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Thousands celebrate first Korean astronaut
Seoul (AFP) April 8, 2008Thousands of South Koreans led by President Lee Myung-Bak gathered here Tuesday to celebrate the launch of the country's first astronaut from a space center in Kazakhstan. A festive crowd of 3,000 citizens and invited guests watched on a giant outdoor TV screen as Yi So-Yeon blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome, bound for the International Space Station. "Hurray!" shouted the crowd a ... more Korean space launch inspires ethnic kin in Central Asia 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 8, 2008As South Korea's first astronaut roars into space on Tuesday one group of overlooked fans will be staring up from this remote ex-Soviet territory with special enthusiasm: ethnic Koreans. If Yi So-Yeon represents everything that is youthful and optimistic about her homeland, the ethnic Koreans resident around Baikonur cosmodrome are testimony to a painful period of uprooting and hardship ... more On Call Communications Debuts HD Satellite News Gathering At NAB 2008 
Irvine CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2008On Call Communications will debut its QuickSPOT High Definition IP Satellite News Gathering system at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas, April 14 - 17. Featuring Envivio's new 4Caster HD30TM MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) high definition video encoder, the system will transmit high quality 720p and 1080i formatted video content in data streams as low as 5.25 Mb/s. On Call's in ... more Hughes To Provide Distance Learning Network For The Government Education And Training Program 
Germantown MD (SPX) Apr 09, 2008Hughes Network Systems has announced it has been issued $2.6M in task orders by the Defense Information Systems Agency and other participating government agencies to provide Digital Compressed Satellite Services (DCSS) for the Government Education and Training Network (GETN). This effort is through the U.S. General Services Administration's SATCOM-II vehicle and is anticipated to be a ... more Three Rocketeers For Shenzhou 
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 09, 2008In just a few months, China's Shenzhou 7 spacecraft will lift off on a mission to perform China's first spacewalk. The mission is exciting, but the media silence is deafening. We know almost nothing about the spacesuit, or how the astronaut will be connected to his spacecraft. Trying to work out what's happening behind closed doors requires a bit of deductive reasoning. In my previous 2008 ... more |
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London, UK (SPX) Apr 09, 2008After years of hype, mobile Location Based Services (LBS) are finally gaining traction among wireless subscribers. This growth is driven on the supply side by WCDMA and GSM handsets increasingly joining the many CDMA-based devices that incorporate GPS capabilities; and on the demand side by surging consumer interest in personal navigation functionality. According to a new report from ABI ... more Global Traffic Network Announces Introduction Of Mobile Traffic Network Broadcast Platform 
New York NY (SPX) Apr 09, 2008Global Traffic Network has announced that it is expanding its technology and broadcast capabilities to enable its product and service offerings to reach the growing population of mobile phone consumers worldwide. Global Traffic Network is developing the Mobile Traffic Network Broadcast Platform and has filed for patent protection both domestically and internationally. The platform includes ... more NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge - US Winners Announced 
Las Vegas NV (SPX) Apr 09, 2008NAVTEQ has announced during an awards ceremony at CTIA WIRELESS 2008 that Ten 23 is the Grand Prize Winner of this year's NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge -- Americas. As the Grand Prize Winner, Ten 23 received a prize package valued at $525,000, including $50,000 in cash, $225,000 in NAVTEQ data licenses and up to $250,000 in sponsor-donated licenses. Ten 23's solution, SpotJots, is a location ... more The 2008 Great Moonbuggy Race 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 08, 2008Not one of the participants in NASA's 2008 Great Moonbuggy Race was old enough to have seen the 1969 movie, Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies. Nevertheless, the racers all looked like stars of that film as they careened about the simulated lunar terrain race course in a motley variety of strange vehicles. These high school and college students, representing 20 states, Puerto ... more Nuance Mobile And TeleNav Deliver Speech-Enabled GPS Navigation To Mobile Phones 
Las Vegas NV (SPX) Apr 09, 2008Nuance Communications has announced that TeleNav has selected Nuance Mobile to speech-enable its mobile device-based navigation service. Using the Nuance Mobile Speech Platform on select devices, TeleNav now provides the ability to enter destinations for driving directions and business category searches by voice, so that subscribers no longer need to use a telephone keypad. Users can simpl ... more |
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Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 08, 2008A limited nuclear weapons exchange between Pakistan and India using their current arsenals could create a near-global ozone hole, triggering human health problems and wreaking environmental havoc for at least a decade, according to a study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder. The computer-modeling study showed a nuclear war between the two countries involving 50 Hiroshima-sized nu ... more Latest Cruise Missile Ready For Action 
London, UK (SPX) Apr 08, 2008The latest version of the Royal Navy's Tomahawk land attack missile (TLAM) has been declared operational - three months earlier than planned. Used to arm submarines, the new Tomahawk Block IV missile is considerably more capable than its predecessors. It has a significantly reduced response time and can fly further, striking land targets from the sea up to one thousand miles away with even ... more General Dynamics Awarded Army Contract For WIN-T Satellite Communications Terminals 
Newton, NC (SPX) Apr 09, 2008General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies has been awarded $109 million from the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command in Fort Monmouth, N.J., to provide specialized satellite communications earth terminals and support services for Increment One of the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) program. Under the contract, General Dynamics will provide the U.S. Army 299 Satellite Tr ... more Advanced Mobile Satellite Communications Network Being Rolled Out For Florida National Guard 
Killeen TX (SPX) Apr 09, 2008Proactive Communications and Digital Consulting Services (DCS) have announced the completion schedule for the final phase of the Florida National Guard's (FLNG) superior mobile Emergency Response Network. The advanced system will be operational by July for the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane season. By adding four air-liftable vehicles to the system, the enhanced mobility of the Emerge ... more Outside View: Bush, Ukraine look westward 
Moscow (UPI) Apr 08, 2008 Why are President Bush and his administration suddenly interested in Ukraine just nine months before the end of his term? Pushing Ukraine or Georgia into NATO in his remaining months in office is Bush's only chance at scoring a major success in Eastern Europe. This is why he was so determined to go there, ignoring Russia's objections and doubts of U.S. traditional European allies. ... more
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