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Across the globe, connectivity demands are surging. In New Zealand, this demand for more bandwidth connectivity is not waning with data use continuing to skyrocket and the number of internet users increasing each year.

Published in Telecoms & NBN

NZ power, phone, internet, and gas services company Mercury NZ has deployed Rimini Street’s Support and Rimini Watch for SAP as part of its move to achieve cost efficiencies and retain the stability of its core IT systems after acquiring Trustpower’s retail business.

Published in Business IT

A new Android-powered Blackberry smartphone is reportedly set to arrive inn each of the next three quarters, ranging from cheap to expensive, but only one with a physical keyboard.

Published in Mobility

Security firm ESET has issued a warning for the Dolphin browser, and Mercury browser for Android – both popular apps found in Google’s Play Store.

Published in Security

Adobe's long awaited Creative Suite 5 has arrived, with major new features in each component.

Tuesday, 30 March 2010 01:03

Venus helps with hard-to-see Mercury

Usually the planet Mercury is difficult to see on Earth, but for the rest of March and into April 2010, it will be highlighted just below and to the right of the planet Venus in the northern latitudes.

Published in Space

Twelve years after now-discredited research first proposed a link between early-childhood vaccinations and autism; courts have finally rejected the claim outright.

Published in Biology
Wednesday, 04 November 2009 19:41

Third flyby images more of unseen parts of Mercury

The NASA Messenger spacecraft has mapped another 6% of the surface of Mercury, leaving only the polar regions of the planet unseen by humans with the aid of spacecraft.

Published in Space
Sunday, 04 October 2009 19:39

October morning sky fills with planets

In October 2009, the morning sky will be exceptionally filled with the planets Venus, Mercury, and Saturn. Later on in the month, the Moon will join the trio.

Published in Space
Sunday, 27 September 2009 19:02

Mercury to send message to Earth

Astronomers on Earth are about to learn a whole lot more about the planet Mercury as NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft passes less than 229 kilometers (142 miles) above the planet’s surface on September 29, 2009.

Published in Space
Thursday, 11 June 2009 18:34

Inner solar system might go bonkers, maybe

According to computer simulations by astronomers at the Paris Observatory, in the worst-case scenario, one of the inner planets, either Mercury, Venus, or Mars, could collide with Earth in just over three billion years.

Published in Space
Monday, 25 May 2009 18:13

Never before seen wrinkles: On Mercury

NASA’s Messenger space probe has found "wrinkle ridges" on the planet Mercury and U.S. mission team members say they look "bizarre" and something "we’re never seen anything like that" before in the Solar System.

Published in Space
Friday, 01 May 2009 20:10

MESSENGER spacecraft sees more of Mercury

A second flyby by the NASA MESSENGER spacecraft of the planet Mercury has found additional pieces of the puzzle to help scientists learn more about the planet. The October 5, 2008 flyby saw 30% of a very dynamic planet that had never before been seen by a probe from Earth.

Published in Space
Wednesday, 18 February 2009 04:39

First on Feb. 20, 1962: John Glenn orbits Earth

On the first attempt by the United States to orbit a human around the Earth, NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to be successfully placed in Earth orbit. The date was February 20, 1962, and Glenn was piloting his spacecraft called Friendship 7.

Published in Space
According to a new theory (which some are calling 'radical') by U.S. astronomer Brad Hansen, the two larger inner planets of our Solar System (Earth and Venus) formed first and the leftover materials came together to form the two smaller inner planets (Mercury and Mars).

Published in Space
Starting Monday night (December 29, 2008) and ending with a really big show on New Year’s Eve, the new crescent Moon and the planets of Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter will help us to ring in the new year of 2009.

Published in Space
Saturday, 13 December 2008 21:09

To limit fish eating or not: FDA and EPA at odds

For years the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has advised some groups of people to limit their amount of fish eaten because of mercury contamination. However, even though the FDA is considering this change the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is against it. Officials at both agencies have extremely different viewpoints.

Published in Health
Never before seen photographs of Mercury are now available from NASA, after its spacecraft MESSENGER imaged parts of Mercury, such as Kuiper Crater and Machaut Crater. These images are providing quite a few of surprises to "Santa-happy" scientists back home on Earth.

Published in Space
Researchers from Yale University have conducted a study showing compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) instead of incandescent bulbs produce a net global reduction of toxic mercury emissions. However, not all parts of the world should use them—instead they should stay with incandescent bulbs. Why? Find out below!

Published in Energy
Thursday, 02 October 2008 18:21

MESSENGER spacecraft to slingshot Mercury

The NASA spacecraft MESSENGER is poised to flyby Mercury again on October 6, 2008. The first flyby, on January 14th of this year, was a humdinger, and the second one is expected to be even better as the spacecraft prepares to gravitationally slingshot itself into an orbit about the planet in 2011.

Published in Space
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