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Apple Updates MobileMe Status Page - Email History Restored

Apple has set up a new section on its website entirely dedicated to the status of its recently-introduced MobileMe service. Having taken off to a pretty rough start, MobileMe has been constantly tweaked up ever since its release, thus the MobileMe status page was in order. Apple's latest (written) update to user...

28 July 2008
04:15 GMT

Apple Apologizes for MobileMe Server Issues

Apple has sent out its second apology email to MobileMe subscribers, outlining that "a serious issue [occurred] with one of [their] MobileMe mail servers." The Cupertino-based Mac maker assures users that it understands the gravity of the situation and claims it is "working hard" to restore the service.From Apple...

23 July 2008
05:03 GMT

Apple Extends MobileMe Subscriptions

Not even Apple had imagined MobileMe could be off to such a rough start, when the company transitioned .Mac users to the new Internet service on Friday. The new push email, push contacts and push calendar features do their bit on the iPhone and the MobileMe site, but not the web apps. Apple apologizes for any inconve...

16 July 2008
18:06 GMT

Apple Acknowledges MobileMe Push Issues

Following the recent transition to MobileMe (from Apple's .Mac service), Mac users have started to notice poor syncing performance when it comes to their desktop computers. MobileMe does, however, sync beautifully when it comes to iPhone, iPod touch, and the MobileMe website. Apple now specifically underlines, o...

16 July 2008
06:17 GMT

Brown Algae, the Cause of British-Like Cloudy Coasts

Clime can be modeled by living organisms. For instance, it is a well known fact that more rain falls over a forest than over other areas. Termites and ruminants (cows and sheep) release huge amounts of methane, a powerful greenhouse effect gas, in the atmosphere. A new research published in the Proceedings of the Nat...

7 May 2008
03:35 GMT

Beyond Windows - The Cloud as the Hub of Social and Device Mesh

This week, Microsoft has made the first step into a new era of its evolution, one that takes it beyond its traditional business model, focused almost exclusively on the desktop, the Windows operating system and Office productivity suite. After he took the title of Chief Software officer from Chairman Bill Gates, toge...

24 April 2008
09:19 GMT

Lightning: not Zeus' Fault, Blame It on Clouds

Lightning is an atmospheric phenomenon that even today remains mostly mysterious to the researchers. On top of having enough difficulties explaining why lightning forms in the fist place, scientists have also been struggling for decades to understand why bolts of lightning forming in the top layers of the clouds trav...

24 March 2008
04:39 GMT

The Mysteries of Weather: What Are Cyclones and Anticyclones?

Meteorological systems are continuously moving air masses, with diameters of 150-4,000 km (92-2,500 mi). Some are 12-15 km (7.5-9.2 mi) deep, located in the troposphere (the lower layer of the atmosphere). Those that are 1-3 km (0.6-1.8 mi) deep are faster. The meteorological systems are defined by their variations i...

21 January 2008
14:06 GMT

Nokia + The Cloud = Music

The name Nokia is very well known to everybody. The Cloud name might be not so familiar to the people. But, maybe the fact that Cloud remains at the forefront of the wireless broadband industry is an information that might help many of you out there.The service offers sophisticated national wireless LAN coverage acr...

17 December 2007
10:29 GMT

New Mysterious Space Radio Waves Bursts: Nutron Star Collision or the Black Holes' Last Breath?

Some achive information from an Australian radio telescope has come with a surprising discovery: a strong, short-lived burst of radio waves betraying a new class of astronomical phenomenon. "This burst appears to have originated from the distant Universe and may have been produced by an exotic event such as the colli...

1 October 2007
05:59 GMT

The Magellanic Clouds, Just Passing Strangers, not Milky Way's Companions

They have been known since the time of the famous explorer that made the first round of the world, Fernando Magellan (in the 16th century). The two dwarf galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, which were believed to be Milky Way's longtime companions are in fact just relative new arrivers to our neighb...

19 September 2007
02:46 GMT

Final Fantasy VII Anniversary Potion Now Available

Final Fantasy VII is now a ten-year old title and the folks in Japan are still celebrating Square-Enix's most acclaimed title. There's even an anniversary potion now available for the title's fanboys in cool cans featuring FFVII's main characters. The potion is a sweet carbonated and caffeinated ...

11 September 2007
03:43 GMT

New System Enables Pilots to Avoid Turbulence in Real Time

Air turbulence has caused by now at least 509 airplane accidents in the US and 251 deaths. Annually, there are over 1,000 minor turbulence-related injuries on commercial aircrafts. Airlines lose each year millions of dollars due to injury claims, delays, extra fuel costs and aircraft damage, linked to turbulence.But ...

7 September 2007
06:13 GMT

AT&T Adds More Wi-Fi Hotspots in Europe

AT&T announced that following a partnership with Cloud, one of the largest public Wi-Fi providers in Europe, it is now offering its customers access to over 9,000 new Wi-Fi locations in several European countries, including the UK, Germany and the Nordic countries.The recent deal is part of AT&T's global expansi...

6 August 2007
09:58 GMT

Queen Guitarist Brian May Turns Into Astrophysics PhD

Brian May was the lead guitarist and backing (sometimes lead) vocalist for the English rock band Queen for almost forty years. In addition to being famous for writing the band's biggest hits, "We Will Rock You", "Fat Bottomed Girls", "Tie Your Mother Down", "Who Wants to Live Forever" and "I Want It All," he�...

26 July 2007
04:17 GMT

Could This Star Have a Mysterious Invisible Partner?

Neutron stars are one of the few ways a star ends its life. They are formed from the remains of a massive star after it had already exploded into a supernova that condenses into an extremely dense core. They usually have masses 1.35 to about 2.1 times greater than that of our Sun, while being 30,000 to 70,000 times ...

23 July 2007
08:23 GMT

Jupiter's Moon Io: the Most Volcanically Active Place in the Known Universe

Io is one of the 63 confirmed satellites of the gas giant Jupiter and the fourth largest moon in the Solar System. Although it is just 100 km larger in radius than Earth's Moon, astronomers found it to be the most active place for volcanic activity ever detected in the Universe.With over 400 active volcanic sit...

23 July 2007
05:46 GMT

Hidden Planet Forms Strange Elliptical Ring of Dust around a Star

The formation of a star is a long process in which dense parts of molecular clouds collapse into a ball of plasma, triggering the birth of the sun. Stellar evolution begins with a giant molecular cloud, also known as a stellar nursery.Dust clouds surround the young stars and thin out and dissipate as the star reache...

14 June 2007
14:01 GMT

Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Special Unlockables (PS2)

The latest addition to the Itadaki Street series is Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Special, or simply Itadaki Street Special. Up to four players can play at the same time which makes this game different from its predecessors. The game features characters from Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy. It will ...

9 May 2007
06:01 GMT

New View of Cosmic Dust Clouds

Almost all small and medium-size stars will end up as white dwarfs, after nearly all the hydrogen in their cores has been fused into helium. Near the end of its nuclear burning stage, such a star goes through a red giant phase and then expels most of its outer material (creating a planetary nebula) until only the ho...

6 April 2007
09:52 GMT




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