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AAPT to shrink servers from 300 to 13 with VMware
By: Stuart Corner

AAPT plans to deploy VMware's data centre virtualisation technology running on Sun servers to reduce server numbers in its data centre from 300 to 13.


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NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft finds lopsided shape of solar system
By: William Atkins

Voyager 2 is flying near the edge of the solar system. It has sent back important data to NASA showing that the heliosphere (the volume of highly charged particles blown out in all directions from the Sun) is lopsided.



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Wildfires in California turn Sun lavender
By: William Atkins

More than one thousand wildfires in northern California are making the atmosphere very smoky, which is also causing the phenomenon called “Lavender Sun.”



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NASA ready to fly a kite in space with NanoSail-D
By: William Atkins

As early as July 29, 2008, NASA will attempt to deploy a solar sail in space after launching it into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket.



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Ulysses ends magnificent mission for NASA
By: William Atkins

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reported on Thursday, June 12, 2008, that its Ulysses spacecraft will end its mission and cease functioning within the next several weeks.

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NASA to visit “living, breathing star for the first time”
By: William Atkins

Solar Probe plus is a NASA mission to the Sun that will actually go into the Sun’s atmosphere to take measurements of the solar wind, magnetism, and other features of Earth’s star, the Sun. It will go where no spacecraft has gone before.


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IBM gives free concert with Lotus Symphony 1.0
By: Stephen Withers

IBM's Office alternative Lotus Symphony has reached version 1.0. Not only is it available for both Available for Windows and Linux, but it is absolutely free.


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OpenSolaris: nice try, pity about the licence
By: Sam Varghese

Why would anyone try to introduce an operating system into the existing glut unless it pays off in spades? What can a new entrant give us that the multitude of Linux distributions, the Mac OSX and old, hoary Windows hasn't?
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Fast spinning, wildly orbiting pulsar puzzles astronomers
By: William Atkins

Astronomers are perplexed at a rapidly spinning pulsar, known as J1903+0327, because it is orbiting a star similar to the Sun in a very unusual orbit—two actions that haven’t been seen before.


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Where are the other moons of Earth?
By: William Atkins

NASA researchers have postulated that when the Earth was hit by a large object about 4.5 billion years ago, it probably created many small moons around Earth, plus our large Moon. Many of them landed at stable points between the Earth and the Sun. They still should, theoretically, be here, but aren't. Where did they go? And why?


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Can Neil Young help Sun and Sony reinvent music media?
By: Stan Beer

I've been a Neil Young fan since "After The Goldrush" (yes I'm that old) so seeing the fuss being made about him at Sun's JavaOne conference where he publicly threw his support behind Java and Blu-ray technologies naturally perked my interest. The question is can the likes of Young help the developers of Java and Blu-ray change the way music is packaged and sold?


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Revamped virtualisation for Linux, Mac, Solaris and Windows
By: Stephen Withers

A new release of Sun's xVM VirtualBox provides Macintosh users with a fresh virtual machine option, and delivers improvements for other host operating systems.


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JavaFX to take on AIR, Silverlight
By: Stephen Withers

As if Adobe and Microsoft weren't providing enough choices for the development of rich Internet applications with AIR and Silverlight, Sun is aiming JavaFX at the same market.


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OpenSolaris opens for business
By: Stephen Withers

The first supported release of the OpenSolaris operating system has arrived.


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Got shiny lips? Might get skin cancer!
By: William Atkins

A Baylor University study in the United States has shown that shiny lip balms and lip glosses does not protect oneself from ultraviolet sunlight and, thus, may increase the risk of skin cancer. See what the doctor says to do!


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Aussies spent $US1 billion on servers
By: Stephen Withers

The Australian server market reached $US1.001 billion during 2007 according to analyst firm IDC.


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Danish physicists find solar flares produce starquakes
By: William Atkins

The scientists used the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) to find oscillations in the outermost one-fourth of the Sun’s interior, which are called starquakes, as the result of the explosions of large solar flares.


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Intelligent ET life probably not likely, according to English study
By: William Atkins

New planets around other stars (called extrasolar planets or exoplanets) are being discovered all of the time by astronomers, however, a new mathematical study by an English environmental scientist states that intelligent extraterrestrial (ET) life in the universe is “probably rare.”


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