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The music streaming market is about to get even more crowded, at least in the UK, despite very few services making any actual revenue and the ones that are can hardly be called successful. This isn't stopping UK ISP Sky from launching Sky Songs a subscription-based music streaming service to compete with the lik... |
12 October 2009
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Ever since the beginning of time, people wanted to see more and more, find out what secrets their planet held, and when they finally realized that there were virtually no other major discoveries to be made, they went on exploring the heavens. Since then, many dedicated their lives to uncovering the mysteries of the U... |
16 April 2009
12:41 GMT |
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Sky, brand name of the Korean-based Pantech Curitel, recently unveiled its latest mobile phone, called Sky Duke. The new handset has an elegant look and is made of "glossy materials", meaning some sort of luxurious metal. Sky Duke comes in a slider form factor and has an ergonomic design, with an easy to use keypad... |
18 April 2008
06:53 GMT |
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Google Sky, the celestial vision from Google Earth, is currently the object of a lawsuit filed in Atlanta's Northern District Court of Georgia. The plaintiff sued for $25 million on the basis that, according to him, the Mountain View-based company stole the idea that he came up with and later "convened an intern... |
18 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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UK astronomers just lost their sits in the best northern observatory that they had access to. Due to funding cuts, the board that administers the Gemini Observatory decided that it is best that the UK should be restricted from having direct access to the telescope. Thus in December last year, the UK's Science an... |
29 January 2008
05:41 GMT |
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The beginning of the New Year brought a new set of features and content for Sky in Google Earth. A magnificent sight, truly, and the value of it is even greater, because most of the new images, views and sounds have been developed by the Sky community. "Using NASA's space telescopes, you can view how the univers... |
10 January 2008
06:53 GMT |
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The third ranked handset maker in South Korea, after Samsung and LG, Pantech Curitel managed to win the Best New Phone Honour at CES 2008 for the good-looking SKY IM-U200 mobile phone. The prize may seem a surprise coming from such a "conservatory" company, which rarely strides for innovative designs for their mobile... |
7 December 2007
10:39 GMT |
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Google's downloadable mapping tool Google Earth gets a new minor update which affects the Planets and the Moon layers included in the program. According to the Google Earth Blog, "the only problem is that the layers only included three months worth of prediction, so on October 22 they no longer showed future dat... |
5 November 2007
04:56 GMT |
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Are you ready? You will not see this again until next year: Halley's comet will bring forth the magnificent Orionid meteor shower at its peak this week. The show is triggered by fragments of this "king star" amongst other comets. You could see these days 15 or 20 meteors an hour by the naked eye. The Orionid sho... |
19 October 2007
05:08 GMT |
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SKY Electronics announced that it has integrated the AMD quad core Opteron processors into its line of products which are built around mainboards manufactured by TYAN. This announcement comes as a premiere, SKY Electronics being the first server manufacturer from the Middle East which announced support for AMD's... |
12 September 2007
09:35 GMT |
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Pantech have just launched their first HSDPA phone, the SKY IM-U210/U210K, packed with some impressive performances and an appealing design. It looks fresh, stylish and also highly capable of responding to the user's needs.The slider phone has an incredibly stylish design, with metallic accents. In fact, SKY IM-... |
24 August 2007
03:16 GMT |
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What do you know about Google Earth? Probably you can say that it is an application that allows you to view highly detailed satellite imagery of every corner of the world. Not anymore! Because Google's downloadable mapping tool is now able to provide exciting photos with the sky, allowing you to view detailed ph... |
22 August 2007
06:28 GMT |
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Be prepared this weekend: you will witness the most amazing cosmic shower as the summer's annual meteor dazzling show reaches its peak. As this year the moon won't interfere with the Perseid meteor shower, the eager beavers hope to watch streaking fireballs late Sunday into dawn Monday, no matter the longit... |
13 August 2007
03:55 GMT |
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Sky Sports, the UK sports-orientated television channel, in collaboration with The Sun and News of the World, launched a new mobile video service that brings football to you, wherever you are, via your mobile phone. 24-7 Football is the service we're talking about and will let football fans view live goals on th... |
3 August 2007
09:26 GMT |
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Sony's PSP (no matter what the world says) is a great piece of machinery (if we can call it that). The portable device allows tons of stuff to run on it and if you got yourself one of those fancy Giga Packs, you can consider yourself a winner. But get ready for even more stuff to happen on your PSP's enormo... |
28 July 2007
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Venus, or the Evening Star, as it is popularly known, will disappear from the night sky near the end of the month, depriving us of the brightest celestial body. Now it reaches its maximum brightness shortly before sunrise or shortly after sunset, but it will go below the horizon in less than three weeks.Being the bri... |
14 July 2007
06:57 GMT |
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August will be a good month for skywatchers around the world, as the most important meteor shower of the year will put an impressive show, with dozens of shooting stars being expected each hour in the night sky.The best thing about the annual Perseid meteor shower is the fact that the Moon - space bane of meteor watc... |
13 July 2007
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First, let's see what you did know about lightning. You probably know that it's an atmospheric discharge of electricity, occurring during rain storms. You're right. Now let's see if you also knew this:1 - Lightning can form without rain storms.Yes, it's true. Lightning can also occur during v... |
30 June 2007
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The full moon is a natural phenomenon that has inspired many writers and movie producers, as well as ordinary people. You've probably seen at least one bad movie where two lovers kiss under a huge full moon visible on the horizon.Also, there is a strong belief that the full moon is caused by a series of physical... |
30 June 2007
04:34 GMT |
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The sky we see today is very distinct from the sky one could see one century ago, especially in the big cities. This is due to the light contamination, an increasing nightmare for the astronomic observatories. The signals of the mobile phones and of the satellites cover the molecules and waves present in the interste... |
29 June 2007
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A new computer program makes it easier to identify the stars on a particular piece of the sky, thus helping astronomers do their job in less time and with higher accuracy. It works for all kinds of pictures, from those taken by large telescopes to those captured by amateur astronomers.The computer program has been d... |
28 June 2007
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Many people may have heard the phrase "Once in a blue Moon," or at least the shorter version "blue Moon." But is there little such thing as a blue Moon? On May 31, the second of two full Moons this month will be visible from the North America and for those living in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, that same full... |
26 May 2007
03:57 GMT |
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For the past few months, Mars has been very low on the night sky, lurking deep in the twilight of the dawn and very difficult to see. Good news, people, in the coming weeks, the Red Planet will gain altitude and progress into a less bright part of the sky. For now, it will still rise almost two hours before sunrise... |
5 May 2007
04:08 GMT |
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The Lyrid meteor shower will peak this weekend, in the morning of April 22 and 23. The Lyrids are a strong meteor shower lasting from April 15th to April 28th each year. The radiant of the meteor shower is located in the constellation Lyra. It peaks at April 22th. The source of the meteor shower is the periodic Com... |
20 April 2007
10:11 GMT |
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It's a common sight in numerous science fiction stories and movies: a planet with two suns (often of drastically different colors) producing double shadows, multiple sunrises and sunsets, and other exotic phenomena that would appear utterly alien to us Earthlings, like Luke Skywalker's home planet, Tatooin... |
30 March 2007
06:31 GMT |
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The aurora is a bright glow observed in the night sky, usually in the polar zones of Earth, as if the sun were rising from an unusual direction. In northern latitudes, it is known as the aurora borealis, named after the Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for north wind, Boreas. Its southern counte... |
30 March 2007
03:16 GMT |
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Mobile media company Player X and Sky have teamed up to create Carol Vorderman's Mind Aerobics, a mobile game for launch with UK operators. Mind Aerobics comprises a wide range of mental exercises for players to take in 10 minutes, measuring and improving their Brain Fitness Index, or BFI. Each player's uni... |
23 March 2007
11:19 GMT |
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