTunes. Then Apple used its 8.2.1 version to block Pre’s that capacity.
Washington, July 25: NASA Ever since after an amateur astronomer named Anthony Wesley in Australia captured images of collision between Jupiter and a comet, NASA scientists turned the Hubble Space Telescope towards Jupiter study the black eye marked by the comet.
The Hubble Space Telescope has been studying the largest planet in our solar system. The appearance of the dark spot near Jupiter’s southern pole is changing day by day, making it precedence for the scientists to document it promptly.
Washington, July 25: US astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn Friday undertook an intense spacewalk to change batteries on a solar panel of the International Space Station (ISS).
During seven hours and 12 minutes of work, the astronauts replaced four batteries that collect and store energy from the station’s solar panels. The old batteries are to return to Earth aboard the space shuttle Endeavour.
Tokyo, July 25: The world’s first camera to take 3D video and pictures without the need for special glasses has been launched.
The FinePix REAL 3D W1, created by Japan’s Fujifilm, it will allow users to see their holiday pictures in full 3D, with bicycles and beach balls jumping out from pictures.
Slick: The FinePix REAL 3D W1 will cost around Rs 30,500
It can also capture movies with the same special effect.
“We want our cameras to capture precious moments just as the eyes see them,” said a spokesperson.
Washington, July 25: In a security bulletin advance notification published late Friday, Microsoft said that it would be releasing two emergency security updates the coming Tuesday, for a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer and a moderate vulnerability in Visual Studio developer suite.
The announced round of security updates is an “outside of the monthly cycle” patch from Microsoft, which characteristically schedules its patches for the second Tuesday every month, thereby allowing administrators the requisite time to plan for and test the updates.
Washington, July 25: The NASA said on Friday it will release three new versions of the “classic images” taken by Chandra X-Ray Observatory to commemorate the telescope’s 10th anniversary.
One of the images was released Thursday, while the remaining two, would be released in the next three months.
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory was launched aboard the space shuttle, Columbia, and deployed into orbit 10 years ago. It was named in honour of Indian-American physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
Bangalore, July 25: India will soon design and develop its heaviest communications satellite GSAT-11 to provide advanced telecom services from 2011-12, a senior official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said here on Friday. At 4.5 tonnes, it will weigh more than twice as much as the biggest Indian satellite in orbit now.
“Activities to design and develop GSAT-11 will start immediately, as the project has been cleared by the government at a cost of Rs.5-billion (Rs.500 crore),” ISRO Director S. Satish said.
Sydney, July 24: Mars may have been a seething cauldron for nearly a 100 million years after its formation, thwarting evolution of life on the planet, according to an analysis of meteorites.
The research has shown that the red planet remained excessively hot – with temperatures over 1,000 degrees Celsius – for 100 million years following its formation.
New Delhi, July 24: Government has approved development of a Rs 500 crore advanced communication satellite to provide telecom links with small Ku-band terminals operating across the country.
A meeting of the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last night gave its nod for the design and development of GSAT-11 communication satellite, which is planned to be realised in 30 months.
The GSAT-11 is an advanced communication satellite which will be a high capacity multi-team Ku/Ka-bank spacecraft.
New York, July 24: Microsoft Corp posted the first-ever drop in annual sales of Windows and its quarterly revenue fell a steeper-than-expected 17 percent as its business continued to be hurt by the weak global PC and server markets.
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New York, July 24: Software giant Microsoft Corp has reported sales of $13.1 billion for the latest quarter, well below Wall Street expectations of more than $14 billion.
The PC market has dwindled for three straight quarters.
The company, based in Redmond, Washington, saw profits for the fourth quarter of its budget year drop 29 percent amid falling demand for its Office software package and Windows operating system.
“The economy continues to be challenging, and we need to lift our game to another level,” chief financial officer Chris Liddell said.
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Washington, July 23: Federal health officials said on Wednesday they have found cancer-causing ingredients in electronic cigarettes, despite manufacturers’ claims the products are safer than tobacco cigarettes.
The Food and Drug Administration said testing of products from two leading electronic cigarette makers turned up several toxic chemicals, including a key ingredient in automotive antifreeze.
“Little is known about these products, including how much nicotine is there and what other chemicals may be there,” said FDA’s Deputy Commissioner Dr Joshua Sharfstein.
Cape Town, July 23: The rain that has fallen in Namaqualand has caught flower tourists by surprise. “Nobody expected the flowers this early this year,” said Bernard van Lente, the park head at the Namaqua National Park near Kamieskroon on Wednesday.
There are currently few visitors tot the Skilpad Reserve, part of the Namaqua Park as most people expected pretty flowers to be there only from August.
But from Garies to Kamieskroon, there are already flowers to be seen. But at the Goegap Reserve outside Springbok, there were fewer flowers.
Tokyo, July 23: Japan’s Fujifilm unveiled on Wednesday a compact digital camera that can be used to shoot three-dimensional (3D) photos and movies that can be viewed without special glasses.
The FinePix Real 3D W1 uses a “groundbreaking” system comprising two lenses whose images are merged in a single 3D picture or movie, the company said.
Users can view the images on the camera’s rear display screen or a larger separate monitor. Fujifilm said it would also offer a special 3D photo printing service.
Johannesburg, July 23: Seacom on Tuesday announced that its 1.28 Terabits per second, 17 000 kilometre submarine fibre optic cable system linking south and east Africa to global networks via India and Europe has been completed and commissioned.
Backhauls linking Johannesburg, Nairobi and Kampala with the coastal landing stations have been established and Seacom said it is working with its national partners to commission the final links to Kigali and Addis Ababa.
Cape Canaveral, July 23: Two astronauts cut short their spacewalk and hurried back to the safety of the international space station on Wednesday after a suit problem resulted in rising carbon dioxide levels for one of the men.
Nasa officials stressed that spacewalker Christopher Cassidy was never in any danger and experienced no symptoms of carbon dioxide buildup.
The trouble cropped up late in Wednesday’s spacewalk, the third for shuttle Endeavour’s crew.
Cape Town, July 23: It is just possible, according to a ministerial answer to a Parliamentary question, that it is the chemicals in your toothpaste that are killing you, not just the pollution in the water you drink.
Buyelwa Sonjica, the Water Affairs Minister told Annette Lovemore, an Eastern Cape MP from the Democratic Alliance, that the levels of trihalomethane (THM) in tap water are “minuscule in relation to the quantity of similar chemicals generally found in ordinary toothpaste”.
Cape Town, July 23: The African continent has caught up with the rest of the world’s information superhighway with the launch of the long-awaited Seacom cable.
Seacom, partnering with network equipment manufacturer Cisco Systems, has unveiled its undersea fibre optic network on Thursday with simultaneous demonstrations in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa.
“Seacom is turning on the switch for you to enjoy true broadband!” the companies said in a joint statement.
Washington, July 23: Microsoft says Windows 7 is complete. The software maker sent the final code for its next computer operating system to manufacturers, and said it’s still on track for an 22 October launch.
Mike Angiulo, a general manager in the Windows group, said in an interview that getting up and running on a Windows computer will be “a lot smoother” than it was when Windows Vista launched in 2007.
Cape Canaveral, July 23: Two astronauts cut short their spacewalk and hurried back to the safety of the international space station after a suit problem resulted in rising carbon dioxide levels for one of the men.
NASA officials stressed that spacewalker Christopher Cassidy was never in any danger and experienced no symptoms of carbon dioxide buildup.
The trouble cropped up late in Wednesday’s spacewalk, the third for shuttle Endeavour’s crew.
Guwahati, July 23: The Kaziranga National Park is just a step away from becoming one of the seven new natural wonders of the world.
The park, a world heritage site, housing the highly endangered one-horned rhinos, has made it to the second round of the contest, Forest Department sources said here.
According to the results available here, 77 of the total 440 nominees have made it to round two in as many as seven categories.
They will be eligible for listing as one of the new seven wonders of the world. A total of 28 finalists will vie for the rankings.
New Delhi, July 23: The wait for the auction of radio waves to start third generation (3G) telecom services in India has got longer. A key ministry panel that will take a decision on crucial issues like pricing is scheduled to meet only at the end of the month.
The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) constituted to take a decision on the issue will meet July 31, a senior government official said Thursday.
London, July 23: Furious competition between social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace is compromising the protection of users’ data, a Cambridge University study has concluded.
The survey covered 45 global social networks, ranging from popular sites such as MySpace and Facebook to lesser-known networks. Its authors report “serious concerns” about the extent to which these sites fail to keep users’ personal information private.
It is the first detailed analysis to examine the security provisions of a large number of social networks.
Washington, July 23: Beware, emails or Facebook posts or pictures can resurface months after they are deleted — in the wrong hands or at the wrong time, according to researchers.
“If you care about privacy, the internet today is a very scary place,” said University of Washington (UW) computer scientist Tadayoshi Kohno. “If people understood the implications of where and how their email is stored, they might be more careful or not use it as often.”
Mumbai, July 23: Setting at rest fears of health hazards due to use of cellphones, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) on Wednesday said fact sheets have shown that radiation from mobile phones and cellular towers had no adverse effect on the human body.
COAI, which is the representative body for GSM operators in India, said there are many misconceptions and apprehensions with regard to radiation from mobile phones and base stations and it has time and again emphasised that these are not injurious to the human body.