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British media join forces against Murdoch BSkyB takeoverLondon (AFP) Oct 12, 2010 British media groups urged Business Secretary Vince Cable on Tuesday to block a bid by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for full control of satellite broadcaster BSkyB. The appeal was in a letter signed by the heads of the companies behind the right-leaning Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail and left-leaning Guardian and Daily Mirror, as well as the heads of the BBC, Channel 4 television and the BT Group. "We believe that the proposed takeover could have serious and far-reaching consequences for media pl ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Oct 12, 2010It's a strange-sounding name for a constellation, coming from the Greco-Roman word for giraffe, or "camel leopard". The October Camelopardalids are a collection of faint stars that have no mythology associated with them - in fact, they didn't begin to appear on star charts until the 17th century. Even experienced amateur astronomers are hard-pressed to find the constellation in the night s ... more  
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 12, 2010Manfred Zink likes to organise things. For the TanDEM-X radar satellite mission he is organising when and where the antennas of the satellites are to point, in order to acquire the best three-dimensional images possible of our planet. Manfred Zink is Project Manager for the Ground Segment of the mission at the German Aerospace Center in Oberpfaffenhofen. He is responsible for directing the ... more  
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Oct 12, 2010NASA's James Webb Space Telescope continues to make significant progress, successfully completing a series of sunshield vent tests that validate the telescope's sunshield design. Northrop Grumman is leading Webb's design and development effort for the space agency's Goddard Space Flight Center. Tests were conducted the last week of August in vacuum chambers at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems' ... more |
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Iran spies claim signals nuclear problemsTehran (UPI) Oct 12, 2010 Iran has publicly acknowledged Western intelligence services have infiltrated its nuclear program but reports the project has suffered a series of technical setbacks lately suggest Western sabotage has taken a toll. The disclosure Sunday by Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, followed the reported arrest of several alleged spies by Iranian authorities and a mysterious attack by a computer worm that caused havoc with computerized industrial equipment in Iran, reportedly ... read more |
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