NTT DoCoMo announced today its new iD™ credit card brand for card issuers, which will enable DoCoMo customers to make credit card payments with the "Osaifu-Keitai" mobile phone equipped with wallet functions. The brand ...
Nov 8, 2005
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NASA astronaut Bill McArthur and Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev performed the first spacewalk of their six-month stay on the international space station. They installed a new camera and discarded an inactive science probe.
Nov 8, 2005
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As the white wizard of Middle Earth in Lord of the Rings, Gandalf had some astounding abilities. As his modern namesake, the GANDALF project is set to cast a spell over the Internet world by offering unprecedented data transfer ...
Nov 8, 2005
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In an upcoming issue, the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics will publish the most complete picture of a “triggered” star-forming region. Induced (or “triggered”) star formation is one of the processes that are supposed ...
Nov 8, 2005
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SpaceDev announced a new high performance microsatellite product program named the SpaceDev Modular Microsat Bus. The SpaceDev MMB-100 microsat is a highly capable modular 100 kg (220 pound) microsatellite based on industry ...
Nov 8, 2005
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If you’re not familiar with flash memory, you should be. It’s poised to make a whole host of older technologies obsolete – all to your advantage. You probably own some and are not even aware of it. If you have a digital ...
Publications in peer-reviewed journals are the yardstick by which academic scientists compare their work with their colleagues. But is the best measure of a scientist’s worth the total number of his or her published papers? ...
Nov 8, 2005
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Clarkson University has announced development of an experimental fuel-saving device that may help revolutionize the trucking industry.
Nov 8, 2005
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NASA has named Kwatsi Alibaruho the first African-American to lead its Mission Control Center in Houston as a flight director.
Nov 8, 2005
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Two Rhode Island mathematicians say they have calculated who will win the 2005 Major League Baseball Cy Young awards.
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