Atlantis Astronaut Collapses During Ceremony

An astronaut from the space shuttle Atlantis collapsed twice Friday during a welcome home ceremony, a wobbly return that officials attributed to the adjustment from 12 days at zero gravity.

Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper left the hangar at Ellington Field through a side door but was not taken to a hospital. Officials said she was doing fine.

Piper, fifth of the six astronauts t...

Most Advanced Digital Camera LCD by Samsung
Samsung Electronics announced yesterday that it has developed the first three-inch LCD panel with VGA (640 x 480 pixels) resolution that directly meets industry interface standards for digital still cameras.

Digital camera makers use an interface known as ITU-R601, an international standard for cathode ray tube (CRT) TVs that operates at 30Hz. This standard is incompatible with LCD...

Recycle Mobile Phones for Travelers
Travelers often buy international pay phone cards when they are abroad. But the phone cards can't be bought anytime anywhere. And it is a problem that families, friends or even travel partners can't communicate with each other at anytime and they only can contact one way.

"Paper says" offer international roaming service for communication and it can make users avoid the risk to break...

BlackBerry fever brings headaches to China

It was only a matter of time: China is catching BlackBerry fever. And like most other things in that burgeoning economy, it's likely to be at cut-rate prices.

John Hsu, a reporter in China's commercial capital of Shanghai, got in ahead of the September launch. He bought his BlackBerry online for just $65--roughly a fifth of its retail price in the United States.

H...

Seagate launches terabyte storage for the home

The price of data storage is dropping all the time--and just to prove it, Seagate Technology has announced a new 1-terabyte drive for $899 aimed at small businesses and tech-savvy home users.

Seagate's Maxtor Shared Storage II , announced Monday, comes in a dual-drive configuration with two 500GB drives. This configuration can be set up for Raid 1 (disk mirroring), the sim...

India's Test Launch of New Missile Fails

India's space program suffered a setback July 10 when a domestically built rocket carrying a television broadcasting satellite failed shortly after liftoff.

The Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), which was making its second operational flight, was ordered destroyed when it veered out of control 40 seconds after lifting off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota....

Microsoft facing huge EU fine
The European Commission is preparing to impose a multi-million euro fine on Microsoft to punish it for failing to comply with an anti-competition ruling.

Reports suggest the US software giant will be fined between 200m euros and 300m euros ($383.2m; £207.6m).

The move follows a landmark ruling made in 2004, which ordered Microsoft to provide rivals with information...

Microsoft shuts down Windows 98

Microsoft is urging an estimated 70 million users of Windows 98 to upgrade as it ends support for the software.

From 11 July, Microsoft will no longer help users over the phone with any problems they have with the ageing operating system.

The firm will also stop providing security updates for Windows 98 from the same date.

Support for the software was originally du...

Samsung SGH-i320 Officially Launched in Europe
Samsung Electronics announced its launch of the SGH-i320, new Slim QWERTY Smartphone .

The sleek and stylish Samsung i320 is a super-slim bar type handset, measuring just 11.5mm in depth and 95g in weight with an easy-to-use QWERTY keyboard . The QWERTY keyboard has the same keyboard layout used in personal computers , enabling users to send emails and text messages far more conveni...

Frankie Linux
Frankie Linux is a Live CD which contains the Linux desktop operating system for PC.

It is a Slackware based distro and it contains almost all the useful software for running full-fledged desktop, including Xwindow graphics user interface and lots of other helpful applications. As a Live CD , it benefits from UnionFS filesystem, which makes all module files "pseudo-writable".
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