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Later this year, Microsoft is expected to bring to the market the next version of its mobile operating system, namely Windows Phone 8 (codenamed Apollo).The platform is expected to bring along a wide range of improvements when compared to the current flavor of the OS, such as support for multi-core application proce... |
4 February 2012
12:41 GMT |
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Before the end of this year, we should see three different flavors of Windows Phone being delivered to devices, recent reports suggest. First of them will be Tango, which is said to arrive in the March-April timeframe, and which should bring support for 120 languages and for entry-level hardware into the mix. Next, w... |
4 February 2012
10:01 GMT |
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Windows Phone Tango, supposedly the next version of Microsoft’s mobile operating system, is expected to arrive on shelves with support for far more languages than the previous flavors of the platform. Rumor has it that there will be 120 languages supported in the OS as soon as the Tango version is released. ... |
30 January 2012
03:29 GMT |
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Codenamed Apollo, Windows Phone 8 will arrive on shelves as the next–generation mobile OS from Microsoft. The platform is said to be based on the same code as the Windows 8 desktop client, which was unveiled to the world in September last year. Microsoft is said to plan the release of both new OS versions i... |
25 January 2012
09:27 GMT |
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The next version of Windows Phone is expected to make an official appearance at the Mobile World Congress next month, some of the latest reports on the matter suggest.
Microsoft is expected to present the platform at the event, and should refer to it as Windows Phone 8, in line with the upcoming Windows 8 desktop ... |
25 January 2012
08:43 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, Microsoft started pushing out the 8107 software update for the handsets running under its Windows Phone operating system.
Apparently, the company is gearing up for the release of a new update for Windows Phone users, one that would sport Build number 7.10.8745.
The upcoming software update was j... |
24 January 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is getting ready for the launch of new devices running under Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system, recent reports suggest.
One of these handsets could be the HTC HD8, a smartphone that has just emerged online, and which is reportedly powered by Windows Phone... |
5 January 2012
04:12 GMT |
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Experts at the NASA Ames Research Center, in Moffett Field, California, have recently created a new series of image processing algorithms that allow them to process photos collected by the Apollo missions to the Moon in a way that was not even thought possible before.
Using the grayscale pixels in the photos as a s... |
29 December 2011
07:28 GMT |
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Windows Phone 8, the next major release of Microsoft’s mobile OS, is expected to arrive with a series of enhancements on the backup/restore side, a recent job listing at the Redmond-based company shows. In its attempt to deliver to the market a highly competitive mobile operating system, Microsoft seems determ... |
28 December 2011
12:14 GMT |
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We already knew that Microsoft was working on the release of new Windows Phone platform versions, but no specific info on when they might arrive had been unveiled before.
Today, however, we can have a look at a leaked Windows Phone roadmap that provides more details on the matter.
Following the release of Windows... |
28 December 2011
02:37 GMT |
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With Windows Phone 7.5 Mango now out on the market, Microsoft is already hard at work on the development of their next flavor of the mobile OS, and it seems that there should be a series of appealing features packed inside it.
Among them, we can count the inclusion of support for dual-core application processors, c... |
21 October 2011
08:31 GMT |
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This week at BUILD, Microsoft is expected to unveil to the world the upcoming Windows 8 platform, and it seems that it might have very much to do with the mobile space too. Rumor has it that the upcoming Windows Phone 8, codenamed 'Apollo', and Windows 8 platforms would actually converge to a single OS, be... |
13 September 2011
11:08 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agencies have just released several new high-resolution photos of a number of Apollo landing sites. The batch of images was made available yesterday, September 6, and many of them show the disposition of equipment that was left behind on the Moon.
The datasets were collected by the... |
7 September 2011
02:56 GMT |
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The next flavor of Windows Phone might arrive on shelves with the codename of Tango attached to it, some of the latest reports on the matter suggest. This operating system version should be released after the availability of Windows Phone Mango later this year, and before Apollo, another future iteration of the mo... |
28 June 2011
09:07 GMT |
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More than 40 years after the Apollo missions delivered scientific equipment to the surface of the Moon, those instruments continue to yield new discoveries, especially when the data they do or did send back are analyzed with modern-day computing power. Such is the case with information collected by seismic sensors in... |
7 January 2011
03:20 GMT |
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Though it has not gotten any updates since it was launched at CES this year, the Apollo series of hard drives from Imation has finally been expanded, the hardware maker unveiling two portable versions and two not so portable but still external models.The two portable HDDs that Imation prepared are the Apollo Expert ... |
14 September 2010
09:38 GMT |
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Our understanding of the Moon has advanced considerably in the last year. A number of independent missions have discovered that water-ice exists at the lunar poles, and that water molecules are also trapped in regular regolith rocks on its surface. But a new investigation shows that the interior of the Moon is comple... |
6 August 2010
05:21 GMT |
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When US President Barack Obama forwarded his 2011 budget proposal to Congress, he made a lot of people very angry with the provisions regarding NASA's future. Under the new plans, the agency is to give up on Project Constellation, its multi-billion dollar, five-year effort to construct new spacecrafts and rocket... |
18 May 2010
04:24 GMT |
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Astronauts that flew to the Moon via the Apollo program left behind a host of scientific experiments on the lunar surface, including a few sets of mirrors. These instruments were designed in such a manner that a laser beam shone from Earth would be reflected back. This enabled physicists to conduct various types of s... |
16 February 2010
06:28 GMT |
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Four decades after the day Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission, astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and space shuttle Endeavor marked the moment by performing the second spacewalk of STS-127. Mission specialists Dave Wolf and To... |
21 July 2009
01:37 GMT |
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Off the eastern coast of central Florida, a small and tightly secured portion of the Atlantic ocean is home to a very peculiar site. A white capsule, adorned with three orange spheres on its “nose,” floats around in the ocean, surrounded by research vessels and emergency crews, ready to step in if anythin... |
30 April 2009
04:28 GMT |
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According to an Australian researcher, there is a very tight connection between the amounts of dust that are in the lunar atmosphere at each given point and the time of the day when dust readings are recorded. He says that, when astronauts in the 1960s and the 1970s walked on the Moon, it was in the early hours of th... |
22 April 2009
16:01 GMT |
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The Ancient Greeks are famous for the magnificent temples they built to honor their gods, some of which precede many other religions that are currently present in Europe. The constructions were truly architectonic wonders, considering the fact that the technology at the time, namely more than 2,000 years ago, didn�... |
2 February 2009
04:21 GMT |
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As described in a previous article, Moon dust is a terrible problem that astronauts have to face and which has to be solved if humans are ever supposed to set a firm foot on lunar surface for more than just an erratic scientific expedition. That type of dust is extremely fine and rugged, as well as very adherent to a... |
11 November 2008
07:18 GMT |
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Extremely fine, like flour, but still sandpaper-rough, moon dust infiltrates the astronauts' spacesuits, causing "lunar hay fever," and creates dust storms within the shuttle cabins. All of the Apollo missions that took place between 1969 and 1972 reported the same major problem: lunar dust. As professor La... |
26 September 2008
07:45 GMT |
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Last week, Imation, one of the leading manufacturers of storage and portable media solutions, introduced two new products, part of the Apollo family of external hard drives. The Apollo Expert and Apollo Pro external hard drives (EHDs) have been designed to deliver an optimum storage solution in a 2.5-inch and 3.5-inc... |
22 September 2008
03:04 GMT |
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Soil samples returned from the Moon during the Apollo missions were for the first time proven to contain trace amounts of water, although they cannot indicate how much water is currently present there nor can they be used to predict a method through which water could be extracted in the near future. The long expected... |
10 July 2008
03:18 GMT |
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Many of the constellations on the night sky have names associated to animals. Corvus, the Crow, is just one of them. It becomes visible in spring in the southern areas of the sky for people living in the mid-northern latitudes in the vicinity of the Leo constellation. It has a relatively small quadrilateral-like patt... |
23 May 2008
08:56 GMT |
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Lunar dust is now probably one of the biggest issues considered in the event of a future manned mission to the surface of the Moon. It is a highly abrasive fine powder covering the whole surface of the Moon, it can easily get stuck to equipment and spacesuits and it can even get into tight spaces, such as joints, and... |
14 May 2008
04:44 GMT |
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They say you can't build anything without it, and it is probably the best invention ever. I don't know about that, however duct tape saved the day during the Apollo 17 mission to the Moon. On 11 December 1972, the Apollo 17 mission landed on the Moon the lunar module Challenger, with astronauts Gene Cernan ... |
22 April 2008
05:59 GMT |
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NASA plans to send a manned mission to the Moon by 2020, but in order to do that it must once again learn what the Moon is like. "Humans will return to the Moon in a few years and have to know what to expect. How do you live and work in a place filled with moondust? We're trying to find out," said James Spann fr... |
11 April 2008
10:02 GMT |
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The Moon's gravity is one sixth of that on the surface of the Earth, meaning that lunar landers do not require a great deal of thrust in order to decelerate and land relatively gently on its surface, but what seem like gentle touchdowns to us here on Earth, on the Moon such events can get relatively violent. Lik... |
13 February 2008
10:24 GMT |
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The task for such a major operation fell in the hands of the Discovery Channel, and will have the role to commemorate half of century of U.S. space agency activity. When ready, it will be presented in the popular "Planet Earth" series, under the form of a miniseries called "When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions", it ... |
6 February 2008
10:01 GMT |
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Saturn V, commonly known as the Moon Rocket, was the first rocket to carry a manned mission into space for a lunar landing. On 16th July 1969, it launched the Apollo 11 mission into the Earth's orbit and put the first man on the Moon. Now, after more than 35 years of laying outside the neighboring U.S. Space & R... |
4 February 2008
03:09 GMT |
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More than three decades have passed since the last manned mission to the Moon and NASA hopes to change that within the next decade. Officials have revealed recently that they plan to send a manned mission to the moon by the year 2020. In order to do so however, they need a new lunar lander, previously referred to as ... |
15 December 2007
06:17 GMT |
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Though being shot more than 40 years ago, during the 1960's when no more than five spacecrafts orbited the moon, these images have provided valuable data for the planing of the next manned mission to the moon. In the course of a year, spanning from August 1966 to August 1967, NASA's orbiter has taken an exc... |
4 December 2007
06:58 GMT |
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