items tagged with Sun
Sun, Microsoft open interop centre
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Vendors
2008-03-10 15:33:25
Efforts announced last September to improve interoperability of Sun's hardware and Microsoft's software continue to take form with the official opening of the Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Vendors
2008-03-10 15:33:25
Efforts announced last September to improve interoperability of Sun's hardware and Microsoft's software continue to take form with the official opening of the Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center.
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Tanning salons increase cancer risk in older folks, not just teenagers
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2008-03-09 10:48:22
A health survey of U.S. adults shows 27% of young females 18 to 29 years of age use tanning salons, while 10% of people 50 to 64 years of age use them. A scientist states, “There is a myth that indoor tanning is safer than sunbathing, but this is not the case."
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2008-03-09 10:48:22
A health survey of U.S. adults shows 27% of young females 18 to 29 years of age use tanning salons, while 10% of people 50 to 64 years of age use them. A scientist states, “There is a myth that indoor tanning is safer than sunbathing, but this is not the case."
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Java on the iPhone - not going to happen?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2008-03-08 06:37:35
Sun’s VP of Java Marketing, Eric Klien, has been quoted saying he wants to bring Java to the iPhone now that the SDK makes the iPhone ‘open’... but with Apple having a veto on which apps get authorised or not, surely the ‘open’ iPhone is only as open as Apple wants it to be – and why would Apple allow Java, which lets developers create their own code to run ‘anywhere’ – circumvent the iPhone SDK process?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2008-03-08 06:37:35
Sun’s VP of Java Marketing, Eric Klien, has been quoted saying he wants to bring Java to the iPhone now that the SDK makes the iPhone ‘open’... but with Apple having a veto on which apps get authorised or not, surely the ‘open’ iPhone is only as open as Apple wants it to be – and why would Apple allow Java, which lets developers create their own code to run ‘anywhere’ – circumvent the iPhone SDK process?
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No Java on Java Father's phone
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-03-06 01:52:31
The phone in James Gosling's pocket doesn't do Java, even though he designed the language.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-03-06 01:52:31
The phone in James Gosling's pocket doesn't do Java, even though he designed the language.
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Scientists find sun-exposed skin ages faster than buttock skin
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2008-03-04 09:06:04
A study performed by cosmetics company P&G found that outer forearm skin from women in Florida ages faster and wrinkles more than skin on the buttocks.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2008-03-04 09:06:04
A study performed by cosmetics company P&G found that outer forearm skin from women in Florida ages faster and wrinkles more than skin on the buttocks.
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Saturn shining brightly in Northern Hemisphere sky
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-27 10:01:38
On the night of February 23-24, 2008, the planet Saturn reached its opposition to the Sun, rising into the sky as the Sun sets below the horizon. The month of March is a good time to view the beautiful planet Saturn in its nightly journey across the starry sky.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-27 10:01:38
On the night of February 23-24, 2008, the planet Saturn reached its opposition to the Sun, rising into the sky as the Sun sets below the horizon. The month of March is a good time to view the beautiful planet Saturn in its nightly journey across the starry sky.
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U.S. astronomers see first magnetic reversal of star other than Sun
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-26 09:44:24
Astronomers have found the first evidence of a star changing its magnetic field. The Sun is known to reverse its north and south magnetic poles, but astronomers had never seen another star do it. Now they have seen it in tau Bootis.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-26 09:44:24
Astronomers have found the first evidence of a star changing its magnetic field. The Sun is known to reverse its north and south magnetic poles, but astronomers had never seen another star do it. Now they have seen it in tau Bootis.
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NASA announces retirement of legendary solar explorer: Ulysses
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-23 10:36:39
On Friday, February 22, 2008, NASA announced that the Ulysses spacecraft will be soon retired after over seventeen years in space orbiting the Sun and going as far out as Jupiter. The remarkable space mission of Ulysses has provided Earth scientists with a galactic amount of data.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-23 10:36:39
On Friday, February 22, 2008, NASA announced that the Ulysses spacecraft will be soon retired after over seventeen years in space orbiting the Sun and going as far out as Jupiter. The remarkable space mission of Ulysses has provided Earth scientists with a galactic amount of data.
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Photographs: February 20, 2008 total lunar eclipse
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-02-22 09:04:39
The total lunar eclipse on February 20-21, 2008 seems to have been successful. I’ve collected photographs taken by backyard and professional astronomers. Enjoy!
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-02-22 09:04:39
The total lunar eclipse on February 20-21, 2008 seems to have been successful. I’ve collected photographs taken by backyard and professional astronomers. Enjoy!
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Total lunar eclipse February 20, 2008: Americas, western Europe
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-16 10:58:30
The full Moon will become colored a mesh of reddish-orange, with hints of turquoise, as it passes into the shadow of Earth after rising over the eastern horizon and after the Sun has sunk beneath the western horizon on Wednesday evening.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-16 10:58:30
The full Moon will become colored a mesh of reddish-orange, with hints of turquoise, as it passes into the shadow of Earth after rising over the eastern horizon and after the Sun has sunk beneath the western horizon on Wednesday evening.
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Jan. 30th spacewalk to fix ISS solar motor seems successful
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-30 10:21:38
With the January 30, 2008 spacewalk still in progress, space-working astronauts outside the International Space Station have replaced a faulty motor with a backup one. And it looks promising for operating a solar array so that it will rotate and tilt toward the Sun to provide additional power for their orbiting home.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-30 10:21:38
With the January 30, 2008 spacewalk still in progress, space-working astronauts outside the International Space Station have replaced a faulty motor with a backup one. And it looks promising for operating a solar array so that it will rotate and tilt toward the Sun to provide additional power for their orbiting home.
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Space station astronauts fixing motor on 1/30/2008 spacewalk
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-29 11:11:49
ISS Expedition 16 commander Peggy Whitson and ISS flight engineer Dan Tani will be working in space on Wednesday, January 30, 2008, to replace a faulty motor at the base of one of the space station’s starboard solar arrays.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-29 11:11:49
ISS Expedition 16 commander Peggy Whitson and ISS flight engineer Dan Tani will be working in space on Wednesday, January 30, 2008, to replace a faulty motor at the base of one of the space station’s starboard solar arrays.
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Partial solar eclipse Feb. 7, 2008: New Zealand and SE Australia
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-22 09:45:44
Skygazers in all of New Zealand and southeastern Australia will see a partial eclipse of the Sun in the afternoon on Thursday, February 7, 2008.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-22 09:45:44
Skygazers in all of New Zealand and southeastern Australia will see a partial eclipse of the Sun in the afternoon on Thursday, February 7, 2008.
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OOXML: the propaganda war has begun
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-01-17 09:45:45
The first salvo in the document standard war of 2008 has been fired - and, predictably, it favours the Microsoft camp. A study by the Burton Group, a firm of consultants, has come down hard on the side of Microsoft Office Open XML.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-01-17 09:45:45
The first salvo in the document standard war of 2008 has been fired - and, predictably, it favours the Microsoft camp. A study by the Burton Group, a firm of consultants, has come down hard on the side of Microsoft Office Open XML.
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Sun Microsystems buys MySQL
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-01-16 08:41:32
Sun Microsystems has announced that it will be buying the best known open source database company, MySQL, for $US1 billion.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-01-16 08:41:32
Sun Microsystems has announced that it will be buying the best known open source database company, MySQL, for $US1 billion.
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Ulysses spacecraft known for its resourcefulness
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-15 08:33:25
With the Sun beginning a new solar cycle (No. 24), the Ulysses spacecraft just happens to be at the right spot, at the right time: the solar North Pole.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-15 08:33:25
With the Sun beginning a new solar cycle (No. 24), the Ulysses spacecraft just happens to be at the right spot, at the right time: the solar North Pole.
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EC probes Microsoft - again
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Regulatory
2008-01-14 20:21:36
Microsoft faces new antitrust investigations by the European Commission (EC).
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Regulatory
2008-01-14 20:21:36
Microsoft faces new antitrust investigations by the European Commission (EC).
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Parallels Server virtualises Windows, Linux, Mac OS X
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2008-01-09 17:05:34
SWsoft claims its Parallels Server virtualisation product, now in private beta, is the first of its kind to run on Apple hardware and to run multiple copies of Mac OS X Server.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2008-01-09 17:05:34
SWsoft claims its Parallels Server virtualisation product, now in private beta, is the first of its kind to run on Apple hardware and to run multiple copies of Mac OS X Server.
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Building blocks of life found around star HR 4796A
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-08 08:42:02
A new U.S. study has found complex organic molecules, tholins, in the dust cloud around the star HR 4796A. The important conclusion of these researchers is that this discovery provides good evidence that living organisms are common throughout planetary systems.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-08 08:42:02
A new U.S. study has found complex organic molecules, tholins, in the dust cloud around the star HR 4796A. The important conclusion of these researchers is that this discovery provides good evidence that living organisms are common throughout planetary systems.
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New 2008 sunspot cycle: Will cause problems here on Earth
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-07 08:51:13
NOAA announced on January 4, 2008 that the first sunspot (identified as #10,981) has been spotted on the Sun’s northern hemisphere. The sighting introduces a new eleven-year sunspot cycle (Sunspot Cycle 24) that will no doubt periodically disrupt power and communications here on Earth.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-07 08:51:13
NOAA announced on January 4, 2008 that the first sunspot (identified as #10,981) has been spotted on the Sun’s northern hemisphere. The sighting introduces a new eleven-year sunspot cycle (Sunspot Cycle 24) that will no doubt periodically disrupt power and communications here on Earth.
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