The space agency and President Obama pay tribute to those who lost their lives in the pursuit of space exploration. – Throughout the storied history of the U.S.
space program, which put a man on the moon, sent unmanned satellites into the
farthest reaches of our solar system and inspired generations with the heroic
deeds of dozens of astronauts, there have been moments of heartbreak. In 1967,
three astronauts w…
Australian all-rounder Shane Watson’s former coach at The Queensland Bulls, Trevor Barsby, believes Watson is a potential challenger to Michael Clarke’s hopes of securing Australian Test captaincy from Ricky Ponting. Clarke had taken charge of the national Twenty20 side in March 2008, but of late has been battling both form and injury. It was also [...]
Google notched 66.3 percent search share, with Microsoft Bing growing to 11.5 percent. Analysts say Google Instant has given the search engine leader a lift, but the accuracy of the counting remains unclear. – Google increased its search share to 66.3 percent through October,
from 66.1 percent in September, with challenger Microsoft Bing growing from
11.2 percent to 11.5 percent over the same period.
ComScore said the total queries powered by Google’s engine on partner
sites, such as AOL and Ask, rose…
IBM’s Eclipse-flavored spin of the OpenOffice.org productivity suite undergoes a major update under the covers, moving up from the 1.x version on which it was originally based to sync up with Version 3.x of the open-source project. Now that Symphony and OpenOffice.org are on a more equal footing, it’s less clear which of the two suites has the best claim to the title of chief Microsoft Office rival. Symphony’s Eclipse-based interface appears to offer better opportunities for extensibility a quality that could give IBM’s product the edge. What’s more, Lotus Symphony 3.0 offers improved interoperability both with Microsoft Office, in the form of modest VBA macro support in spreadsheets, and with OpenOffice.org, in the form of support for that suite’s OpenDocument Format Version 1.2. For organizations interested in keeping their office suite options open, Lotus Symphony 3.0 is well worth evaluating alongside OpenOffice.org. For a look at Lotus Symphony 3.0 in action, check out the slide gallery below, and be sure to read our full review here. – …
IBM’s Eclipse-flavored spin of the OpenOffice.org productivity suite undergoes a major update under the covers, moving up from the 1.x version on which it was originally based to sync up with version 3.x of the open-source project. – When, in 2008, IBM resurrected its Lotus
Symphony brand name for a new productivity suite based on OpenOfffice.org, the
resulting product was at once forward-looking and stuck in the past. The suite’s
Eclipse-based interface lent Symphony a new look and a path toward greater
extensibility, but t…
Challenger Technologies says it has launched online shopping website 12buy.sg. With products spanning five main categories — men, women, kids, home and IT — Challenger says 12buy.sg shoppers can pay using Visa, MasterCard or JCB credit cards with 3-D Secure authentication protocols and enjoy rebates. Delivery will be done daily up to 10pm, even on weekends and public holidays.
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The government spent $175 million investigating the Challenger space shuttle disaster.It spent $152 million on the the Columbia disaster investigation.It spent $30 million investigating the Monica Lewinsky scandal.The government only authorized $15 mil…
Mozilla Firefox, the open-source challenger to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, passed the 1-billion download mark on July 31, with a Website and Twitter feed marking the occasion. Although Firefox has managed to seize an increasing percentage of the consumer market since its original rollout in 2002, its gains have been somewhat slower in the enterprise, where a variety of factors have kept Internet Explorer as the browser of choice for many IT administrators.
– Mozilla’s Firefox browser hit 1 billion downloads on July 31, with
the open-source foundation using the occasion to trumpet itself as a
viable alternative to Microsofts Internet Explorer.
On Aug. 3, Mozilla plans to launch a Website
to mark the achievement; details of the site content are und…
News Analysis: Google Voice is in the news quite a bit lately, thanks to an Apple snub and an anti-iPhone rant. But it’s the Google Voice features that pose the real long-term challenge to the iPhone. These features, such as ability to assign Google Voice numbers to all the handsets a user owns, may prove to be very enticing for business as well as personal use. Apple may not be able to keep Google Voice down simply by rejecting it for the Apple App Store.
– TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington ignited some controversy
recently when he said that he’s ditching his iPhone for Google Voice, a
VOIP solution from Google. A single Google Voice number can be added to
every user’s phones, making it possible for them to receive a call on
all their handsets, …
Afghanistan’s former Foreign Minister, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, has emerged as a serious challenger to President Hamid Karzai, who is bidding for a second consecutive term in office.
According to a New York Times report, Dr. Abdullah may have started his presidential campaign late, but is drawing larger crowds than Karzai in the six provinces that he [...]
