MSI Announces Wind Board for Nettops
	Micro Star International is one of the leading manufacturers of computer motherboards and its products have been highly awarded worldwide. The company's recently released Wind netbook has placed it in the spotlight, especially since its product has been said to be the best Eee PC competitor. On that note, MSI has developed a new motherboard designed to offer system builders support for the upcoming nettops. The nettop mar ... [read more >>]
	04 July 2008, 09:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

UK to Receive the MSI Wind First
	When Micro Star International decided to take on the netbook market with their Wind portable computer, everybody saw the new device as a real competitor for ASUS' Eee PC lineup. But although the new portable computer has already received the official treatment, users all over the world still need to wait a while before getting their hands on one of these small computers. But this is about to change, at least for the ones liv ... [read more >>]
	30 June 2008, 07:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MSI Wind Delayed Again
	Countless users have expressed their desire to acquire one of MSI's new Atom-powered Wind netbooks but, unfortunately for them, these computers have just been delayed a bit. Oh, and yes, this is yet another delay of the highly anticipated MSI product. As some of you might remember, the Wind was expected to drop on June 21, after it had been pushed back once more, of course. However, the June 27 seems to be a date that best s ... [read more >>]
	17 June 2008, 03:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MSI Is More Realistic with Its Wind Shipments
	MSI, one of ASUS' direct competitors in the netbook market, has recently announced that it expects its Wind netbook shipments to reach around 300,000-500,000 units in 2008. If the company succeeds in reaching this target, it will be closer to achieving yet another mark, which will take the company’s total notebook shipments to the two million units figure. Obviously, MSI has more realistic hopes - if compared to ASUS, whi ... [read more >>]
	12 June 2008, 07:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Dell to Roll out Inspiron Mini by August, MSI Intends Wind Follow-up
	Two of the world’s IT manufacturer leaders, Dell and MSI, announced their plans to roll out new products in the low-cost, mini-note category of notebooks. Last week, Dell said that its "Inspiron Mini" would soon get official, while MSI served us a Wind availability on June 16. The idea of developing low-cost notebooks seems to become a trend these days as more and more manufacturers announce new entries, but all thanks ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2008, 09:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MSI Becomes a Real Competitor for ASUS
	After ASUS and Acer decided to go official with their new sub-notebook offerings, MSI has finally settled on no longer keeping its fans waiting and has consequently officially launched the MSI Wind. But that’s not all, as it has also released the MSI Wind PC, thus becoming a competitor to ASUS’ recently revealed Eee Box. The new MSI Wind, that has been the topic of so many speculations over the past month, is trying to provide ... [read more >>]
	04 June 2008, 02:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MSI's Wind Gets Price and Details
	Asustek's Eee PC continues to determine other system manufacturers to release their own version of this ultra portable low-priced computer. Micro-Star International is the next major manufacturer to begin selling an Eee PC-like portable computer. Details about the company's next product release have surfaced and, by the looks of it, we will be seeing it in US stores sometime in June. It appears that the notebook will ... [read more >>]
	23 May 2008, 05:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MSI's Wind UMPC, Available for Pre-Order: $610
	MSI's much-hyped Wind ultra-mobile PC is almost ready to meet its first customers, as a couple of e-tailers have started taking orders. MSI's first sub-notebook offering will hit the shelves later this month in three different stock keeping units, with either Linux or Windows XP Home edition on board. The Wind is announced to come in black, white and pink, in order to address a wide range of buyers, from business us ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 08:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Questions to How Martian Sand Dunes Form Still Open
	It is almost unbelievable that Mars, having barely any atmosphere, is able to create sand storms so powerful that they are visible from the surface of our planet. During these storms sand is being lifted high into the Red Planet's atmosphere and dropped only to stir up other dust particles present of the surface of the planet. Aside from having a thin atmosphere, Mars also has very weak winds, which further deepens the mystery to how ... [read more >>]
	29 April 2008, 10:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MSI Introduces Wind, Gets Ready for the UMPC Battle
	Micro-Star International has just announced its Wind series of ultra-mobile notebooks, that are alleged to compete on the same low-cost market as Asustek's Eee PC. According to MSI, the Wind will come in either an 8.9- or 10-inch display option, and will be able to deliver resolutions of up to 1024×600. The one-kilogram notebook will be available for purchase with a pre-installed copy of Windows XP. Despite the fact that ... [read more >>]
	21 April 2008, 05:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

El Niño and Human Life
	It is global warming at a smaller scale. When El Niño begins, the deserts of the Peruvian coasts are turned to lakes, but great floods, violent cyclones, severe droughts and harsh winters occur worldwide, triggering hunger, epidemics, huge wildfires, and damages on crops, goods and environment. The most affected zones are California, Canada, China, Indonesia, Pakistan, parts of Africa, Peru, Bolivia. El Niño is the warm oceanic current ... [read more >>]
	07 April 2008, 09:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Do Tornadoes Appear?
	The tornadoes are short and small storms, but the most violent of all types. They emerge and evolve over the inland continental areas. The best conditions of tornado formation appear when a cold air current chokes with a mass of wet warm air, giving birth to enormous dark clouds (called cumulonimbus). These clouds generate a thunder storm, in which the warmer air ascends, creating a powerful current. In the upper part of th ... [read more >>]
	11 February 2008, 10:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Strange Sculptures on Mars
	So, why did Big Foot run on Mars? To get more publicity, why do you think? It's now official, what seemed to be an alien figure standing in the middle of the Martian desert is in fact only a rock sculptured by winds. However, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter brings evidence which seems to contest the fact that the Red Planet's atmosphere would have been capable of shaping the terrain into the geological structures we see t ... [read more >>]
	26 January 2008, 03:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Get Energy From Wind, Rivers, Tides and Waves
	Windmills have been used even since the 6th century in Persia (Iran). Unlike the later type used in Europe, this one had a vertical ax with sails which worked on horizontal supports. Mill stones from the inferior end ground the cereals for getting flour. The first mention of a windmill in Europe is that of Bury St Edmunds from Suffolk, England. The first European windmills were the type pillar mill. The sails rotated on an al ... [read more >>]
	07 January 2008, 16:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Samba and Tango in Space
	Samba and Tango are the names of two of ESA's four satellites in the Cluster mission that are now orbiting in formation, separated by only 17 km, the closest two ESA satellites have ever been. It is hoped that this tight formation will allow new scientific discoveries about the Sun and the solar wind. The Cluster mission is a European Space Agency (ESA) unmanned space mission to study the Earth's magnetosphere using ... [read more >>]
	21 June 2007, 12:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Does the World's Largest Hurricane Simulator Work?
	Wind tunnels are research tools developed to assist with studying the effects of air moving over or around solid objects. The fastest wind tunnels are called hypersonic wind tunnels and are designed to generate a hypersonic flow field in the working section. The speed of these tunnels vary from Mach 5 to 15. The world's largest portable hurricane wind and rain simulator, a more complex weather simulator, has rec ... [read more >>]
	31 May 2007, 11:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Sun Is Sending Fractal Messages About Its Storm Season
	Every 11 years, the Sun experiences its own "storm season," with violent explosions in its atmosphere, with an energy equivalent to a billion megatons and travelling towards Earth at about 1 million km per hour (about 0.05% the speed of light), though sometimes much faster. Predicting such events is not easy, but now, plasma astrophysicists at the University of Warwick have found that key information about the Sun’s "st ... [read more >>]
	26 May 2007, 08:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

NASA's "Smart" Weather Balloons Self-Destruct – To Stop Being Mistaken for UFOs?
	Weather balloons are usually helium- or hydrogen-filled balloons which carry instruments on board to send back information on atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity and wind. They can reach altitudes of 40 km (25 miles) or more and on some occasions, have been sometimes cited as the cause for UFO sightings. Now, NASA is developing a new type of "smart" balloons that can do the same job of monitoring weather conditions, o ... [read more >>]
	23 May 2007, 08:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Helium Proved to Be the Throttle for Solar Wind
	A new discovery made by NASA's Wind spacecraft (launched in November 1994 and deployed to study radio and plasma that occur in solar wind, in the Earth's magnetosphere), showed that helium acts like a sort of throttle for solar wind, regulating its speed by setting a minimum one. The solar wind is a stream of diffuse charged particles in the form of plasma, ejected from the upper atmosphere of the sun. Consisting mostly of ... [read more >>]
	18 May 2007, 09:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mystery of Mars' Sand Dunes Solved
	A long-standing mystery about Mars' sand dunes may have just been sold by scientists. The strange thing about the dunes is that they look as if they were created by winds, but there are no winds on the surface of Mars. Discovered in 1971 in pictures taken from space, above the surface, they look very similar to sand dunes on Earth, so they must have been created through the same processes as in our deserts. However, how could wind ... [read more >>]
	16 May 2007, 05:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Antarctica to the Extremes
	Of the seven continents, Antarctica detains some superlatives: it is the coldest (the record: - 94.5Oc), the driest (20 mm annually), the most remote and the highest continent (average height of 2,450 m or 8,170 ft). Asia is just 960 m (3,200 ft) high, Africa 750 m (2,500 ft), North America 720 m (2,400 ft), South America 590 m (1,760 ft) and Europe and Australia 340 m (1,133 ft). Almost all of its mass land is located south of the ... [read more >>]
	15 May 2007, 11:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Flying Spiders Forecast the Weather
	People enjoy flying. This pleasure comes like a shout since the antiquity, with the myth of Daedalus. And ballooning brings you closer to a real sensation of hovering. But do not think that humans are the only wingless beings able to fly. Spiders too enjoy ballooning and thousands of flying spiders can flood a terrain on the right days. And before putting out their silk thread to take on the air, a spider investigate ... [read more >>]
	13 April 2007, 07:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia