Washington, September 12: Twitter, the micro-blogging platform which has attracted tens of millions of users but has yet to make money, has changed its terms to potentially open up the free service to advertisers.
“In the Terms, we leave the door open for advertising,” Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in a blog post late Thursday. “We’d like to keep our options open as we’ve said before.”
Helsinki, September 12: Web TV firm Joost, owned by the founders of Skype, removed its high-profile chairman Mike Volpi by shareholder vote, it said in a statement late on Friday.
Volpi, who continued as Joost chairman after leaving the chief executive role at end-June, then joined the venture firm Index Ventures, which was part of consortium bidding $1.9 billion to Internet auction house EBay Inc for 65 percent stake of Skype.
New York, September 12: Motorola Inc shares rose 6.5 percent on Friday on hopes the company could turn around its loss-making handset business with the new cellphone it developed with Google Inc.
The market’s initial response to the announcement was modest and the shares closed up just 1.5 percent on Thursday, but many analysts took a closer look at the phone –called Cliq in the United States– later in the afternoon and issued upbeat reports.
California, September 12: The space shuttle Discovery landed safely in California on Friday after bad weather forced a switch of its touchdown site at the end of a two-week mission to the International Space Station.
NASA diverted the spaceship to Edwards Air Force Base in California’s Mojave Desert after waiting in vain for two days for rain and clouds to clear over the shuttle’s home port in Florida, the originally scheduled landing location.
Under partly cloudy desert skies, the shuttle landed at 8:53 p.m. EDT on Friday (0053 GMT on Saturday).
California, September 12: Space shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts took a cross-country detour and landed safely in California on Friday after stormy weather prevented them from returning home to Florida for the second day in a row.
Discovery swooped through the sky and touched down at Edwards Air Force Base an hour before sunset, ending its delivery trip to the international space station.
“Welcome home, Discovery,” Mission Control radioed. “Congratulations on an extremely successful mission.”
Washington, September 12: The US space shuttle Discovery’s landing on Friday has been moved to Edwards Air Force Base in California from the Kennedy Space Centre because of rain and thunderstorms near Cape Canaveral in Florida, NASA said.
Discovery was set to land back on Earth at 8:53 pm (0053 GMT), following another postponement due to bad weather. Stormy weather is common during summer evenings in sub-tropical Florida.
London September 11: Nokia Nokia Nokia now again Nokia has made an additional in the list of handsets. As this time Nokia has planned to launch a new sliding phone which is named as Nokia 2220 Slide.
As previously Nokia has come up with its smartphone like N97 and its mini version N97mini then Nokia has also came up to capture the Netbook market too.
New York, September 11: Canon is recognized for its cameras worldwide and is popular for their performance, features too.
Canon has planned to launch a new Canon SX20 camera which is equipped with the list of latest features which would help the users during the photoshoot like- 2.5-inch PureColor LCD display, PicBridge, 720p high definition video, 20x wide-angled optical zoom, 28mm to 560mm, Ultrasonic Motor (USM) lens, Voice Coil Motor (VCM) lense, 12.1 megapixel, responsive operation, advanced noise reduction and optical Image Stabilizer, integrated HDMI port, Hints and Tips.
London, September 11: Facebook seems to be a popular social network from a long interval of time.
The internet connection which usually used by the people are a bit slower than the needed so as while keeping these thing in mind Facebook has planned for the lower version of Facebook which is known as Facebook Lite.
Facebook Lite social network website would now be much faster and simpler then the original version due to its reduction in the services list.
Guwahati, September 11: NASA astronaut Edward Michael Fincke today said the Indian moon mission ‘Chandrayan’ was not a failure, but an “amazing success”.
“There is a lot of speculation about the mission being failed. On the contrary, it was a success with 95 per cent of its objectives achieved,” Fincke, a veteran of two missions in the International Space Station ISS), told reporters here.
Washington, September 11: Thunderstorms kept the space shuttle Discovery from landing late Thursday at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center.
The landing was originally set for 7.05 p.m. (2305 GMT) before being pushed to 8.40 p.m. (0040 GMT Friday) because of weather concerns. US space agency NASA decided to scrap Thursday’s landing altogether when the storm threat lingered.
NASA said it would try again during a ‘launch window’ beginning at 6.48 p.m. (2248 GMT) from Cape Canaveral on the Atlantic Coast, where the space centre is located.
Houston, September 11: The first two opportunities to land the space shuttle Discovery were abandoned Thursday due to thunderstorms and high winds around the landing site in Florida, NASA said.
“We know everyone worked it as hard as they could,” shuttle commander Rick Sturckow told mission control when informed of the decision to wave off for the night.
“We will look forward to trying again tomorrow.”
Discovery and its seven-member crew will try another attempt to return to Earth on Friday, the 14th day of a mission to the orbiting International Space Station.
–Agencies–
New York, September 11: If one wonders that there has been something wrong in his PC regarding the fonts while using Google, then there’s nothing to worry, it’s neither your PC nor your fault; its Google! According to the sources, Google has announced that it has increased the font size of the search box that appears at its home page, providing the users with a lot more space to search their queries.
San Francisco, September 11: Google is working on a micropayment system that would allow newspapers to easily charge for online content, the web search giant has revealed in a proposal to the Newspaper Association of America.
In the proposal, which was released on the internet Thursday, Google said that its micropayment system would be up and running within the year and would enable simple payment of one cent to several dollars.
Mumbai, September 10: Maharashtra Government has requested the Centre to ban clippings on a video sharing website, claiming they were responsible for inciting people during the recent violence in Miraj and other towns of western Maharashtra.
“DGP A N Roy has written to the Centre, asking it to ban the clippings on the ‘www.youtube.com’ site which incited people and led to spread of more violence,” Home Minister Jayant Patil told reporters here today.
The Centre has not responded so far to the request, but Roy would remind them on the issue, Patil said.
India, September 10: Sony Ericsson the well known handsets maker of the world has planned to launch the all new handset in the cyber shot series.
Sony Ericsson C903 measures 97 x 49 x 16 mm in size while it Weights around 96 grams.
The new handset is been tagged as Sony Ericsson c903 and is equipped with the latest features which includes-
London, September 10: British scientists are on track to develop a new robot which they claim will be controlled by a blob of human brain cells.
According to the ‘New Scientist’, a team at Reading University, which has already used rat brain cells to steer a simple-wheeled robot, is now trying the same thing with human brain cells.
San Francisco, September 10: Google Inc is infusing its paid search ads with video, product images and other features as the Internet company strives to refine its money-making capabilities in a tough advertising environment.
In a Webcast with investors on Wednesday, Google executives walked through a variety of innovations designed to make its search ads more relevant to users and more effective for advertisers.
Washington, September 10: NASA scientists Wednesday unveiled the first images taken by a revamped Hubble telescope, providing even crisper pictures of distant stars and galaxies.
The colourful images provide a taste of the Hubble’s new capability after a servicing mission in May that installed new instruments and repaired broken ones that had hampered the world’s most famous telescope.
Johannesburg, September 10: South Africa will launch the SumbandilaSat satellite into space Sep 15 on a Russian Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan, BuaNews reported.
Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor will travel to Kazakhstan this week to observe the lift-off. SumbandilaSat is designed and built in South Africa.
The 80-kg satellite has a primary payload consisting of a remote sensing camera and a secondary payload consisting of a fixed vibration string experiment.
New Delhi, September 10: India’s maiden moon mission has captured a halo around the site where US spacecraft Apollo-15 had landed on the lunar surface nearly four decades ago.
The Terrain Mapping Camera onboard Chandrayaan-I has detected a halo around the Apollo-15 landing site on the moon which scientists claim was because of the surface disturbance caused by humans.
The halo has been reported earlier by the Japanese Aerospace Agency using the Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC) on its lunar mission Selene.
Chennai, September 10: Worldwide climatic changes are more likely to affect India than other nations and it was high time the issue was seriously addressed, British High Commissioner to India Richard Stagg said here on Wednesday.
The changes in temperature and sea level would have “disastrous consequences”, especially in Chennai, which has one of the longest coastal areas, he said at an interaction on global warming, organised by the Chennai Corporation.
Washington, September 10: NASA scientists Wednesday unveiled the first images taken by a revamped Hubble telescope, providing even crisper pictures of distant stars and galaxies.
The colourful images provide a taste of the Hubble’s new capability after a servicing mission in May that installed new instruments and repaired broken ones that had hampered the world’s most famous telescope.
New Delhi, September 09: Car maker Ford on Wednesday launched an advanced version of its sports utility vehicle Endeavour, priced at the higher end between Rs 15.99 lakh to 17.99 lakh ex-showroom New Delhi.
The company also said it will increase vehicle production in India by over 30 per cent from this month to meet increased demand in the upcoming festival season.
The new Endeavour comes with both automatic and manual transmission variants and will be launched across the country in a phased manner.
Washington, September 09: is 09/09/09 and on this numerologically effervescent day, news is that Apple planned to launch its event on Apple keynotes for it’s new ipods.
Apple has always been fast forward to enthral its users with latest technology, hopefully it has arrived with one and many.
—Agencies