The European Union launched Giove-B, the second (and last) test satellite in its $5.3 billion Galileo project, on Sunday, according to Reuters. The first test satellite, Giove-A was launched in December 2005. Giove-B will test the program’s high-precision atomic clock and signal transmission, said Reuters. Galileo is [...]
European Union launches second Galileo navigation satellite By Humphrey Cheung The European Union has launched its second test satellite for the Galileo navigation system. Launched on a Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan (no Borat jokes please), [...]
Transcript of BriefingsDirect podcast on best practices for integrated management of security, risk and compliance approaches. Listen to the podcast here. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Dana Gardner: Hi, this is Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, and you’re listening to BriefingsDirect. Today, a sponsored podcast discussion about risk, security, and management in the world’s [...]
Prince Plays Coachella, Covers Radiohead Pop star Prince thrilled 60,000 U.S. festival fans with his magnificent performance at California’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts event. ?You are the coolest place on earth right now!,? he told fans as he played covers of Radiohead’s Creep and the Beatles? Come Together.The organizers of the [...]
Airbus forecasts a more than doubling of the world’s passenger aircraft fleet by 2026. Click to enlarge. Airbus’s Global Market Forecast (GMF) for 2007 through 2026 expects world passenger traffic to increase by 4.9% per annum and the number of frequencies offered on passenger routes to more than double. This growth is [...]
Has the tide turned for GPS makers? Jack Schofield / Gadgets / Mobile computing 12:51pm Earnings at Netherlands-based TomTom NV have fallen by 83% in the first quarter. which “suggests the market for stand-alone global-positioning systems is at a turning point,” according to an AP report. “What we [...]
Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) [media]http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g268/uk-warrior/jdam01.jpg[/media] GBU-29, GBU-30, GBU-31, GBU-32 The Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) GBU-31 is a tailkit under development to meet both USAF and Navy needs, with the Air Force as the lead service. The program will produce a weapon with high accuracy, all-weather, autonomous, [...]
How to be a Web Developer – As if I would know. Published by Root on 27. April 2008, 08:02 A younger friend of mine recently asked me if I could furnish him and others with a kind of ten point guide to being a better web developer. I am not sure why he thought I [...]
