Neil Armstrong donating his papers to Purdue

authorsizzletime31 Oct 2008categorytechnology
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - Former astronaut Neil Armstrong has agreed to donate personal papers dating from the start of his flight career to his alma mater, Purdue University. Armstrong's papers, boxes of which have already...

Rush Limbaugh: Don’t believe these public polls for a second! (FReep this Digg!!!)

authorsizzletime31 Oct 2008categorytechnology
FReep this Digg! Post as many links exposing ObamaNation on Digg as possible between now and election! FLOOD THE PLACE WITH ARTICLES AND VIDEOS EXPOSING OBAMANATION! To find Digg links on FR, simply typing "Digg" into FR's...

Three Effective Treatments For Childhood Anxiety Disorders Identified

authorsizzletime31 Oct 2008categorytechnology
Treatment that combines a certain type of psychotherapy with an antidepressant medication is most likely to help children with anxiety disorders, but each of the treatments alone are also effective, according to a new study...

Microsoft Stakes Its Place In The Cloud

authorsizzletime31 Oct 2008categorytechnology
Microsoft lays out concrete plans for cloud computing, but this vision doesn't come with a delivery date. Microsoft is creating Windows Azure, an operating system that will let companies run Windows applications and store files...

Hubble back in service but repair mission delayed

authorsizzletime31 Oct 2008categorytechnology
The Hubble Space Telescope has resumed scientific observations, project officials said Thursday, although a repair mission to the orbiting telescope has been further delayed. Hubble officials released the first image taken by...

Cleantech Dominates Time’s 50 Best Inventions

authorsizzletime31 Oct 2008categorytechnology
Time has released its 50 Best Inventions of 2008 list and a full dozen of the spots are occupied by either cleantech startups or energy ideas.

New Sony battery recall hits Dell, HP, more

authorsizzletime31 Oct 2008categorytechnology
Sony on Friday said it would back a voluntary recall begun by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission that asks customers to replace over 35,000 lithium-ion notebook batteries included in US systems ...

No Opera Mini for the iPhone

authorsizzletime31 Oct 2008categorytechnology
It seems that the engineers at Opera developed a version of Opera Mini that would run on the iPhone (and the iPod touch), but this browser will never see light of day because Apple rejected it from ...

Verizon Advises West Virginians to ‘Fall Back’ and Dial 10 This Sunday (PR Newswire)

authorsizzletime31 Oct 2008categorytechnology
Friday October 31, 10:24 pm ET Fax Machines, Computer Modems, Burglar Alarms Must Be Programmed to Dial Area Code First by End of February 2009 CHARLESTON, W.Va., Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- This weekend, the change to Eastern...

MacBook Airs Arrive, Unboxing Photos

authorsizzletime31 Oct 2008categorytechnology
The new version of the MacBook Air has arrived and one reader has posted unboxing photos to Flickr. Another forum member has also received the latest MacBook Air.

Halloween ‘08 From The Search Industry

authorsizzletime31 Oct 2008categorytechnology
Here are various logos from the search industry, including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Live.com, Ask.com and many others. Some are pretty spooky, including our theme.

Gameloft Wins iLounge’s “Game Developer of the Year” and “Game of the Year” Awards for…

authorsizzletime31 Oct 2008categorytechnology
Friday Oct 31, 05:44 PM PST Platinum Sudoku Selected by Editors as Game of the Year, Gameloft Cited as Top Game Developer by Editors and Readers NEW YORK, October 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gameloft, a leading developer and...

San Diego Hospice Targets Better Access to Quality Healthcare During National Hospice Month in…

authorsizzletime31 Oct 2008categorytechnology
For many Americans living with a serious, progressive illness, the goal is to remain and die at home -- not in a hospital, nursing home or other facility. But statistics show that nearly 75 percent of all deaths occur in a...

Verizon mulls heavily-discounted BlackBerry Storm (Scott Moritz/CNNMoney.com)

authorsizzletime31 Oct 2008categorytechnology

Scott Moritz / CNNMoney.com:
Verizon mulls heavily-discounted BlackBerry Storm  —  Free.  That's Vodafone's (VOD) recently-unveiled price for the hotly-anticipated touchscreen BlackBerry Storm from Research in Motion (RIM) in the United Kingdom.  —  In a sign of just how desperate phone companies are to lock customers …

The DSi Countdown: The Final Day

authorsizzletime31 Oct 2008categorytechnology
In less than 24 hours, the third revision of Nintendo's DS will be on sale in Japan. But the same is not the case overseas, where, in Japan, the all-new Nintendo DSi is set to go on sale tomorrow, less than a month after its...

Virtual Protestors Complain Over Second Life Price Hike

authorsizzletime31 Oct 2008categorytechnology

Stats: Android Market is No App Store Killer, But Not a Dud Either

authorsizzletime31 Oct 2008categorytechnology
When the iPhone 3G debuted over the summer and Apple simultaneously launched its App Store, more than 10 million mobile applications were downloaded in the first weekend. With Google’s G1 and accompanying Android Market...

URI, XML, HTTP, REST, and the Azure Services Platform (Jon Udell)

authorsizzletime31 Oct 2008categorytechnology

Jon Udell:
URI, XML, HTTP, REST, and the Azure Services Platform  —  When friends and family ask about the Professional Developers Conference I attended this week, I tell them it's kind of like Microsoft's State of the Union address.  I've been to a number of these over the years.

NASA Awards $206M Contract for Next-Gen Space Program Support

authorsizzletime31 Oct 2008categorytechnology
The contract will provide mission and flight crew logistics, training and flight support for the International Space Station and subsequent space exploration activities after the space shuttle program is ended. - NASA on Oct....

Google Adding Text Messaging To Gchat in Gmail [Gmail]

authorsizzletime31 Oct 2008categorytechnology
Those of you who use Gchat through Gmail can now send text messages to mobile phones.