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Hubble Mission Delayed until 2009

A few days ago, NASA officials announced that the recent mishap that affected the Hubble Space Telescope on Saturday, September 27th, prevented the servicing mission scheduled for October 14th from taking place. Instead, the mission is currently moved to next year, until the problem is dealt with.The Hubble trouble l...

1 October 2008
09:34 GMT

Quasi-Global Failure of Gmail

As we reported last week, a 502 error made Gmail inaccessible to its users for about 15 hours. Yesterday, the error occurred again. And, once more, the reassuring message from Gmail's help center proved to be a bit too optimistic. "These errors generally resolve themselves within a few minutes, so please wait a ...

12 August 2008
03:52 GMT

Weekend Reading: The Quick Death of GTA IV

Grand Theft Auto IV is, according to reviews and sales figures, the best game ever released. When GTA IV was launched, if you remember, it was a complete hysteria, with thousands of people queuing to purchase it, with guys going on vacation, quitting their jobs and God knows what else, just to play it. Yes, it was th...

4 July 2008
10:41 GMT

April 26, 1962, Ranger 4 Impacts the Moon's Surface

On April 23, 1962, 20:50:00 UTC Ranger 4 lifts off into space with the help of an Atlas-Agena B rocket, for a three day journey to the Moon. Ranger 4 was amongst one of the first US missions sent to the Moon to study its surface. It was part of the Ranger program, involving other eight such spacecrafts built by NASA&...

24 April 2008
09:36 GMT

New Bush Googlebomb?

A Google bomb (also referred to as a 'link bomb') is Internet slang for a certain kind of attempt to influence the ranking of a given page in results returned by the Google search engine, often with humorous or political intentions. Because of the way Google's algorithm works, a page will be ranked hig...

22 February 2008
18:06 GMT

Microsoft Inside Source Talks About the Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death

If you own an Xbox 360 console, you're surely aware that you might at some point experience the Red Ring of Death, in case you haven't already. It appears that this issue is gone from the latest versions of the console, but we're still wondering what's causing them, after all. An inside source fr...

21 January 2008
13:06 GMT

YouTube Goofing up Just When it Shouldn't

Bill Gates' Windows 95 blue screen launch was just the first in a long line of similar errors that have happened ever since and have been overly covered by the media.YouTube Canada's presentation turned to be a laughingstock because of a particular video that malfunctioned. Wednesday was not the best of day...

30 November 2007
10:49 GMT

Microsoft: Windows XP Failures Are by Design

Nothing but bad design is responsible for Windows XP failures. The consistent volume of logon failure events in Windows XP, when the operating system is not part of a domain, is generated by the design of the overall log in process. Eric Fitzgerald, Program Manager, Windows Auditing and Intrusion Detection Microsoft,...

12 November 2007
12:12 GMT

Google: Bombs? D'oh!

The "failure" Googlebomb is surely the most famous prank ever made to the best search engine on the Internet because it appeared for multiple times although the Mountain View company tried to stop it. Some time ago, the search giant sustained that Google was working on a powerful technology to stop all the bombs even...

5 June 2007
15:06 GMT

Google Bombed Again!

The search giant Google is again affected by a Googlebomb as a regular search for the term "failure" returns you a picture with the president of the United States, George W. Bush. As far I can see, the picture appears only when the user searches with the recently introduced features for Google Image Search that enabl...

29 May 2007
02:15 GMT




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