Like salt used as a preservative, high concentrations of dissolved minerals in the wet, early-Mars environment known from discoveries by NASA’s Opportunity rover may have thwarted any microbes from developing or surviving.
“Not all water is fit to drink,” said Andrew Knoll, a member of the rover science team who is a biologist at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Opportunity and its twin, Spirit, began their fifth year on Mars last month, far surpassing their prime missions of three months. Today, at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of …

Kuala Lumpur, February 13, 2008 — Microsoft Corp’s Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) recently announced the official availability of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac at the Macworld Conference & Expo 2008.
Office 2008 for Mac is significantly enhanced to provide a simplified user experience that helps beginners and longtime experts alike deliver professional documents that are compatible for co-workers and friends on Macs and PCs. The suite provides the Office tools Mac users rely on, with a Mac-like approach and style. In addition to Office 2008, the Mac BU Web site, …

It seem that Nokia will go 1 step further when their plan to launch their next mobile phone equipped with mapping(GPS) software soon. It seem they are focusing on device with GPS capability this year.
Nokia begin to offering the beta version of Nokia Maps 2.0 a mapping software via their Nokia Beta Labs. It seem the software is important to upcoming Nokia model since they might integrating their high end model of the phone with the software. Nokia 6210 Navigator is the first phone equip with this …

BARCELONA, Spain, GSMA Mobile World Congress, February 11, 2008 — QNX Software Systems today announced it will demonstrate the QNX® Aviage® family of middleware products running on Freescale’s multimedia processors at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The demonstration will showcase networked multimedia frameworks and multimedia engines in a Flash-based human machine interface (HMI), highlighting the power of combining Freescale multimedia processors with the performance and reliability of the QNX Neutrino® realtime operating system (RTOS) and the QNX Aviage middleware family. The QNX Aviage family includes the QNX Aviage HMI …

The Nokia N95 is an absolutely jaw-dropping incredible device. It would be doing it a huge disservice to simply call it a mobile phone. What can you call a jewel of electronic wizardry which incorporates a 5 megapixel camera, satellite navigation, media player, a full suite of PDA features and, oh yes, even makes phone calls? That’s going to be a tough decision, but I believe that there is a groundswell of opinion behind the term: “Mine!”
The Nokia N95’s two way sliding format lets you go slip slidin’ away to …

Las Vegas, January 7, 2008 - BitTorrent, Inc., the global standard for high-quality content delivery on the Internet, today announced D-Link, the end-to-end networking solutions provider for consumer and business, will join its BitTorrent Device Partners.
Through the BitTorrent Device Partners technology licensing and certification program, BitTorrent has certified a key D-Link router and network attached storage (NAS) device to aid consumers in accessing, storing and sharing large amounts of media content through the Internet. Currently, the latest BitTorrent Software Development Kit (SDK) is embedded in the D-Link DNS-323 storage unit, …

Las Vegas, January 7, 2008 - BitTorrent Inc., the global standard for high-quality content delivery on the Internet, today announced it has partnered with industry-leading hardware manufacturers in the Network Attached Storage (NAS) and consumer router markets as it expands its family of BitTorrent Device Partners. NETGEAR® (NASDAQGM: NTGR), a worldwide provider of technologically advanced, branded networking solutions, is working with BitTorrent to improve the digital home entertainment experience. By collaborating with a range of partners including hardware manufacturers, software providers, and chipmakers, BitTorrent adds value through embedded software, device …

Pakej LINUX yang pertama sekali adalah Yggdrasil pada tahun 1993. Selepas pemasangan yang mudah Yggdrasil memulakan sistem X Window dengan pembukaan video MPEG dan suara ‘hello’ daripada sistem. Hari nini Yggdrasil http://www.yggdrasil.com menghasilkan pelbagai produk LINUX dan memberikan pelbagai khidmat sokongan dan teknikal kepada pengguna.
Pakej Slackware juga merupakan pakej yang terawal dihasilkan oleh Patrick Volkerding boleh didapati daripada Internet ataupun CDROM. Pakej Debian http://www.debian.org …